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Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds 0 muriel_volestrangler Aug 2025 Aug 2025 14 672
Chapter 10. The Venus Syndrome & Runaway Climate - James Hansen 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 479
Study: Humans Inhale Up To 68,000 Plastic Fragments Daily: Inhalation "May Be More Significant Than We Realize" 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 578
Lobbyists Unveil Big Tobacco Playbook To Pressure MPs Against Regulating Toxic PFAS Tied To Disease, Hormone Disruption 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 497
'Peak Water Security' Crisis, Texas A&M Researcher Warns 2 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 734
China races to build world's largest solar farm to meet emissions targets 1 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 646
Pasadena Council Approves $32 Million Hydrogen Bus Contract, Accelerating Zero-Emission Fleet Conversion 1 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 574
EVs reduce climate pollution, but by how much? New U-M research has the answer 4 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 826
Burgum: people with bad ulterior motives to the US would launch a swarm drone attack through wind farms 5 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 947
Mysterious Structures at 3,000 Meters Beneath the Pacific May Emit Over 5 Billion in Hydrogen Each Year--No Drilling Req 4 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 2311
Cheyenne to host massive AI data center using more electricity than all Wyoming homes combined 7 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 867
Record Post-COVID Visitor #s At Yosemite; Meanwhile, Trump's NPS Barely Hit Half Of Seasonal Hiring Target By July 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 583
Wow! We're saved! The British have introduced recyclable wind turbine blades!!! I learned about it right here at DU. 9 NNadir Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 1276
Google/Alphabet President Gushes Over "Fantastic" DOE Plans To Power AI With 'Incredibly Clean" Coal 4 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 789
The blue dragon: The spectacular sea slug behind beach closures in Spain 5 cbabe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 1059
20 Years After Katrina, FEMA On The Chopping Block, Agency Run By Guy Who Said He Didn't Know About Hurricane "Season" 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 553
GA County Commissioners Vote Unanimously To Delay Vote On AI "Hypercenter" After Large-Scale Resident Pushback 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 543
Study - Local Heat Spikes Driven By Deforestation Have Killed +/- 500,000 People Over 20 Years 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 432
Summer 2025 Will "Almost Certainly" Be The Warmest Summer In UK Weather Records Dating Back To 1884 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 457
Multiple Fires In CA, OR, MT Have (So Far) Failed To Cause Major Damage, But Season Just Getting Going 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 423
U.S. underprepared for natural disasters after Trump changes, current and ex-FEMA employees say - CBS News 1 Rhiannon12866 Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 469
HD Hyundai Executive Vice Chairman Chung Kisun Meets TerraPower, including Chairman Bill Gates, to Discuss Nuclear ... 1 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 577
RWE's Sofia is the UK's first offshore wind farm to use recyclable rotor blades 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 583
The Biological Consequences of Benny Sovacool's Call for Deep Sea Mining to Go "Green." 0 NNadir Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 1149
This updated NASA CERES Satellite data shows why we expect much more regional warming in the pipeline. 0 littlemissmartypants Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 1271
NASA Earth Science Faces Loss Of More Than Half Its Budget; Data It Provides Spans The Sciences 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 632
'This technology is possible today': Nuclear waste could be future power source and increase access to a rare fuel 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 1213
New TN Hospital Flooded During Helene; Now, Thanks To Big Shitty Bill, There's A Good Chance That It Will Never Reopen 5 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 2002
At CITES Conference At Year-End, US Will Make History By Proposing Zero Upgrades In Status For Trafficked Wildlife 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 560
Funding Cut For Only US Icebreaker Available For Antarctic Research; Successor Ship Postponed Indefinitely 2 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 612

Environment & Energy Continued...

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EU Study - European Crop Losses Projected To Increase By 2/3 By 2050, To $29 Billion Annually 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 489
Research Details Devastating Toll of Colonization on Pacific Northwest Wildlife 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 1230
Will there be a La Nina this fall? Here's what forecasters predict and what it means for the weather 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 1126
As glaciers melt, scientists study potential for more violent volcanic eruptions - PBS NewsHour 5 Rhiannon12866 Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 830
Abrupt Antarctic climate shifts could lead to "catastrophic consequences" for years, study finds - CBS News 3 Rhiannon12866 Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 782
Monkeys falling from trees and baking barnacles: how heat is driving animals to extinction 1 applegrove Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 714
Goodbye to polluting trucks--Walmart unveils the first green hydrogen vehicle approved in Latin America 0 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 538
Great white sharks head north, following seals and alarming beachgoers 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 746
America's 2.2 Billion Dollar "Greatest Energy Disaster (?)" to Be "Left to Rot" After a Decade of Operations. 2 NNadir Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 955
Shitstain Wants To Offload MI National Parks Onto The State - w/o Budget, Staff Or Training To Make It Possible 6 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 12 1084
The Plan to Turn the Caribbean's Glut of Sargassum Into Biofuel 1 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 675
Antarctic submarine canyons may negatively impact ocean circulation, iceshelf thinning and the climate. 1 Tonk Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 791
Why wind farms attract so much misinformation and conspiracy theory 7 douglas9 Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 1067
Sacramento Food Trucks Embrace Clean Energy with Hydrogen Fuel Cells at Tahoe Park Event 1 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 503
Trump halts work on New England offshore wind project that's nearly complete 4 Eugene Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 856
2024 Melting On Svalbard "In A Different League", Even When Compared W. Prior Records In 2020, 2022 3 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 666
Warming May Expand Range Of S. Asian Fruit Bats Carrying The Rare NIpah Virus, Which Is 75% Fatal In Humans 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 637
"A Whole Range Of Abrupt And Surprising Changes Happening Across Antarctica" - And They're Not Happening In Isolation 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 56 2356
Lysenko 2.0 - US Science Policy Rapidly Declining Under Weight Of Official Lies, Greed And Stupidity 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 20 628
Top Industry Analyst: Fires, Floods, Record Heat Herald "The Beginning Of The Age Of Non-Tourism" 2 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 674
Hydrogen's reawakening has market on verge of a breakthrough 1 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 679
A Lovely Scientific Paper Out of Ghana on the Use of Americium. 0 NNadir Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 585
Unable to Afford Platinum for Its Fuel Cells, Alstom Switches Its Trains From Hydrogen Back to Diesel. 3 NNadir Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 1178
Temporary slowdown in melting of Arctic sea ice, study finds 3 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 624
Heat-stressed Australian forests are thinning fast, producing carbon emissions 3 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 651
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 0 287
'They're not going to live normally': A devastating disease has surged in Calif. 19 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 27 2846
"Lake" Of Oil Sludge, Lead, PFAS Up To 16 Feet Thick Under CA Refinery Set To Close: Who Will Clean It Up? 6 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 1043
Industry managed forests more likely to fuel megafires 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 494
Shell Got $1.65 Billion Tax Break For PA Plastics Plant; 3 Years And Dozens Of Violations Later, Shell Wants To Sell It 2 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 686

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Brazil Abandons Soy Moratorium, Opening Area The Size Of Portugal To New Deforestation 4 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 972
In Namibia, Even Desert-Adapted Species Hammered By Increasingly Extreme Droughts Driven By Global Warming 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 494
Worst Fire Season On Record For EU - At Least 1 Million Hectares Burned, Along W. Record Output Of CO2, Other Pollutants 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 432
Pickett Fire (Napa County near Calistoga) Hits 2,100 Acres w/i Hours Of Outbreak: Evacuations Ordered 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 497
Breaking the Rules to Build a Better Battery 7 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 1005
Ash dieback is triple whammy for net zero plans 1 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 619
BC's Coastal Fires Have Entered a New Era 2 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 851
Shitstain Ordered MI Coal Plant To Remain Open; Operating Costs $1 Million/Day - And Guess Who's Going To Pay? 5 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 1116
"Green Hydrogen Is Finally in the Pipes" as Sinopec Begins Historic Blend Into China's Gas Grid 23 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 2549
Florida's climate-focused tech sector faces uncertainty after federal cuts - PBS NewsHour 2 Rhiannon12866 Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 662
Oz's Mountain Ash Trees - Up to 80M High - Lose +/- 9% Of Their Limited Numbers For Each 1C Temperature Increase 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 493
U.S. developers report half of new electric generating capacity will come from solar 2 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 644
Land Mines As Wildlife Protection: Korea's DMZ One Of The Most Biodiverse Places In Asia 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 533
Driven By Drought, UK Grain Harvest Begins 2 Weeks Early; Apples Boom But Potatoes, Brassicae In Big Trouble 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 539
Ozone will warm planet more than first thought, study finds 0 Jim__ Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 693
How One Woman Is Stalling Green Energy Projects in Oregon 20 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 2059
Abrupt Antarctic changes could have catastrophic consequences if emissions don't fall 2 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 888
Well, Good Luck W. That: Brazil Issues "Urgent Call" For National Climate Plans - Exactly 28 Submitted So Far 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 771
Scientists Lay It Out - Over 100 Misleading Statements And Lies In DOE Climate "Study" Written By Hand-Picked Hacks 3 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 17 837
Confimed Chikungunya Cases Top 240,000 Worldwide; Painful, Debilitating Disease Detected In China For First Time 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 12 797
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