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"Lake" Of Oil Sludge, Lead, PFAS Up To 16 Feet Thick Under CA Refinery Set To Close: Who Will Clean It Up? 6 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 1073
Industry managed forests more likely to fuel megafires 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 504
Shell Got $1.65 Billion Tax Break For PA Plastics Plant; 3 Years And Dozens Of Violations Later, Shell Wants To Sell It 2 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 698
Brazil Abandons Soy Moratorium, Opening Area The Size Of Portugal To New Deforestation 4 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 995
In Namibia, Even Desert-Adapted Species Hammered By Increasingly Extreme Droughts Driven By Global Warming 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 503
Worst Fire Season On Record For EU - At Least 1 Million Hectares Burned, Along W. Record Output Of CO2, Other Pollutants 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 442
Pickett Fire (Napa County near Calistoga) Hits 2,100 Acres w/i Hours Of Outbreak: Evacuations Ordered 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 507
Breaking the Rules to Build a Better Battery 7 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 1055
Ash dieback is triple whammy for net zero plans 1 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 629
BC's Coastal Fires Have Entered a New Era 2 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 863
Shitstain Ordered MI Coal Plant To Remain Open; Operating Costs $1 Million/Day - And Guess Who's Going To Pay? 5 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 1145
"Green Hydrogen Is Finally in the Pipes" as Sinopec Begins Historic Blend Into China's Gas Grid 23 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 2699
Florida's climate-focused tech sector faces uncertainty after federal cuts - PBS NewsHour 2 Rhiannon12866 Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 677
Oz's Mountain Ash Trees - Up to 80M High - Lose +/- 9% Of Their Limited Numbers For Each 1C Temperature Increase 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 503
U.S. developers report half of new electric generating capacity will come from solar 2 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 654
Land Mines As Wildlife Protection: Korea's DMZ One Of The Most Biodiverse Places In Asia 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 546
Driven By Drought, UK Grain Harvest Begins 2 Weeks Early; Apples Boom But Potatoes, Brassicae In Big Trouble 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 549
Ozone will warm planet more than first thought, study finds 0 Jim__ Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 702
How One Woman Is Stalling Green Energy Projects in Oregon 20 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 2131
Abrupt Antarctic changes could have catastrophic consequences if emissions don't fall 2 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 904
Well, Good Luck W. That: Brazil Issues "Urgent Call" For National Climate Plans - Exactly 28 Submitted So Far 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 783
Scientists Lay It Out - Over 100 Misleading Statements And Lies In DOE Climate "Study" Written By Hand-Picked Hacks 3 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 17 853
Confimed Chikungunya Cases Top 240,000 Worldwide; Painful, Debilitating Disease Detected In China For First Time 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 12 810
Why would Trump want algae blooms in the Great Lakes? 6 applegrove Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 1031
India's Bold Ambition: Pioneering Green Hydrogen on a Global Scale 0 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 2025 0 539
"A Climate Of Unparalleled Malevolence" - The Permian Extinction And How Deeply The Rate Of CO2 Output Matters 3 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 850
As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant At National Weather Servce Offices In Texas 10 hatrack Jul 2025 Aug 2025 7 1790
North Pacific waters are acidifying more rapidly below the surface 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 11 544
Long-Term Biochar Use Found to Sustainably Boost Crop Yields and Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 1588
Central Valley groundwater pumping, land-sinking stressing Aqueduct. Is there a fix? 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 479

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Soy Exports At 20-Year Low As Rain And Disease Plague Crops In Upper Midwest States 2 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 648
1,000s Of Abandoned Boats Of All Types Pollute US Estuaries, Rivers, Beaches, Typically Abandoned After Hurricanes 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 606
Ocracoke And Hatteras Evacuated: Erin Expected To Bring 20' Waves, Flooding And Erosion 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 634
"The Misconduct Was Pervasive" - Line 3 Non-Violent Protestor's Felony Conviction Overturned By Appeals Court 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 863
Businesses face 'chaos' as EPA aims to repeal its authority over climate pollution 0 Dulcinea Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 545
Will Oil Demand Peak Soon? Trump Administration Doesn't Want to Hear It. -NYT 0 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 632
Jio Set to Launch India's First Hydrogen-Powered Hybrid Scooter at Just ₹17,000 Rupee ($195 USD) 0 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 554
Canada Is Burning In Places It Didn't Burn Before; Atlantic And Prairie Provinces The Heart Of 2025 Fire Season 2 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 699
1/4 Of Spain's Weather Stations At/Above 104F; Cadiz At 114F; High/Extreme Fire Danger Across Most Of Country 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 521
Top House Democrat Pressing USFS For Accurate Information Re. Fire Crew Numbers, Getting Lies In Response 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 596
Wow! Great tidal turbine: 1 applegrove Aug 2025 Aug 2025 12 733
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse on Democrats' Failures--and Opportunities for a Climate Comeback 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 547
Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying 3 cliffside Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 838
LFSCOE: The True Cost of Solar and Wind Energy in Texas and Germany in Answer to the Question... 1 NNadir Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 925
After a Drought Last Year, Ohio Farmers Wished for Rain. Now Downpours Are Destroying Their Crops 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 531
Micro- And Nano-Plastics Are Literally Everywhere As Treaty Talks Collapse; But We "Can't Afford Despair" - Why Not? 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 567
Stalagmites in Mexican caves reveal duration and severity of drought during the Maya collapse 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 14 642
Another gold rush could bring open pit mines to South Dakota's Black Hills 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 572
Hydrogen Engine or Hydrogen Fuel Cell? Why Not Both? Volvo Trucks takes us inside its two-pronged development strategy 10 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 1151
Trump told polluters to email him for an exemption. In California, three places have already been approved 1 Dulcinea Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 654
26 In 2023, 39 In 2024: Rising Heat Deaths In El Paso Bring Little In The Way Of Public Health Response 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 501
Jellyfish Shut Down French Nuclear Power Plant - NY Times 2 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 619
60 percent of the world's land area is in a precarious state 5 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 900
Black metal could give a heavy boost to solar power generation 1 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 19 943
'Revolutionary' seafloor fiber sensing reveals how falling ice drives glacial retreat in Greenland 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 453
How a White House plan to overturn a key EPA regulation threatens children's health - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 449
Former LCV Head - 20 Years Back, About 20% Of Candidates They Endorsed Were GOP; In 2024, Zero 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 526
Erin Went From A Category 1 To A Category 5 In 24 Hours And 20 Minutes - Earliest Cat 5 Ever In The Open Atlantic 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 671
An Economic Argument That the Three Mile Island Meltdown Cost the US 14 Trillion Dollars 14 NNadir Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 1655
Area Of Spain Burned In Wildfires In 2025 Already Three Times Seasonal Average From 2006 To 2024 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 451

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Overnight Low Temperature Records Set In Israel (96.8F) And Jordan (95F) 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 543
South Korean judges order companies responsible for fatal hydrogen explosion to pay billions of won in damages: reports 0 NNadir Aug 2025 Aug 2025 0 479
How Hydrogen-Powered Helicopter Flight Could Help Healthcare 1 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 567
Hydrogen Buses Hit the Road in Tasmania with Local Refuelling Tech 1 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 672
SolarStratos Makes History: 9,521 Meters Reached Using Only Solar Power 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 444
National Parks In "Survival Mode": Half Big Bend NP Staff Gone, 60 Vacant Positions In AK, No Lifeguards At Assateague 3 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 703
National Academy Organizes Rapid Response To Trump's "Scientific" Hackfest Downplaying Climate Threat 6 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 768
Homeless Are 1% Of Maricopa County Population, But Made Up 20% Of Deaths In 2024 At Arizona Burn Centers - It's That Hot 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 515
July 2025 Atmospheric CO2 Concentration 427.87 ppm; July 2024 425.55 ppm; July 2023 421.83 ppm 9 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 1035
Pedophile Party Members Who Voted For Big Bullshit Bill Have Lifetime Take Of $105 Million From Oil Industry 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 527
Plastic pollution talks fail as negotiators in Geneva reject draft treaties 2 muriel_volestrangler Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 525
Global Heat Spike In 2023 Continued Through 2024; CO2 Content Rose At Record Rate In 2024, Matching 2015 Record 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 453
Warming In Svalbard 7X Global Average; Glaciers' Melt Powered In Part By Rich Microbial Ecosystem Within Them 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 471
British Gas Pours $2 Billion Into LNG Terminal, Even Though UK Gas Demand Hit Lowest Level In 30+ Years In 2024 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 456
Hydrogen Bus Explosion in Chungju Injures Three in South Korea 0 NNadir Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 573
World's first 30MW pure hydrogen gas turbine project breaks ground in Ordos 1 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 712
Department of Energy Announces Initial Selections for New Reactor Pilot Program 1 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 528
Lake on the 79N Glacier is splitting the ice - leaving permanent changes 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 506
Human emissions drove the megadrought in the western U.S. 2 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 647
Philippines gets first megawatt-scale floating solar farm 2 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 710
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