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Cold weather and data centres drive up US greenhouse gas emissions 2.4% 1 muriel_volestrangler Jan 2026 Jan 2026 3 479
Damn the torpedoes! Trump ditches a crucial climate treaty as he moves to dismantle America's climate protections 1 marmar Jan 2026 Jan 2026 7 578
A bill to transfer all liabilities and responsibilities for decommissioned or damaged offshore oil and gas platforms 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2026 Jan 2026 7 670
Thousands Of Flying Foxes Died In Southeastern Australian Heatwave; Worst Dieoff Since Black Summer Of 2019-20 1 hatrack Jan 2026 Jan 2026 6 608
850,000 Acres Of Victoria Bushland Burned In One Week After Worst Heatwave In Years; One Dead, 300 Structures Gone 1 hatrack Jan 2026 Jan 2026 9 652
Oh Just Fucking Shoot Me: CRAP31 Head Plans "Engagement" With Global Petrostates As Best Approach For Climate Talks 0 hatrack Jan 2026 Jan 2026 9 840
Austria's glaciers: Hope on thin ice? - DW News 0 TexasTowelie Jan 2026 Jan 2026 4 415
Greenland's harsh environment and lack of infrastructure have prevented rare earth mining 3 nitpicked Jan 2026 Jan 2026 5 894
Tracing Groundwater Uranium Cycling in the Northern Plains, United States 3 NNadir Jan 2026 Jan 2026 2 932
Big Dairy Producer To Slightly Limit Groundwater Use, Compensate Residents, But 80% Of AZ Groundwater Still Unprotected 3 hatrack Jan 2026 Jan 2026 5 650
Long Lines, Chaos At Entry Points For 11 Popular National Parks So Rangers Can Charge Foreign Visitors An Extra $100 1 hatrack Jan 2026 Jan 2026 8 624
Shitstain Wants $50/Barrel Oil. He Also Wants Increased Oil Production. More Economic Genius Below. 1 hatrack Jan 2026 Jan 2026 2 511
PNAS - West Antarctic Ice Sheet Retreated Repeatedly & Rapidly During Pliocene Epoch @ Temps 3-4C Higher Than Now 0 hatrack Jan 2026 Jan 2026 4 440
Ocean Warming Breaks Record for Ninth Straight Year 0 douglas9 Jan 2026 Jan 2026 11 436
Environmentalists decry Trump deal giving Utah control of national park land 2 douglas9 Jan 2026 Jan 2026 12 773
Earth's Oceans Absorbed Record Amounts Of Heat In 2025; N. Pacific, Tropical/S. Atlantic, Southern Ocean Led The Uptake 0 hatrack Jan 2026 Jan 2026 9 457
Shitstain Leaves Global Climate Talks; It Won't Change What's Coming, May Ease Other Nations' Efforts 0 hatrack Jan 2026 Jan 2026 6 539
Just because it hasn't happened in a long time, California is 100% drought free 1 OnlinePoker Jan 2026 Jan 2026 7 571
Venezuela's oil, it's nasty... 4 MiHale Jan 2026 Jan 2026 5 801
"Nothing Burger" - World's Biggest Reserves, But Most Of Venezuela's Oil Is The World's Dirtiest & Hardest To Refine 8 hatrack Jan 2026 Jan 2026 10 1149
Huge Forest Dieoffs Across Germany Thanks To Spruce Bark Beetle; Dying Monocultures Mean Loss Of CO2 Uptake 0 hatrack Jan 2026 Jan 2026 5 612
Trump withdraws US from key climate treaty, deepening global pullback 0 Dulcinea Jan 2026 Jan 2026 7 535
Indian police raid home of environmental activists over anti-fossil fuel campaign 0 Eugene Jan 2026 Jan 2026 4 498
No More Plastic Bags at stores in California 10 Beringia Jan 2026 Jan 2026 7 1208
Non-Response To H5N1 Outbreak At Dairy Factory Shows Nothing Has Changed W. America's Industrial Meat And Milk 6 hatrack Jan 2026 Jan 2026 26 1215
Plastic pellets known as 'nurdles' are polluting beaches and waterways 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2026 Jan 2026 6 513
Dead fin whale discovered on bow of ship in New Jersey marine terminal 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2026 Jan 2026 7 582
Texas clears the way for petrochemical expansion as experts warn of health risks 0 douglas9 Jan 2026 Jan 2026 6 570
Canada has just broken a world record in nuclear fusion... 14 OnlinePoker Jan 2026 Jan 2026 60 2810
Are folks in Europe as upset about giant data centers as we are here in the US 2 CurtEastPoint Jan 2026 Jan 2026 8 646

Environment & Energy Continued...

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A rare whale is having an encouraging season for births. Scientists warn it might still go extinct 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2026 Jan 2026 4 356
Even Former Senator Flouncy Strutmuppet Can't Help Data Center Industry; Pushback Coming Across Deep Red States 5 hatrack Jan 2026 Jan 2026 23 1211
In 2004, Trek Across Arctic Ice Saw Temps In 60s; In 2025, Arctic Report Card Shows Accelerating System Failure 0 hatrack Jan 2026 Jan 2026 6 439
Western Queensland Plains Smothered By 8" - 20" Of Rain; Small Towns Like Winton Cut Off For A Week And Counting 0 hatrack Jan 2026 Jan 2026 7 491
2025 Hottest & Sunniest Year On Record For UK; Six Hottest Years Since Records Began In 1884 Took Place Since 2002 0 hatrack Jan 2026 Jan 2026 3 469
December 2025 Atmospheric CO2 Content 427.49 ppm; December 2024 425.40 ppm; December 2023 421.86 ppm 0 hatrack Jan 2026 Jan 2026 6 434
Paleodata From Greenland Show Ice Dome 50 Miles Broad And 1,600 Feet High Melted Completely w/i Last 10,000 Years 2 hatrack Jan 2026 Jan 2026 11 514
Honey-Making Stingless Bees in the Peruvian Amazon Become the First Insects to Gain Legal Rights 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2026 Jan 2026 6 470
After A Year Of Shitstain Gutting America's Science And Emergency Response, "People Will Suffer - It's Just That Simple" 0 hatrack Jan 2026 Jan 2026 9 504
Another Benefit From The Bullshit That Is AI: "Just An Unbelievable Amount Of Pollution" 0 hatrack Jan 2026 Jan 2026 10 581
Few Florida Staghorn Corals Survived 2023 Bleaching; Many That Remain In Path Of Federal Dredging Project 0 hatrack Jan 2026 Jan 2026 2 457
Satellite Measurements Show Slight But Steady Declines In Heights Of 41 Dams In 13 States & Puerto Rico 0 hatrack Jan 2026 Jan 2026 5 451
Voltage, inertia and the Iberian blackout part 2: faulty PV inverter crashed the grid 2 NNadir Jan 2026 Jan 2026 4 903
Officials enlist hunters in battle against ginormous hogs taking over US region: 'You want that number ... going down' 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2026 Jan 2026 2 559
"They Didn't De-Extinct Anything" - No Substantial Differences Between "Dire Wolves" And Those Living In North America 2 hatrack Dec 2025 Jan 2026 11 856
Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 4 douglas9 Jan 2026 Jan 2026 29 1596
Electric Power Reliability, Energy Burdens, and Climate Change Beliefs in the United States 6 NNadir Dec 2025 Jan 2026 2 1481
Jordan Has Lost +/- 70% Of Its Olive Crop After Months Of Relentless Drought And Heat 10-15C Above Averages 3 hatrack Jan 2026 Jan 2026 5 703
Ring-Necked Parakeet Population In England An Estimated 15,000 Pairs, Producing New Pressure On Native Birds 1 hatrack Jan 2026 Jan 2026 6 661
2025 UK Survey Finds 646 Flowering Plant Species In Bloom During November-December Study Period 0 hatrack Jan 2026 Jan 2026 6 441
UNL Cuts Dept Of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences - NE Has Seen 26 Billion-Dollar Disasters Since 2005; 4 In Prior 20 Years 1 hatrack Jan 2026 Jan 2026 3 647
Onboard an expedition to study a massive, melting glacier in Antarctica - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Jan 2026 Jan 2026 4 430
Americans Know The Reality Of Warming, Even If Their Insane Government Won't Admit Its Existence 6 hatrack Jan 2026 Jan 2026 14 886
2005 - Cabinet Ministers Explicitly Warned Australia's Right-Wing Government Of Warming Impacts; Nothing Really Changed 1 hatrack Jan 2026 Jan 2026 1 482
Christmas Eve In Iceland - A Balmy High Of 68F, Highest Temperature For The Day On Record 0 hatrack Dec 2025 Dec 2025 9 548
England's Fire Services Dealt With 27,000 Fires In Forests, On Crop And Grasslands During 2025, Hottest Year On Record 0 hatrack Dec 2025 Dec 2025 5 419
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 applegrove Dec 2025 Dec 2025 0 234
Engineered material uses light to destroy PFAS, other contaminants 2 OKIsItJustMe Dec 2025 Dec 2025 9 636
GameChangers 2025: The Unstoppable Rise of Environmental Crime 0 douglas9 Dec 2025 Dec 2025 3 667
Category '6' tropical cyclone hot spots are growing 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 2025 Dec 2025 5 456

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Feedback loops accelerate warming, other atmospheric changes in Arctic 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 2025 Dec 2025 3 368
China mandates "No Fire, No Explosion" EV battery rule as 294 national standards finalized 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 2025 Dec 2025 3 433
European Energy energises Northern Europe's largest combined solar and battery park 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 2025 Dec 2025 3 373
Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere developed at the University of Helsinki 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 2025 Dec 2025 8 510
Reactor Pressure Vessel (RPV) Ingots 8 Finishline42 Dec 2025 Dec 2025 3 1261
Nursing Home Explosion Kills More People than Died From Radiation at Fukushima But Not As Many As Died from Fear... 6 NNadir Dec 2025 Dec 2025 11 1316
Stingless bees from the Amazon granted legal rights in world first 4 marmar Dec 2025 Dec 2025 13 842
AI data centers use so much energy and water: 11 applegrove Dec 2025 Dec 2025 16 1362
George Monbiot: How One Conversation W. Joe Rogan & Mel Gibson Embodied Everything Stupid That Is America Today 5 hatrack Dec 2025 Dec 2025 12 1123
More Than 180 Ski Resorts Have Closed In France Alone As Snow Continues Retreat To Higher Altitudes 2 hatrack Dec 2025 Dec 2025 12 748
Scientists work to decode wolf howls in Yellowstone with AI technology - PBS NewsHour 8 Rhiannon12866 Dec 2025 Dec 2025 8 891
Too Bad, So Sad - Shitstain's Big Ag Bailouts, EPA's Speedy Pestcide Approvals Alienating Antivax MAHA Voters 0 hatrack Dec 2025 Dec 2025 14 646
Conservation Groups Acquire Nearly 3,000 Acres Of Near-Pristine TX Coastal Land To Protect Last Wild Whooping Cranes 0 hatrack Dec 2025 Dec 2025 15 992
Solar Energy from space...! 4 pbmus Dec 2025 Dec 2025 14 1102
How a company in landlocked Nebraska is helping fight plastic pollution in oceans - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Dec 2025 Dec 2025 6 629
A great info hub... 2 2naSalit Dec 2025 Dec 2025 13 777
America's biggest oil field is turning into a pressure cooker 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2025 Dec 2025 5 725
How Bull Connor And George Wallace Wrenched Alabama Power Into The Rate-Hiking, Coal-Heavy Nightmare It Is Today 0 hatrack Dec 2025 Dec 2025 6 573
US voters linking climate crisis to rising bills despite Trump's 'green scam' claims 2 Eugene Dec 2025 Dec 2025 11 702
Chilean Govt & Tompkins Conservation Prep National Park Status For 500,000 Remote Acres In Southern Patagonia 0 hatrack Dec 2025 Dec 2025 5 549
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