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After A Year Of Shitstain Gutting America's Science And Emergency Response, "People Will Suffer - It's Just That Simple" 0 hatrack Jan 4 Jan 4 9 436
Another Benefit From The Bullshit That Is AI: "Just An Unbelievable Amount Of Pollution" 0 hatrack Jan 4 Jan 4 10 500
Few Florida Staghorn Corals Survived 2023 Bleaching; Many That Remain In Path Of Federal Dredging Project 0 hatrack Jan 4 Jan 4 2 380
Satellite Measurements Show Slight But Steady Declines In Heights Of 41 Dams In 13 States & Puerto Rico 0 hatrack Jan 4 Jan 4 5 383
Voltage, inertia and the Iberian blackout part 2: faulty PV inverter crashed the grid 2 NNadir Jan 4 Jan 4 4 771
Officials enlist hunters in battle against ginormous hogs taking over US region: 'You want that number ... going down' 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 4 Jan 4 2 457
"They Didn't De-Extinct Anything" - No Substantial Differences Between "Dire Wolves" And Those Living In North America 2 hatrack Dec 31 Jan 3 11 667
Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 4 douglas9 Jan 2 Jan 2 29 1394
Electric Power Reliability, Energy Burdens, and Climate Change Beliefs in the United States 6 NNadir Dec 31 Jan 2 2 1313
Jordan Has Lost +/- 70% Of Its Olive Crop After Months Of Relentless Drought And Heat 10-15C Above Averages 3 hatrack Jan 2 Jan 2 5 553
Ring-Necked Parakeet Population In England An Estimated 15,000 Pairs, Producing New Pressure On Native Birds 1 hatrack Jan 2 Jan 2 6 568
2025 UK Survey Finds 646 Flowering Plant Species In Bloom During November-December Study Period 0 hatrack Jan 2 Jan 2 6 367
UNL Cuts Dept Of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences - NE Has Seen 26 Billion-Dollar Disasters Since 2005; 4 In Prior 20 Years 1 hatrack Jan 2 Jan 2 3 567
Onboard an expedition to study a massive, melting glacier in Antarctica - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Jan 2 Jan 2 4 358
Americans Know The Reality Of Warming, Even If Their Insane Government Won't Admit Its Existence 6 hatrack Jan 1 Jan 1 14 634
2005 - Cabinet Ministers Explicitly Warned Australia's Right-Wing Government Of Warming Impacts; Nothing Really Changed 1 hatrack Jan 1 Jan 1 1 398
Christmas Eve In Iceland - A Balmy High Of 68F, Highest Temperature For The Day On Record 0 hatrack Dec 31 Dec 31 9 467
England's Fire Services Dealt With 27,000 Fires In Forests, On Crop And Grasslands During 2025, Hottest Year On Record 0 hatrack Dec 31 Dec 31 5 350
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 applegrove Dec 30 Dec 30 0 163
Engineered material uses light to destroy PFAS, other contaminants 2 OKIsItJustMe Dec 29 Dec 30 9 512
GameChangers 2025: The Unstoppable Rise of Environmental Crime 0 douglas9 Dec 30 Dec 30 3 585
Category '6' tropical cyclone hot spots are growing 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 29 Dec 29 5 383
Feedback loops accelerate warming, other atmospheric changes in Arctic 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 29 Dec 29 3 297
China mandates "No Fire, No Explosion" EV battery rule as 294 national standards finalized 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 29 Dec 29 3 369
European Energy energises Northern Europe's largest combined solar and battery park 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 29 Dec 29 3 304
Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere developed at the University of Helsinki 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 29 Dec 29 8 434
Reactor Pressure Vessel (RPV) Ingots 8 Finishline42 Dec 28 Dec 29 3 890
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 1052
Stingless bees from the Amazon granted legal rights in world first 4 marmar Dec 29 Dec 29 13 676
AI data centers use so much energy and water: 11 applegrove Dec 27 Dec 29 16 978

Environment & Energy Continued...

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George Monbiot: How One Conversation W. Joe Rogan & Mel Gibson Embodied Everything Stupid That Is America Today 5 hatrack Dec 27 Dec 29 12 951
More Than 180 Ski Resorts Have Closed In France Alone As Snow Continues Retreat To Higher Altitudes 2 hatrack Dec 28 Dec 28 12 629
Scientists work to decode wolf howls in Yellowstone with AI technology - PBS NewsHour 8 Rhiannon12866 Dec 27 Dec 28 8 631
Too Bad, So Sad - Shitstain's Big Ag Bailouts, EPA's Speedy Pestcide Approvals Alienating Antivax MAHA Voters 0 hatrack Dec 28 Dec 28 14 570
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 15 913
Solar Energy from space...! 4 pbmus Dec 27 Dec 28 14 873
How a company in landlocked Nebraska is helping fight plastic pollution in oceans - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Dec 28 Dec 28 6 539
A great info hub... 2 2naSalit Dec 27 Dec 27 12 568
America's biggest oil field is turning into a pressure cooker 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 26 Dec 26 5 611
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 6 486
US voters linking climate crisis to rising bills despite Trump's 'green scam' claims 2 Eugene Dec 26 Dec 26 11 554
Chilean Govt & Tompkins Conservation Prep National Park Status For 500,000 Remote Acres In Southern Patagonia 0 hatrack Dec 25 Dec 25 5 450
Republicans aim to exempt major polluters from Pfas cleanup costs 0 Eugene Dec 24 Dec 24 7 413
West Antarctica's history of rapid melting foretells sudden shifts in continent's 'catastrophic' geology 1 marmar Dec 24 Dec 24 7 464
Ice Shelf Supporting Thwaites Glacier Has Lost Connection To Ocean Floor; Cracks In Positive Feedback Loop 1 hatrack Dec 24 Dec 24 36 1088
Farmed Salmon Company Greenwashing With Sports Sponsorships & Beach Cleanups, And The Scots Are Not Having It 0 hatrack Dec 24 Dec 24 3 458
Concierge Disaster Recovery Services - Coming Soon To Fire/Flood-Hit Upscale Neighborhoods Near YOU!! 0 hatrack Dec 24 Dec 24 4 429
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 1 301
NRC's Rushed Approval of Bill Gates' Experimental Wyoming Nuclear Reactor will Imperil Public Health, the Environment 9 OKIsItJustMe Dec 2025 Dec 23 5 975
Regenerative Capitalism Will Save The Planet! And It's Based On Carbon Credits (Along With Massive Bank Loans) 2 hatrack Dec 23 Dec 23 4 561
"Climate Lysenkoism" - Michael Mann On Trump's Full-On Stalinist Approach To Climate Science And Reality 1 hatrack Dec 23 Dec 23 6 492
Trump halts East Coast projects in latest blow against wind power - PBS NewsHour 2 Rhiannon12866 Dec 23 Dec 23 6 497
Why Finland's reindeer are dying by the thousands - CNN 4 TexasTowelie Dec 22 Dec 22 6 759
Whitmer Undoes Her Own Environmental Legacy By Backing (You Guessed It!) Tax Incentives For Data Centers 1 hatrack Dec 22 Dec 22 6 460
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 TexasTowelie Dec 22 Dec 22 0 254
SF Blackout Blocks Streets & Intersections With Paralyzed Waymo Cabs 1 hatrack Dec 21 Dec 21 8 593
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 4 466
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 6 572
After Gutting Climate Laws In 2025, President Vought & Oval Office Assistant Try To Make Change Permanent In 2026 2 hatrack Dec 21 Dec 21 4 465
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 2 474

Environment & Energy Continued...

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More Climate Leadership From Amazon! A Koch-Sponsored AI & Energy Conference Chock-Full Of Paid Climate Liars 0 hatrack Dec 21 Dec 21 5 475
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 4 425
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 2 339
Application of the Oak Ridge Super Computer to Streamline Document Access at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant. 4 NNadir Dec 16 Dec 20 2 699
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 4 433
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 10 512
After Shitstain Moved To Destroy Key Climate & Weather Lab, CO Senators Destroyed HHS & Defense Appropriations Bill 0 hatrack Dec 19 Dec 19 15 459
Global Temperature in 2025, 2026, 2027 - James Hansen et. al 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 19 Dec 19 3 417
Gas Exports Are Driving Up Americans' Energy Bills, Report Says 2 douglas9 Dec 19 Dec 19 5 474
Scientific Study: UK Government Must Prepare For "Plausible" Worst-Case Climate - 4C Hotter, Seas 2 Meters Higher 0 hatrack Dec 19 Dec 19 2 405
Analysis Suggests That Proposed UK Data Center Could Use Up To 50 Times As Much Water As Admitted 0 hatrack Dec 19 Dec 19 2 334
To Feed Data Centers, Pennsylvania Faces a New Fracking Surge 5 Brenda Dec 16 Dec 19 5 803
Plan To Build Extension Of Bilbao Guggenheim In UNESCO World Heritage Biosphere Reserve Scrapped After Local Opposition 0 hatrack Dec 19 Dec 19 5 291
Shitstain Orders Another Coal Power Plant To Remain Online To Meet "Energy Emergency" That Does Not Exist 0 hatrack Dec 19 Dec 19 5 396
How Organized Crime Threatens the Amazon's Uncontacted Tribes 2 douglas9 Dec 18 Dec 18 4 392
US Fish and Wildlife Service sees nearly 20% drop in staff since Trump took office 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 18 Dec 18 4 346
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 9 426
UK Met Office Projects 2026 Temperatures At 1.4C Over Preindustrial Averages, Among 4 Hottest Yrs On Record 0 hatrack Dec 18 Dec 18 2 320
One Big Factor Driving Spiking Utility Prices - Expanding Exports Of American Natural Gas 2 hatrack Dec 18 Dec 18 5 476
Invasive Quagga Mussels Wreak Havoc In Lake Geneva, Slow Technology/Data Center To A Crawl 0 hatrack Dec 18 Dec 18 5 414
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