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More Than 10,000 STEM PhDs Have Left Federal Agencies In 1 Year; Climatologist Kate Marvel One Of Them (Interview) 1 hatrack Apr 2026 Apr 2026 12 586
Swiss Forest Study Shows Some Deciduous Species May Be Able To Adapt To Extreme Heat, But Heat + Drought Deadly 0 hatrack Apr 2026 Apr 2026 3 628
New Weekly CO2 Concentration Record Set at the Mauna Loa Observatory, 431.73 ppm 5 NNadir Apr 2026 Apr 2026 9 1120
What Americans Really Pay for Electricity 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2026 Apr 2026 6 943
Beavers Emerge As Unlikely Allies In Carbon Removal, New Study Finds 3 Judi Lynn Apr 2026 Apr 2026 10 647
7 Weeks Out From Hurricane Season, Fmr. Senator Kickass T. Horsefucker Considering Cutting +/- Half Of 20,000 FEMA Staff 1 hatrack Apr 2026 Apr 2026 5 727
Trump's Interior Department Preparing To Ban Bison From Federal Grazing Lands, And To Choke Out Tribal Bison Herds 3 hatrack Apr 2026 Apr 2026 12 846
California's Ocean Temperatures Spiking; La Jolla Station Reported Pacific At 10F Over Historical Average In March 1 hatrack Apr 2026 Apr 2026 9 645
(Re)drilling North Sea Fields Would Do Nearly Nothing To Cut UK Gas Imports; Jackdaw - 2%; Rosebank - 1% 0 hatrack Apr 2026 Apr 2026 2 497
Much like the old (more honest) days: What so called "renewable energy" is all about. 4 NNadir Apr 2026 Apr 2026 2 1066
Merlin - UK's Smallest Bird Of Prey - Extinct By 2050 (W. 200+ Other Species) If Emissions, Land Use Don't Change 2 hatrack Apr 2026 Apr 2026 6 651
Shitstain Moving Forest Service HQ To Salt Lake City; When He Moved BLM HQ Last Term, 90% Of Agency Staff Quit 2 hatrack Apr 2026 Apr 2026 2 674
Iowa Already Faces Massive Problem In Nitrate Pollution In Water; Warming is Making That Pollution Even Worse 3 hatrack Apr 2026 Apr 2026 5 599
Climate Model: Thwaites Ice Loss Alone Will Equal Entire Current Ice Loss From Antarctic By 2060s (+/- 200 Gt Per Year) 1 hatrack Apr 2026 Apr 2026 9 542
On The Brink Of What Could Be The Worst Fire Season In US History, Complete Revamp Of Federal Fire System Underway 4 hatrack Apr 2026 Apr 2026 11 912
Bluebells, Frogspawn, Birds' Eggs, Flowering Trees - UK Experiencing Earliest Biological Spring Ever Recorded 0 hatrack Apr 2026 Apr 2026 8 516
Microwave Mel Gibson Makes Farty Mouth Noises About "Regulating" Microplastics, But Of Course It's Toothless, Empty PR 0 hatrack Apr 2026 Apr 2026 8 712
During Shitstain 1, Fish & Wildlife Service Added 22 Threatened/Endangered Species; To Date In Shitstain 2, Zero 0 hatrack Apr 2026 Apr 2026 5 463
The Trump administration is paying this company $1 billion to quit building wind farms 2 Caribbeans Apr 2026 Apr 2026 5 571
Google Boosts "Net-Zero" By, Uh . . . Powering TX AI Site With Gas Plant That Will Emit More CO2 Than San Francisco 5 hatrack Apr 2026 Apr 2026 10 782
Sherwood Plots: A Difference Between the Economics of Material Isolation in the 1950's and 2020s. 1 NNadir Apr 2026 Apr 2026 4 650
Study - Loss Of Barents Sea Ice Is Increasing Frequency Of Simultaneous Summer Heatwaves in Europe, E. Asia 1 hatrack Apr 2026 Apr 2026 12 656
New England governors unite for nuclear 7 NNadir Apr 2026 Apr 2026 5 973
Florida Power & Light Profit Margin - 27 Cents Per Revenue Dollar - Highest In US; Doesn't Include New $7 Billion Hike 1 hatrack Apr 2026 Apr 2026 8 652
Interagency Fire Center Assigns "Signiticant Fire Potential" To Much Of Southern Wyoming For April Through June 0 hatrack Apr 2026 Apr 2026 2 483
A 'failed experiment'? Biofuels under the spotlight as EU scrambles for alternative energy 2 littlemissmartypants Apr 2026 Apr 2026 3 535
We now have to feed starving bees. What we have done to the ecosystem!!! 5 applegrove Mar 2026 Apr 2026 17 972
Loss Of Snowpack Across West Moving At A "Stunning" Pace; Rio Grande Basin At 8% Of Avg, Lower Colorado At 10% 4 hatrack Apr 2026 Apr 2026 11 743
O&G rights chatting with someone 2 Marthe48 Apr 2026 Apr 2026 4 544
"I've Never Heard Roars Like This Except For A Basketball Game" As PA Borough Votes Down Permit For Giant Datacenter 1 hatrack Apr 2026 Apr 2026 23 771

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EOS - Another Record Low For Maximum Winter Arctic Sea Ice (Again - 2025 Was The Prior Winter Low) 0 hatrack Apr 2026 Apr 2026 4 480
After Chemical Industry Lobbying, EPA Considers Dropping Clean Air Protections For For Plastic Waste Recycling 2 hatrack Apr 2026 Apr 2026 4 514
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 2026 Apr 2026 6 532
Western US Cities Cutting Water Use & Irrigation; Half Of 120 Western Ski Resorts Closed Early Or Never Opened This Year 0 hatrack Apr 2026 Apr 2026 8 553
Yale Study: Cancer Rates Between 4% And 8% Higher In CA/IA/TX Counties Where People Live Near CAFOs 0 hatrack Apr 2026 Apr 2026 10 738
Forest Service headquarters to relocate to Salt Lake City in major restructuring plan 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2026 Apr 2026 2 518
Data Centers create heat islands around themselves where temperatures go up, up to 16 degrees farenheight. 0 applegrove Apr 2026 Apr 2026 5 482
Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2026 Apr 2026 15 562
Coolant Industry Claims To Be Moving Ahead On Eliminating HFCs, Despite Shitstain's Administrative Tantrums 1 hatrack Apr 2026 Apr 2026 2 605
MIQ - 3rd Party System That "Certifies" Methane Output - Not Even Close On Actual Totals, Enables Gaming The System 0 hatrack Apr 2026 Apr 2026 6 552
Federal Judge Rules That AL Power Solar Fee, Among Highest In US, Can Remain; Their Residential Rates Highest In US 2 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 11 795
Bringing this topic back up for those who care about protecting our public lands and waterways 0 blue_jay Mar 2026 Mar 2026 4 537
FEMA - Can't Attend This Year's National Hurricane Conference, So State & Local Governments Should "Do More" 4 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 4 721
Japan's Inland Sea Oyster Farmers Reporting Mortality Rates Of Up To 90%; Heat, Oxygen Deprivation Wiping Out Shellfish 0 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 7 500
Shocked, Shocked! AI Melting Tech Emissions Targets; In 5 Years, Microsoft Emissions Up 23%, Google 50%, Amazon Up 33% 0 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 11 581
The sheep farmer who turned a 1800 call to coal giant AGL into a major solar grazing deal 1 usonian Mar 2026 Mar 2026 9 580
Raptor Resource Project Baby Eagle Cam 0 littlemissmartypants Mar 2026 Mar 2026 4 418
Starbucks Flogs Its Plastic Cups As "Widely Recyclable", But Only 1-2% Of Polypropylene Is Actually Ever Recycled 3 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 7 844
David Suzuki: Still Fighting for the Planet at 90 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2026 Mar 2026 7 481
Two Kona Storms Brought 50 Inches Of Rain To Oahu: "I've Never Seen Anything Like It" 1 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 9 629
New Weekly CO2 Concentration Record Set at the Mauna Loa Observatory, 430.93 ppm 4 NNadir Mar 2026 Mar 2026 7 1019
Why gold prospectors in Switzerland extract gold from gravel pits - Focus on Europe - DW News 0 TexasTowelie Mar 2026 Mar 2026 3 545
Trump is forcing coal plants to stay open. It could cost customers billions 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 5 564
Scotland runs on windpower and nothing else for a bit: 3 applegrove Mar 2026 Mar 2026 18 895
How Trump Media Joined the Nuclear Industry's Quest to Create a Star on Earth 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 4 621
A nice video about what I regard as the best thermal nuclear reactor ever designed and put into commercial service. 0 NNadir Mar 2026 Mar 2026 3 644
UK Clears Extradition To US Of Israeli Hacker, Allegedly Hired By Exxon For Cyberattacks On Climate Activists & Orgs 2 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 5 660
Kate Marvel, Prominent Climate Scientist At NASA/Goddard Institute, Resigns: "This Is All Under Threat Right Now" 2 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 12 656
NY, HI, CA Propose Laws To Claw Back Skyrocketing Insurance Costs - Driven By Global Warming - From Oil & Gas Industry 0 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 2 575
Google, Others Buying Up Land In Nebraska For AI Sites & Power Plants, But It's OK Because "Carbon Capture" 0 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 6 569

Environment & Energy Continued...

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15 Species Of Fish Washing Up Dead In Papua New Guinea, Including 1,000s Of Eyeless Herring; Residents Sickened By Water 0 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 8 611
At 2C Warming, Critical Food Insecurity Could Spread To 24 Countries, As Opposed To 8 Today 0 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 4 480
California Is Choking on Traffic and One Potential Solution Is Effectively Illegal 1 BootinUp Mar 2026 Mar 2026 8 799
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 2026 Mar 2026 4 590
Energy "Emergency" Keeps Old Coal Plants Operating, Putting Indiana Utilities (i.e. Customers) On Hook For Millions 1 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 5 622
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 2026 Mar 2026 4 644
Long Touted As Net-Zero "Carbon Capture" Project, Multistate CO2 Pipeline Now All About Pumping Additional Oil 0 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 4 878
China Still Addicted To Coal, Grid Additions Show - More Than 50 1-Gigawatt Or Larger Plants Came Online In 2024 Alone 1 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 3 493
New Oil Major Approach - Yes, Global Warming Is Real - Kind Of - But Not Our Fault, What About Your Science Bias, Huh?? 1 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 4 560
Our forests: 0 applegrove Mar 2026 Mar 2026 11 468
Extreme global climate outcomes are possible even at 2C of warming 18 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 5 2129
Time to Wake Up #305: Lyin' Lee Zeldin - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 4 Rhiannon12866 Mar 2026 Mar 2026 5 828
Wind and solar generated a record 17% of U.S. electricity in 2025 6 Caribbeans Mar 2026 Mar 2026 5 980
What advice would you give to a young person considering a career in nuclear? 2 NNadir Mar 2026 Mar 2026 2 888
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 2026 Mar 2026 7 621
EPA Administrator Zeldin To Deliver Opening Speech For Climate Liar Central, AKA Heartland Institute, Next Month 2 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 6 550
Dengue Exploding Globally: Worldwide Cases 500,000 In 2000; 14 Million Cases In 2024, W. 9,000 Deaths 0 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 12 566
Experiment Begun In 1991 Added 2C Heat To Rocky Mountain Meadow; It Transformed Test Plot To Desert Scrub 1 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 14 641
Study links past emissions to trillions in future economic damages 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 3 474
Well, duh. German energy minister calls nuclear phase-out 'huge mistake.' 1 NNadir Mar 2026 Mar 2026 5 669
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