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Merlin - UK's Smallest Bird Of Prey - Extinct By 2050 (W. 200+ Other Species) If Emissions, Land Use Don't Change 2 hatrack Wednesday 2 hrs ago 6 293
EPA Head Of Methane Regulations Worked For Oil Majors Lobbying Against Methane Regulations In His Last Job 2 hatrack Wednesday 2 hrs ago 7 302
Shitstain Moving Forest Service HQ To Salt Lake City; When He Moved BLM HQ Last Term, 90% Of Agency Staff Quit 2 hatrack Wednesday 2 hrs ago 2 312
Iowa Already Faces Massive Problem In Nitrate Pollution In Water; Warming is Making That Pollution Even Worse 3 hatrack Thursday 2 hrs ago 5 311
Climate Model: Thwaites Ice Loss Alone Will Equal Entire Current Ice Loss From Antarctic By 2060s (+/- 200 Gt Per Year) 1 hatrack Thursday 2 hrs ago 9 306
On The Brink Of What Could Be The Worst Fire Season In US History, Complete Revamp Of Federal Fire System Underway 4 hatrack 21 hrs ago 2 hrs ago 11 400
Much like the old (more honest) days: What so called "renewable energy" is all about. 3 NNadir Friday 17 hrs ago 1 498
Bluebells, Frogspawn, Birds' Eggs, Flowering Trees - UK Experiencing Earliest Biological Spring Ever Recorded 0 hatrack 23 hrs ago 23 hrs ago 8 244
Microwave Mel Gibson Makes Farty Mouth Noises About "Regulating" Microplastics, But Of Course It's Toothless, Empty PR 0 hatrack 23 hrs ago 23 hrs ago 7 385
During Shitstain 1, Fish & Wildlife Service Added 22 Threatened/Endangered Species; To Date In Shitstain 2, Zero 0 hatrack 23 hrs ago 23 hrs ago 5 224
The Trump administration is paying this company $1 billion to quit building wind farms 2 Caribbeans Wednesday Yesterday 5 242
Google Boosts "Net-Zero" By, Uh . . . Powering TX AI Site With Gas Plant That Will Emit More CO2 Than San Francisco 5 hatrack Friday Friday 10 343
Sherwood Plots: A Difference Between the Economics of Material Isolation in the 1950's and 2020s. 1 NNadir Friday Friday 4 323
Study - Loss Of Barents Sea Ice Is Increasing Frequency Of Simultaneous Summer Heatwaves in Europe, E. Asia 1 hatrack Friday Friday 12 300
New England governors unite for nuclear 7 NNadir Thursday Friday 5 384
Florida Power & Light Profit Margin - 27 Cents Per Revenue Dollar - Highest In US; Doesn't Include New $7 Billion Hike 1 hatrack Friday Friday 8 370
Interagency Fire Center Assigns "Signiticant Fire Potential" To Much Of Southern Wyoming For April Through June 0 hatrack Friday Friday 2 220
A 'failed experiment'? Biofuels under the spotlight as EU scrambles for alternative energy 2 littlemissmartypants Thursday Friday 3 246
We now have to feed starving bees. What we have done to the ecosystem!!! 5 applegrove Mar 28 Thursday 17 541
Loss Of Snowpack Across West Moving At A "Stunning" Pace; Rio Grande Basin At 8% Of Avg, Lower Colorado At 10% 4 hatrack Thursday Thursday 11 365
O&G rights chatting with someone 2 Marthe48 Thursday Thursday 4 300
"I've Never Heard Roars Like This Except For A Basketball Game" As PA Borough Votes Down Permit For Giant Datacenter 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 23 508
EOS - Another Record Low For Maximum Winter Arctic Sea Ice (Again - 2025 Was The Prior Winter Low) 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 4 269
After Chemical Industry Lobbying, EPA Considers Dropping Clean Air Protections For For Plastic Waste Recycling 2 hatrack Thursday Thursday 4 241
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 Thursday Thursday 6 346
Western US Cities Cutting Water Use & Irrigation; Half Of 120 Western Ski Resorts Closed Early Or Never Opened This Year 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 8 358
Yale Study: Cancer Rates Between 4% And 8% Higher In CA/IA/TX Counties Where People Live Near CAFOs 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 10 505
Forest Service headquarters to relocate to Salt Lake City in major restructuring plan 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Wednesday Wednesday 2 245

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Data Centers create heat islands around themselves where temperatures go up, up to 16 degrees farenheight. 0 applegrove Wednesday Wednesday 5 274
Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Wednesday Wednesday 15 348
Coolant Industry Claims To Be Moving Ahead On Eliminating HFCs, Despite Shitstain's Administrative Tantrums 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 2 325
MIQ - 3rd Party System That "Certifies" Methane Output - Not Even Close On Actual Totals, Enables Gaming The System 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 6 307
Federal Judge Rules That AL Power Solar Fee, Among Highest In US, Can Remain; Their Residential Rates Highest In US 2 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 11 479
Bringing this topic back up for those who care about protecting our public lands and waterways 0 blue_jay Tuesday Tuesday 4 299
FEMA - Can't Attend This Year's National Hurricane Conference, So State & Local Governments Should "Do More" 4 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 4 403
Japan's Inland Sea Oyster Farmers Reporting Mortality Rates Of Up To 90%; Heat, Oxygen Deprivation Wiping Out Shellfish 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 7 329
Shocked, Shocked! AI Melting Tech Emissions Targets; In 5 Years, Microsoft Emissions Up 23%, Google 50%, Amazon Up 33% 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 11 378
The sheep farmer who turned a 1800 call to coal giant AGL into a major solar grazing deal 1 usonian Monday Tuesday 9 380
Raptor Resource Project Baby Eagle Cam 0 littlemissmartypants Monday Monday 4 259
Starbucks Flogs Its Plastic Cups As "Widely Recyclable", But Only 1-2% Of Polypropylene Is Actually Ever Recycled 3 hatrack Monday Monday 7 459
David Suzuki: Still Fighting for the Planet at 90 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Monday Monday 7 301
Two Kona Storms Brought 50 Inches Of Rain To Oahu: "I've Never Seen Anything Like It" 1 hatrack Monday Monday 9 401
New Weekly CO2 Concentration Record Set at the Mauna Loa Observatory, 430.93 ppm 4 NNadir Sunday Monday 7 566
Why gold prospectors in Switzerland extract gold from gravel pits - Focus on Europe - DW News 0 TexasTowelie Monday Monday 3 353
Trump is forcing coal plants to stay open. It could cost customers billions 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sunday Sunday 5 367
Scotland runs on windpower and nothing else for a bit: 3 applegrove Sunday Sunday 18 528
How Trump Media Joined the Nuclear Industry's Quest to Create a Star on Earth 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sunday Sunday 4 329
A nice video about what I regard as the best thermal nuclear reactor ever designed and put into commercial service. 0 NNadir Sunday Sunday 3 455
UK Clears Extradition To US Of Israeli Hacker, Allegedly Hired By Exxon For Cyberattacks On Climate Activists & Orgs 2 hatrack Sunday Sunday 5 385
Kate Marvel, Prominent Climate Scientist At NASA/Goddard Institute, Resigns: "This Is All Under Threat Right Now" 2 hatrack Sunday Sunday 12 412
NY, HI, CA Propose Laws To Claw Back Skyrocketing Insurance Costs - Driven By Global Warming - From Oil & Gas Industry 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 2 366
Google, Others Buying Up Land In Nebraska For AI Sites & Power Plants, But It's OK Because "Carbon Capture" 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 6 390
15 Species Of Fish Washing Up Dead In Papua New Guinea, Including 1,000s Of Eyeless Herring; Residents Sickened By Water 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 8 445
At 2C Warming, Critical Food Insecurity Could Spread To 24 Countries, As Opposed To 8 Today 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 4 297
California Is Choking on Traffic and One Potential Solution Is Effectively Illegal 1 BootinUp Mar 28 Mar 28 8 617
100s Of North Sea Licenses Issued By The Tories From 2010 Through 2014 Have Produced 36 Days' Worth Of Gas For The UK 1 hatrack Mar 28 Mar 28 4 373
Energy "Emergency" Keeps Old Coal Plants Operating, Putting Indiana Utilities (i.e. Customers) On Hook For Millions 1 hatrack Mar 28 Mar 28 5 444
US Wildfires To Date In 2026 Already More Than Double The 10-Year Average: 15,000 Starts, 1.5 Million Acres Burned 0 hatrack Mar 28 Mar 28 4 449

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Long Touted As Net-Zero "Carbon Capture" Project, Multistate CO2 Pipeline Now All About Pumping Additional Oil 0 hatrack Mar 28 Mar 28 4 440
China Still Addicted To Coal, Grid Additions Show - More Than 50 1-Gigawatt Or Larger Plants Came Online In 2024 Alone 1 hatrack Mar 28 Mar 28 3 305
New Oil Major Approach - Yes, Global Warming Is Real - Kind Of - But Not Our Fault, What About Your Science Bias, Huh?? 1 hatrack Mar 28 Mar 28 4 369
Our forests: 0 applegrove Mar 27 Mar 27 11 315
Extreme global climate outcomes are possible even at 2C of warming 18 OKIsItJustMe Mar 26 Mar 27 5 938
Time to Wake Up #305: Lyin' Lee Zeldin - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 4 Rhiannon12866 Mar 26 Mar 27 5 490
Wind and solar generated a record 17% of U.S. electricity in 2025 6 Caribbeans Mar 25 Mar 26 5 499
What advice would you give to a young person considering a career in nuclear? 2 NNadir Mar 26 Mar 26 2 544
2025 Was UK's Driest Spring For 100 Years, But That Didn't Prevent 300,000 Raw Sewage "Storm Overflows" From Water Firms 3 hatrack Mar 26 Mar 26 7 374
EPA Administrator Zeldin To Deliver Opening Speech For Climate Liar Central, AKA Heartland Institute, Next Month 2 hatrack Mar 26 Mar 26 6 362
Dengue Exploding Globally: Worldwide Cases 500,000 In 2000; 14 Million Cases In 2024, W. 9,000 Deaths 0 hatrack Mar 26 Mar 26 12 416
Experiment Begun In 1991 Added 2C Heat To Rocky Mountain Meadow; It Transformed Test Plot To Desert Scrub 1 hatrack Mar 26 Mar 26 14 469
Study links past emissions to trillions in future economic damages 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 26 Mar 26 3 310
Well, duh. German energy minister calls nuclear phase-out 'huge mistake.' 1 NNadir Mar 25 Mar 25 5 499
Demand-Side Opportunities for Process Industry Participation in Electricity Markets 2 NNadir Mar 24 Mar 25 2 553
Multiscale Mechanistic Insights into Hydrogen Production from Microalgae via Molten Hydroxide-Mediated Thermochemical... 6 NNadir Mar 20 Mar 25 2 831
Lincolnshire Residents Hit By Multiple Floods Have Had It W. Reform MP And Climate Liar They Elected 0 hatrack Mar 25 Mar 25 5 485
Trump Toadies Pleading W. Oil Majors To Drill Baby Drill: BP: "There Is No Potential Supply Response" 2 hatrack Mar 25 Mar 25 9 493
Thanks To Explosive Wildfires And Dust, The Majority Of Earth's People Breathed Unhealthy Air In 2024 0 hatrack Mar 25 Mar 25 5 355
'How Successful Has The ESA Been?': Whitehouse Asks Wildlife Expert About Endangered Species Act - Senator Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Mar 25 Mar 25 3 343
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