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FWS Proposes Endangered Species Status For Rare Orchid, Despite April Order Rescinding Almost All ESA Protections 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 390
UN Secretary General: "Let's Recognize Our Failure" - 1.5C Climate Target Negotiated In Paris Is Dead 3 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 12 570
The fall of the CBS News climate team 1 douglas9 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 10 525
How Do You Deal With Heat Deaths Caused By Warming? If You're A Right-Wing Think Tank, You Deny They Even Exist 2 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 12 540
Trump Cuts Mean USFS Increasingly Unable To Perform Fuels Reduction - i.e. Unable To Cut Risks Of Massive Fires 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 538
Shitstain Admin Pushes 10 Million More Tons Of Toxic Releases Across Gulf States From Plastics, Pesticides, Oil Refining 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 413
All 7 Operational US LNG Terminals Violated Clean Air Act; Compliance Even For 1 Quarter Unusual At Multiple Sites 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 374
From The "No Shit!?!" Files - AI/Crypto/Datacenter Buildout Making Already Elusive Emissions & Climate Goals Impossible 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 420
Toxic Oil & Gas Wastewater Literally Pouring Out Of Ground; OK State Regulators Failed To Do Anything About It 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 330
Inside Edition & CBS News Investigation Finds Spider Monkeys For Sale 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 397
Melt ponds in permafrost develop their new microbiomes. It is not clear how 0 applegrove Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 427
Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated. Trump Halted Efforts to Fix It. 1 muriel_volestrangler Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 476
EV Plants, Solar Farms, Battery Factories - Abandoned Energy Projects Cost 20,000 Jobs, +/- 15,000 In Trump States 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 468
TX Grid Operator Facing 205 Gigawatts Of New Demand From AI - Nearly 4X The Grid's All-Time Peak Demand Of 85.5 GW 8/23 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 494
Time to Wake Up 302: Bought and Paid For - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 3 Rhiannon12866 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 645
27 Beach Houses Have Collapsed On NC Outer Banks Since 2020; 15 In Last Month 5 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 13 737
Electricity Prices and Percentage of Energy Provided by Nuclear Energy in US States. 0 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 554
NOAA Pilots & Scientists Flew Into Melissa's 185 MPH Winds w/o Pay - 2 Flights Had To Abort 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 14 626
Corpus Christi - One Of Largest GOM Oil Refining Hubs - Faces Level 1 Water Emergency By Late 2026 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 568
US Billionaires Emit A Rhino's Weight Of Carbon Every Day; A Somali Citizen, That Of A Small Tomato 4 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 11 579
Less Than 1/3 Of Nations Give CRAP-30 Emissions Commitments; US Has, But w/o Even Remote Possibility Of Keeping Its Word 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 375
Trump SCHEME BACKFIRES as DEADLY SCENARIO Surfaces - Meidas Touch 0 Rhiannon12866 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 713
For Oz Oceans, "The Past Is No Longer A Good Guide To The Future" - Impacts By 2040 Well Beyond Worst Seen Through 2015 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 338
The Biggest Long-Term Climate Threat To Municipal Finances Isn't Hurricanes Or Floods - It's Drought 2 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 424
ExxonMobil Sues California, Claiming That Disclosure Of GHG Output Hurts Its First Amendment Rights 3 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 534
1 Year After Hundreds Died Before Flood Warnings Went Out, 50,000 March In Valencia To Demand Regional President Resign 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 423
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 jfz9580m Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 767
Category 5 Hurricane Melissa Heads For Jamaica with catastrophic and life-threatening flooding - FIVE MINUTE NEWS 2 Rhiannon12866 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 461
As Powell's Long-Term Drought Grinds On, Beavers Making Strong Comeback In Side Canyons, Rebuilding Habitat & Ecosystems 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 604
Tar Sands "Carbon Capture" Boosters Strangely Absent At Trade Show; Also Absent - Any New Project Announcements 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 493

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Just In Time For CRAP-30: Your Complete Guide To Industrial Agriculture's Greenwashing Phrases 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 632
Shitstain, FF Majors & GOP AGs Pushing Hard To Destroy Ability of State & Local Govs To Sue Over Climate Damages 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 493
Ohnoanyway - Automakers, Utilities, FF Companies "Concerned" By Pending Erasure Of EPA Core Climate Rule 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 447
Russia Detains 70-Year-Old Ukrainian Scientist W. "Treason" Accusations: His Crime - Opposing More Krill Fishing 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 518
Melissa Edging Towards Category 5; Likely 2B Worst Hurricane Ever To Hit Jamaica w. 1 Meter Or More Of Rain Possible 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 490
AI Data Centers, Desperate for Electricity, Are Building Their Own Power Plants 5 question everything Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 713
Trump claims ​'wind mills' kill whales but quietly torpedoes the science 3 douglas9 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 11 665
What scientists saw underwater in Florida left them "shocked" -- and devastated 9 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 Oct 2025 58 2418
Central Maine Power Wants To Raise Rates By $400+ Avg/Year; Also Wants 9.8% Guaranteed Profit For Its Shareholders 2 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 593
A Paper For Our Times: Toxic Ignorance Cycles 0 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 515
How the search for an extinct bird from Iceland led researchers to Cincinnati - WCPO 9 1 Rhiannon12866 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 438
Steve Bannon & Rebekah Mercer Funded Report On Terror Groups Like League of Conservation Voters, Sierra Club, Sunrise 3 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 11 715
+/- $1 Billion In Tax Breaks In 10 Years Wasn't Enough For TX LNG Company; Local Official Suggested They Pay More, Fired 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 443
Trump administration finalizes plan to open pristine Alaska wildlife refuge to oil and gas drilling 1 Dulcinea Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 453
Nature: Despite Greenwashing, FF Companies Own 1.42% of Renewable Capacity, Producing 0.1% Of Their Energy Output 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 425
2 Years Since Iowa's Water Quality Monitoring System Got State Support; Polk County Commits $200K To Keep Network Alive 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 363
World's first reactor converts ocean CO₂ into biodegradable bioplastic feedstock 10 sue4e3 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 11 875
Wild bear 'looking for a friend' breaks into California zoo, meets 3 captive bears 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 Oct 2025 12 408
Catastrophic loss of Florida's staghorn and elkhorn corals highlights accelerating climate pressures for reefs worldwide 2 sue4e3 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 447
Shocking! Study Shows Tea Party Was Decades In The Making, A Creature Of The Tobacco Industry & The Koch Brothers 20 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 68 3319
Planet's Biggest Meat & Dairy Companies Produce More Methane Than EU Plus UK: Tonnage Equals Saudi GHG Output 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 493
Not One Major Bank Commits To Stop Funding Oil/Gas/Coal; Their Only Recent Changes Cut "Targets" 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 326
Since NOAA No Longer Tracks Disaster Costs, Former Employees Do; So Far In 2025, $101 Billion In US Losses 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 2624
AI Data Centers Bringing Blackouts Lasting Days, Water Shortages Lasting Weeks, And Public Fury 7 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 62 2272
New Shitstain Rule Will Cut Safety Reviews For Asbestos, Dioxin, Formaldehyde; States To Lose Authority To Restrict Them 5 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 773
Life Cycle Analysis, Carbon and Health Risks of Wind Turbine Blade Waste. 3 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 645
Ypsilanti City Council calls for halt to University of Michigan data center project 1 littlemissmartypants Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 443
American e-waste is causing a 'hidden tsunami' in Southeast Asia, watchdog report says 0 douglas9 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 614
Why America's Tiny Ocean Defies Geography 0 Uncle Joe Oct 2025 Oct 2025 15 785
Global use of coal hit record high in 2024 2 muriel_volestrangler Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 510

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Infectious Diseases (CWD & EHD) Hammering Deer Populations In Multiple Midwestern States 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 11 501
One Of Vance's "Closest Friends" - Neurologist w/o Any Leadership Background - Dodges Hiring Freeze To Run NIH Dept. 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 522
GOP-Led Public Service Comm In Georgia Pushing For 10 GW New Generation - 80% For AI, W. Ratepayers Footing The Bill 9 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 826
CO2 Uptake By Amazon Forests Falters; Atmospheric CO2 Content Spikes, Satellite Providing These Data May Be Shut Down 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 356
New: 1,000s Of Positions Eliminated/ Furloughed, Mostly @ EPA & Interior; Science, EE, Pollution/Toxics Law Enforcement 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 409
October Heat Records Fall In Queensland And NSW As Sydney Suburbs Push 40C; Statewide, 32 Bushfires In NSW ; 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 346
For The First Time In More Than 1,000 Years Of Human Habitation, Mosquitoes Found In Iceland 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 482
Delhi Kicks Off Smog Season Shrouded In Fireworks Smoke After Diwali; AQ Index Above 500 - 10X "Healthy" Level 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 362
Sure, Why Not!! Just In Time For CRAP 30, Brazil Greenlights Oil Drilling At The Mouth Of Amazon River 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 447
Permafrost thawed by climate change threatens remote villages in Alaska - PBS NewsHour 1 Rhiannon12866 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 407
The US-Mexico Border Wall May Pose Perils to Pollinators 0 douglas9 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 426
Illinois 1 Of 7 States To Pass Laws Requiring Education On Climate Change, But Funding Lacking So Far 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 423
Mystery heatwave warms Pacific Ocean to new record 1 muriel_volestrangler Oct 2025 Oct 2025 16 626
Facing Projected AI Demand Spike, 11 Governors In States Served By Largest Grid Operator Demanding More Authority 4 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 666
Scuttling Columbia Basin pact ignores peril to salmon 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 358
Trump administration quietly canceled the nation's largest solar project 4 Dulcinea Oct 2025 Oct 2025 13 789
Thanks To "Bullying", "Intimidation" From Trump Reps, All-But-Assured Small Levy On Maritime Emissions Scrapped 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 360
The humble plant that could save the world -- or destroy it 1 sue4e3 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 17 764
The Climate Speech at the Princeton NJ, No Kings Event. 0 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 458
Xi Pledged in 2021 That China Would End Support Of Coal Overseas; 17 Units Planned Or Underway In Indonesia Alone 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 355
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