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Warning! This "Colorful Chart" is Censored by IPCC - James Hansen, Pushker Kharecha and Dylan Morgan 4 OKIsItJustMe Nov 2025 Nov 2025 8 1035
NPR: 3 massive changes you'll see as the climate careens toward tipping points 4 OKIsItJustMe Nov 2025 Nov 2025 14 1099
Cameras capture B.C. sea wolf raiding crab traps in first possible 'tool use' 4 OnlinePoker Nov 2025 Nov 2025 16 887
Data center growth drives locals to fight for more say 1 douglas9 Nov 2025 Nov 2025 6 529
The skyrocketing costs of climate change - Senate Environment & Public Works Committee - Senator Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Nov 2025 Nov 2025 5 445
Time to Wake Up 303: Recapping COP30 - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 445
South Korean Plan To End All Coal-Fired Generation By 2040 Leaves Australian Coal Exporters Scrambling 1 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 493
Hedge-Fund Billionaire Wants To Tap East Texas Groundwater For Cities; Rural East Texas MAGA Residents Not Happy At All 2 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 11 699
Indonesia Fettered To Broken, Coal-Rich Development; So, As Bali Floods Showed, "We Can No Longer Predict The Seasons" 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 2 595
Trump's Climate Rollbacks: 1.3 Million Projected Global Deaths as COP30 Gets Underway in Brazil - FIVE MINUTE NEWS 0 Rhiannon12866 Nov 2025 Nov 2025 2 523
"The Salmon Are Everywhere" In OR/CA's Klamath River 1 Yr After Dam Removals, Even In Upstream Tributaries 7 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 61 1631
Stopping Trump's License to Pollute - Senator Adam Schiff 1 Rhiannon12866 Nov 2025 Nov 2025 2 459
Colorado running out of options for new source of wolves after Washington rejects request 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 623
One of America's most dangerous volcanoes will soon power homes 3 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2025 Nov 2025 8 853
Al Gore on America's Noticeable Absence at COP30 Climate Conference - Amanpour and Company PBS 2 Rhiannon12866 Nov 2025 Nov 2025 5 635
Protect Arctic public lands from the Trump administration's attacks. 0 red dog 1 Nov 2025 Nov 2025 1 484
Facilties Flop At Climate Confab; Stifling Heat & Humidity Indoors, Leaking Roofs, Broken Toilets, Oppressive Noise 1 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 5 679
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 Nov 2025 Nov 2025 4 566
October 2025 Atmospheric CO2 Concentration 424.87 ppm; October 2024 422.38 ppm; October 2023 418.82 ppm 3 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 1 569
A little bird is signaling a major problem -- and that bird is the insurance industry 0 douglas9 Nov 2025 Nov 2025 10 837
1,000 Of 1,600 Individual Corals Tracked At World Heritage Ningaloo Reef Dead As Result Of Latest Marine Heatwave 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 4 397
An Antarctic Glacier Retreated (i.e. "Melted & Collapsed) 5 Miles In 2 Months; Rate Of Retreat 10X Prior Record 7 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 15 933
September 2025 Atmospheric CO2 Content 424.37 ppm; September 2024 422.99 ppm; September 2023 418.50 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 376
We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It's a Revelation. 0 douglas9 Nov 2025 Nov 2025 10 559
Ocean with David Attenborough examines industrialization's destructive relationship with the sea and the hope for its 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2025 Nov 2025 7 569
Video: What's really happening in the ocean's "dark zones" - China's huge invisible fishing fleet 0 OKIsItJustMe Nov 2025 Nov 2025 4 546
Some good news about the bad news. 2 NNadir Nov 2025 Nov 2025 13 874
Skin cancer cluster found in 15 Pennsylvania counties with or near farmland 3 OKIsItJustMe Nov 2025 Nov 2025 23 1051
53,000 Animals - Half Of Breeding Female Elephant Seals On South Georgia - Dead From Bird Flu Since 2023 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 15 577
Insect-Eating Birds Begin Gradual Comeback In France After Ban On Neonicotinoid Pesticides In Fields 2022 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 14 579

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Nearly 20,000 Glacial Lakes Span The Himalayas As Warming Takes Its Toll; Detailed Risk Analysis Hasn't Even Begun 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 10 800
EPA Science Advisory Board Empty Since Feb; New Prospects - Climate Liars, Chemical Company Reps Nominated By A Lobbyist 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 6 495
Fossil Fuel Lobbyists At CRAP30 Outnumber All Individual National Delegations Except For Brazil 2 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 6 726
Comment: U.S. climate efforts didn't hurt economy; they grew it 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2025 Nov 2025 6 450
Abdication - Whatever Happens After The Belem Garbage Fire, It's Going To Happen Without The United States 4 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 17 1187
UK High Court Finds Australian Firm BHP Liable For 2015 Dam Collapse That Killed 19, Dumped Toxic Waste In Brazil 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 4 552
Severe floods threaten global rice yields, study finds 1 OKIsItJustMe Nov 2025 Nov 2025 1 484
Largest One-Year Increase In Yellow Fever Cases In S. America Since 1960; Dengue Spreading There And In Europe 2 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 7 632
Toxic Plastic Bead Spill Spreading On England's South Coast; Southern Water Just Raised Its Avg. Rates 47% This Year 1 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 4 577
Saudi Arabia A "Wrecking Ball" On Climate Action; Their Climate Worst-Case - Heatwaves At/Above 133F For Weeks On End 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 8 585
A spreadsheet of reflecting a decade of the IEA's World Energy Outlook data for consumption and sources of energy. 0 NNadir Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 450
Sierra Club Statement on Interior's Sellout of Western Arctic 1 douglas9 Nov 2025 Nov 2025 7 552
Renewable energy is cheaper, creates more growth and creates more jobs than fossil fuel does/will 6 applegrove Nov 2025 Nov 2025 8 898
After 13 Years, No End In Sight For Caribbean Sargassum Invasion; Toxic Air, Buried Beaches, Clogged Rivers 1 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 4 3099
More Than Half Of All National Delegation Members At CRAP30 Have Obscured Their Affiliations: "Guest", "Other" Popular 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 5 454
But But But . . . Drill Baby, Drill!! World Facing Oil Glut In 2026 Of Roughly 4 Million Barrels/Day, Per IEA Forecast 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 417
At Current (Increasing) Emissions Rates, 1.5C Threshold Of Catastrophic Warming Will Be Surpassed By 2030 1 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 5 465
Zanzibar's 'solar mamas' are trained as technicians to help light up communities 2 Jilly_in_VA Nov 2025 Nov 2025 4 527
Finally, Something To Bring Americans Together - Pretty Much Everybody Hates Data Centers And Crypto Mines 1 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 14 712
From Mining to Manufacturing: Scientific Challenges and Opportunities behind Battery Production 0 NNadir Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 405
2021 4-Day OR/WA Heatwave: "No Examples Of Heatwave-Induced Foliar Death At This Scale In The Historical Record" 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 6 476
Welcome To "Don't Say Climate!" Politics - Even As First Flailing Attempts To Cope W. What's Coming Begin 1 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 609
US 'disappointed' that Rolls-Royce will build UK's first small modular reactors 6 OnlinePoker Nov 2025 Nov 2025 4 790
Fears for elephant seals as bird flu kills half of population on South Georgia 1 muriel_volestrangler Nov 2025 Nov 2025 6 446
A flotilla kicks off the People's Summit for activists at UN climate talks 0 Jilly_in_VA Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 416
Earth Still On Track For 2.6C Increase - i.e. "Global Disaster"; FF Emissions Up Again By +/- 1% In 2025 3 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 9 708
Climatologist Jolle Gergis On Why Planting Trees And "Net Zero" Accounting Tricks Are Insidious, Feel-Good Bullshit 2 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 6 718
From "Dulled Acceptance" To "Magical Thinking" - Elizabeth Kolbert On Our Response To A Crisis That Is Not Going Away 2 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 13 830
The 2025 IEA World Energy Outlook Has Been Released. Coal grew faster in 2024 than either solar or wind. 3 NNadir Nov 2025 Nov 2025 0 595
Brazil's JBS - Planet's Biggest Beef Company - "Recommending Climate Policy" At CRAP-30 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 5 595

Environment & Energy Continued...

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FULL PRESSER: Newsom Slams Trump at COP30, 'Polluted Heart of Climate Crisis is Donald Trump' - DRM News 0 Rhiannon12866 Nov 2025 Nov 2025 8 658
Prescribed burns central to wildfire legislation moving through Congress 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2025 Nov 2025 2 450
Iceland deems possible Atlantic current collapse a security risk 0 nitpicked Nov 2025 Nov 2025 10 824
The clock is ticking on the shrinking Colorado River as Western states miss a key deadline 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2025 Nov 2025 4 443
Australia's Liberal Party (They're Not) Stance On Climate Spirals Off To Somewhere Between Incoherence And Insanity 1 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 2 459
7 Colorado Basin States Miss Deadline For Cuts In Water Use; Generation Halt Powell Possible By Late 2026 2 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 11 520
In Delhi, More Now Die From Air Pollution Than From Obesity Or Diabetes; Protest AQ And You'll Go To Jail 2 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 8 536
Integrated Vapor Transport (IVT) Boosts Moisture Air Currents Can Carry; WV In Bullseye Of New Rainfall Conditions 1 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 5 592
Trump plan would open California to offshore oil drilling 3 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 5 661
"I've been thinking about this possibility for 15 years": Killer whale experts make new discovery off North American coa 0 marmar Nov 2025 Nov 2025 7 670
Modeling Shows Potential For "Burp" Of Heat From Southern Ocean - Absorbed Over Time, It Could Be Released Suddenly 3 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 14 732
Aedes Aegypti Mosquito, Which Carries Dengue, Couldn't Survive In The Rockies. Now They're Thriving In Western CO. 1 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 5 538
Absence Of Shitstain's Hacks & Cronies And Their "Full Thug Tactics" A Welcome Change At CRAP-30 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 456
Southern Water "Very Sorry" For Massive Toxic Spill, Which They Lied About; "Unclear" If They Will Face Legal Action 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 425
2nd Typhoon In 1 Week Hits Phillipine Island Of Luzon, Forcing Suspension Of Ongoing Rescue Operations 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 393
Forests, Yes; Funding, Yes - But Any Meaningful Engagement On Fossil Fuels Highly Unlikely At Climate Summit 2 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 6 685
Survey Of 2,000 Australian Women w/o Kids Finds That 40% Are Reluctant To Reproduce Thanks To Global Warming 2 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 7 531
Drax Continues To Generate "Sustainable" Energy By Burning 250-Year Old Trees From Canada 3 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 10 579
"Catastrophic" - Toxic Plastic Beads Swamp Beloved English Beach; Cleanup Nearly Impossible 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 16 650
But Market Forces!!! As Emptiness Of Most Carbon Offset Programs Becomes Clear, Global Carbon Prices In Freefall 3 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 655
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