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Drax Wanted To Shred Sierra N. Forests For Wood Chips, Then Ship Them To Yorkshire, Because They're "Sustainable" 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 685
Is the Northeast overdue for a hurricane? Here's what it would take 0 OnlinePoker Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 480
James Hansen, Pushker Kharecha: Seeing the Forest for the Trees 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 499
Sens. Whitehouse and Heinrich Explain How the GOP Budget Bill Will Raise Your Energy Prices - Senator Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 464
Bodily contamination concern? Plastics are 'everywhere': Author - MSNBC Reports 0 Rhiannon12866 Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 456
Hurray. BP Makes Biggest Oil Find In 25 Years Off Coast Of Brazil. Huzzah. Yoicks. Yippee. Hallelujah. 4 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 767
New York State Unlikely To Hit Either 2030 Or 2040 Climate And Energy Goals 2 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 597
Air Quality Alerts Stemming From Canadian Wildfires Cover 14 States, Approximately 81 Million Americans 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 516
Study: After Shenango PA Coke Plant Closed, Pediatric Asthma ER Visits Fell 20% Immediately 40% Long-Term 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 467
Grand Canyon North Rim Fire Hits 123,000 Acres; Forest Service Scrambling To Fill Firefighting Positions 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 460
Chevron, Valero in talks to reactivate supply agreement on Venezuelan oil to US, sources say 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 410
Gifford Fire in California grows to more than 72K acres as firefighters battle blaze 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 446
Black storm warning paralyses Hong Kong as torrential rain triggers floods and landslides (The rain was not black) 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 438
Grassley places holds on 3 Trump Treasury nominees (wants wind and solar tax credits continued) 4 Eugene Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 783
Iran orders a day of business and office closures to relieve electric grid in heat wave 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 428
They've been able to reconstruct Cretaceous air composition from fossilized dinosaur teeth, including CO2 levels 0 NickB79 Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 586
Plastic pollution responsible for at least $1.5 trillion a year in health costs, study finds - CBS News 3 Rhiannon12866 Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 679
EPA to reverse landmark scientific finding on climate change - CNN State of the Union 1 Rhiannon12866 Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 512
Shein fined E1m in Italy for misleading environmental claims about products 0 Eugene Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 382
China: Rockcheck Inks Deal to Deploy 1,000 Hydrogen Trucks in Inner Mongolia by 2026 0 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 2025 0 480
Rail services in parts of England are cut as tracks disturbed by lack of moisture 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 430
West Virginia lawmakers eliminated local authority to regulate data centers and similar projects 0 Eugene Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 422
AI Breakthrough at NJIT Unlocks 'New' Materials to Replace Lithium-Ion Batteries 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 515
The Largest Energy Project in the World: Chinese Dams Threaten Tibet's Yarlung-Tsangpo River 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 461
Canada wildfires prompt air quality warnings for Upper Midwest, Northeast 11 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 1155
Scientists say they have solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2025 Aug 2025 21 754
2025 Global Temperature - James Hansen and Pushker Kharecha - 15 April 2025 3 OKIsItJustMe Apr 2025 Aug 2025 4 1209
Lancet - Plastics Damaging Human Health At Every Stage Of Life, Inflicting Incalculable Damage Across Earth's Ecosystems 6 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 15 940
Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 11 637
In TX Flood Zone, Residents Would Like Bodies Removed From Oily Reservoir; Overall State Response Slim To None 7 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 14 973

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Hottest June And July On Record For Both Japan And South Korea; 104F In Kyoto For First Time On Record 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 420
Oil producer pressure, Trump rollbacks threaten last-chance global plastics treaty 0 Eugene Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 398
There's an island off the UK overrun with wallabies - and they're causing chaos 2 NickB79 Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 797
The energy source that could survive Trump's attack on California's green ambitions -LA Times 2 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 775
The Effects of Air Pollution on the Output of PV Solar Cells. 0 NNadir Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 539
Trump administration cancels plans to develop new offshore wind projects 1 Eugene Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 1598
Company scraps plans for Ardmore hydrogen plant 0 NickB79 Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 581
Seal Won't Leave His Rescuer! 2 Uncle Joe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 18 868
Brazil Turning Over Degraded Rainforest To Scandal-Plagued "Carbon Capture" Industry In Hope Of Partial Regeneration 2 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 608
China Completes World's Largest Offshore Floating Solar Project, Leaving U.S. Engineers Stunned 4 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 1088
Scientists Map Antarctica's 332 Undersea Canyon Networks; Their Impact On Ice Loss And Climate Collapse Growing Clearer 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 12 569
Gov. Whitmer "Effectively Ousts" State Utility Board Member Who Had Opposed Rate Hikes, Appoints DTE Ally 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 744
Ghana has a rare treasure, a crater made when a meteor hit Earth: why it needs to be protected 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 11 592
Jay Inslee: Trump and Zeldin turn EPA into 'Environmental Pollution Agency' by revoking climate rule - Velshi - MSNBC 0 Rhiannon12866 Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 443
Dangerous wildfire smoke hurting air quality as extreme heat and fire concerns grow 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 552
On clean energy, too many Republicans appear to forget that batteries exist 7 LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 904
Self-Termination The Likely Outcome For "Goliath" Societies Where Inequality Reigns - Think Rome, Han China, And Us 19 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 56 2939
Improving the Production of Electrolytic Hydrogen with (Cheap?) Ruthenium Based Electrodes. 0 NNadir Aug 2025 Aug 2025 0 728
Grand Canyon And Utah Fires Breach Containment; Pyrocumulus Clouds, Fire Tornadoes Confirmed 8 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 40 1660
Seeking Relief From Heat and Smog, Cities Follow the Wind 0 marmar Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 505
3 Straight Weeks Above 30C In Finland: Scandinavian Heatwave Unprecedented In 60+ Years Of Weather Records 4 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 733
USDA Blatted Loudly About Canceling $148 Million In "Woke" Grants In June, Then Went Completely Silent On The Subject 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 567
Study: 2024 California Monarch Dieoff Likely Caused By Exposure To Multiple Pesticides 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 400
"Farce" - Climate Scientists Assess Shitstain Climate Report: "An AI Chatbot Trained On Top 10 Climate Denier Websites" 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 624
Bureau Of Livestock And Mining Eliminates Public Comment On New Oil & Gas Leasing Rules 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 508
Tesla Found Liable For Failed, Fatal Autopilot-Driven Accident To The Tune Of $243 Million 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 13 498
HIgh Tide Flooding Now Routine In Boston And The City Isn't Waiting For Shitstain & Company To Do Something About It 2 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 15 582
Ecuador Eliminates Environment Ministry, Folds What's Left Into Energy & Mining Ministry 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 419
'Fire clouds' over Arizona and Utah wildfires are creating their own erratic climate 9 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 987
How hot can Earth get? Our planet's climate history holds clues 2 hunter Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 561

Environment & Energy Continued...

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The energy source that could survive Trump's attack on California's green ambitions 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 580
Trump administration seeks to revoke limits on oil drilling in parts of Alaska's North Slope 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 429
South African researchers test use of nuclear technology to curb rhino poaching 1 Eugene Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 493
UN Plastics Treaty: Will the negotiations in Geneva finally achieve a breakthrough? (Poll) 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 386
Ocean oxygen decline threatens deep-sea fish populations and ocean health, new study warns 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 368
Kimberly-Clark Signs Innovative Green Hydrogen Deals in the UK 0 Caribbeans Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 503
Brazil Can't Even Guarantee Enough Hotel Rooms For Climate Summit, And May Price Out Developing Country Delegations 2 hatrack Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 648
2024 Wildfire Damaged Irrigation Canal Serving Yakima Valley WA, The Most Valuable Farming Region In The State 0 hatrack Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 501
US #1 LNG Exporter Claiming $140 Million Tax Credit For Using LNG As Tanker Fuel - Which Is What They Already Do 0 hatrack Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 562
"Meaningless Sustainability Waffle" - What Happens When You Claim Coal Exports To Poor Countries Help The Environment 0 hatrack Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 571
Huge "Game Changer" AI Data Farm In WY Will Use More Electricity Than All The State's Homes 3 hatrack Jul 2025 Jul 2025 13 794
Taking us 'backwards': Scientist slams Trump EPA's 'crazy' move to repeal landmark finding - MSNBC Reports 1 Rhiannon12866 Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 580
How Generous! The Pentagon Will Continue To Provide Detailed Satellite-Based Hurricane Data To NOAA 1 hatrack Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 525
'Implications are grim': EPA moves to repeal climate change 'holy grail' - MSNBC Reports 0 Rhiannon12866 Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 537
Security camera footage captures building explosion in Fremont, Nebraska. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 737
Hundreds evacuated after series of rockfalls in Italy's Brenta Dolomites 0 cbabe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 614
Alabama Power Claimed Its Coal Ash Pit Was Sealed And Safe; Water Data Show Otherwise And They're Being Sued 1 hatrack Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 585
Musk's Political Prancing Crushed His Brand W. Core Demographic, And Conservatives Aren't Buying EVs Either 3 hatrack Jul 2025 Jul 2025 10 835
Shitstain's DOE Flapping Their Gums On Geothermal, But Tariffs, Staffing Cuts And Stupidity Adding Up To One Big Fumble 1 hatrack Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 586
Trump EPA 'cancels' climate change, revoking scientific determination to combat carbon emissions. - FIVE MINUTE NEWS 2 Rhiannon12866 Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 569
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