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Stopping Trump's License to Pollute - Senator Adam Schiff 1 Rhiannon12866 1 hr ago 13 min ago 1 102
"The Salmon Are Everywhere" In OR/CA's Klamath River 1 Yr After Dam Removals, Even In Upstream Tributaries 0 hatrack 15 min ago 15 min ago 3 87
Colorado running out of options for new source of wolves after Washington rejects request 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 4 hrs ago 1 hr ago 3 226
One of America's most dangerous volcanoes will soon power homes 3 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 7 hrs ago 5 hrs ago 8 345
Al Gore on America's Noticeable Absence at COP30 Climate Conference - Amanpour and Company PBS 2 Rhiannon12866 Thursday 6 hrs ago 4 296
Protect Arctic public lands from the Trump administration's attacks. 0 red dog 1 7 hrs ago 7 hrs ago 1 161
Facilties Flop At Climate Confab; Stifling Heat & Humidity Indoors, Leaking Roofs, Broken Toilets, Oppressive Noise 1 hatrack 15 hrs ago 7 hrs ago 5 307
NPR: 3 massive changes you'll see as the climate careens toward tipping points 3 OKIsItJustMe 10 hrs ago 7 hrs ago 14 487
At Current CO2 Output, NJ Facing Between 2.2 And 3.8 Feet Of Sea-Level Rise By 2100; W. Ice Sheet Loss, 4.5 Feet 2 hatrack 15 hrs ago 11 hrs ago 4 212
October 2025 Atmospheric CO2 Concentration 424.87 ppm; October 2024 422.38 ppm; October 2023 418.82 ppm 3 hatrack Yesterday 15 hrs ago 1 178
A little bird is signaling a major problem -- and that bird is the insurance industry 0 douglas9 16 hrs ago 16 hrs ago 10 458
1,000 Of 1,600 Individual Corals Tracked At World Heritage Ningaloo Reef Dead As Result Of Latest Marine Heatwave 0 hatrack 16 hrs ago 16 hrs ago 4 139
An Antarctic Glacier Retreated (i.e. "Melted & Collapsed) 5 Miles In 2 Months; Rate Of Retreat 10X Prior Record 7 hatrack Nov 5 17 hrs ago 15 487
September 2025 Atmospheric CO2 Content 424.37 ppm; September 2024 422.99 ppm; September 2023 418.50 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 3 141
Cameras capture B.C. sea wolf raiding crab traps in first possible 'tool use' 3 OnlinePoker Yesterday Yesterday 15 409
We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It's a Revelation. 0 douglas9 Yesterday Yesterday 10 311
Ocean with David Attenborough examines industrialization's destructive relationship with the sea and the hope for its 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Monday Monday 7 190
Video: What's really happening in the ocean's "dark zones" - China's huge invisible fishing fleet 0 OKIsItJustMe Monday Monday 4 304
Some good news about the bad news. 2 NNadir Sunday Monday 13 539
Skin cancer cluster found in 15 Pennsylvania counties with or near farmland 3 OKIsItJustMe Monday Monday 23 597
53,000 Animals - Half Of Breeding Female Elephant Seals On South Georgia - Dead From Bird Flu Since 2023 0 hatrack Monday Monday 15 352
Insect-Eating Birds Begin Gradual Comeback In France After Ban On Neonicotinoid Pesticides In Fields 2022 0 hatrack Monday Monday 14 340
Nearly 20,000 Glacial Lakes Span The Himalayas As Warming Takes Its Toll; Detailed Risk Analysis Hasn't Even Begun 0 hatrack Monday Monday 10 326
EPA Science Advisory Board Empty Since Feb; New Prospects - Climate Liars, Chemical Company Reps Nominated By A Lobbyist 0 hatrack Monday Monday 6 251
Fossil Fuel Lobbyists At CRAP30 Outnumber All Individual National Delegations Except For Brazil 2 hatrack Sunday Monday 6 328
Data center growth drives locals to fight for more say 0 douglas9 Monday Monday 6 267
Comment: U.S. climate efforts didn't hurt economy; they grew it 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sunday Sunday 6 236
Abdication - Whatever Happens After The Belem Garbage Fire, It's Going To Happen Without The United States 4 hatrack Sunday Sunday 17 587

Environment & Energy Continued...

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UK High Court Finds Australian Firm BHP Liable For 2015 Dam Collapse That Killed 19, Dumped Toxic Waste In Brazil 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 4 242
Severe floods threaten global rice yields, study finds 1 OKIsItJustMe Sunday Sunday 1 231
Largest One-Year Increase In Yellow Fever Cases In S. America Since 1960; Dengue Spreading There And In Europe 2 hatrack Saturday Saturday 7 313
Toxic Plastic Bead Spill Spreading On England's South Coast; Southern Water Just Raised Its Avg. Rates 47% This Year 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 4 332
Saudi Arabia A "Wrecking Ball" On Climate Action; Their Climate Worst-Case - Heatwaves At/Above 133F For Weeks On End 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 8 297
A spreadsheet of reflecting a decade of the IEA's World Energy Outlook data for consumption and sources of energy. 0 NNadir Saturday Saturday 3 220
Sierra Club Statement on Interior's Sellout of Western Arctic 1 douglas9 Friday Saturday 7 320
Renewable energy is cheaper, creates more growth and creates more jobs than fossil fuel does/will 6 applegrove Friday Friday 7 336
After 13 Years, No End In Sight For Caribbean Sargassum Invasion; Toxic Air, Buried Beaches, Clogged Rivers 1 hatrack Friday Friday 4 1156
More Than Half Of All National Delegation Members At CRAP30 Have Obscured Their Affiliations: "Guest", "Other" Popular 0 hatrack Friday Friday 5 261
But But But . . . Drill Baby, Drill!! World Facing Oil Glut In 2026 Of Roughly 4 Million Barrels/Day, Per IEA Forecast 0 hatrack Friday Friday 3 208
At Current (Increasing) Emissions Rates, 1.5C Threshold Of Catastrophic Warming Will Be Surpassed By 2030 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 5 194
Zanzibar's 'solar mamas' are trained as technicians to help light up communities 2 Jilly_in_VA Thursday Thursday 4 215
Finally, Something To Bring Americans Together - Pretty Much Everybody Hates Data Centers And Crypto Mines 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 14 368
From Mining to Manufacturing: Scientific Challenges and Opportunities behind Battery Production 0 NNadir Thursday Thursday 3 166
2021 4-Day OR/WA Heatwave: "No Examples Of Heatwave-Induced Foliar Death At This Scale In The Historical Record" 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 6 253
Welcome To "Don't Say Climate!" Politics - Even As First Flailing Attempts To Cope W. What's Coming Begin 1 hatrack Nov 10 Thursday 3 386
US 'disappointed' that Rolls-Royce will build UK's first small modular reactors 6 OnlinePoker Thursday Thursday 4 309
Fears for elephant seals as bird flu kills half of population on South Georgia 1 muriel_volestrangler Thursday Thursday 6 196
A flotilla kicks off the People's Summit for activists at UN climate talks 0 Jilly_in_VA Thursday Thursday 3 172
Earth Still On Track For 2.6C Increase - i.e. "Global Disaster"; FF Emissions Up Again By +/- 1% In 2025 3 hatrack Thursday Thursday 9 389
Climatologist Jolle Gergis On Why Planting Trees And "Net Zero" Accounting Tricks Are Insidious, Feel-Good Bullshit 2 hatrack Nov 10 Thursday 6 336
From "Dulled Acceptance" To "Magical Thinking" - Elizabeth Kolbert On Our Response To A Crisis That Is Not Going Away 2 hatrack Nov 11 Thursday 13 440
The 2025 IEA World Energy Outlook Has Been Released. Coal grew faster in 2024 than either solar or wind. 3 NNadir Thursday Thursday 0 269
Brazil's JBS - Planet's Biggest Beef Company - "Recommending Climate Policy" At CRAP-30 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 5 306
FULL PRESSER: Newsom Slams Trump at COP30, 'Polluted Heart of Climate Crisis is Donald Trump' - DRM News 0 Rhiannon12866 Thursday Thursday 8 431
Prescribed burns central to wildfire legislation moving through Congress 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Wednesday Wednesday 2 262
Iceland deems possible Atlantic current collapse a security risk 0 nitpicked Wednesday Wednesday 10 384
The clock is ticking on the shrinking Colorado River as Western states miss a key deadline 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Wednesday Wednesday 4 233
Australia's Liberal Party (They're Not) Stance On Climate Spirals Off To Somewhere Between Incoherence And Insanity 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 2 254

Environment & Energy Continued...

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7 Colorado Basin States Miss Deadline For Cuts In Water Use; Generation Halt Powell Possible By Late 2026 2 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 11 279
In Delhi, More Now Die From Air Pollution Than From Obesity Or Diabetes; Protest AQ And You'll Go To Jail 2 hatrack Nov 11 Wednesday 8 291
Integrated Vapor Transport (IVT) Boosts Moisture Air Currents Can Carry; WV In Bullseye Of New Rainfall Conditions 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 5 376
Trump plan would open California to offshore oil drilling 3 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 11 Nov 11 5 326
"I've been thinking about this possibility for 15 years": Killer whale experts make new discovery off North American coa 0 marmar Nov 11 Nov 11 7 456
Modeling Shows Potential For "Burp" Of Heat From Southern Ocean - Absorbed Over Time, It Could Be Released Suddenly 3 hatrack Nov 8 Nov 11 14 409
Aedes Aegypti Mosquito, Which Carries Dengue, Couldn't Survive In The Rockies. Now They're Thriving In Western CO. 1 hatrack Nov 10 Nov 10 5 265
Absence Of Shitstain's Hacks & Cronies And Their "Full Thug Tactics" A Welcome Change At CRAP-30 0 hatrack Nov 10 Nov 10 3 243
Southern Water "Very Sorry" For Massive Toxic Spill, Which They Lied About; "Unclear" If They Will Face Legal Action 0 hatrack Nov 10 Nov 10 3 270
2nd Typhoon In 1 Week Hits Phillipine Island Of Luzon, Forcing Suspension Of Ongoing Rescue Operations 0 hatrack Nov 10 Nov 10 3 206
Forests, Yes; Funding, Yes - But Any Meaningful Engagement On Fossil Fuels Highly Unlikely At Climate Summit 2 hatrack Nov 9 Nov 9 6 327
Survey Of 2,000 Australian Women w/o Kids Finds That 40% Are Reluctant To Reproduce Thanks To Global Warming 2 hatrack Nov 9 Nov 9 7 266
Drax Continues To Generate "Sustainable" Energy By Burning 250-Year Old Trees From Canada 3 hatrack Nov 9 Nov 9 10 300
"Catastrophic" - Toxic Plastic Beads Swamp Beloved English Beach; Cleanup Nearly Impossible 0 hatrack Nov 9 Nov 9 16 443
But Market Forces!!! As Emptiness Of Most Carbon Offset Programs Becomes Clear, Global Carbon Prices In Freefall 3 hatrack Nov 6 Nov 9 3 357
I Wish We Could Ignore Bill Gates On Climate, But He's A Billionaire So We Can't 1 hatrack Nov 8 Nov 8 8 357
NM Forests Painfully Vulnerable To Warming; Controlled Burns & Clearing Down 53% Under Shitstain Admin 3 hatrack Nov 8 Nov 8 8 352
"Unprecedented" Access For Oil & Gas Lobbyists Over Past Four Climate Summits - This Is What Corprate Capture Looks Like 0 hatrack Nov 8 Nov 8 7 290
Voters' anger over high electricity bills and data centers loom over 2026 midterms 1 Eugene Nov 8 Nov 8 14 400
Making the Case: The "Stop Work" President - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Nov 8 Nov 8 4 330
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