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Defence Forces arrive at Whitegate oil refinery in Cork as garda pepper spray protesters 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 11 Apr 11 3 485

Surprise!!! Nations Pinched By Trump's Excellent Adventure In Iran Not Interested In Buying American Energy Exports 0 hatrack Apr 11 Apr 11 7 588

EPA Eliminates Office Of Research & Development, Now Busy Transferring Scientists, Apparently At Random 0 hatrack Apr 11 Apr 11 7 440

Seattle-based company accused of fishing violations in Alaska's Bering Sea 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 10 Apr 10 3 448

EPA Head Of Methane Regulations Worked For Oil Majors Lobbying Against Methane Regulations In His Last Job 3 hatrack Apr 1 Apr 10 8 582

World's first megawatt-class hydrogen turboprop engine completes maiden flight test 2 Caribbeans Apr 6 Apr 10 4 737

Radioactive Water Discharged into Hudson River for Decades 8 Caribbeans Apr 10 Apr 10 8 885

☀️ March Heat: US Endured Hottest March on Record as Experts Warned of 'Nonsurvivable' Heatwaves 0 appalachiablue Apr 10 Apr 10 11 658

Building El Nino 0 OnlinePoker Apr 9 Apr 9 4 399

City animals act in the same brazen ways around the world 3 Judi Lynn Apr 9 Apr 9 13 597

Fossil fuels as a "weapon of war": Investigative journalist Antonia Juhasz and Chris Hayes - "Why Is This Happening?" 4 Rhiannon12866 Apr 7 Apr 9 5 701

Mass Drownings Of Penguin Chicks/Hypothermia Behind "Endangered" Update; 4/5 Bellinghausen Sea Colonies Gone 0 hatrack Apr 9 Apr 9 16 445

IUCN Declares Emperor Penguins Endangered: Antarctic Fur Seals Also Added To List As Numbers Plunge 50% 0 hatrack Apr 9 Apr 9 3 319

EPA Head Praises Climate Deniers In Person In DC Speech: "A Moment To Celebrate. It Is A Day To Celebrate Vindication" 3 hatrack Apr 9 Apr 9 7 558

Washington declares statewide drought, marks fourth year of drought in some agricultural areas 0 cbabe Apr 9 Apr 9 2 366

Nebraska - One Fire In March 2026 Broke Annual Record For Area Burned; Ranching Making Grasslands More Vulnerable 0 hatrack Apr 9 Apr 9 2 437

4/7/26 Drought Monitor: Slight Increase In Level 2-4 Drought Across Lower 48, But YTD Nearly Double 2025 (36% vs. 19%) 1 hatrack Apr 9 Apr 9 7 334

What To Expect When You're Expecting The End Of The World - Jem Bendell And The Deep Adaptation Paper 0 hatrack Apr 9 Apr 9 6 511

Earth's Smells Are Disappearing Because of Climate Change, and It's a Vast Cultural Loss 2 Judi Lynn Apr 9 Apr 9 10 606

Another Oil Rush, Another Boomtown, Another Deforestation Spike In Impoverished Northeastern Brazil 0 hatrack Apr 9 Apr 9 4 425

More Than 21% Of USDA Workforce Gone In Year 1 Of Shitstain 2; Climate, Conservation, Inspection, Research Hard-Hit 0 hatrack Apr 8 Apr 8 12 542

This message was self-deleted by its author 2 jfz9580m Apr 7 Apr 8 5 1536

A Nuclear Renaissance? Live video discussion on the geopolitics of energy... 2 littlemissmartypants Apr 7 Apr 7 3 470

Corpus Christi Water Crisis Prompts Regional Response To (All Together Now!) Pump Even More Groundwater, But Faster 1 hatrack Apr 7 Apr 7 9 824

So Cute!! Some MAGA Voters And Public Figures - Including Katie Miller - Support More Solar, 'Cuz 'Murca 1 hatrack Apr 7 Apr 7 4 690

Heat/Drought Impacts Span Most Of US; Wheat, Beef, Peanuts, Rice, Sugarcane Hit; Irrigation In West Hitting Limits 0 hatrack Apr 7 Apr 7 8 487

More Than 10,000 STEM PhDs Have Left Federal Agencies In 1 Year; Climatologist Kate Marvel One Of Them (Interview) 1 hatrack Apr 7 Apr 7 12 511

Swiss Forest Study Shows Some Deciduous Species May Be Able To Adapt To Extreme Heat, But Heat + Drought Deadly 0 hatrack Apr 7 Apr 7 3 574

New Weekly CO2 Concentration Record Set at the Mauna Loa Observatory, 431.73 ppm 5 NNadir Apr 5 Apr 6 9 956

What Americans Really Pay for Electricity 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 6 Apr 6 6 832

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Beavers Emerge As Unlikely Allies In Carbon Removal, New Study Finds 3 Judi Lynn Apr 6 Apr 6 10 537

7 Weeks Out From Hurricane Season, Fmr. Senator Kickass T. Horsefucker Considering Cutting +/- Half Of 20,000 FEMA Staff 1 hatrack Apr 6 Apr 6 5 665

Trump's Interior Department Preparing To Ban Bison From Federal Grazing Lands, And To Choke Out Tribal Bison Herds 3 hatrack Apr 5 Apr 6 12 757

California's Ocean Temperatures Spiking; La Jolla Station Reported Pacific At 10F Over Historical Average In March 1 hatrack Apr 5 Apr 5 9 573

(Re)drilling North Sea Fields Would Do Nearly Nothing To Cut UK Gas Imports; Jackdaw - 2%; Rosebank - 1% 0 hatrack Apr 5 Apr 5 2 442

Much like the old (more honest) days: What so called "renewable energy" is all about. 4 NNadir Apr 3 Apr 5 2 930

Merlin - UK's Smallest Bird Of Prey - Extinct By 2050 (W. 200+ Other Species) If Emissions, Land Use Don't Change 2 hatrack Apr 1 Apr 5 6 556

Shitstain Moving Forest Service HQ To Salt Lake City; When He Moved BLM HQ Last Term, 90% Of Agency Staff Quit 2 hatrack Apr 1 Apr 5 2 574

Iowa Already Faces Massive Problem In Nitrate Pollution In Water; Warming is Making That Pollution Even Worse 3 hatrack Apr 2 Apr 5 5 502

Climate Model: Thwaites Ice Loss Alone Will Equal Entire Current Ice Loss From Antarctic By 2060s (+/- 200 Gt Per Year) 1 hatrack Apr 2 Apr 5 9 483

On The Brink Of What Could Be The Worst Fire Season In US History, Complete Revamp Of Federal Fire System Underway 4 hatrack Apr 4 Apr 5 11 811

Bluebells, Frogspawn, Birds' Eggs, Flowering Trees - UK Experiencing Earliest Biological Spring Ever Recorded 0 hatrack Apr 4 Apr 4 8 455

Microwave Mel Gibson Makes Farty Mouth Noises About "Regulating" Microplastics, But Of Course It's Toothless, Empty PR 0 hatrack Apr 4 Apr 4 8 650

During Shitstain 1, Fish & Wildlife Service Added 22 Threatened/Endangered Species; To Date In Shitstain 2, Zero 0 hatrack Apr 4 Apr 4 5 397

The Trump administration is paying this company $1 billion to quit building wind farms 2 Caribbeans Apr 1 Apr 4 5 496

Google Boosts "Net-Zero" By, Uh . . . Powering TX AI Site With Gas Plant That Will Emit More CO2 Than San Francisco 5 hatrack Apr 3 Apr 3 10 658

Sherwood Plots: A Difference Between the Economics of Material Isolation in the 1950's and 2020s. 1 NNadir Apr 3 Apr 3 4 574

Study - Loss Of Barents Sea Ice Is Increasing Frequency Of Simultaneous Summer Heatwaves in Europe, E. Asia 1 hatrack Apr 3 Apr 3 12 582

New England governors unite for nuclear 7 NNadir Apr 2 Apr 3 5 840

Florida Power & Light Profit Margin - 27 Cents Per Revenue Dollar - Highest In US; Doesn't Include New $7 Billion Hike 1 hatrack Apr 3 Apr 3 8 572

Interagency Fire Center Assigns "Signiticant Fire Potential" To Much Of Southern Wyoming For April Through June 0 hatrack Apr 3 Apr 3 2 432

A 'failed experiment'? Biofuels under the spotlight as EU scrambles for alternative energy 2 littlemissmartypants Apr 2 Apr 3 3 458

We now have to feed starving bees. What we have done to the ecosystem!!! 5 applegrove Mar 28 Apr 2 17 821

Loss Of Snowpack Across West Moving At A "Stunning" Pace; Rio Grande Basin At 8% Of Avg, Lower Colorado At 10% 4 hatrack Apr 2 Apr 2 11 632

O&G rights chatting with someone 2 Marthe48 Apr 2 Apr 2 4 475

"I've Never Heard Roars Like This Except For A Basketball Game" As PA Borough Votes Down Permit For Giant Datacenter 1 hatrack Apr 2 Apr 2 23 691

EOS - Another Record Low For Maximum Winter Arctic Sea Ice (Again - 2025 Was The Prior Winter Low) 0 hatrack Apr 2 Apr 2 4 404

After Chemical Industry Lobbying, EPA Considers Dropping Clean Air Protections For For Plastic Waste Recycling 2 hatrack Apr 2 Apr 2 4 429

3/31/26 Drought Monitor - Parts/All Of Every Contiguous State In Some Level Of Drought; 28.98% In Levels 2-4 Drought 0 hatrack Apr 2 Apr 2 6 476

Western US Cities Cutting Water Use & Irrigation; Half Of 120 Western Ski Resorts Closed Early Or Never Opened This Year 0 hatrack Apr 2 Apr 2 8 493

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Yale Study: Cancer Rates Between 4% And 8% Higher In CA/IA/TX Counties Where People Live Near CAFOs 0 hatrack Apr 2 Apr 2 10 677

Forest Service headquarters to relocate to Salt Lake City in major restructuring plan 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 1 Apr 1 2 427

Data Centers create heat islands around themselves where temperatures go up, up to 16 degrees farenheight. 0 applegrove Apr 1 Apr 1 5 420

Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 1 Apr 1 15 497

Coolant Industry Claims To Be Moving Ahead On Eliminating HFCs, Despite Shitstain's Administrative Tantrums 1 hatrack Apr 1 Apr 1 2 540

MIQ - 3rd Party System That "Certifies" Methane Output - Not Even Close On Actual Totals, Enables Gaming The System 0 hatrack Apr 1 Apr 1 6 511

Federal Judge Rules That AL Power Solar Fee, Among Highest In US, Can Remain; Their Residential Rates Highest In US 2 hatrack Mar 31 Mar 31 11 706

Bringing this topic back up for those who care about protecting our public lands and waterways 0 blue_jay Mar 31 Mar 31 4 461

FEMA - Can't Attend This Year's National Hurricane Conference, So State & Local Governments Should "Do More" 4 hatrack Mar 31 Mar 31 4 629

Japan's Inland Sea Oyster Farmers Reporting Mortality Rates Of Up To 90%; Heat, Oxygen Deprivation Wiping Out Shellfish 0 hatrack Mar 31 Mar 31 7 449

Shocked, Shocked! AI Melting Tech Emissions Targets; In 5 Years, Microsoft Emissions Up 23%, Google 50%, Amazon Up 33% 0 hatrack Mar 31 Mar 31 11 522

The sheep farmer who turned a 1800 call to coal giant AGL into a major solar grazing deal 1 usonian Mar 30 Mar 31 9 518

Raptor Resource Project Baby Eagle Cam 0 littlemissmartypants Mar 30 Mar 30 4 361

Starbucks Flogs Its Plastic Cups As "Widely Recyclable", But Only 1-2% Of Polypropylene Is Actually Ever Recycled 3 hatrack Mar 30 Mar 30 7 736

David Suzuki: Still Fighting for the Planet at 90 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 30 Mar 30 7 424

Two Kona Storms Brought 50 Inches Of Rain To Oahu: "I've Never Seen Anything Like It" 1 hatrack Mar 30 Mar 30 9 558

New Weekly CO2 Concentration Record Set at the Mauna Loa Observatory, 430.93 ppm 4 NNadir Mar 29 Mar 30 7 885

Why gold prospectors in Switzerland extract gold from gravel pits - Focus on Europe - DW News 0 TexasTowelie Mar 30 Mar 30 3 468

Trump is forcing coal plants to stay open. It could cost customers billions 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 29 Mar 29 5 498

Scotland runs on windpower and nothing else for a bit: 3 applegrove Mar 29 Mar 29 18 806

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