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Trump Toadies Pleading W. Oil Majors To Drill Baby Drill: BP: "There Is No Potential Supply Response" 2 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 9 729
Thanks To Explosive Wildfires And Dust, The Majority Of Earth's People Breathed Unhealthy Air In 2024 0 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 5 489
'How Successful Has The ESA Been?': Whitehouse Asks Wildlife Expert About Endangered Species Act - Senator Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Mar 2026 Mar 2026 3 474
Record-smashing heat continues: 'Basically the entire U.S. is going to be hot' 4 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 11 840
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 2026 Mar 2026 16 1071
Aviation chiefs warn Europe is unprepared and underinvested in face of wildfire surge, according to new report ... 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 5 400
African coastlines face unprecedented sea level surge crisis 8 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 3 809
From Tropics to Poles: How Pacific Ocean Warming Sets the Stage for Antarctic Stratospheric Changes Months Later 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 6 457
Uganda reintroduces rhinos into a protected area where they have been extinct since 1983 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2026 Mar 2026 10 457
Warming coastal waters primary driver of large-scale humid heatwaves 2 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 7 838
UN: Vital Freshwater Fish Migrations are Collapsing 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 4 370
Climate change and the private solution trap 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 5 751
DOE Pushing New Coal Plant In Alaska Because AI; It'll Use Lignite From A Coal Mine That Doesn't Exist 6 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 8 998
Shitstain Accidently Does The Right Thing: $1 Billion In "Carbon Capture" Projects Remain In Limbo 0 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 4 711
Far more countries face critical food insecurity if world heats up by 2C, analysis shows 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 2 354
Warmest Winter Ever In 6 Western States; Temps In 50s And 60s Across Rockies Last Week, Even Above 10,000 Feet 1 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 5 528
First New Nuclear Reactor Constructed at Idaho National Lab in 50 Years to Go Critical. 6 NNadir Mar 2026 Mar 2026 6 1165
Colorado Basin States Resume Water Negotiations; Focus Largely On Short-Term, Stopgap Measures 1 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 6 487
UN weather agency warns of record 'climate imbalance' as planetary warming accelerates 2 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 8 687
Nebraska Fires Surpass 700,000 Acres, Though Now Largely Contained; Biggest One Is The Biggest Fire In State History 0 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 6 669
Beavers create carbon sinks when they dam. 1 applegrove Mar 2026 Mar 2026 5 575
150+ Daily Temperature Records And 50 All-Time Monthly Records Broken Since Tuesday As Heatwave Continues, Spreads 4 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 12 888
Floating wetlands boost water quality, slash greenhouse emissions 2 highplainsdem Mar 2026 Mar 2026 9 625
Northern Australia Dealing With Its Fifth Declared Disaster In A Single Wet Season - This Is What Climate Collapse Does 1 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 8 820
5m tonnes of CO2 emitted in just 14 days of US war on Iran, analysis finds 3 littlemissmartypants Mar 2026 Mar 2026 5 686
Nuclear Fuel: The Most Sophisticated Industrial Product You've Never Learned About 0 NNadir Mar 2026 Mar 2026 2 484
Old growth forests store way more carbon: 2 applegrove Mar 2026 Mar 2026 5 576
Researchers at U of W have figured out how to turn plastic waste into acetic acid (...vinegar) using the sun 3 applegrove Mar 2026 Mar 2026 11 748
Permian Basin Methane Leaks 4X EPA Estimates For 2024-25; Sen. Whitehouse In Pursuit Of Additional Data 2 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 15 751
Global Dengue Cases Doubled In 2024 From 2023 To 12 Million; Study Links Surge To Extreme Rain From Climate Breakdown 1 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 8 496

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Susan Collins Cannot (Alas!) Be Bothered To Even Appear "Concerned" When It Comes To A Collapsing Climate 1 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 17 717
New Coal Seam Gas Project In Queensland Will Produce 120 Million Tons Of CO2 - It Will Operate Through 2081 4 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 4 702
Cancer risk may increase with proximity to nuclear power plants -- Harvard 6 Caribbeans Mar 2026 Mar 2026 3 1126
110F Recorded In Yuma Desert In Arizona; Highest March Temperature On Record In The United States 2 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 8 674
Vietnam accelerates shift to ethanol fuel as Iran war drives up energy prices 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 3 456
Five disasters in a single wet season show the climate crisis is here and now in the Northern Territory (of Australia) 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 6 471
US Western Heatwave Pushing Temperatures Up To 30F Higher Than Normal; "Virtually Impossible" w/o Global Warming 4 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 12 822
Climate variability poses a threat to cold blooded animals 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 7 478
Old-growth forests store a lot more carbon than managed forests 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 5 443
Big Advertising Move By Big Oil; From Of Greenwashing To "You Can't Live Without Us", Along W. Lots Of Tech Hopium 9 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 5 1047
James Hansen et al: Super El Nino? Super Warming is the Main Issue. 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 6 687
State-Level Projections Of How Uninsureable Homes And Businesses Are Becoming: CA, FL, IL, MI, NE, NC, GA 7 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 11 1249
7,500 Residents, 6 Planned Data Centers, 14% Of Town 2B Erased, At Least 450 Diesel Generators - Welcome To Archbald, PA 2 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 13 833
March Heatwave Likely To Break All-Time April Heat Records; 800 Records At Risk Nationwide By End Of Month 0 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 7 570
North TX Temps Will Push 100F This Weekend, With More Record Heat Coming The Following Wednesday 0 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 2 391
Oil Majors Knew They Were Destroying The Louisiana Coast; Chevron Found Liable, But Case Now Before SCOTUS 0 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 10 570
Asia Turns Back to Coal as War Chokes Off Natural Gas 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 2 668
Snowbasin to end season prematurely: "This is not what we wanted" 0 nitpicked Mar 2026 Mar 2026 6 600
Scramble for Jet Fuel Shows How Energy Shortages Are Rippling Across Asia 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 6 541
Tracking the Pollution Exposure of an Ecosystem by Applying Nuclear Bomb Testing Debris. 1 NNadir Mar 2026 Mar 2026 3 908
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 0 233
'Unprecedented' wildfires in tropical peatlands during 20th century 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 3 487
The Biogeochemical Fate of the Long Lived Radioactive Fission Product Selenium-79. 11 NNadir Mar 2026 Mar 2026 0 2203
Southeast Asian Nations Reeling From Energy Shock; Four-Day Weeks, New Fuel Subsidies, Oil Export Bans 1 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 6 540
Growers And Botanists Working To Improve Robusta Coffee, Which Will Likely Survive Warming Better Than Arabica 1 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 7 572
Category 5 Cyclone Narelle Heading For Cape York (N. Australia) With Winds At 195 mph; Landfall AM Friday 0 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 9 626
"A Hostile, Inefficient Work Culture Designed To Push People Out" - Nearly 20% Of Interior Staff Have Quit Or Retired 0 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 11 650
"We're Really Running Wildlife Off of the Planet": Sen. Whitehouse on Threats to Endangered Species - Senator Whitehouse 2 Rhiannon12866 Mar 2026 Mar 2026 11 635
CCNY Research Professor Kaveh Madani wins 'Nobel Prize of Water' 4 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 8 761
If It's Too Hot To Safely Work Or Exercise Outdoors, More People Will Die - +/- 500K Globally Every Year 3 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 11 783

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Severe U.S. drought (in late 1980's) undermined Gulf fisheries, raising (future) food security concerns 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 3 453
Rapid melting of Antarctic sea ice largely driven by ocean warming 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 7 450
New ice core studies expand histories of greenhouse gases and ocean temperature to 3 million years 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 6 488
UBC study links artificial turf fields to lethal chemical threat for salmon 4 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 6 788
Sen. Whitehouse Lambasts Trump Energy Policies: "Are they stupid? Or is something darker going on?" - Senator Whitehouse 8 Rhiannon12866 Mar 2026 Mar 2026 13 1159
CA Temperatures Through 3/21/26 - Downtown LA 98, Long Beach 97, Santa Barbara 91, San Bernardino 105 1 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 9 611
Update: Corpus Christi Could Face Emergency Water Cutbacks As Early As May; No Plan As To How Cutbacks Would Work 2 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 8 1154
Why Mushrooms are Starting to Replace Everything 4 Uncle Joe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 15 1263
China backs wider hydrogen adoption as Strait of Hormuz crisis jolts energy markets 0 Caribbeans Mar 2026 Mar 2026 0 557
How U.S. states can attract fusion power plants: A new CFS white paper 21 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 4 2238
Solar electrical output out west was in surplus this winter. 3 applegrove Mar 2026 Mar 2026 10 779
Coastal ocean chemistry now substantially shaped by humans 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 8 453
The Weakness of "Drill Baby Drill" in the Face of Trump's Wartime Energy Crisis - FIVE MINUTE NEWS 0 Rhiannon12866 Mar 2026 Mar 2026 1 455
How the 'green' mining boom is contaminating indigenous rivers in Southeast Asia - DW News 0 TexasTowelie Mar 2026 Mar 2026 6 507
Oklahoma Knew About 600+ Wells Illegally Injecting Fracking Waste Into The Ground. They Did Nothing. 1 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 15 633
Native Village In BC Hosts 2nd Largest LNG Terminal On Earth, Despite Rising Seas & Tsunami Risks 0 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 6 732
Title To NFS Land Sacred To AZ Apaches Confirmed By Appeals Court; Foreign Copper Mining Companies To Benefit 0 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 9 472
Satellites Reveal World's Superleaks Of Methane From O&G Operations; State Facilities In Turkmenistan Lead The Pack 0 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 8 491
Iran war should trigger faster exit from fossil fuel dependence, UN climate chief says 2 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 4 620
Not every forest cools the Earth 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 6 546
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