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New Shitstain Rule Will Cut Safety Reviews For Asbestos, Dioxin, Formaldehyde; States To Lose Authority To Restrict Them 2 hatrack 1 hr ago 54 min ago 6 133
Infectious Diseases (CWD & EHD) Hammering Deer Populations In Multiple Midwestern States 0 hatrack 1 hr ago 1 hr ago 5 116
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One Of Vance's "Closest Friends" - Neurologist w/o Any Leadership Background - Dodges Hiring Freeze To Run NIH Dept. 0 hatrack 1 hr ago 1 hr ago 3 131
Life Cycle Analysis, Carbon and Health Risks of Wind Turbine Blade Waste. 2 NNadir Yesterday 5 hrs ago 1 204
GOP-Led Public Service Comm In Georgia Pushing For 10 GW New Generation - 80% For AI, W. Ratepayers Footing The Bill 9 hatrack Sunday 11 hrs ago 9 297
CO2 Uptake By Amazon Forests Falters; Atmospheric CO2 Content Spikes, Satellite Providing These Data May Be Shut Down 0 hatrack 13 hrs ago 13 hrs ago 9 133
New: 1,000s Of Positions Eliminated/ Furloughed, Mostly @ EPA & Interior; Science, EE, Pollution/Toxics Law Enforcement 0 hatrack 13 hrs ago 13 hrs ago 6 159
October Heat Records Fall In Queensland And NSW As Sydney Suburbs Push 40C; Statewide, 32 Bushfires In NSW ; 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 4 137
For The First Time In More Than 1,000 Years Of Human Habitation, Mosquitoes Found In Iceland 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 6 242
Delhi Kicks Off Smog Season Shrouded In Fireworks Smoke After Diwali; AQ Index Above 500 - 10X "Healthy" Level 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 3 153
Sure, Why Not!! Just In Time For CRAP 30, Brazil Greenlights Oil Drilling At The Mouth Of Amazon River 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 3 193
Permafrost thawed by climate change threatens remote villages in Alaska - PBS NewsHour 1 Rhiannon12866 Monday Monday 5 163
The US-Mexico Border Wall May Pose Perils to Pollinators 0 douglas9 Monday Monday 4 213
Illinois 1 Of 7 States To Pass Laws Requiring Education On Climate Change, But Funding Lacking So Far 0 hatrack Monday Monday 7 228
Mystery heatwave warms Pacific Ocean to new record 1 muriel_volestrangler Saturday Sunday 16 403
Facing Projected AI Demand Spike, 11 Governors In States Served By Largest Grid Operator Demanding More Authority 4 hatrack Saturday Sunday 3 334
Scuttling Columbia Basin pact ignores peril to salmon 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sunday Sunday 9 174
Trump administration quietly canceled the nation's largest solar project 4 Dulcinea Oct 14 Sunday 13 428
Thanks To "Bullying", "Intimidation" From Trump Reps, All-But-Assured Small Levy On Maritime Emissions Scrapped 1 hatrack Friday Sunday 4 160
The humble plant that could save the world -- or destroy it 1 sue4e3 Saturday Sunday 17 499
The Climate Speech at the Princeton NJ, No Kings Event. 0 NNadir Sunday Sunday 6 225
Xi Pledged in 2021 That China Would End Support Of Coal Overseas; 17 Units Planned Or Underway In Indonesia Alone 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 3 160
Trump's War On Clean Energy - Glenn Kirschner 0 Rhiannon12866 Saturday Saturday 4 184
'Bigger, hotter, faster': Extreme blazes drive rise in CO₂ fire emissions 0 sue4e3 Saturday Saturday 3 133
Last Coal Power Plant In New England Closes Down Three Years Ahead Of Schedule 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 6 222
3 Months After Deadly TX Floods, 22% Of Applications For FEMA Aid Found Eligible In Kerr County - Site Of Most Deaths 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 7 268

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Advanced Nuclear Fuel Manufacture Finds Its Way into Industrial Chemical Engineering Literature. 0 NNadir Saturday Saturday 1 211
California takes on Big Plastic for selling nonrecyclable shopping bags 1 douglas9 Saturday Saturday 7 250
Southern Ocean's low-salinity Antarctic waters continue absorbing CO₂ despite climate model predictions 1 sue4e3 Friday Friday 4 157
World's oceans losing their greenness through global heating, study finds 0 sue4e3 Friday Friday 1 144
Renewed legal battle ramps up over Columbia Basin dams and salmon 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Friday Friday 5 177
FL Local Govs Attempt To Defend Against Rising Seas & Bad Weather, Receive Threats, Lawsuits From Desantis In Return 4 hatrack Friday Friday 6 336
Coral Species Known For Resistance To Bleaching Is Doing Exactly That Off Atlantic Coast Of S. Florida 1 hatrack Friday Friday 9 234
Shitstain's FEMA Adding New Hurdles To Emergency Aid, Delaying Payouts To Already-Declared Disasters 1 hatrack Friday Friday 6 259
Oh, Great: Leaked Draft Shows Brazil To Press COP 30 Delegates To "Vastly Increase" Biofuels Production 0 hatrack Friday Friday 3 297
Democratizing global climate modeling 0 sue4e3 Thursday Thursday 1 110
Founder's Pledge - Branded As "Green" - Is Just A Way For The Rich To Fund Anti-Science Pressure Groups 3 hatrack Thursday Thursday 8 246
September 2025 3rd-Warmest September In Instrumental Record (Behind September 2023 & September 2024) 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 3 161
As Recently As 30 Years Ago, Greenland Thawed While Antarctica Remained Largely Untouched By Warming. Not Any More . . 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 7 224
Largest primate in Americas could lose up to 61% of its climatically suitable habitat by 2090 1 sue4e3 Wednesday Wednesday 7 344
Rain in the Sahara? Researchers predict a wetter future for the desert 0 sue4e3 Wednesday Wednesday 4 235
Jumbo drop in estimates of India elephant population 0 sue4e3 Wednesday Wednesday 8 231
Study reveals decline in North Atlantic dolphin lifespan and population growth 0 sue4e3 Wednesday Wednesday 7 175
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 sue4e3 Wednesday Wednesday 0 105
Australia's rainforests are the first to switch from carbon sink to carbon source, study warns 0 Jim__ Wednesday Wednesday 6 204
Eloon Predicted 250K CyberDumpster Sales/Year; So Far In 2025, The Total (Per Tesla) Is 16,000 6 hatrack Oct 14 Wednesday 5 399
Average Annual Increase In Atmospheric CO2 Biggest On Record In 2024; Same For GHGs Methane, Nitrous Oxide 4 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 10 283
Back In May, Trump's EPA Canceled $20 Million Grant To Prepare For AK Floods; October Floods Flattened AK Villages 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 4 294
After Floods In 2019, 2020, 2023 And 2024, English Town Of Tenbury Wells Uninsurable; High Street Slowly Emptying 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 5 272
UK Government Must Prepare For Heat And Drought Far Beyond Existing Plans For Expected Extremes 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 7 216
Extreme Heat Hurts Troops; Extreme Weather Hits Bases - But Shitstain's Pentagon No Longer Plans For Warming 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 7 248
The West's power grid could be stitched together -- if red and blue states buy in 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 14 Wednesday 4 217
23,000 Homes Had Insulation Installed Under Tory Energy Efficiency Scheme; 98% Of Them Will Need Repair Or Replacement 2 hatrack Oct 14 Oct 14 5 373
1 In 6 Lab-Confirmed Bacterial Infections Antibiotic-Resistant; 40% Of Drugs Lost Potency w. Common Infections 2018-23 3 hatrack Oct 14 Oct 14 8 341
The medieval folklore of Britain's endangered wildlife 'omens 0 sue4e3 Oct 14 Oct 14 7 245
Data centers are booming. But there are big energy and environmental risks 2 Dulcinea Oct 14 Oct 14 6 285

Environment & Energy Continued...

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8 Million Homes In England At Risk From Flooding; Entire Neighborhoods And Towns May Be Abandoned As Uninsurable 0 hatrack Oct 14 Oct 14 8 376
Coral die-off marks Earth's first climate 'tipping point', scientists say 4 Submariner Oct 13 Oct 14 18 288
Planet's Forest Health In "Dismal" Condition; Agriculture Gets 70X The Subsidies Dedicated To Restore, Protect Forests 3 hatrack Oct 13 Oct 13 6 222
New Zealand accused of 'full-blown climate denial' over cuts to methane reduction targets 0 Eugene Oct 13 Oct 13 4 184
Sen. John Curtis (R-UT) To Attend COP-30 Climate Conference In Brazil, For Reasons That Remain Utterly Obscure 1 hatrack Oct 13 Oct 13 1 248
UK Diesel Cheating Scandal Snares Ford, Mercedes, Renault, Nissan And Peugeot/Citroen; Damages Pegged @ $8 Billion+ 0 hatrack Oct 13 Oct 13 3 194
Christmas Island Shrew Officially Extinct; 39 Australian Mammal Species Gone Since 1788, More Than In Any Other Nation 1 hatrack Oct 13 Oct 13 11 268
Brown, Stinking Tapwater In Small TX Town One Problem; 90% Cuts In Fed Funding Help Another; Taste Of Freedom Unchanged 1 hatrack Oct 13 Oct 13 9 382
EPA Inspector General's Office Lists 13 Problems In September Report; Former Staff Report "Incapacitating" Staffing Cuts 0 hatrack Oct 13 Oct 13 8 287
European Commission Tells Trump To Get Stuffed On Pressure To Weaken Environmental Rules 0 hatrack Oct 13 Oct 13 10 321
You're kidding, right? Solar and Wind's Hidden Price Tag: Why Cost Isn't the Whole Story 0 NNadir Oct 12 Oct 12 3 482
Solar Photovoltaic Development in West Africa Will Face Million-Ton Waste Challenges, and Off-Grid Systems Will Dominate 2 NNadir Oct 11 Oct 12 0 463
A Nuclear Engineer Comments on HBO's Chernobyl Reactor Movie Series, Episode 5. 1 NNadir Oct 11 Oct 11 3 395
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 NNadir Oct 11 Oct 11 0 139
Elon Musk's Satellites Now Constantly Falling Out of the Sky 3 turbinetree Oct 10 Oct 11 6 363
Adventures in "Green" Batteries, Fluorinated Ionic Liquids (and other PFAS) in European Waters. 0 NNadir Oct 11 Oct 11 2 223
Al Gore Comes Around on Nuclear Energy. 3 NNadir Oct 11 Oct 11 1 431
All-European team leads lead-cooled EAGLES reactor project 0 NNadir Oct 11 Oct 11 4 264
Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas 1 DBoon Oct 10 Oct 10 13 380
As Drought Grinds On In NE British Columbia, Fracking Water Consumption In Area Rose 50% In 2024 0 hatrack Oct 10 Oct 10 3 205
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