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EPA Will Stop Calculating How PM 2.5 & Ozone Cuts Save Lives/Health; Now, Only Costs To Industry To Be Calculated 1 hatrack Jan 14 Jan 14 9 407
"Near-Universal" Opposition To Gigantic AL Data Center; Now Developer Wants Another 900 Acres Rezoned As Industrial 0 hatrack Jan 14 Jan 14 4 493
Thanks, AI!! At Least 15 US Coal Plants Set For Retirement Are Online "For The Forseeable Future" 3 hatrack Jan 14 Jan 14 7 689
EPA Proposal Would Block State & Tribal Action To Oppose Pipelines And Data Centers That Threaten Water Quality 1 hatrack Jan 14 Jan 14 9 528
Trump's wind energy assault sinks permitting reform - Senate Environment & Public Works Committee 14 Rhiannon12866 Jan 8 Jan 13 5 1354
Analysis: Coal power drops in China and India for first time in 52 years after clean-energy records 3 OnlinePoker Jan 13 Jan 13 5 452
Fracking Industry Executives Are Salivating Over the AI Data Center Boom 1 douglas9 Jan 13 Jan 13 3 548
Himalayan Snowpack Falling Quickly Compared To 1980-2020 Baseline; No DecemberRain/Snow In Nearly All Of Northern India 2 hatrack Jan 13 Jan 13 3 439
House Passes Bill To Claw Back $500 Million In Abandoned Mine Cleanup Money From VA, IL, KY, WV 1 hatrack Jan 13 Jan 13 4 556
No Wonder Trump Loves Venezuelan Oil - Its Decaying Infrastructure Leaks 13 Billion M3 Of Methane Each Year 1 hatrack Jan 13 Jan 13 7 497
"Embarassing" - Tour Down Under Cyclists Wondering Why Ever-Hotter Race Sponsored By Oil/Gas Company Santos 0 hatrack Jan 13 Jan 13 9 534
After Up To Two Feet Of Rain In Queensland, Multiple Communities May Be Cut Off For Weeks Or Months 0 hatrack Jan 13 Jan 13 7 486
Cold weather and data centres drive up US greenhouse gas emissions 2.4% 1 muriel_volestrangler Jan 13 Jan 13 3 415
Damn the torpedoes! Trump ditches a crucial climate treaty as he moves to dismantle America's climate protections 1 marmar Jan 11 Jan 12 7 514
A bill to transfer all liabilities and responsibilities for decommissioned or damaged offshore oil and gas platforms 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 12 Jan 12 7 593
Thousands Of Flying Foxes Died In Southeastern Australian Heatwave; Worst Dieoff Since Black Summer Of 2019-20 1 hatrack Jan 12 Jan 12 6 538
850,000 Acres Of Victoria Bushland Burned In One Week After Worst Heatwave In Years; One Dead, 300 Structures Gone 1 hatrack Jan 12 Jan 12 9 578
Oh Just Fucking Shoot Me: CRAP31 Head Plans "Engagement" With Global Petrostates As Best Approach For Climate Talks 0 hatrack Jan 12 Jan 12 9 790
Austria's glaciers: Hope on thin ice? - DW News 0 TexasTowelie Jan 12 Jan 12 4 351
Greenland's harsh environment and lack of infrastructure have prevented rare earth mining 3 nitpicked Jan 11 Jan 11 5 804
Tracing Groundwater Uranium Cycling in the Northern Plains, United States 3 NNadir Jan 10 Jan 10 2 807
Big Dairy Producer To Slightly Limit Groundwater Use, Compensate Residents, But 80% Of AZ Groundwater Still Unprotected 3 hatrack Jan 10 Jan 10 5 556
Long Lines, Chaos At Entry Points For 11 Popular National Parks So Rangers Can Charge Foreign Visitors An Extra $100 1 hatrack Jan 10 Jan 10 8 558
Shitstain Wants $50/Barrel Oil. He Also Wants Increased Oil Production. More Economic Genius Below. 1 hatrack Jan 9 Jan 9 2 449
PNAS - West Antarctic Ice Sheet Retreated Repeatedly & Rapidly During Pliocene Epoch @ Temps 3-4C Higher Than Now 0 hatrack Jan 9 Jan 9 4 402
Ocean Warming Breaks Record for Ninth Straight Year 0 douglas9 Jan 9 Jan 9 11 380
Environmentalists decry Trump deal giving Utah control of national park land 2 douglas9 Jan 9 Jan 9 12 684
Earth's Oceans Absorbed Record Amounts Of Heat In 2025; N. Pacific, Tropical/S. Atlantic, Southern Ocean Led The Uptake 0 hatrack Jan 9 Jan 9 9 407
Shitstain Leaves Global Climate Talks; It Won't Change What's Coming, May Ease Other Nations' Efforts 0 hatrack Jan 9 Jan 9 6 497
Just because it hasn't happened in a long time, California is 100% drought free 1 OnlinePoker Jan 8 Jan 8 7 480

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Venezuela's oil, it's nasty... 4 MiHale Jan 8 Jan 8 5 665
"Nothing Burger" - World's Biggest Reserves, But Most Of Venezuela's Oil Is The World's Dirtiest & Hardest To Refine 8 hatrack Jan 8 Jan 8 10 856
Huge Forest Dieoffs Across Germany Thanks To Spruce Bark Beetle; Dying Monocultures Mean Loss Of CO2 Uptake 0 hatrack Jan 8 Jan 8 5 558
Trump withdraws US from key climate treaty, deepening global pullback 0 Dulcinea Jan 8 Jan 8 7 481
Indian police raid home of environmental activists over anti-fossil fuel campaign 0 Eugene Jan 7 Jan 7 4 448
No More Plastic Bags at stores in California 10 Beringia Jan 1 Jan 7 7 918
Non-Response To H5N1 Outbreak At Dairy Factory Shows Nothing Has Changed W. America's Industrial Meat And Milk 6 hatrack Jan 6 Jan 7 26 1038
Plastic pellets known as 'nurdles' are polluting beaches and waterways 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 7 Jan 7 6 443
Dead fin whale discovered on bow of ship in New Jersey marine terminal 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 7 Jan 7 7 500
Texas clears the way for petrochemical expansion as experts warn of health risks 0 douglas9 Jan 7 Jan 7 6 528
Canada has just broken a world record in nuclear fusion... 14 OnlinePoker Jan 6 Jan 6 60 2377
Are folks in Europe as upset about giant data centers as we are here in the US 2 CurtEastPoint Jan 6 Jan 6 8 570
A rare whale is having an encouraging season for births. Scientists warn it might still go extinct 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 6 Jan 6 4 309
Even Former Senator Flouncy Strutmuppet Can't Help Data Center Industry; Pushback Coming Across Deep Red States 5 hatrack Jan 6 Jan 6 23 1077
In 2004, Trek Across Arctic Ice Saw Temps In 60s; In 2025, Arctic Report Card Shows Accelerating System Failure 0 hatrack Jan 6 Jan 6 6 387
Western Queensland Plains Smothered By 8" - 20" Of Rain; Small Towns Like Winton Cut Off For A Week And Counting 0 hatrack Jan 6 Jan 6 7 448
2025 Hottest & Sunniest Year On Record For UK; Six Hottest Years Since Records Began In 1884 Took Place Since 2002 0 hatrack Jan 6 Jan 6 3 409
December 2025 Atmospheric CO2 Content 427.49 ppm; December 2024 425.40 ppm; December 2023 421.86 ppm 0 hatrack Jan 6 Jan 6 6 352
Paleodata From Greenland Show Ice Dome 50 Miles Broad And 1,600 Feet High Melted Completely w/i Last 10,000 Years 2 hatrack Jan 5 Jan 6 11 431
Honey-Making Stingless Bees in the Peruvian Amazon Become the First Insects to Gain Legal Rights 1 Judi Lynn Jan 5 Jan 5 6 384
After A Year Of Shitstain Gutting America's Science And Emergency Response, "People Will Suffer - It's Just That Simple" 0 hatrack Jan 4 Jan 4 9 455
Another Benefit From The Bullshit That Is AI: "Just An Unbelievable Amount Of Pollution" 0 hatrack Jan 4 Jan 4 10 526
Few Florida Staghorn Corals Survived 2023 Bleaching; Many That Remain In Path Of Federal Dredging Project 0 hatrack Jan 4 Jan 4 2 403
Satellite Measurements Show Slight But Steady Declines In Heights Of 41 Dams In 13 States & Puerto Rico 0 hatrack Jan 4 Jan 4 5 407
Voltage, inertia and the Iberian blackout part 2: faulty PV inverter crashed the grid 2 NNadir Jan 4 Jan 4 4 804
Officials enlist hunters in battle against ginormous hogs taking over US region: 'You want that number ... going down' 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 4 Jan 4 2 483
"They Didn't De-Extinct Anything" - No Substantial Differences Between "Dire Wolves" And Those Living In North America 2 hatrack Dec 31 Jan 3 11 711
Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 4 douglas9 Jan 2 Jan 2 29 1436
Electric Power Reliability, Energy Burdens, and Climate Change Beliefs in the United States 6 NNadir Dec 31 Jan 2 2 1363
Jordan Has Lost +/- 70% Of Its Olive Crop After Months Of Relentless Drought And Heat 10-15C Above Averages 3 hatrack Jan 2 Jan 2 5 592

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Ring-Necked Parakeet Population In England An Estimated 15,000 Pairs, Producing New Pressure On Native Birds 1 hatrack Jan 2 Jan 2 6 592
2025 UK Survey Finds 646 Flowering Plant Species In Bloom During November-December Study Period 0 hatrack Jan 2 Jan 2 6 388
UNL Cuts Dept Of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences - NE Has Seen 26 Billion-Dollar Disasters Since 2005; 4 In Prior 20 Years 1 hatrack Jan 2 Jan 2 3 591
Onboard an expedition to study a massive, melting glacier in Antarctica - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Jan 2 Jan 2 4 383
Americans Know The Reality Of Warming, Even If Their Insane Government Won't Admit Its Existence 6 hatrack Jan 1 Jan 1 14 681
2005 - Cabinet Ministers Explicitly Warned Australia's Right-Wing Government Of Warming Impacts; Nothing Really Changed 1 hatrack Jan 1 Jan 1 1 423
Christmas Eve In Iceland - A Balmy High Of 68F, Highest Temperature For The Day On Record 0 hatrack Dec 31 Dec 31 9 488
England's Fire Services Dealt With 27,000 Fires In Forests, On Crop And Grasslands During 2025, Hottest Year On Record 0 hatrack Dec 31 Dec 31 5 376
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 applegrove Dec 2025 Dec 2025 0 179
Engineered material uses light to destroy PFAS, other contaminants 2 OKIsItJustMe Dec 2025 Dec 2025 9 532
GameChangers 2025: The Unstoppable Rise of Environmental Crime 0 douglas9 Dec 2025 Dec 2025 3 605
Category '6' tropical cyclone hot spots are growing 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 2025 Dec 2025 5 401
Feedback loops accelerate warming, other atmospheric changes in Arctic 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 2025 Dec 2025 3 315
China mandates "No Fire, No Explosion" EV battery rule as 294 national standards finalized 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 2025 Dec 2025 3 387
European Energy energises Northern Europe's largest combined solar and battery park 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 2025 Dec 2025 3 320
Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere developed at the University of Helsinki 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 2025 Dec 2025 8 453
Reactor Pressure Vessel (RPV) Ingots 8 Finishline42 Dec 2025 Dec 2025 3 989
Nursing Home Explosion Kills More People than Died From Radiation at Fukushima But Not As Many As Died from Fear... 6 NNadir Dec 2025 Dec 2025 11 1110
Stingless bees from the Amazon granted legal rights in world first 4 marmar Dec 2025 Dec 2025 13 718
AI data centers use so much energy and water: 11 applegrove Dec 2025 Dec 2025 16 1051
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