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Global Plastics Treaty Talks Collapsed In August After 3 Years Of Meetings; Now, Treaty Chair Resigning 0 hatrack Oct 8 Oct 8 4 311

UK Exports Of Plastic Waste To Developing Nations Nearly Doubled In Just The 1st 6 Months Of 2025 0 hatrack Oct 8 Oct 8 5 240

Insurance Coverage Near-Impossible For Coastal LA Residents As Insurance Companies Invest More In Exxon, BP, Etc. 0 hatrack Oct 8 Oct 8 4 334

Renewables Overtake Coal: Global Power Shift Leaves Trump Behind. - FIVE MINUTE NEWS 1 Rhiannon12866 Oct 8 Oct 8 3 220

That's Nice: EPA Does 180, Will Require Coke Plants To Monitor For Benzene, Chromium, Other Toxins After All 1 hatrack Oct 7 Oct 7 10 279

Brilliant - TikTok Video - "If The Tesla Cybertruck Was A Person" 0 hatrack Oct 7 Oct 7 5 1604

Brexit Allowed UK To "Take Control" Of North Sea Fishing; 59%Of Cod, Mackerel Pops Fished So Hard They Can't Repopulate 1 hatrack Oct 7 Oct 7 12 340

"Someday" Is Here: Colorado River Treaty Divides 15 Million AF Among Basin States; Last Year's Flow Was 8.5 Million AF 3 hatrack Oct 7 Oct 7 8 457

Wildfires Ravage One of Africa's Largest Nature Reserves 0 douglas9 Oct 7 Oct 7 6 303

Outcry as Trump plots more roads and logging in US forests: 'You can almost hear the chainsaws' 2 douglas9 Oct 7 Oct 7 9 353

EPA Will No Longer Collect GHG Emissions Data From Corporations, Utilities; Can Anyone Else Compile Information? 0 hatrack Oct 7 Oct 7 4 273

Judge Voids Huge Tax Break Exxon Rammed Through TX School Board; New Plastics Plant Now On Hold 0 hatrack Oct 7 Oct 7 6 359

Thames Water Removes 100-Ton Fatberg From Sewer; Chisels And High-Pressure Hoses Used In Project 3 hatrack Oct 6 Oct 6 10 495

Nearly 500,000 Planned Homes In Phoenix On Hold; State Water Agency Acknowledging Groundwater Reality 3 hatrack Oct 6 Oct 6 15 533

Study Of 25 Years Of Carbon Offsets Reveals A Legacy Of Failure; Not Even 1 In 5 Projects Did Anything To Cut GHGs 1 hatrack Oct 6 Oct 6 8 286

5 SE Asian Nations Collectively Lost Forest Area The Size Of Lebanon In 2024; 30% Of Losses In Protected Areas 0 hatrack Oct 6 Oct 6 3 223

Cracking The Future: How Pistachios Can Power Morocco's Green Growth - OpEd 3 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 4 328

OhNoAnyway - 80% Of Ohio's Only National Forest Now Classified As Eligible For Logging 1 hatrack Oct 6 Oct 6 7 403

So Cute!! "Moderate" Republicans Are "Concerned" W. Shitstain's Farcical And Toxic Coal Policies 0 hatrack Oct 6 Oct 6 2 331

Scientists Find 1st Evidence Of Invasive Barnacles In Arctic; Polar Water Had Been Too Cold For Them To Live There 0 hatrack Oct 6 Oct 6 2 282

42 Former Fossil Fuel Operatives Among Appointees/Nominees For Federal Energy And Environmental Positions 0 hatrack Oct 6 Oct 6 2 268

Philippines to Launch First Coral Larvae Cryobank to Boost Reef Restoration 0 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 1 301

'All the trees are dead': An ancient California forest has been wiped out 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 6 Oct 6 11 539

OPEC+ to raise oil production by 137,000 barrels per day in November 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 5 Oct 5 0 304

Explosive Growth In Valley Fever In CA, AZ In 2024; Now Shitstain's Medical Cuts Damaging Efforts To Respond 2 hatrack Oct 5 Oct 5 5 418

450 US Hydropower Sites Due For Relicensing In Next 10 Years; Average US Dam Age Is 65 Years 5 hatrack Oct 5 Oct 5 1 364

Pumped Hydro Plant In NSW Was To Cost $2 Billion In 2017; 65% Complete, It's Pushing $13 Billion 1 hatrack Oct 5 Oct 5 0 293

Some National Parks Closed, Some Operating w. Skeleton Staffing, Some Left The Gates Open - No One Knows What To Do 2 hatrack Oct 5 Oct 5 3 393

Solar becomes main source of electricity in the EU for the first time: 1 applegrove Oct 4 Oct 4 10 420

Bans on this landscaping tool continue to spread across the US. See where. 12 Jilly_in_VA Oct 4 Oct 4 37 3519

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Something is wrong with Lake Itasca, the source of the Mississippi River 21 NickB79 Oct 4 Oct 4 51 2319

The Long Heat - New Book Shows Warming "Solutions" As Unwillingness To Challenge The Death-Grip Of Money 1 hatrack Oct 4 Oct 4 8 433

Study: Marine Shell Data Tracks Changes In Ocean Currents; Large Changes In Conveyer Possible Under Today's Conditions 2 hatrack Oct 4 Oct 4 8 335

After "Unfortunate" Fatal Explosion In AL Home, State Abandons Monitoring For Methane Leaks From Coal Mining 2 hatrack Oct 4 Oct 4 11 464

W. At Least A Dozen Norovirus Outbreaks Under Way, CDC Lays Off Cruise Ship Health Inspectors, Including Epidemiologist 0 hatrack Oct 4 Oct 4 16 458

Environmental Doublespeak Is Now So Common That One Doesn't Even Notice. 1 NNadir Oct 4 Oct 4 2 392

OHNOANYWAY: Net-Zero Banking Alliance Shutting Down - But They're Generously Bequeathing Us Their "Guidance" 0 hatrack Oct 4 Oct 4 6 359

After Decades Of Legendarily Awful Air Pollution, Santiago May Finally Be Turning The Corner 0 hatrack Oct 4 Oct 4 5 290

Hydrogen/Battery Energy Storage Site Begins Operations in California 0 Caribbeans Oct 4 Oct 4 0 287

Tourism is helping Uganda's endangered mountain gorillas make a comeback 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 3 Oct 3 5 524

'This is unprecedented:' Ecology restricts surface water use in the Yakima River Basin 0 cbabe Oct 3 Oct 3 6 422

Global Warming Comes Knocking: "The Insurance Crisis In The US Is The Canary In The Coal Mine, And The Canary Is Dead" 5 hatrack Oct 3 Oct 3 17 768

Of 200 Biggest Global Fires Since1980 - In Terms Of GDP Losses - 43% Took Place In The Last 10 Years 1 hatrack Oct 3 Oct 3 3 345

WY, MT & 12 Other Trump States' Attorneys General Accuse Tech Firms Of Greenwashing - As A Way To Destroy Climate Goals 2 hatrack Oct 3 Oct 3 4 560

From rooftops to honey jars, Athens is abuzz with urban beekeeping 0 Jilly_in_VA Oct 3 Oct 3 4 502

Shitstain's DOE Gleefuly Cancels 226 Alt-Energy Programs W. $7.6 Billion In Funding - Including "Carbon Capture" And H 2 hatrack Oct 3 Oct 3 5 512

Duke Energy Unveils "We Don't Give A Fuck" Energy Plan; Will Keep Burning Coal For 2-4 More Years, Because AI 0 hatrack Oct 3 Oct 3 9 513

Apparently, Senior Tories Are "Concerned" About Badenoch Dumping Climate Plan. That's Nice . . . 0 hatrack Oct 3 Oct 3 2 351

Berlin's Reintroduction Of Goshawks In City Parks A Model For UK; Mesopredator Control To Benefit Songbirds 0 hatrack Oct 3 Oct 3 6 425

Former NOAA Employees Launch Climate.us To Provide Data Scrubbed By Trump; AGU, AMS Reboot National Climate Assessment 7 hatrack Oct 2 Oct 2 52 1206

National Flood Insurance Program Now $22.5 Billion In Debt; Current Authorization Ended 9/30/2025 3 hatrack Oct 2 Oct 2 9 424

As Hurricanes Stir Up Coastal Waters, North Carolina Homes Collapse Into the Sea 6 Brenda Oct 1 Oct 2 3 491

Remembering Jane Goodall and how she changed the way people see animals 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2 Oct 2 5 266

New DOE Dirty Words, Per Memo: "Climate Change", "Sustainable", "Emissions", "Green", "Clean Energy","Carbon Footprint" 3 hatrack Oct 1 Oct 1 2 684

Antarctica's message to the world: scientists sound alarm on extreme events and tipping points 2 OKIsItJustMe Sep 30 Oct 1 9 1945

2018 - 2023: UK And Mainland Europe Lost Forests And Farmlands At A Rate of 600 Soccer Fields Per Day 0 hatrack Oct 1 Oct 1 1 562

Oh Goody! Now We Can See What Conservative Climate Leaders Like John Curtis And Lisa Murkowski Are Planning To Do 0 hatrack Oct 1 Oct 1 7 1018

Austrian energy company breaks ground on nation's largest green hydrogen project 0 Caribbeans Sep 30 Sep 30 1 1048

US energy department cracks down on workers' use of climate crisis language 2 Eugene Sep 30 Sep 30 6 1099

MAAP #232: The Amazon Tipping Point - Importance of Flying Rivers Connecting the Amazon 0 OKIsItJustMe Sep 30 Sep 30 5 339

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Plant-based dog food cuts environmental impact by over 90% vs. red meat 2 Judi Lynn Sep 29 Sep 30 14 2219

Experiment Shows That Nanoplastic Particles Can Enter Vegetables; 5% Of Particles Deployed Entered Radishes In 5 Days 5 hatrack Sep 28 Sep 30 9 1396

Electric vehicle and plug-in hybrid vehicle occupancy rules change Tuesday at midnight 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 30 Sep 30 7 1928

The World Is Hurtling Into Climate Disaster And What Do Our Leaders Give Us? Oilfields & New Runways. 6 hatrack Sep 30 Sep 30 37 2743

60% Of Virginia Is Within The Chesapeake Bay Watershed - That Watershed Lost 50,000 Acres Of Forest Canopy In 7 Years 3 hatrack Sep 30 Sep 30 6 1861

Will mining destroy America's most-visited wilderness? 4 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 29 Sep 30 7 2411

Apparently There's A "Generative AI Arms Race With China", Which Means Discounting, Digging And Burning All The Coal 0 hatrack Sep 30 Sep 30 6 1863

EPA May Use 5-Member Hackfest's "Science" To Justify Abandoning GHG Action - Risking Judicial Rejection 0 hatrack Sep 30 Sep 30 8 1751

Copper Cannot Be Mined Fast Enough to "Electrify Everything," Not Even Cars. 5 NNadir Sep 27 Sep 29 4 1224

Renewables go from boom to bust in the wind capital of Canada 1 OnlinePoker Sep 29 Sep 29 5 2071

A New Bird Just Appeared in Texas--and That's Not a Good Thing 3 Judi Lynn Sep 27 Sep 28 13 2098

Sub discovers unexploded Nazi bombs teeming with marine life 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 28 Sep 28 3 648

Balcony solar panels. Sounds like a great idea. Shhhh! 10 applegrove Sep 27 Sep 28 40 1905

Ocean Scientists Find Marine Life Thriving On Nazi V1 Rockets Dumped Into The Baltic Near Lubeck 4 hatrack Sep 28 Sep 28 6 1515

I Wanted To Know If Having A Kid On A Burning Planet Was Right - I Found That Antinatalism Is Seriously Taboo 0 hatrack Sep 28 Sep 28 15 1389

1/3 Of USGS Climate Adaptation Science Centers Will Close 9/30 - Interior Officials Refuse To Sign Funding Authorization 0 hatrack Sep 28 Sep 28 6 1231

After Nearly 40 Years, NSF Budget Cuts Force Closure Of Arctic Research Consortium 0 hatrack Sep 28 Sep 28 8 1356

Nine Refuelling Stations, Ten Routes: India's Hydrogen Highways Begin 0 Caribbeans Sep 27 Sep 27 2 578

World's first mushroom-powered waterless toilet appears in botanical garden 4 DBoon Sep 27 Sep 27 11 1096

Tech giants Open AI, Oracle behind $165 billion data center campus near El Paso 2 douglas9 Sep 27 Sep 27 1 828

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