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10 Years On, KKKing KKKlown Handing $75 Million To Coal Export Terminal In Oakland, w. No Guarantee It Will Be Built 1 hatrack Jun 15 Jun 15 7 545
One Political Trend Stands Clearly Above The Rest This Election Cycle - Most Voters Fucking HATE Data Centers 2 hatrack Jun 15 Jun 15 14 658
Idaho Irrigation Districts Reducing Deliveries By 12-33% This Growing Season As Drought & Depletion Do Their Thing 2 hatrack Jun 15 Jun 15 6 479
Uptake Of CO2 By Trees May Be Substantially Overstated; Study Found Growth Stopped Months Before Photosynthesis Did 2 hatrack Jun 14 Jun 15 8 630
Missing Winter Sea Ice Off West Coast Of Antarctica Equal In Size To Area Of France 1 hatrack Jun 14 Jun 15 10 537
Good meme: 1 applegrove Jun 14 Jun 14 19 631
Lake Mead Elevation Currently 1048 Feet Above Sea Level' - At 1035' Its Generating Capacity Falls By 70% 5 hatrack Jun 14 Jun 14 8 774
MIT Review: Can nuclear power really fuel the rise of AI? 3 NNadir Jun 13 Jun 14 3 700
Scientists See Chances Of Atlantic Current Collapse Growing; What Better Time For KKKing KKKlown To Destroy Monitoring? 3 hatrack Jun 14 Jun 14 12 786
China's Coal Power Output Rose Jan-Apr Of This Year; Was Its 2025 Drop In Power Sector Emissions A Blip? 0 hatrack Jun 14 Jun 14 3 435
Climate Denier Lee Raymond Left the World Hotter Than He Found It 2 Brenda Jun 12 Jun 14 4 550
'Serious incident' at Ukraine power plant as 'Chernobyl 2' nuclear accident fears soar 5 Caribbeans Jun 14 Jun 14 17 965
Diesel mechanics queue up for Trump pardons 1 Eugene Jun 13 Jun 13 5 778
Wow! More deaths than those resulting from radiation exposure at Fukushima: 2 NNadir Jun 13 Jun 13 2 829
The Unintentional Experiment in Atmospheric Chemistry: The Covid Lockdown. 1 NNadir Jun 13 Jun 13 8 584
Um...um...um... An Important Concern? The safety of chemicals on, um, Mars? 5 NNadir Jun 13 Jun 13 5 585
The First New INL Novel Nuclear Reactor in 50 Years Achieves Criticality. 0 NNadir Jun 13 Jun 13 4 480
Why communities are revolting against data centers 1 littlemissmartypants Jun 13 Jun 13 6 664
Tropical heron spotted in UK for first time as more exotic birds arrive to thrill birdwatchers 0 OKIsItJustMe Jun 13 Jun 13 7 469
Qcells Begins Solar Cell Manufacturing at America's First and Only Vertically Integrated Solar Factory in Cartersville, 0 OKIsItJustMe Jun 13 Jun 13 12 578
The Use of Human Based Organoids in Toxicology Testing. 0 NNadir Jun 13 Jun 13 0 565
Vermont probes solar development owner about broken solar panels in Shaftsbury 0 NNadir Jun 13 Jun 13 2 565
Canada: New motor vehicle registrations, first quarter 2026 4 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 12 Jun 13 7 1067
Hoover Dam Approaches a Hydropower Cliff 9 Brenda Jun 12 Jun 12 34 1263
Hug a climate scientist today! Just don't make it weird, they are already dealing with enough 1 OKIsItJustMe Jun 12 Jun 12 7 460
'This is not normal': Trump leans on MAGA organizer to revive coal 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 12 Jun 12 5 889
Ocean with David Attenborough (Full Documentary) World Ocean Day Special National Geographic 0 Uncle Joe Jun 12 Jun 12 5 549
'This is what I was born for': the drought-ridden Colombian town that took on Coca-Cola Femsa - and won 0 cbabe Jun 12 Jun 12 5 3418
Pentagon reviews are blocking wind farms, putting jobs at risk, lawsuit says 1 OKIsItJustMe Jun 12 Jun 12 7 492
Antarctica's west coast missing an area of sea ice the size of France as temperatures peak 20C above average 0 OKIsItJustMe Jun 12 Jun 12 4 3205

Environment & Energy Continued...

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EU to make it harder to suspend carbon fee on imports 0 OKIsItJustMe Jun 12 Jun 12 2 319
Unlocking the "Nuclear Energy Code" of the Ocean: Tech for Capture of Uranium from Seawater. 3 NNadir Jun 7 Jun 12 4 1310
From Snow Drought To Full-On Drought Across West; Colorado River Flow Projected 30% Of Normal, Water Cutbacks Coming 4 hatrack Jun 12 Jun 12 5 706
President Trump is taking aim at forest and wildfire research just as the West is poised to burn 0 Dulcinea Jun 12 Jun 12 5 426
2024 Jasper Alberta Fire Didn't "Destroy Forests" - It Literally Turned Soil To Ash w. Energy 7X That Of Hiroshima Bomb 0 hatrack Jun 12 Jun 12 8 644
Subterranean fungi networks more than 100 quadrillion km in length, study finds 0 OKIsItJustMe Jun 12 Jun 12 7 449
'Super El Nino' is officially here, scientists say. What can we expect? 1 OKIsItJustMe Jun 12 Jun 12 18 727
El Nino conditions are present and expected to strengthen into the Northern Hemisphere winter 2026-27. 1 OKIsItJustMe Jun 11 Jun 12 2 522
Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time 6 Caribbeans Jun 11 Jun 12 7 642
No wonder wind, solar and batteries are growing so fast... 9 Finishline42 Jun 10 Jun 11 8 1183
Climate Summit Blah New Goals Blahblah Electric Cars Something Turkiye Has 37 Coal Plants Would Like More Something Blah 1 hatrack Jun 11 Jun 11 4 452
Four days of extreme rain killed 7% of world's rarest orangutans, study says 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 11 Jun 11 5 444
"Effectively Irreversible" Change Makes Biscayne Bay Much More Like Open Ocean Than In Recent Past - More Acidic, Saline 5 hatrack Jun 11 Jun 11 7 845
Could a controversial cooling strategy save our fisheries and coral reefs from marine heat waves? 2 OKIsItJustMe Jun 11 Jun 11 6 504
Sea-level rise has increased frequency of extreme coastal flooding worldwide, study finds 0 OKIsItJustMe Jun 11 Jun 11 4 358
'How Little Sea Creatures Could Keep Oil Scarce Long After The Strait Of Hormuz Reopens' 1 sop Jun 11 Jun 11 16 697
Turning food waste into carbon captors 0 OKIsItJustMe Jun 11 Jun 11 5 525
Integrating indirect greenhouse gases into climate frameworks (about 15% of warming caused by largely ignored sources) 0 OKIsItJustMe Jun 11 Jun 11 4 428
Major climate report shows Earth is getting hotter faster 5 OKIsItJustMe Jun 11 Jun 11 4 819
'Severe' stress on oceans as rate of sea level rise doubles in 10 years, UN warns 4 OKIsItJustMe Jun 9 Jun 11 5 708
So Massive It Uses Robot Dogs to Patrol - China's New Sea Solar Plant 4 Caribbeans Jun 10 Jun 11 11 825
Tornado Alley Is MOVING and That's a HUGE Problem 20 Uncle Joe May 2 Jun 11 19 2441
Time to Wake Up #308: 40 Years After Chafee's Warning - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Jun 11 Jun 11 9 600
"Unfathomable" - In 2025, Global Banks Provided $906 Billion In Fossil Fuel Funding - Up 8% In Just1 Year 2 hatrack Jun 10 Jun 10 4 449
Solar power hits new milestones in the US even as Trump boosts coal over clean energy 3 OKIsItJustMe Jun 10 Jun 10 12 748
Solar electricity beats coal for the first time ever in the US. 1 applegrove Jun 10 Jun 10 9 515
Record winter temperatures in Antarctic raise fears over speed of climate breakdown 0 muriel_volestrangler Jun 10 Jun 10 7 492
Electrochemical bath recycles critical minerals in batteries 0 OKIsItJustMe Jun 10 Jun 10 6 581
Hospitalizations From Extreme Heat In US Will Double To More Than 200,000 Cases/Year By 2040 2 hatrack Jun 10 Jun 10 7 416
When global warming becomes malnutrition: New study links climate change, childhood stunting and local inequality 0 OKIsItJustMe Jun 9 Jun 9 5 594

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Human activities accelerate changes in the freshwater cycle 0 OKIsItJustMe Jun 9 Jun 9 2 560
'Woefully unprepared': extreme heat will double US hospitalizations by 2040, study finds 0 OKIsItJustMe Jun 9 Jun 9 5 442
(South Korean fusion reactor) KSTAR sustains 100-million-degree plasma for 102 seconds in tungsten divertor campaign 0 OKIsItJustMe Jun 9 Jun 9 3 474
Nationally, Wildfires From 2015 To 2024 Have Reversed 4 Years Of AQ Improvement, Especially w. Ground-Level Ozone 1 hatrack Jun 9 Jun 9 2 491
After 100% Kill, AZ Officials Close Popular Lake To Visitors; Apparently, Masses Of Rotting Fish Pose A "Health Hazard" 4 hatrack Jun 9 Jun 9 8 882
Antibiotic resistance genes found across world oceans, Italian study shows 1 OKIsItJustMe Jun 8 Jun 9 4 422
Researchers demonstrate hydrogen as a viable aviation fuel 1 Caribbeans Jun 9 Jun 9 4 558
A floating solar plant using vertical panels is flipping the usual solar curve 11 usonian Jun 5 Jun 8 10 1151
In a warming Arctic, gray whales struggle to find nourishment 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 8 Jun 8 5 338
Majority of US's new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land 0 OKIsItJustMe Jun 8 Jun 8 1 502
Texas grid flags risks as data centers, crypto sites fail voltage tests 1 usonian Jun 7 Jun 7 8 521
China's 'Artificial Sun' Is Gearing Up For A Major Milestone By 2027 3 OKIsItJustMe Jun 7 Jun 7 6 651
Former Liberal Environment Minister Resigns From Commons, Leaving No One Inside Canada's Gov Pushing On Climate Issues 2 hatrack Jun 7 Jun 7 5 484
Tar Sands Operators Pledge To "Carbon Capture" 68 MT Each Year, No, Make That 16 MT Each Year, 20 Years From Now 0 hatrack Jun 7 Jun 7 4 473
UK Cold Chain Distribution For Perishible Foods, Vaccines May Not Withstand Price Shock As Strait Stays Closed 2 hatrack Jun 7 Jun 7 2 486
NOAA/ESRL: May 2026 Atmospheric CO2 Concentration 432.34 ppm; May 2025 430.51 ppm; May 2024 426.90 ppm 0 hatrack Jun 7 Jun 7 3 377
13 Years In, Iowa's Voluntary Program To Cut Water Pollution So Inadequate Some Farmers Pushing For Regulation 0 hatrack Jun 7 Jun 7 2 427
While US fleets keep debating whether hydrogen trucks have a future, SaudiArabia just put a self-driving one on the road 2 Caribbeans Jun 6 Jun 7 2 647
Questions about Ocean Sensors destruction: 19 littlemissmartypants Jun 2 Jun 7 10 1285
KKKing KKKlown's Order To Destroy Marine Science Network Will "Severely Degrade" Weather Forecast Capacity Globally 2 hatrack Jun 6 Jun 6 9 634
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