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Washington declares statewide drought, marks fourth year of drought in some agricultural areas 0 cbabe Apr 9 Apr 9 2 338

Nebraska - One Fire In March 2026 Broke Annual Record For Area Burned; Ranching Making Grasslands More Vulnerable 0 hatrack Apr 9 Apr 9 2 392

4/7/26 Drought Monitor: Slight Increase In Level 2-4 Drought Across Lower 48, But YTD Nearly Double 2025 (36% vs. 19%) 1 hatrack Apr 9 Apr 9 7 277

What To Expect When You're Expecting The End Of The World - Jem Bendell And The Deep Adaptation Paper 0 hatrack Apr 9 Apr 9 6 483

Earth's Smells Are Disappearing Because of Climate Change, and It's a Vast Cultural Loss 2 Judi Lynn Apr 9 Apr 9 10 546

Another Oil Rush, Another Boomtown, Another Deforestation Spike In Impoverished Northeastern Brazil 0 hatrack Apr 9 Apr 9 4 399

More Than 21% Of USDA Workforce Gone In Year 1 Of Shitstain 2; Climate, Conservation, Inspection, Research Hard-Hit 0 hatrack Apr 8 Apr 8 12 500

A Tribute to two scientists: Paul Ehrlich and Madhav Gadgil 2 jfz9580m Apr 7 Apr 8 5 1462

A Nuclear Renaissance? Live video discussion on the geopolitics of energy... 2 littlemissmartypants Apr 7 Apr 7 3 424

Corpus Christi Water Crisis Prompts Regional Response To (All Together Now!) Pump Even More Groundwater, But Faster 1 hatrack Apr 7 Apr 7 9 773

So Cute!! Some MAGA Voters And Public Figures - Including Katie Miller - Support More Solar, 'Cuz 'Murca 1 hatrack Apr 7 Apr 7 4 654

Heat/Drought Impacts Span Most Of US; Wheat, Beef, Peanuts, Rice, Sugarcane Hit; Irrigation In West Hitting Limits 0 hatrack Apr 7 Apr 7 8 456

More Than 10,000 STEM PhDs Have Left Federal Agencies In 1 Year; Climatologist Kate Marvel One Of Them (Interview) 1 hatrack Apr 7 Apr 7 12 474

Swiss Forest Study Shows Some Deciduous Species May Be Able To Adapt To Extreme Heat, But Heat + Drought Deadly 0 hatrack Apr 7 Apr 7 3 533

New Weekly CO2 Concentration Record Set at the Mauna Loa Observatory, 431.73 ppm 5 NNadir Apr 5 Apr 6 9 863

What Americans Really Pay for Electricity 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 6 Apr 6 6 773

Beavers Emerge As Unlikely Allies In Carbon Removal, New Study Finds 3 Judi Lynn Apr 6 Apr 6 10 469

7 Weeks Out From Hurricane Season, Fmr. Senator Kickass T. Horsefucker Considering Cutting +/- Half Of 20,000 FEMA Staff 1 hatrack Apr 6 Apr 6 5 615

Trump's Interior Department Preparing To Ban Bison From Federal Grazing Lands, And To Choke Out Tribal Bison Herds 3 hatrack Apr 5 Apr 6 12 697

California's Ocean Temperatures Spiking; La Jolla Station Reported Pacific At 10F Over Historical Average In March 1 hatrack Apr 5 Apr 5 9 537

(Re)drilling North Sea Fields Would Do Nearly Nothing To Cut UK Gas Imports; Jackdaw - 2%; Rosebank - 1% 0 hatrack Apr 5 Apr 5 2 409

Much like the old (more honest) days: What so called "renewable energy" is all about. 4 NNadir Apr 3 Apr 5 2 862

Merlin - UK's Smallest Bird Of Prey - Extinct By 2050 (W. 200+ Other Species) If Emissions, Land Use Don't Change 2 hatrack Apr 1 Apr 5 6 493

Shitstain Moving Forest Service HQ To Salt Lake City; When He Moved BLM HQ Last Term, 90% Of Agency Staff Quit 2 hatrack Apr 1 Apr 5 2 529

Iowa Already Faces Massive Problem In Nitrate Pollution In Water; Warming is Making That Pollution Even Worse 3 hatrack Apr 2 Apr 5 5 463

Climate Model: Thwaites Ice Loss Alone Will Equal Entire Current Ice Loss From Antarctic By 2060s (+/- 200 Gt Per Year) 1 hatrack Apr 2 Apr 5 9 446

On The Brink Of What Could Be The Worst Fire Season In US History, Complete Revamp Of Federal Fire System Underway 4 hatrack Apr 4 Apr 5 11 747

Bluebells, Frogspawn, Birds' Eggs, Flowering Trees - UK Experiencing Earliest Biological Spring Ever Recorded 0 hatrack Apr 4 Apr 4 8 418

Microwave Mel Gibson Makes Farty Mouth Noises About "Regulating" Microplastics, But Of Course It's Toothless, Empty PR 0 hatrack Apr 4 Apr 4 8 598

During Shitstain 1, Fish & Wildlife Service Added 22 Threatened/Endangered Species; To Date In Shitstain 2, Zero 0 hatrack Apr 4 Apr 4 5 370

Environment & Energy Continued...

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The Trump administration is paying this company $1 billion to quit building wind farms 2 Caribbeans Apr 1 Apr 4 5 449

Google Boosts "Net-Zero" By, Uh . . . Powering TX AI Site With Gas Plant That Will Emit More CO2 Than San Francisco 5 hatrack Apr 3 Apr 3 10 577

Sherwood Plots: A Difference Between the Economics of Material Isolation in the 1950's and 2020s. 1 NNadir Apr 3 Apr 3 4 524

Study - Loss Of Barents Sea Ice Is Increasing Frequency Of Simultaneous Summer Heatwaves in Europe, E. Asia 1 hatrack Apr 3 Apr 3 12 536

New England governors unite for nuclear 7 NNadir Apr 2 Apr 3 5 723

Florida Power & Light Profit Margin - 27 Cents Per Revenue Dollar - Highest In US; Doesn't Include New $7 Billion Hike 1 hatrack Apr 3 Apr 3 8 531

Interagency Fire Center Assigns "Signiticant Fire Potential" To Much Of Southern Wyoming For April Through June 0 hatrack Apr 3 Apr 3 2 404

A 'failed experiment'? Biofuels under the spotlight as EU scrambles for alternative energy 2 littlemissmartypants Apr 2 Apr 3 3 417

We now have to feed starving bees. What we have done to the ecosystem!!! 5 applegrove Mar 28 Apr 2 17 743

Loss Of Snowpack Across West Moving At A "Stunning" Pace; Rio Grande Basin At 8% Of Avg, Lower Colorado At 10% 4 hatrack Apr 2 Apr 2 11 568

O&G rights chatting with someone 2 Marthe48 Apr 2 Apr 2 4 436

"I've Never Heard Roars Like This Except For A Basketball Game" As PA Borough Votes Down Permit For Giant Datacenter 1 hatrack Apr 2 Apr 2 23 649

EOS - Another Record Low For Maximum Winter Arctic Sea Ice (Again - 2025 Was The Prior Winter Low) 0 hatrack Apr 2 Apr 2 4 373

After Chemical Industry Lobbying, EPA Considers Dropping Clean Air Protections For For Plastic Waste Recycling 2 hatrack Apr 2 Apr 2 4 385

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 2 Apr 2 6 443

Western US Cities Cutting Water Use & Irrigation; Half Of 120 Western Ski Resorts Closed Early Or Never Opened This Year 0 hatrack Apr 2 Apr 2 8 468

Yale Study: Cancer Rates Between 4% And 8% Higher In CA/IA/TX Counties Where People Live Near CAFOs 0 hatrack Apr 2 Apr 2 10 649

Forest Service headquarters to relocate to Salt Lake City in major restructuring plan 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 1 Apr 1 2 391

Data Centers create heat islands around themselves where temperatures go up, up to 16 degrees farenheight. 0 applegrove Apr 1 Apr 1 5 386

Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 1 Apr 1 15 468

Coolant Industry Claims To Be Moving Ahead On Eliminating HFCs, Despite Shitstain's Administrative Tantrums 1 hatrack Apr 1 Apr 1 2 509

MIQ - 3rd Party System That "Certifies" Methane Output - Not Even Close On Actual Totals, Enables Gaming The System 0 hatrack Apr 1 Apr 1 6 481

Federal Judge Rules That AL Power Solar Fee, Among Highest In US, Can Remain; Their Residential Rates Highest In US 2 hatrack Mar 31 Mar 31 11 669

Bringing this topic back up for those who care about protecting our public lands and waterways 0 blue_jay Mar 31 Mar 31 4 415

FEMA - Can't Attend This Year's National Hurricane Conference, So State & Local Governments Should "Do More" 4 hatrack Mar 31 Mar 31 4 578

Japan's Inland Sea Oyster Farmers Reporting Mortality Rates Of Up To 90%; Heat, Oxygen Deprivation Wiping Out Shellfish 0 hatrack Mar 31 Mar 31 7 424

Shocked, Shocked! AI Melting Tech Emissions Targets; In 5 Years, Microsoft Emissions Up 23%, Google 50%, Amazon Up 33% 0 hatrack Mar 31 Mar 31 11 496

The sheep farmer who turned a 1800 call to coal giant AGL into a major solar grazing deal 1 usonian Mar 30 Mar 31 9 486

Raptor Resource Project Baby Eagle Cam 0 littlemissmartypants Mar 30 Mar 30 4 338

Starbucks Flogs Its Plastic Cups As "Widely Recyclable", But Only 1-2% Of Polypropylene Is Actually Ever Recycled 3 hatrack Mar 30 Mar 30 7 670

Environment & Energy Continued...

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David Suzuki: Still Fighting for the Planet at 90 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 30 Mar 30 7 397

Two Kona Storms Brought 50 Inches Of Rain To Oahu: "I've Never Seen Anything Like It" 1 hatrack Mar 30 Mar 30 9 523

New Weekly CO2 Concentration Record Set at the Mauna Loa Observatory, 430.93 ppm 4 NNadir Mar 29 Mar 30 7 820

Why gold prospectors in Switzerland extract gold from gravel pits - Focus on Europe - DW News 0 TexasTowelie Mar 30 Mar 30 3 445

Trump is forcing coal plants to stay open. It could cost customers billions 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 29 Mar 29 5 467

Scotland runs on windpower and nothing else for a bit: 3 applegrove Mar 29 Mar 29 18 730

How Trump Media Joined the Nuclear Industry's Quest to Create a Star on Earth 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 29 Mar 29 4 488

A nice video about what I regard as the best thermal nuclear reactor ever designed and put into commercial service. 0 NNadir Mar 29 Mar 29 3 552

UK Clears Extradition To US Of Israeli Hacker, Allegedly Hired By Exxon For Cyberattacks On Climate Activists & Orgs 2 hatrack Mar 29 Mar 29 5 555

Kate Marvel, Prominent Climate Scientist At NASA/Goddard Institute, Resigns: "This Is All Under Threat Right Now" 2 hatrack Mar 29 Mar 29 12 545

NY, HI, CA Propose Laws To Claw Back Skyrocketing Insurance Costs - Driven By Global Warming - From Oil & Gas Industry 0 hatrack Mar 29 Mar 29 2 513

Google, Others Buying Up Land In Nebraska For AI Sites & Power Plants, But It's OK Because "Carbon Capture" 0 hatrack Mar 29 Mar 29 6 492

15 Species Of Fish Washing Up Dead In Papua New Guinea, Including 1,000s Of Eyeless Herring; Residents Sickened By Water 0 hatrack Mar 29 Mar 29 8 525

At 2C Warming, Critical Food Insecurity Could Spread To 24 Countries, As Opposed To 8 Today 0 hatrack Mar 29 Mar 29 4 411

California Is Choking on Traffic and One Potential Solution Is Effectively Illegal 1 BootinUp Mar 28 Mar 28 8 712

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 4 448

Energy "Emergency" Keeps Old Coal Plants Operating, Putting Indiana Utilities (i.e. Customers) On Hook For Millions 1 hatrack Mar 28 Mar 28 5 533

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 4 552

Long Touted As Net-Zero "Carbon Capture" Project, Multistate CO2 Pipeline Now All About Pumping Additional Oil 0 hatrack Mar 28 Mar 28 4 814

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 3 393

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