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Extreme Heat Hurts Troops; Extreme Weather Hits Bases - But Shitstain's Pentagon No Longer Plans For Warming 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 460
The West's power grid could be stitched together -- if red and blue states buy in 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 444
23,000 Homes Had Insulation Installed Under Tory Energy Efficiency Scheme; 98% Of Them Will Need Repair Or Replacement 2 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 685
1 In 6 Lab-Confirmed Bacterial Infections Antibiotic-Resistant; 40% Of Drugs Lost Potency w. Common Infections 2018-23 3 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 683
The medieval folklore of Britain's endangered wildlife 'omens 0 sue4e3 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 453
Data centers are booming. But there are big energy and environmental risks 2 Dulcinea Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 565
8 Million Homes In England At Risk From Flooding; Entire Neighborhoods And Towns May Be Abandoned As Uninsurable 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 605
Coral die-off marks Earth's first climate 'tipping point', scientists say 4 Submariner Oct 2025 Oct 2025 18 642
Planet's Forest Health In "Dismal" Condition; Agriculture Gets 70X The Subsidies Dedicated To Restore, Protect Forests 3 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 555
New Zealand accused of 'full-blown climate denial' over cuts to methane reduction targets 0 Eugene Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 380
Sen. John Curtis (R-UT) To Attend COP-30 Climate Conference In Brazil, For Reasons That Remain Utterly Obscure 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 494
UK Diesel Cheating Scandal Snares Ford, Mercedes, Renault, Nissan And Peugeot/Citroen; Damages Pegged @ $8 Billion+ 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 405
Christmas Island Shrew Officially Extinct; 39 Australian Mammal Species Gone Since 1788, More Than In Any Other Nation 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 11 534
Brown, Stinking Tapwater In Small TX Town One Problem; 90% Cuts In Fed Funding Help Another; Taste Of Freedom Unchanged 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 657
EPA Inspector General's Office Lists 13 Problems In September Report; Former Staff Report "Incapacitating" Staffing Cuts 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 504
European Commission Tells Trump To Get Stuffed On Pressure To Weaken Environmental Rules 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 10 552
You're kidding, right? Solar and Wind's Hidden Price Tag: Why Cost Isn't the Whole Story 0 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 733
Solar Photovoltaic Development in West Africa Will Face Million-Ton Waste Challenges, and Off-Grid Systems Will Dominate 2 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 0 893
A Nuclear Engineer Comments on HBO's Chernobyl Reactor Movie Series, Episode 5. 1 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 683
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 0 330
Elon Musk's Satellites Now Constantly Falling Out of the Sky 3 turbinetree Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 711
Adventures in "Green" Batteries, Fluorinated Ionic Liquids (and other PFAS) in European Waters. 0 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 486
Al Gore Comes Around on Nuclear Energy. 3 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 815
All-European team leads lead-cooled EAGLES reactor project 0 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 620
Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas 1 DBoon Oct 2025 Oct 2025 13 646
As Drought Grinds On In NE British Columbia, Fracking Water Consumption In Area Rose 50% In 2024 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 413
Sen. Whitehouse: "Trump is Moving Money from Pockets of Normal Americans to Fossil Fuel Megadonors" 1 Rhiannon12866 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 580
Study: 61% Of Global Bird Species In Global Survey Declining As IUCN Convenes 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 435
8 Houses Fell Into The Sea Last Week Alone On The Outer Banks; NC Officials Bracing For More, Staging Debris Crews 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 518
TOTAL Havoc BREAKS LOOSE as Trump DESTROYS WEATHER FORECASTS - Meidas Touch 0 Rhiannon12866 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 613

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Despite Overwhelming Public Opposition, Bessemer AL City Council Approves Zoning For Gigantic Data Center 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 579
Comprehensive Plant Inventories From 1884 To 1931 Were Nearly Tossed; Now Provide Priceless Window On Habitats Over Time 2 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 519
UK Security Agencies Prepared Major Report On Warming Threats To National Security; Release Suddenly Delayed 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 428
"Forever Chemicals" - PFAS Gas - Routinely Used At Data/AI Centers. No Testing Or Use Data Required 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 11 642
Headline: "Where Are The Climate Republicans?" Answer - They Never Gave A Shit In The First Place 2 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 601
20 Years On, "Great Green Wall" Of Trees Across Sahara Faltering As Seedlings Die, Money Dries Up 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 10 586
Nestle Abandons Pretense Of Action, Leaves Global Alliance To Cut Methane From Dairy Industry 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 553
Illegal gold mining clears 140,000 hectares of Peruvian Amazon 1 hunter Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 467
Trump Just Gutted The Wildest Public Land In America 4 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 Oct 2025 21 1485
An inside look at Idaho's $3M fight against invasive quagga mussels 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 404
More than 40 Trump administration picks tied directly to oil, gas and coal, analysis shows 1 douglas9 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 472
Biggest Federal Coal Lease Sale In 10 Years Brings One Bid - For 1/10th Cent Per Ton; Last Lease Sale Brought $1.10 2 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 625
Global Plastics Treaty Talks Collapsed In August After 3 Years Of Meetings; Now, Treaty Chair Resigning 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 505
UK Exports Of Plastic Waste To Developing Nations Nearly Doubled In Just The 1st 6 Months Of 2025 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 436
Insurance Coverage Near-Impossible For Coastal LA Residents As Insurance Companies Invest More In Exxon, BP, Etc. 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 584
Renewables Overtake Coal: Global Power Shift Leaves Trump Behind. - FIVE MINUTE NEWS 1 Rhiannon12866 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 432
That's Nice: EPA Does 180, Will Require Coke Plants To Monitor For Benzene, Chromium, Other Toxins After All 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 10 474
Brilliant - TikTok Video - "If The Tesla Cybertruck Was A Person" 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 1797
Brexit Allowed UK To "Take Control" Of North Sea Fishing; 59%Of Cod, Mackerel Pops Fished So Hard They Can't Repopulate 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 12 542
"Someday" Is Here: Colorado River Treaty Divides 15 Million AF Among Basin States; Last Year's Flow Was 8.5 Million AF 3 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 786
Wildfires Ravage One of Africa's Largest Nature Reserves 0 douglas9 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 497
Outcry as Trump plots more roads and logging in US forests: 'You can almost hear the chainsaws' 2 douglas9 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 642
EPA Will No Longer Collect GHG Emissions Data From Corporations, Utilities; Can Anyone Else Compile Information? 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 459
Judge Voids Huge Tax Break Exxon Rammed Through TX School Board; New Plastics Plant Now On Hold 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 541
Thames Water Removes 100-Ton Fatberg From Sewer; Chisels And High-Pressure Hoses Used In Project 3 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 10 773
Nearly 500,000 Planned Homes In Phoenix On Hold; State Water Agency Acknowledging Groundwater Reality 3 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 15 775
Study Of 25 Years Of Carbon Offsets Reveals A Legacy Of Failure; Not Even 1 In 5 Projects Did Anything To Cut GHGs 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 483
5 SE Asian Nations Collectively Lost Forest Area The Size Of Lebanon In 2024; 30% Of Losses In Protected Areas 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 418
Cracking The Future: How Pistachios Can Power Morocco's Green Growth - OpEd 3 Judi Lynn Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 606
OhNoAnyway - 80% Of Ohio's Only National Forest Now Classified As Eligible For Logging 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 644

Environment & Energy Continued...

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So Cute!! "Moderate" Republicans Are "Concerned" W. Shitstain's Farcical And Toxic Coal Policies 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 510
Scientists Find 1st Evidence Of Invasive Barnacles In Arctic; Polar Water Had Been Too Cold For Them To Live There 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 438
42 Former Fossil Fuel Operatives Among Appointees/Nominees For Federal Energy And Environmental Positions 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 436
Philippines to Launch First Coral Larvae Cryobank to Boost Reef Restoration 0 Judi Lynn Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 809
'All the trees are dead': An ancient California forest has been wiped out 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 Oct 2025 11 776
OPEC+ to raise oil production by 137,000 barrels per day in November 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 0 467
Explosive Growth In Valley Fever In CA, AZ In 2024; Now Shitstain's Medical Cuts Damaging Efforts To Respond 2 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 656
450 US Hydropower Sites Due For Relicensing In Next 10 Years; Average US Dam Age Is 65 Years 5 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 708
Pumped Hydro Plant In NSW Was To Cost $2 Billion In 2017; 65% Complete, It's Pushing $13 Billion 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 0 483
Some National Parks Closed, Some Operating w. Skeleton Staffing, Some Left The Gates Open - No One Knows What To Do 2 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 593
Solar becomes main source of electricity in the EU for the first time: 1 applegrove Oct 2025 Oct 2025 10 656
Bans on this landscaping tool continue to spread across the US. See where. 12 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2025 Oct 2025 37 4228
Something is wrong with Lake Itasca, the source of the Mississippi River 21 NickB79 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 51 3639
The Long Heat - New Book Shows Warming "Solutions" As Unwillingness To Challenge The Death-Grip Of Money 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 639
Study: Marine Shell Data Tracks Changes In Ocean Currents; Large Changes In Conveyer Possible Under Today's Conditions 2 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 864
After "Unfortunate" Fatal Explosion In AL Home, State Abandons Monitoring For Methane Leaks From Coal Mining 2 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 11 701
W. At Least A Dozen Norovirus Outbreaks Under Way, CDC Lays Off Cruise Ship Health Inspectors, Including Epidemiologist 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 16 669
Environmental Doublespeak Is Now So Common That One Doesn't Even Notice. 1 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 636
OHNOANYWAY: Net-Zero Banking Alliance Shutting Down - But They're Generously Bequeathing Us Their "Guidance" 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 529
After Decades Of Legendarily Awful Air Pollution, Santiago May Finally Be Turning The Corner 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 450
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