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AI Data Centers, Desperate for Electricity, Are Building Their Own Power Plants 4 question everything Friday 15 hrs ago 7 213
Trump claims ​'wind mills' kill whales but quietly torpedoes the science 3 douglas9 Friday 16 hrs ago 11 306
What scientists saw underwater in Florida left them "shocked" -- and devastated 9 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Yesterday 16 hrs ago 58 1779
Central Maine Power Wants To Raise Rates By $400+ Avg/Year; Also Wants 9.8% Guaranteed Profit For Its Shareholders 2 hatrack Thursday Yesterday 4 273
A Paper For Our Times: Toxic Ignorance Cycles 0 NNadir Yesterday Yesterday 4 267
How the search for an extinct bird from Iceland led researchers to Cincinnati - WCPO 9 1 Rhiannon12866 Friday Yesterday 4 220
Steve Bannon & Rebekah Mercer Funded Report On Terror Groups Like League of Conservation Voters, Sierra Club, Sunrise 3 hatrack Friday Friday 11 354
+/- $1 Billion In Tax Breaks In 10 Years Wasn't Enough For TX LNG Company; Local Official Suggested They Pay More, Fired 1 hatrack Friday Friday 3 216
Trump administration finalizes plan to open pristine Alaska wildlife refuge to oil and gas drilling 1 Dulcinea Friday Friday 3 227
Nature: Despite Greenwashing, FF Companies Own 1.42% of Renewable Capacity, Producing 0.1% Of Their Energy Output 1 hatrack Friday Friday 1 214
2 Years Since Iowa's Water Quality Monitoring System Got State Support; Polk County Commits $200K To Keep Network Alive 0 hatrack Friday Friday 1 171
World's first reactor converts ocean CO₂ into biodegradable bioplastic feedstock 10 sue4e3 Thursday Friday 11 348
Wild bear 'looking for a friend' breaks into California zoo, meets 3 captive bears 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Thursday Thursday 11 235
Catastrophic loss of Florida's staghorn and elkhorn corals highlights accelerating climate pressures for reefs worldwide 2 sue4e3 Thursday Thursday 6 186
Shocking! Study Shows Tea Party Was Decades In The Making, A Creature Of The Tobacco Industry & The Koch Brothers 20 hatrack Thursday Thursday 68 2176
Planet's Biggest Meat & Dairy Companies Produce More Methane Than EU Plus UK: Tonnage Equals Saudi GHG Output 1 hatrack Wednesday Thursday 5 195
Not One Major Bank Commits To Stop Funding Oil/Gas/Coal; Their Only Recent Changes Cut "Targets" 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 3 156
Since NOAA No Longer Tracks Disaster Costs, Former Employees Do; So Far In 2025, $101 Billion In US Losses 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 8 1020
AI Data Centers Bringing Blackouts Lasting Days, Water Shortages Lasting Weeks, And Public Fury 7 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 62 1844
New Shitstain Rule Will Cut Safety Reviews For Asbestos, Dioxin, Formaldehyde; States To Lose Authority To Restrict Them 5 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 8 357
Life Cycle Analysis, Carbon and Health Risks of Wind Turbine Blade Waste. 3 NNadir Tuesday Wednesday 1 326
Ypsilanti City Council calls for halt to University of Michigan data center project 1 littlemissmartypants Wednesday Wednesday 4 229
American e-waste is causing a 'hidden tsunami' in Southeast Asia, watchdog report says 0 douglas9 Wednesday Wednesday 2 237
Why America's Tiny Ocean Defies Geography 0 Uncle Joe Wednesday Wednesday 15 572
Global use of coal hit record high in 2024 2 muriel_volestrangler Wednesday Wednesday 1 262
Infectious Diseases (CWD & EHD) Hammering Deer Populations In Multiple Midwestern States 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 11 318
One Of Vance's "Closest Friends" - Neurologist w/o Any Leadership Background - Dodges Hiring Freeze To Run NIH Dept. 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 8 344
GOP-Led Public Service Comm In Georgia Pushing For 10 GW New Generation - 80% For AI, W. Ratepayers Footing The Bill 9 hatrack Sunday Tuesday 9 398

Environment & Energy Continued...

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CO2 Uptake By Amazon Forests Falters; Atmospheric CO2 Content Spikes, Satellite Providing These Data May Be Shut Down 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 9 178
New: 1,000s Of Positions Eliminated/ Furloughed, Mostly @ EPA & Interior; Science, EE, Pollution/Toxics Law Enforcement 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 6 212
October Heat Records Fall In Queensland And NSW As Sydney Suburbs Push 40C; Statewide, 32 Bushfires In NSW ; 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 4 186
For The First Time In More Than 1,000 Years Of Human Habitation, Mosquitoes Found In Iceland 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 6 289
Delhi Kicks Off Smog Season Shrouded In Fireworks Smoke After Diwali; AQ Index Above 500 - 10X "Healthy" Level 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 3 195
Sure, Why Not!! Just In Time For CRAP 30, Brazil Greenlights Oil Drilling At The Mouth Of Amazon River 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 3 260
Permafrost thawed by climate change threatens remote villages in Alaska - PBS NewsHour 1 Rhiannon12866 Monday Monday 5 208
The US-Mexico Border Wall May Pose Perils to Pollinators 0 douglas9 Monday Monday 4 251
Illinois 1 Of 7 States To Pass Laws Requiring Education On Climate Change, But Funding Lacking So Far 0 hatrack Monday Monday 7 261
Mystery heatwave warms Pacific Ocean to new record 1 muriel_volestrangler Oct 18 Sunday 16 434
Facing Projected AI Demand Spike, 11 Governors In States Served By Largest Grid Operator Demanding More Authority 4 hatrack Oct 18 Sunday 3 378
Scuttling Columbia Basin pact ignores peril to salmon 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sunday Sunday 9 204
Trump administration quietly canceled the nation's largest solar project 4 Dulcinea Oct 14 Sunday 13 489
Thanks To "Bullying", "Intimidation" From Trump Reps, All-But-Assured Small Levy On Maritime Emissions Scrapped 1 hatrack Oct 17 Sunday 4 197
The humble plant that could save the world -- or destroy it 1 sue4e3 Oct 18 Sunday 17 543
The Climate Speech at the Princeton NJ, No Kings Event. 0 NNadir Sunday Sunday 6 266
Xi Pledged in 2021 That China Would End Support Of Coal Overseas; 17 Units Planned Or Underway In Indonesia Alone 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 3 197
Trump's War On Clean Energy - Glenn Kirschner 0 Rhiannon12866 Oct 18 Oct 18 4 214
'Bigger, hotter, faster': Extreme blazes drive rise in CO₂ fire emissions 0 sue4e3 Oct 18 Oct 18 3 158
Last Coal Power Plant In New England Closes Down Three Years Ahead Of Schedule 0 hatrack Oct 18 Oct 18 6 251
3 Months After Deadly TX Floods, 22% Of Applications For FEMA Aid Found Eligible In Kerr County - Site Of Most Deaths 0 hatrack Oct 18 Oct 18 7 299
Advanced Nuclear Fuel Manufacture Finds Its Way into Industrial Chemical Engineering Literature. 0 NNadir Oct 18 Oct 18 1 241
California takes on Big Plastic for selling nonrecyclable shopping bags 1 douglas9 Oct 18 Oct 18 7 284
Southern Ocean's low-salinity Antarctic waters continue absorbing CO₂ despite climate model predictions 1 sue4e3 Oct 17 Oct 17 4 191
World's oceans losing their greenness through global heating, study finds 0 sue4e3 Oct 17 Oct 17 1 165
Renewed legal battle ramps up over Columbia Basin dams and salmon 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 17 Oct 17 5 201
FL Local Govs Attempt To Defend Against Rising Seas & Bad Weather, Receive Threats, Lawsuits From Desantis In Return 4 hatrack Oct 17 Oct 17 6 382
Coral Species Known For Resistance To Bleaching Is Doing Exactly That Off Atlantic Coast Of S. Florida 1 hatrack Oct 17 Oct 17 9 261
Shitstain's FEMA Adding New Hurdles To Emergency Aid, Delaying Payouts To Already-Declared Disasters 1 hatrack Oct 17 Oct 17 6 291
Oh, Great: Leaked Draft Shows Brazil To Press COP 30 Delegates To "Vastly Increase" Biofuels Production 0 hatrack Oct 17 Oct 17 3 342

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Democratizing global climate modeling 0 sue4e3 Oct 16 Oct 16 1 134
Founder's Pledge - Branded As "Green" - Is Just A Way For The Rich To Fund Anti-Science Pressure Groups 3 hatrack Oct 16 Oct 16 8 283
September 2025 3rd-Warmest September In Instrumental Record (Behind September 2023 & September 2024) 0 hatrack Oct 16 Oct 16 3 193
As Recently As 30 Years Ago, Greenland Thawed While Antarctica Remained Largely Untouched By Warming. Not Any More . . 0 hatrack Oct 16 Oct 16 7 254
Largest primate in Americas could lose up to 61% of its climatically suitable habitat by 2090 1 sue4e3 Oct 15 Oct 15 7 374
Rain in the Sahara? Researchers predict a wetter future for the desert 0 sue4e3 Oct 15 Oct 15 4 265
Jumbo drop in estimates of India elephant population 0 sue4e3 Oct 15 Oct 15 8 265
Study reveals decline in North Atlantic dolphin lifespan and population growth 0 sue4e3 Oct 15 Oct 15 7 201
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 sue4e3 Oct 15 Oct 15 0 129
Australia's rainforests are the first to switch from carbon sink to carbon source, study warns 0 Jim__ Oct 15 Oct 15 6 228
Eloon Predicted 250K CyberDumpster Sales/Year; So Far In 2025, The Total (Per Tesla) Is 16,000 6 hatrack Oct 14 Oct 15 5 452
Average Annual Increase In Atmospheric CO2 Biggest On Record In 2024; Same For GHGs Methane, Nitrous Oxide 4 hatrack Oct 15 Oct 15 10 319
Back In May, Trump's EPA Canceled $20 Million Grant To Prepare For AK Floods; October Floods Flattened AK Villages 1 hatrack Oct 15 Oct 15 4 332
After Floods In 2019, 2020, 2023 And 2024, English Town Of Tenbury Wells Uninsurable; High Street Slowly Emptying 0 hatrack Oct 15 Oct 15 5 295
UK Government Must Prepare For Heat And Drought Far Beyond Existing Plans For Expected Extremes 0 hatrack Oct 15 Oct 15 7 243
Extreme Heat Hurts Troops; Extreme Weather Hits Bases - But Shitstain's Pentagon No Longer Plans For Warming 0 hatrack Oct 15 Oct 15 7 273
The West's power grid could be stitched together -- if red and blue states buy in 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 14 Oct 15 4 247
23,000 Homes Had Insulation Installed Under Tory Energy Efficiency Scheme; 98% Of Them Will Need Repair Or Replacement 2 hatrack Oct 14 Oct 14 5 409
1 In 6 Lab-Confirmed Bacterial Infections Antibiotic-Resistant; 40% Of Drugs Lost Potency w. Common Infections 2018-23 3 hatrack Oct 14 Oct 14 8 379
The medieval folklore of Britain's endangered wildlife 'omens 0 sue4e3 Oct 14 Oct 14 7 264
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