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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse on Democrats' Failures--and Opportunities for a Climate Comeback 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 604
Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying 3 cliffside Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 960
LFSCOE: The True Cost of Solar and Wind Energy in Texas and Germany in Answer to the Question... 1 NNadir Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 1005
After a Drought Last Year, Ohio Farmers Wished for Rain. Now Downpours Are Destroying Their Crops 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 596
Micro- And Nano-Plastics Are Literally Everywhere As Treaty Talks Collapse; But We "Can't Afford Despair" - Why Not? 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 633
Stalagmites in Mexican caves reveal duration and severity of drought during the Maya collapse 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 14 698
Another gold rush could bring open pit mines to South Dakota's Black Hills 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 639
Hydrogen Engine or Hydrogen Fuel Cell? Why Not Both? Volvo Trucks takes us inside its two-pronged development strategy 10 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 1396
Trump told polluters to email him for an exemption. In California, three places have already been approved 1 Dulcinea Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 723
26 In 2023, 39 In 2024: Rising Heat Deaths In El Paso Bring Little In The Way Of Public Health Response 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 563
Jellyfish Shut Down French Nuclear Power Plant - NY Times 2 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 732
60 percent of the world's land area is in a precarious state 5 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 1035
Black metal could give a heavy boost to solar power generation 1 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 19 1025
'Revolutionary' seafloor fiber sensing reveals how falling ice drives glacial retreat in Greenland 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 503
How a White House plan to overturn a key EPA regulation threatens children's health - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 503
Former LCV Head - 20 Years Back, About 20% Of Candidates They Endorsed Were GOP; In 2024, Zero 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 581
Erin Went From A Category 1 To A Category 5 In 24 Hours And 20 Minutes - Earliest Cat 5 Ever In The Open Atlantic 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 765
An Economic Argument That the Three Mile Island Meltdown Cost the US 14 Trillion Dollars 14 NNadir Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 1943
Area Of Spain Burned In Wildfires In 2025 Already Three Times Seasonal Average From 2006 To 2024 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 508
Overnight Low Temperature Records Set In Israel (96.8F) And Jordan (95F) 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 599
South Korean judges order companies responsible for fatal hydrogen explosion to pay billions of won in damages: reports 0 NNadir Aug 2025 Aug 2025 0 534
How Hydrogen-Powered Helicopter Flight Could Help Healthcare 1 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 651
Hydrogen Buses Hit the Road in Tasmania with Local Refuelling Tech 1 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 756
SolarStratos Makes History: 9,521 Meters Reached Using Only Solar Power 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 495
National Parks In "Survival Mode": Half Big Bend NP Staff Gone, 60 Vacant Positions In AK, No Lifeguards At Assateague 3 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 797
National Academy Organizes Rapid Response To Trump's "Scientific" Hackfest Downplaying Climate Threat 6 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 897
Homeless Are 1% Of Maricopa County Population, But Made Up 20% Of Deaths In 2024 At Arizona Burn Centers - It's That Hot 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 575
July 2025 Atmospheric CO2 Concentration 427.87 ppm; July 2024 425.55 ppm; July 2023 421.83 ppm 9 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 1205
Pedophile Party Members Who Voted For Big Bullshit Bill Have Lifetime Take Of $105 Million From Oil Industry 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 578
Plastic pollution talks fail as negotiators in Geneva reject draft treaties 2 muriel_volestrangler Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 577

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Global Heat Spike In 2023 Continued Through 2024; CO2 Content Rose At Record Rate In 2024, Matching 2015 Record 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 523
Warming In Svalbard 7X Global Average; Glaciers' Melt Powered In Part By Rich Microbial Ecosystem Within Them 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 529
British Gas Pours $2 Billion Into LNG Terminal, Even Though UK Gas Demand Hit Lowest Level In 30+ Years In 2024 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 517
Hydrogen Bus Explosion in Chungju Injures Three in South Korea 0 NNadir Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 636
World's first 30MW pure hydrogen gas turbine project breaks ground in Ordos 1 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 794
Department of Energy Announces Initial Selections for New Reactor Pilot Program 1 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 599
Lake on the 79N Glacier is splitting the ice - leaving permanent changes 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 556
Human emissions drove the megadrought in the western U.S. 2 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 728
Philippines gets first megawatt-scale floating solar farm 2 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 793
Solastalgia 4 littlemissmartypants Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 943
Study: Southwest US Drought May Persist Until 2100 As Global Warming Produces Major Shifts In Pacific Temperatures 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 590
Pedophile Party Reps Demand Canada "Take Action" Because Of Wildfire Smoke, But GOP Action On Warming Strangely Missing 2 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 650
1,500 Deaths Linked To Spain Heatwave, 8/12 Saw 198 Weather Stations @ 40C Or Above; Gov Fumbling Response At All Levels 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 661
Acetone, Ethanol, Toluene, Lead - A Toxic Creek Winds Through NC Neighborhood, And Trump's EPA Doesn't Care 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 570
Conservationists again sue U.S. Fish and Wildlife for denying Oregon red tree voles protection 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 456
International "State of the Climate" report confirms record-high greenhouse gases, global temperatures, global sea level 2 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 13 650
London's Newest Attraction: Wet Wipe Island, As Big As 2 Tennis Courts & Weighing As Much As 15 Doubledecker Buses 3 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 985
Dominion Energy (VA) Stated In Filing That Outside Monitor Checked Gas Plant Bids; Now They Admit That They Lied 2 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 807
Farming Already Uses An Area Equivalent To All Of Asia Plus All Of Europe And We're Still Razing Forests For Cheap Meat 3 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 825
2025 Set To Break 2022 Record For UK Wildfires; 5 Km2 Burned In Yorkshire National Park 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 490
Spain 5th Nation In A Week To Invoke EU Mutual Aid Pact For Fires; Lethal Heatwave Continues Across Southern Europe 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 535
After 2 Deaths During Multiple Days Of 100-110F Heat Indices, RAGBRAI's Future Increasingly Uncertain 4 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 1039
Nearly 100 Nations Reject Toothless Plastics Treaty That Avoids Production Limits In Favor Of "Recycling" 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 582
Shistain Disbanded NOAA Group Tasked With Annual Update Of Flood Risk Back In January 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 602
Efforts to save local coral reefs ongoing amid sweltering South Florida summer - WPLG Local 10 Miami-Fort Lauderdale 1 Rhiannon12866 Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 546
Rock and glacial ice slide in the Endicott Arm area of Alaska generates 15 feet tsunami waves in fjord. 0 Tonk Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 851
EPA Will Now Let Big Polluters Stop Reporting CO2/Methane Output, But Satellites Are Already Tracking The Data 2 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 576
Swiss adventurer 'smashes altitude record' in solar-powered plane 3 littlemissmartypants Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 783
9 Years After 23 Residents Died In Catastrophic Flood, WV Officials Launching Study On Flood Mitigation On Kanawah River 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 540
No El Nino, But 2025 On Track To Be One Of Three Hottest Years On Record; July Was The Third-Hottest July Ever 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 598

Environment & Energy Continued...

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This is horrifying - Joe Rogan 2 applegrove Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 1306
Dengue Cases Spiking In Pacific Nations; 17 Deaths, 16,502 Cases So Far In 2025, And Yes, It's Warming-Related 2 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 619
W. Massive Bleaching And Coral Death Across Western Australia Reefs, Oil & Gas Major Extends Science Museum Sponsorship 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 458
Unpublished Gov Report Reveals "Intense And Scary" Climate Risks To Australia's Environment & Economy 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 494
China: Jiaxing Port Deploys 100 Hydrogen Trucks, Cutting 10,000 Tons of CO₂ Annually 0 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 537
Arizona Just Proved Jaguars Aren't Extinct in the U.S. 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2025 Aug 2025 12 744
US to retaliate against IMO members that back net zero emissions plan 1 Eugene Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 564
Parts of Europe burn as millions are facing record heat 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 559
Science Advances: Groundwater Mining Has Produced Greater SLR Impacts Than Melting Of Greenland's Ice Sheet 2 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 621
6 Years After Plan Launched For 22,000 km2 Native Forest Preserve In Saskatchewan, 90% Of It Has Been Destroyed By Fire 2 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 684
Shitstain's Budget Will Gut National Energy Labs In OR, CO, WA; Climate, Energy Efficiency Core Missions At These Sites 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 490
In Colorado, The Lee Fire Hits The State's Record For 5th-Largest Fire Ever At 130,000 Acres; 1,000+ Firefighters Deploy 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 591
1,000s Of FEMA Funding Requests Wait For ICE Barbie's Signature; Post-Helene, NC's Small, Rural Towns Hurt Most By Delay 2 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 755
Nearly 6,000 Residents Evacuated In Multiple Regions Of Spain As "Explosive" Fires Expand In 110F Heatwave 2 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 750
UK Ministers Approve Contingency Plans For Potential Collapse Of Thames Water 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 660
As Peak Of Hurricane Season Approaches, FEMA Diverts 100 Staffers To Help ICE Recruit Masked Clown Squad Members 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 553
China expands hydrogen bike-share network 1 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 696
India begins construction of first green hydrogen-powered ships 1 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 621
Canada wildfire season already second worst on record as experts warn of 'new reality' 0 Eugene Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 472
Top climate tech exec: The AC gap between Europe and America is becoming an economic liability 4 NickB79 Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 1070
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