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President Asshole, Techbros Sign "Ratepayer Protection Pledge", Pinky Swear AI Buildout Won't Spike Your Electric Bill 2 hatrack 7 hrs ago 7 hrs ago 4 196
Significant acceleration of global warming since 2015 2 OKIsItJustMe 7 hrs ago 7 hrs ago 3 191
'World-first accelerator-driven nuclear reactor' nears as China eyes '1000-year' energy source 2 OKIsItJustMe 12 hrs ago 10 hrs ago 3 320
Chris Ketcham: Clowns to the Left of Me, Fascists to the Right 3 jfz9580m 16 hrs ago 12 hrs ago 1 316
New Report: Decline of Populations of Migratory Species of Animals Covered by UN Treaty Worsens from 44% to 49% in 2 Yrs 1 OKIsItJustMe Thursday 16 hrs ago 5 217
Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently 6 douglas9 19 hrs ago 16 hrs ago 91 1849
February 2026 Atmospheric CO2 Content 429.35 ppm; February 2025 427.09 ppm; February 2024 424.55 ppm 7 hatrack 19 hrs ago 17 hrs ago 5 234
Mark Carney's Tar Sands Pipeline Deal With Alberta Premier Rapidly Turning Into An Environmental & Financial Shitshow 1 hatrack 19 hrs ago 17 hrs ago 9 347
Even Career Climate Hack Marc Morano Stunned By Silence In Response To Shitstain's Assault On Climate Policy 2 hatrack 19 hrs ago 17 hrs ago 9 326
A Rather Compelling Scientific Rumination on Wind Energy and Sustainability: Blade Waste. 0 NNadir 17 hrs ago 17 hrs ago 3 307
Study: Projected "Disturbance" Of European Forests - By Fire, Flooding, Drought, Disease - Set To Rise 30% By 2100 1 hatrack 19 hrs ago 18 hrs ago 2 206
Nuclear regulator grants licence for Nexgen to build uranium mine in northern Sask. 0 OnlinePoker Yesterday Yesterday 2 191
NRC Issues First Commercial Reactor Construction Approval in 10 Years For TerraPower in Wyoming 1 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Thursday 3 183
2040 climate target: Council (of the EU) gives final green light 1 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Thursday 2 200
Sea levels are much higher than often assumed. How is that possible? 5 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Thursday 5 334
The Insurance Industry Was "Realistic" About Climate Risks; Now Multiple Industry Associations Denying There's A Problem 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 5 337
Australian Regulator Suspends Antibiotic For Farmed Salmon After It Shows Up In Wild Populations 10 KM Distant 2 hatrack Thursday Thursday 4 233
Study: Global Sea Level Estimates Are About 1 Foot Too Low On Average; In SE Asia & Indo-Pacific Up to 3 Feet 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 11 289
Seabird "Wreck" Spans Coasts Of Northwestern Europe; +/- 40,000 Dead, Starved & Sick Birds Washing Ashore 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 16 376
Chevron's hometown paper is quiet on climate. Guess who owns it? 1 douglas9 Thursday Thursday 9 311
Belo Monte Megadam In Amazon Basin Generated Barely 1% Of Its Hydropower Capacity During 2024 Dry Season 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 3 195
Hotspots of accelerated bird decline linked to agricultural activity 2 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Thursday 5 247
We may be underestimating the true carbon cost of northern wildfires 1 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Thursday 2 226
Climate change pushes tropical insects to their heat limit 0 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Thursday 1 187
Global Shock - Joe Blogs 0 TexasTowelie Thursday Thursday 3 231
'It's too warm': Greenland's fishermen are under threat from climate change 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Wednesday Wednesday 7 300
Pesticide Company to Stop Producing Weed Killer Linked to Parkinson's Disease 1 douglas9 Wednesday Wednesday 2 363
Global Warming Shreds Colorado River Compact As Glen Canyon Dam Nears End Of Hydropower Generation, Possible Deadpool 6 hatrack Monday Wednesday 13 571

Environment & Energy Continued...

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After Being Sued, USDA Settles, Agrees To Provide Climate Risk Datasets For Farmers, Won't Guarantee For How Long 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 10 338
Port Isabel Independent School District Rejects $160 Million Tax Break For Giant Gulf Coast LNG Project 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 8 281
Warmest Winter In 135 Years Of Weather Records For Wyoming; Snowpack Below Avg At Altitude, At Record Lows Elsewhere 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 9 300
Four indicted in Sweetwater wind turbine blade dumping probe; cleanup not yet started 5 NNadir Tuesday Wednesday 3 478
Why MAGA suddenly loves solar power 3 douglas9 Monday Tuesday 7 823
Generational Toxicity and Incomplete Recovery from Spent Lithium-Ion Battery Leachate in an Aquatic Microinvertebrate 1 NNadir Monday Tuesday 1 429
Leaked Databases Show Efforts At NPS To Erase History & Reality - Slavery, First Nations, LGBTQ, Climate, Civil War 1 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 12 306
The culture war is coming for your electricity 1 douglas9 Tuesday Tuesday 20 542
UK Slashes Funding For Climate Aid And Nature Protection Across Developing World 1 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 2 258
Cities Across SW France & Basque Regions In Spain Set All-Time February Temps Up To 13C Over Averages 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 7 277
HFCs Have Warming Potential 100s To 1,000s More Than CO2; Appeal Underway To SCOTUS Re. Whether They Can Be Regulated 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 5 280
Utah Pushes For Residents To Pay More For Electricity, Because Anything Not Coal-Powered Is Woke And Gay 3 hatrack Monday Monday 7 348
Thousands advised to stay inside in Mississippi 8 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sunday Monday 72 2753
3 Weeks After Citizens Sued Dow Over Years Of Plastic Pollution, Company Pushing TX To Legalize That Pollution 0 hatrack Monday Monday 6 333
'Humans Riding Bikes Are More Energy-Efficient Than Any Other Animal On The Planet' 5 sop Sunday Sunday 21 602
Big Tech Tries To Greenwash AI, Fails - 26% Of Climate Claims Cite Actual Research; 36% Cite No Evidence Whatsoever 1 hatrack Sunday Sunday 10 403
In Survey Of 195 US Cities, Average Winters Nine Days Shorter Compared To 1970-1997 Baseline 1 hatrack Sunday Sunday 3 277
98% Of 2,778 Serious UK Water Pollution Incidents Downgraded By Ministry, 83% w/o Site Visits 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 4 312
Dirty Water, Death And Decline - The Inside Story Of UK's Water Privitazation Scandal 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 7 320
NRDC - US Sulfur Dioxide Emissions Up 18% YOY In 2025; 24% Increase For 71 Plants That Requested Pollution Exemptions 2 hatrack Feb 27 Sunday 4 217
After Hurricane Helene, Cascade Of Health Effects From Mold Spreading Across NC 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 10 380
Shitstain Cutting System Requiring Emergency Plans For High-Risk Chemical Sites; Chemical Safety Board Also Targeted 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 4 336
2025 US Power Plant Inventory: Sulfur Dioxide Output Up 18%, NOx Emissions Up 7%, CO2 Emissions Up 4% 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 5 269
'I live in constant fear': surge in giant sinkholes threatens Turkey's farmers 0 muriel_volestrangler Saturday Saturday 7 339
Study: Emissions Inventories For Colorado OIl & Gas Operations At Least 50% Too Low 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 2 240
Oceanic DDT Off Los Angeles County from 20th Century Chemical Waste Practices. 1 NNadir Feb 27 Feb 27 5 317
Judge orders protective measures for Columbia River salmon after Trump canceled historic deal 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 27 Feb 27 7 329
Nearly All US Coal Power Plants Could Have Met Pollution Rules For Toxic Metals; Shitstain's EPA Cut Those Rules Anyway 2 hatrack Feb 27 Feb 27 5 369
Judge says he will order Greenpeace to pay an expected $345 million in oil pipeline protest case 5 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 26 Feb 27 4 484
Colorado River Compact In Tatters, Interior Shows That It Will Barely Intervene (If At All) In Fractious 7-State Talks 0 hatrack Feb 27 Feb 27 6 353

Environment & Energy Continued...

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More Than A Year Later, No Trace Of $400 Million In USDA Grant To Improve Irrigation Efficiency For AZ Farmers 0 hatrack Feb 27 Feb 27 4 381
Study: Southern Right Whales Shift Reproduction; Lack Of Food Means 1 Calf Every 4 Years, Not 3 Years 0 hatrack Feb 27 Feb 27 1 246
Emperor Penguins Face Death From Hypothermia During Molt As Sea Ice Disintegrates 2 hatrack Feb 26 Feb 26 13 366
"Abysmal Snowpack" Conditions In Rocky Mountain States; Even Average Seasonal Totals Likely Out Of Reach 2 hatrack Feb 26 Feb 26 9 459
For Decades Oil Majors Preempted Local Climate Lawsuits W. Clean Air Act; Now w. End Of Endangerment Finding, They Can't 2 hatrack Feb 26 Feb 26 13 350
Survey Of 8,000 Tropical Plant Species Across Continents Shows Flowering Times Now Months Early & Late 0 hatrack Feb 26 Feb 26 6 317
One In Five Marine Products Tied To Fraud - On Species ID, "Fresh", Wild-Caught vs. Farmed, Produced Through Slave Labor 0 hatrack Feb 26 Feb 26 9 401
Shocked, Shocked: Epstein Class Of Ultrawealthy Among Top Purveyors Of Climate Denial, Ecofascism 0 hatrack Feb 25 Feb 25 10 456
"Staggering" Loss Of N. Hemisphere Marine BIomass: 7.2% Of Fish Populations Per 0.1C Warming Per Decade 0 hatrack Feb 25 Feb 25 11 366
Coral bleaching: How warming seas are transforming the world's reefs 1 Judi Lynn Feb 18 Feb 24 4 318
This is very wonky so I'm putting it here rather than General Discussion. 5 flashman13 Feb 3 Feb 24 17 3000
US farmers are rejecting multimillion-dollar datacenter bids for their land: 'I'm not for sale' 3 douglas9 Feb 24 Feb 24 11 707
U.S. Supreme Court will hear landmark Boulder climate case against oil companies 1 evemac Feb 24 Feb 24 5 314
Analysis by Reuters shows AI companies are exaggerating claims about reducing water usage 2 highplainsdem Feb 23 Feb 24 7 345
Channel 4's 4Creative exposes 'The Sick Truth Behind Britain's Sewage Scandal' with bold new fountain installation 3 highplainsdem Feb 23 Feb 23 4 380
The Idiocy of Trump's Attacks on Wind, Solar and Renewables Exposed - Thom Hartmann 1 Rhiannon12866 Feb 22 Feb 23 4 364
Carney's Tar Sands Pipeline Plan Depends On "Carbon Capture"; Notes Show His Gov Knows Little Of Its Unreality 2 hatrack Feb 22 Feb 23 9 473
Global Warming Bringing "Synchronized Fire Weather" To Multiple Regions Across Earth, Simultaneously And Quickly 2 hatrack Feb 22 Feb 23 12 453
The nation's largest public utility is going back to coal -- with almost no input from the public 3 douglas9 Feb 23 Feb 23 12 579
Feds propose opening millions of acres of western Oregon forests to 1960s logging levels 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 23 Feb 23 13 342
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