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Engineered material uses light to destroy PFAS, other contaminants 2 OKIsItJustMe Dec 29 Dec 30 9 506
GameChangers 2025: The Unstoppable Rise of Environmental Crime 0 douglas9 Dec 30 Dec 30 3 582
Category '6' tropical cyclone hot spots are growing 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 29 Dec 29 5 381
Feedback loops accelerate warming, other atmospheric changes in Arctic 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 29 Dec 29 3 293
China mandates "No Fire, No Explosion" EV battery rule as 294 national standards finalized 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 29 Dec 29 3 367
European Energy energises Northern Europe's largest combined solar and battery park 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 29 Dec 29 3 301
Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere developed at the University of Helsinki 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 29 Dec 29 8 432
Reactor Pressure Vessel (RPV) Ingots 8 Finishline42 Dec 28 Dec 29 3 865
Nursing Home Explosion Kills More People than Died From Radiation at Fukushima But Not As Many As Died from Fear... 6 NNadir Dec 27 Dec 29 11 1037
Stingless bees from the Amazon granted legal rights in world first 4 marmar Dec 29 Dec 29 13 662
AI data centers use so much energy and water: 11 applegrove Dec 27 Dec 29 16 956
George Monbiot: How One Conversation W. Joe Rogan & Mel Gibson Embodied Everything Stupid That Is America Today 5 hatrack Dec 27 Dec 29 12 939
More Than 180 Ski Resorts Have Closed In France Alone As Snow Continues Retreat To Higher Altitudes 2 hatrack Dec 28 Dec 28 12 623
Scientists work to decode wolf howls in Yellowstone with AI technology - PBS NewsHour 8 Rhiannon12866 Dec 27 Dec 28 8 612
Too Bad, So Sad - Shitstain's Big Ag Bailouts, EPA's Speedy Pestcide Approvals Alienating Antivax MAHA Voters 0 hatrack Dec 28 Dec 28 14 566
Conservation Groups Acquire Nearly 3,000 Acres Of Near-Pristine TX Coastal Land To Protect Last Wild Whooping Cranes 0 hatrack Dec 28 Dec 28 15 910
Solar Energy from space...! 4 pbmus Dec 27 Dec 28 14 856
How a company in landlocked Nebraska is helping fight plastic pollution in oceans - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Dec 28 Dec 28 6 535
A great info hub... 2 2naSalit Dec 27 Dec 27 12 562
America's biggest oil field is turning into a pressure cooker 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 26 Dec 26 5 604
How Bull Connor And George Wallace Wrenched Alabama Power Into The Rate-Hiking, Coal-Heavy Nightmare It Is Today 0 hatrack Dec 26 Dec 26 6 482
US voters linking climate crisis to rising bills despite Trump's 'green scam' claims 2 Eugene Dec 26 Dec 26 11 551
Chilean Govt & Tompkins Conservation Prep National Park Status For 500,000 Remote Acres In Southern Patagonia 0 hatrack Dec 25 Dec 25 5 448
Republicans aim to exempt major polluters from Pfas cleanup costs 0 Eugene Dec 24 Dec 24 7 409
West Antarctica's history of rapid melting foretells sudden shifts in continent's 'catastrophic' geology 1 marmar Dec 24 Dec 24 7 460
Ice Shelf Supporting Thwaites Glacier Has Lost Connection To Ocean Floor; Cracks In Positive Feedback Loop 1 hatrack Dec 24 Dec 24 36 1083
Farmed Salmon Company Greenwashing With Sports Sponsorships & Beach Cleanups, And The Scots Are Not Having It 0 hatrack Dec 24 Dec 24 3 456
Concierge Disaster Recovery Services - Coming Soon To Fire/Flood-Hit Upscale Neighborhoods Near YOU!! 0 hatrack Dec 24 Dec 24 4 428
UK Met Office - 2025 "More Likely Than Not" To Break All-Time Records Set In 2022; Christmas Cold Snap May Intervene 0 hatrack Dec 24 Dec 24 1 300
NRC's Rushed Approval of Bill Gates' Experimental Wyoming Nuclear Reactor will Imperil Public Health, the Environment 9 OKIsItJustMe Dec 11 Dec 23 5 965

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Regenerative Capitalism Will Save The Planet! And It's Based On Carbon Credits (Along With Massive Bank Loans) 2 hatrack Dec 23 Dec 23 4 559
"Climate Lysenkoism" - Michael Mann On Trump's Full-On Stalinist Approach To Climate Science And Reality 1 hatrack Dec 23 Dec 23 6 490
Trump halts East Coast projects in latest blow against wind power - PBS NewsHour 2 Rhiannon12866 Dec 23 Dec 23 6 491
Why Finland's reindeer are dying by the thousands - CNN 4 TexasTowelie Dec 22 Dec 22 6 750
Whitmer Undoes Her Own Environmental Legacy By Backing (You Guessed It!) Tax Incentives For Data Centers 1 hatrack Dec 22 Dec 22 6 456
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 TexasTowelie Dec 22 Dec 22 0 251
SF Blackout Blocks Streets & Intersections With Paralyzed Waymo Cabs 1 hatrack Dec 21 Dec 21 8 588
Shocked, Shocked: Major UK Grocer Delays Net-Zero Plan For Another 15 Years (But It'll Be Great In 2050!) 2 hatrack Dec 17 Dec 21 4 460
For The 5th Time In 3 Years, Exxon & Pals Pushing SCOTUS For Liability Help; Also Pushing Congress For Legal Immunity 2 hatrack Dec 21 Dec 21 6 570
After Gutting Climate Laws In 2025, President Vought & Oval Office Assistant Try To Make Change Permanent In 2026 2 hatrack Dec 21 Dec 21 4 461
Their Clients Include BP, Aramco & Shell; Now They're Advising UK Arts Orgs On How To Justify Taking Oil & Gas Money 1 hatrack Dec 21 Dec 21 2 472
More Climate Leadership From Amazon! A Koch-Sponsored AI & Energy Conference Chock-Full Of Paid Climate Liars 0 hatrack Dec 21 Dec 21 5 471
Refreshing Honesty From LNG Exec: "Let's Plant A Few Trees And Call That An Offset, That Was All Bullshit" 0 hatrack Dec 21 Dec 21 4 424
At 2.0 - 2.5C Increase, Amazon Basin Hits Tipping Point; After That, 50-70% Of Forest Becomes Savannah,W. Global Impacts 0 hatrack Dec 21 Dec 21 2 336
Application of the Oak Ridge Super Computer to Streamline Document Access at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant. 4 NNadir Dec 16 Dec 20 2 686
Deadline Moved To February 2026, But Colorado Basin States Meet, Decide Nothing; Mead at 33% Of Capacity, Powell At 28% 2 hatrack Dec 19 Dec 19 4 431
100s Of Hectares Of Greece's Iconic Fir Forests Dead Or Dying; Multi-Factor Stress, Including Warming, Is Moving Fast 0 hatrack Dec 19 Dec 19 10 511
After Shitstain Moved To Destroy Key Climate & Weather Lab, CO Senators Destroyed HHS & Defense Appropriations Bill 0 hatrack Dec 19 Dec 19 15 457
Global Temperature in 2025, 2026, 2027 - James Hansen et. al 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 19 Dec 19 3 415
Gas Exports Are Driving Up Americans' Energy Bills, Report Says 2 douglas9 Dec 19 Dec 19 5 469
Scientific Study: UK Government Must Prepare For "Plausible" Worst-Case Climate - 4C Hotter, Seas 2 Meters Higher 0 hatrack Dec 19 Dec 19 2 401
Analysis Suggests That Proposed UK Data Center Could Use Up To 50 Times As Much Water As Admitted 0 hatrack Dec 19 Dec 19 2 330
To Feed Data Centers, Pennsylvania Faces a New Fracking Surge 5 Brenda Dec 16 Dec 19 5 799
Plan To Build Extension Of Bilbao Guggenheim In UNESCO World Heritage Biosphere Reserve Scrapped After Local Opposition 0 hatrack Dec 19 Dec 19 5 289
Shitstain Orders Another Coal Power Plant To Remain Online To Meet "Energy Emergency" That Does Not Exist 0 hatrack Dec 19 Dec 19 5 392
How Organized Crime Threatens the Amazon's Uncontacted Tribes 2 douglas9 Dec 18 Dec 18 4 388
US Fish and Wildlife Service sees nearly 20% drop in staff since Trump took office 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 18 Dec 18 4 343
Study - CO2 Emitted By AI Industry Now Exceeds The Output Of New York City; Already 8% Of Global Aviation CO2 Output 0 hatrack Dec 18 Dec 18 9 423
UK Met Office Projects 2026 Temperatures At 1.4C Over Preindustrial Averages, Among 4 Hottest Yrs On Record 0 hatrack Dec 18 Dec 18 2 317
One Big Factor Driving Spiking Utility Prices - Expanding Exports Of American Natural Gas 2 hatrack Dec 18 Dec 18 5 470

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Invasive Quagga Mussels Wreak Havoc In Lake Geneva, Slow Technology/Data Center To A Crawl 0 hatrack Dec 18 Dec 18 5 410
Woods Hole Study - Avg Rate of US Sea-Level Rise Has More Than Doubled Since 1900 0 hatrack Dec 18 Dec 18 4 385
Damn president is calling for NCAR to close! 3 Laffy Kat Dec 17 Dec 18 23 754
Northwest just finished warmest fall on record, scientists report 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 17 Dec 17 4 358
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado 5 douglas9 Dec 17 Dec 17 7 4369
The Arctic Is in Dire Straits, 20 Years of Reporting Show 2 douglas9 Dec 17 Dec 17 34 923
Bipartisan Michigan Bill Would Repeal Incentives For Data Centers Passed In 2024 1 hatrack Dec 17 Dec 17 4 345
10/24 - 9/25 - Arctic Temperatures Highest In 125 Year Instrumental Record; 10/10 Hottest Years In Last 10 Years 0 hatrack Dec 17 Dec 17 5 296
European Alps' Glaciers Will Hit Peak Loss Rate By 2033; More Than 100 Will Have Disappeared By That Date 0 hatrack Dec 17 Dec 17 6 304
130-Year-Old Dam Indian Dam Straining Under Pressure Of A Whole New Climate; 75,000 In Path Of Possible Flood 1 hatrack Dec 17 Dec 17 9 500
From record warming to rusting rivers, 2025 Arctic Report Card shows a region transforming faster than expected 1 marmar Dec 16 Dec 16 12 545
The Next El Nino (bad news) 1 Brenda Dec 16 Dec 16 8 573
Dynamite Blasts and Paradise Lost 2 douglas9 Dec 16 Dec 16 8 469
My Snow Blower Batteries Are in the Garage Recharging. Guess What Isn't Charging Them on the PJM Grid? 4 NNadir Dec 14 Dec 15 4 855
Anyone experienced with desalination of brackish groundwater? 6 surfered Dec 14 Dec 15 1 640
Eight UK Universities Commit To Cut Recruiting Ties With Fossil Fuel Industries; 12% Of UK Institutions Have Done So 0 hatrack Dec 15 Dec 15 3 351
Fracking Chickens Come Home To Groundwater Roost In Permian Basin As Ground Shifts And Toxins Erupt From Abandoned Wells 0 hatrack Dec 15 Dec 15 17 644
Veteran environmental legislator David Bulova selected as Virginia's next resources secretary 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 15 Dec 15 2 382
A BOE Estimate of Deaths Connected with Coal Combustion in Wyoming. 4 NNadir Dec 11 Dec 14 3 840
2025: The Year the US Gave Up On Climate, and the World Gave Up On Us 1 douglas9 Dec 14 Dec 14 9 594
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