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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 11 736

Bluebells, Frogspawn, Birds' Eggs, Flowering Trees - UK Experiencing Earliest Biological Spring Ever Recorded 0 hatrack Apr 4 Apr 4 8 414

Microwave Mel Gibson Makes Farty Mouth Noises About "Regulating" Microplastics, But Of Course It's Toothless, Empty PR 0 hatrack Apr 4 Apr 4 8 587

During Shitstain 1, Fish & Wildlife Service Added 22 Threatened/Endangered Species; To Date In Shitstain 2, Zero 0 hatrack Apr 4 Apr 4 5 365

The Trump administration is paying this company $1 billion to quit building wind farms 2 Caribbeans Apr 1 Apr 4 5 442

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 10 553

Sherwood Plots: A Difference Between the Economics of Material Isolation in the 1950's and 2020s. 1 NNadir Apr 3 Apr 3 4 520

Study - Loss Of Barents Sea Ice Is Increasing Frequency Of Simultaneous Summer Heatwaves in Europe, E. Asia 1 hatrack Apr 3 Apr 3 12 531

New England governors unite for nuclear 7 NNadir Apr 2 Apr 3 5 707

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 8 526

Interagency Fire Center Assigns "Signiticant Fire Potential" To Much Of Southern Wyoming For April Through June 0 hatrack Apr 3 Apr 3 2 400

A 'failed experiment'? Biofuels under the spotlight as EU scrambles for alternative energy 2 littlemissmartypants Apr 2 Apr 3 3 408

We now have to feed starving bees. What we have done to the ecosystem!!! 5 applegrove Mar 28 Apr 2 17 729

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 11 554

O&G rights chatting with someone 2 Marthe48 Apr 2 Apr 2 4 429

"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 23 646

EOS - Another Record Low For Maximum Winter Arctic Sea Ice (Again - 2025 Was The Prior Winter Low) 0 hatrack Apr 2 Apr 2 4 368

After Chemical Industry Lobbying, EPA Considers Dropping Clean Air Protections For For Plastic Waste Recycling 2 hatrack Apr 2 Apr 2 4 370

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 6 440

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 8 464

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 10 645

Forest Service headquarters to relocate to Salt Lake City in major restructuring plan 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 1 Apr 1 2 387

Data Centers create heat islands around themselves where temperatures go up, up to 16 degrees farenheight. 0 applegrove Apr 1 Apr 1 5 384

Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 1 Apr 1 15 463

Coolant Industry Claims To Be Moving Ahead On Eliminating HFCs, Despite Shitstain's Administrative Tantrums 1 hatrack Apr 1 Apr 1 2 502

MIQ - 3rd Party System That "Certifies" Methane Output - Not Even Close On Actual Totals, Enables Gaming The System 0 hatrack Apr 1 Apr 1 6 477

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 11 667

Bringing this topic back up for those who care about protecting our public lands and waterways 0 blue_jay Mar 31 Mar 31 4 410

FEMA - Can't Attend This Year's National Hurricane Conference, So State & Local Governments Should "Do More" 4 hatrack Mar 31 Mar 31 4 575

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 7 422

Environment & Energy Continued...

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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 11 486

The sheep farmer who turned a 1800 call to coal giant AGL into a major solar grazing deal 1 usonian Mar 30 Mar 31 9 480

Raptor Resource Project Baby Eagle Cam 0 littlemissmartypants Mar 30 Mar 30 4 336

Starbucks Flogs Its Plastic Cups As "Widely Recyclable", But Only 1-2% Of Polypropylene Is Actually Ever Recycled 3 hatrack Mar 30 Mar 30 7 655

David Suzuki: Still Fighting for the Planet at 90 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 30 Mar 30 7 395

Two Kona Storms Brought 50 Inches Of Rain To Oahu: "I've Never Seen Anything Like It" 1 hatrack Mar 30 Mar 30 9 517

New Weekly CO2 Concentration Record Set at the Mauna Loa Observatory, 430.93 ppm 4 NNadir Mar 29 Mar 30 7 815

Why gold prospectors in Switzerland extract gold from gravel pits - Focus on Europe - DW News 0 TexasTowelie Mar 30 Mar 30 3 443

Trump is forcing coal plants to stay open. It could cost customers billions 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 29 Mar 29 5 464

Scotland runs on windpower and nothing else for a bit: 3 applegrove Mar 29 Mar 29 18 726

How Trump Media Joined the Nuclear Industry's Quest to Create a Star on Earth 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 29 Mar 29 4 466

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 3 548

UK Clears Extradition To US Of Israeli Hacker, Allegedly Hired By Exxon For Cyberattacks On Climate Activists & Orgs 2 hatrack Mar 29 Mar 29 5 544

Kate Marvel, Prominent Climate Scientist At NASA/Goddard Institute, Resigns: "This Is All Under Threat Right Now" 2 hatrack Mar 29 Mar 29 12 542

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 2 511

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 6 489

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 8 524

At 2C Warming, Critical Food Insecurity Could Spread To 24 Countries, As Opposed To 8 Today 0 hatrack Mar 29 Mar 29 4 410

California Is Choking on Traffic and One Potential Solution Is Effectively Illegal 1 BootinUp Mar 28 Mar 28 8 710

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 4 445

Energy "Emergency" Keeps Old Coal Plants Operating, Putting Indiana Utilities (i.e. Customers) On Hook For Millions 1 hatrack Mar 28 Mar 28 5 528

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 4 549

Long Touted As Net-Zero "Carbon Capture" Project, Multistate CO2 Pipeline Now All About Pumping Additional Oil 0 hatrack Mar 28 Mar 28 4 813

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 3 389

New Oil Major Approach - Yes, Global Warming Is Real - Kind Of - But Not Our Fault, What About Your Science Bias, Huh?? 1 hatrack Mar 28 Mar 28 4 470

Our forests: 0 applegrove Mar 27 Mar 27 11 386

Extreme global climate outcomes are possible even at 2C of warming 18 OKIsItJustMe Mar 26 Mar 27 5 1585

Time to Wake Up #305: Lyin' Lee Zeldin - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 4 Rhiannon12866 Mar 26 Mar 27 5 648

Wind and solar generated a record 17% of U.S. electricity in 2025 6 Caribbeans Mar 25 Mar 26 5 754

What advice would you give to a young person considering a career in nuclear? 2 NNadir Mar 26 Mar 26 2 717

Environment & Energy Continued...

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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 26 Mar 26 7 499

EPA Administrator Zeldin To Deliver Opening Speech For Climate Liar Central, AKA Heartland Institute, Next Month 2 hatrack Mar 26 Mar 26 6 453

Dengue Exploding Globally: Worldwide Cases 500,000 In 2000; 14 Million Cases In 2024, W. 9,000 Deaths 0 hatrack Mar 26 Mar 26 12 496

Experiment Begun In 1991 Added 2C Heat To Rocky Mountain Meadow; It Transformed Test Plot To Desert Scrub 1 hatrack Mar 26 Mar 26 14 548

Study links past emissions to trillions in future economic damages 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 26 Mar 26 3 365

Well, duh. German energy minister calls nuclear phase-out 'huge mistake.' 1 NNadir Mar 25 Mar 25 5 568

Demand-Side Opportunities for Process Industry Participation in Electricity Markets 2 NNadir Mar 24 Mar 25 2 665

Multiscale Mechanistic Insights into Hydrogen Production from Microalgae via Molten Hydroxide-Mediated Thermochemical... 6 NNadir Mar 20 Mar 25 2 1034

Lincolnshire Residents Hit By Multiple Floods Have Had It W. Reform MP And Climate Liar They Elected 0 hatrack Mar 25 Mar 25 5 546

Trump Toadies Pleading W. Oil Majors To Drill Baby Drill: BP: "There Is No Potential Supply Response" 2 hatrack Mar 25 Mar 25 9 619

Thanks To Explosive Wildfires And Dust, The Majority Of Earth's People Breathed Unhealthy Air In 2024 0 hatrack Mar 25 Mar 25 5 412

'How Successful Has The ESA Been?': Whitehouse Asks Wildlife Expert About Endangered Species Act - Senator Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Mar 25 Mar 25 3 391

Record-smashing heat continues: 'Basically the entire U.S. is going to be hot' 4 OKIsItJustMe Mar 23 Mar 24 11 669

Pacific Northwest scientist David Suzuki fears the climate damage we've caused is now past a grave tipping poiny 6 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 24 Mar 24 16 839

Aviation chiefs warn Europe is unprepared and underinvested in face of wildfire surge, according to new report ... 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 24 Mar 24 5 336

African coastlines face unprecedented sea level surge crisis 8 OKIsItJustMe Mar 24 Mar 24 3 575

From Tropics to Poles: How Pacific Ocean Warming Sets the Stage for Antarctic Stratospheric Changes Months Later 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 24 Mar 24 6 380

Uganda reintroduces rhinos into a protected area where they have been extinct since 1983 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 24 Mar 24 10 364

Warming coastal waters primary driver of large-scale humid heatwaves 2 OKIsItJustMe Mar 24 Mar 24 7 710

UN: Vital Freshwater Fish Migrations are Collapsing 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 24 Mar 24 4 277

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