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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 5 451
Hydrogen/Battery Energy Storage Site Begins Operations in California 0 Caribbeans Oct 2025 Oct 2025 0 587
Tourism is helping Uganda's endangered mountain gorillas make a comeback 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 756
'This is unprecedented:' Ecology restricts surface water use in the Yakima River Basin 0 cbabe Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 623
Global Warming Comes Knocking: "The Insurance Crisis In The US Is The Canary In The Coal Mine, And The Canary Is Dead" 5 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 17 2078
Of 200 Biggest Global Fires Since1980 - In Terms Of GDP Losses - 43% Took Place In The Last 10 Years 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 555
WY, MT & 12 Other Trump States' Attorneys General Accuse Tech Firms Of Greenwashing - As A Way To Destroy Climate Goals 2 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 827
From rooftops to honey jars, Athens is abuzz with urban beekeeping 0 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 689
Shitstain's DOE Gleefuly Cancels 226 Alt-Energy Programs W. $7.6 Billion In Funding - Including "Carbon Capture" And H 2 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 802
Duke Energy Unveils "We Don't Give A Fuck" Energy Plan; Will Keep Burning Coal For 2-4 More Years, Because AI 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 715
Apparently, Senior Tories Are "Concerned" About Badenoch Dumping Climate Plan. That's Nice . . . 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 543
Berlin's Reintroduction Of Goshawks In City Parks A Model For UK; Mesopredator Control To Benefit Songbirds 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 609
Former NOAA Employees Launch Climate.us To Provide Data Scrubbed By Trump; AGU, AMS Reboot National Climate Assessment 7 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 52 1588
National Flood Insurance Program Now $22.5 Billion In Debt; Current Authorization Ended 9/30/2025 3 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 677
As Hurricanes Stir Up Coastal Waters, North Carolina Homes Collapse Into the Sea 6 Brenda Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 864
Remembering Jane Goodall and how she changed the way people see animals 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 435
New DOE Dirty Words, Per Memo: "Climate Change", "Sustainable", "Emissions", "Green", "Clean Energy","Carbon Footprint" 3 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 935
Antarctica's message to the world: scientists sound alarm on extreme events and tipping points 2 OKIsItJustMe Sep 2025 Oct 2025 9 2163
2018 - 2023: UK And Mainland Europe Lost Forests And Farmlands At A Rate of 600 Soccer Fields Per Day 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 717
Oh Goody! Now We Can See What Conservative Climate Leaders Like John Curtis And Lisa Murkowski Are Planning To Do 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 1188
Austrian energy company breaks ground on nation's largest green hydrogen project 0 Caribbeans Sep 2025 Sep 2025 1 1327
US energy department cracks down on workers' use of climate crisis language 2 Eugene Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 1329
MAAP #232: The Amazon Tipping Point - Importance of Flying Rivers Connecting the Amazon 0 OKIsItJustMe Sep 2025 Sep 2025 5 490
Plant-based dog food cuts environmental impact by over 90% vs. red meat 2 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 14 2528
Experiment Shows That Nanoplastic Particles Can Enter Vegetables; 5% Of Particles Deployed Entered Radishes In 5 Days 5 hatrack Sep 2025 Sep 2025 9 1701
Electric vehicle and plug-in hybrid vehicle occupancy rules change Tuesday at midnight 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 7 2102
The World Is Hurtling Into Climate Disaster And What Do Our Leaders Give Us? Oilfields & New Runways. 6 hatrack Sep 2025 Sep 2025 37 3073
60% Of Virginia Is Within The Chesapeake Bay Watershed - That Watershed Lost 50,000 Acres Of Forest Canopy In 7 Years 3 hatrack Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 2124

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Will mining destroy America's most-visited wilderness? 4 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 7 2691
Apparently There's A "Generative AI Arms Race With China", Which Means Discounting, Digging And Burning All The Coal 0 hatrack Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 2018
EPA May Use 5-Member Hackfest's "Science" To Justify Abandoning GHG Action - Risking Judicial Rejection 0 hatrack Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 1949
Copper Cannot Be Mined Fast Enough to "Electrify Everything," Not Even Cars. 5 NNadir Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 1635
Renewables go from boom to bust in the wind capital of Canada 1 OnlinePoker Sep 2025 Sep 2025 5 2244
A New Bird Just Appeared in Texas--and That's Not a Good Thing 3 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 13 2346
Sub discovers unexploded Nazi bombs teeming with marine life 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 808
Balcony solar panels. Sounds like a great idea. Shhhh! 10 applegrove Sep 2025 Sep 2025 40 2500
Ocean Scientists Find Marine Life Thriving On Nazi V1 Rockets Dumped Into The Baltic Near Lubeck 4 hatrack Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 1811
I Wanted To Know If Having A Kid On A Burning Planet Was Right - I Found That Antinatalism Is Seriously Taboo 0 hatrack Sep 2025 Sep 2025 15 1551
1/3 Of USGS Climate Adaptation Science Centers Will Close 9/30 - Interior Officials Refuse To Sign Funding Authorization 0 hatrack Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 1395
After Nearly 40 Years, NSF Budget Cuts Force Closure Of Arctic Research Consortium 0 hatrack Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 1504
Nine Refuelling Stations, Ten Routes: India's Hydrogen Highways Begin 0 Caribbeans Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 859
World's first mushroom-powered waterless toilet appears in botanical garden 4 DBoon Sep 2025 Sep 2025 11 1403
Tech giants Open AI, Oracle behind $165 billion data center campus near El Paso 2 douglas9 Sep 2025 Sep 2025 1 1056
Philadelphia Sues SC Johnson (Ziploc) And Bimbo Bakeries For Their Lies About Recycling Plastic Bags And Film 0 hatrack Sep 2025 Sep 2025 9 1849
The New Nuclear Arms Race - This Time, It's About Energy - Good Times Bad Times (The 20s Report) 0 TexasTowelie Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 1351
200 Hectares Of Agricultural Land In Gaza Remain Accessible & Undestroyed - To Support 2 Million People 1 hatrack Sep 2025 Sep 2025 11 1676
NC City Suing Duke Energy For Deceptive Practices: Utility Supported Anti-Science Groups For Decades 0 hatrack Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 1600
Amazon rainforest trees are resisting climate change by getting fatter from CO2 in the atmosphere 1 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 9 3212
Agriculture And Food Production Produce 1/3 Of GHGs; Less Than 4% Of Nearly 1,000 News Articles Even Mention Meat 1 hatrack Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 1694
Panama Canal ready to start rewarding low-carbon ships 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 1017
Energy Secretary Licks Trump Anus W. Suggestion That He'll Receive "Climate Hero" Award Soon 1 hatrack Sep 2025 Sep 2025 9 2583
On North Carolina's rivers and streams, the cleanup of Helene's fury seems never-ending 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2025 Sep 2025 5 513
Tribes lead the way in forest resilience 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 2362
Germany and an environmental problem 2 Old Crank Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 873
Lower Stratospheric Temps Above Antarctic/Southern Ocean 30C (55F) Over Normal; Same Thing Happened Pre-Black Summer 0 hatrack Sep 2025 Sep 2025 5 2050
Privatization! $670 Million Thames Water Desal Plant Ran 5 Times Since 2010, Provided 1 Week Of London's Water Needs 0 hatrack Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 955
Remote Alaska Rivers Flow Orange With Metals Released From Thawing Permafrost; Multiple Rivers Now Toxic To Fish 1 hatrack Sep 2025 Sep 2025 16 2156
UCSB Study - "Huge Parts Of The Ocean Will No Longer Be Recognizable" As Human Impacts Rise 2-3X By 2050 0 hatrack Sep 2025 Sep 2025 5 854

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Fire, Baby, Fire! Chevron On Track To Layoff 20% Of Workforce, ConocoPhillips 25%; Oil Prices Down 20% Since 1/20/25 3 hatrack Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 1766
Some measure of the scale of plastic production. 0 NNadir Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 915
London's infamous 'Wet Wipe Island' finally cleared of 5 million wipes 6 jmbar2 Sep 2025 Sep 2025 10 2038
China, world's largest carbon polluting nation, announces new climate goal to cut emissions 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 712
The dismantling of the Forest Service 2 douglas9 Sep 2025 Sep 2025 12 1830
Max Planck Institute Study - Cutting Down The Amazon Rainforest Will Produce Extreme Rain, Wind And Heat 2 hatrack Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 745
Brazil's State Oil Company Enlists Gen-Z Influencers In Greenwashing Campaign, Including (Really?) Algae Biofuels 1 hatrack Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 998
Oh Goody! There's A New Use For AI Slop - Cranking Out Climate Lies And Anti-Science (At Minimal Cost!) 0 hatrack Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 1605
ECL takes Net Zero, Project of the Year and Startup awards for its hydrogen-powered data centres 1 Caribbeans Sep 2025 Sep 2025 1 1452
WATCH: Trump calls climate change 'the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world' - PBS NewsHour 4 Rhiannon12866 Sep 2025 Sep 2025 5 1861
Potsdam Institute - We Have Now Transgressed 7 Of 9 Planetary Boundaries As Ocean Acidity Hits Critical Level 4 hatrack Sep 2025 Sep 2025 41 3222
Feds quietly delay cleanup of forever chemicals at military bases in Oregon, Washington 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 727
Trump admin is like a "cartoon throwing thumbtacks in the road" impeding renewable energy process - Chris Hayes 0 Rhiannon12866 Sep 2025 Sep 2025 5 2683
Trump's order to halt offshore wind project overturned, Orsted to restart work soon 0 Caribbeans Sep 2025 Sep 2025 7 2660
Alaska Air backs $150 million investment in Gates-led green energy fund 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2025 Sep 2025 0 789
Experts Stunned After Noticing Killer Whales Preying on Great White Sharks In Rare Footage 2 marmar Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 2669
The enshittification of solar (and how to stop it) -- Corey Doctorow with hat tips to Bill McKibben 1 erronis Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 2349
Trinidad & Tobago's Oil Output "In Freefall"; Deepwater Exploration Pending, But Dutch Disease May Be Terminal 1 hatrack Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 780
1992 UN Framework: Trump's allies still waiting for him to land his hardest climate blow 0 Eugene Sep 2025 Sep 2025 7 2077
Berkshire Hathaway Praises Utah Law Letting Utilities Limit Payouts From Fires Their Defective Equipment Causes 0 hatrack Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 2220
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