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Black metal could give a heavy boost to solar power generation 1 OKIsItJustMe Aug 16 Aug 17 19 747
'Revolutionary' seafloor fiber sensing reveals how falling ice drives glacial retreat in Greenland 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 16 Aug 16 7 303
How a White House plan to overturn a key EPA regulation threatens children's health - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Aug 16 Aug 16 2 303
Former LCV Head - 20 Years Back, About 20% Of Candidates They Endorsed Were GOP; In 2024, Zero 1 hatrack Aug 16 Aug 16 7 360
Erin Went From A Category 1 To A Category 5 In 24 Hours And 20 Minutes - Earliest Cat 5 Ever In The Open Atlantic 1 hatrack Aug 16 Aug 16 6 488
An Economic Argument That the Three Mile Island Meltdown Cost the US 14 Trillion Dollars 14 NNadir Aug 14 Aug 16 3 753
Area Of Spain Burned In Wildfires In 2025 Already Three Times Seasonal Average From 2006 To 2024 0 hatrack Aug 16 Aug 16 5 307
Overnight Low Temperature Records Set In Israel (96.8F) And Jordan (95F) 1 hatrack Aug 16 Aug 16 8 362
South Korean judges order companies responsible for fatal hydrogen explosion to pay billions of won in damages: reports 0 NNadir Aug 16 Aug 16 0 310
How Hydrogen-Powered Helicopter Flight Could Help Healthcare 1 Caribbeans Aug 16 Aug 16 1 321
Hydrogen Buses Hit the Road in Tasmania with Local Refuelling Tech 1 Caribbeans Aug 15 Aug 16 2 364
SolarStratos Makes History: 9,521 Meters Reached Using Only Solar Power 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 15 Aug 15 8 277
National Parks In "Survival Mode": Half Big Bend NP Staff Gone, 60 Vacant Positions In AK, No Lifeguards At Assateague 3 hatrack Aug 15 Aug 15 10 456
National Academy Organizes Rapid Response To Trump's "Scientific" Hackfest Downplaying Climate Threat 6 hatrack Aug 15 Aug 15 4 432
Homeless Are 1% Of Maricopa County Population, But Made Up 20% Of Deaths In 2024 At Arizona Burn Centers - It's That Hot 0 hatrack Aug 15 Aug 15 9 369
July 2025 Atmospheric CO2 Concentration 427.87 ppm; July 2024 425.55 ppm; July 2023 421.83 ppm 9 hatrack Aug 15 Aug 15 10 527
Pedophile Party Members Who Voted For Big Bullshit Bill Have Lifetime Take Of $105 Million From Oil Industry 1 hatrack Aug 15 Aug 15 6 374
Plastic pollution talks fail as negotiators in Geneva reject draft treaties 2 muriel_volestrangler Aug 15 Aug 15 2 350
Global Heat Spike In 2023 Continued Through 2024; CO2 Content Rose At Record Rate In 2024, Matching 2015 Record 0 hatrack Aug 15 Aug 15 6 304
Warming In Svalbard 7X Global Average; Glaciers' Melt Powered In Part By Rich Microbial Ecosystem Within Them 0 hatrack Aug 15 Aug 15 7 314
British Gas Pours $2 Billion Into LNG Terminal, Even Though UK Gas Demand Hit Lowest Level In 30+ Years In 2024 0 hatrack Aug 15 Aug 15 1 297
Hydrogen Bus Explosion in Chungju Injures Three in South Korea 0 NNadir Aug 15 Aug 15 4 388
World's first 30MW pure hydrogen gas turbine project breaks ground in Ordos 1 OKIsItJustMe Aug 14 Aug 15 5 500
Department of Energy Announces Initial Selections for New Reactor Pilot Program 1 OKIsItJustMe Aug 14 Aug 15 2 369
Lake on the 79N Glacier is splitting the ice - leaving permanent changes 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 14 Aug 14 3 365
Human emissions drove the megadrought in the western U.S. 2 OKIsItJustMe Aug 14 Aug 14 8 432
Philippines gets first megawatt-scale floating solar farm 2 Caribbeans Aug 14 Aug 14 2 440
Solastalgia 4 littlemissmartypants Aug 14 Aug 14 10 555
Study: Southwest US Drought May Persist Until 2100 As Global Warming Produces Major Shifts In Pacific Temperatures 0 hatrack Aug 14 Aug 14 5 393
Pedophile Party Reps Demand Canada "Take Action" Because Of Wildfire Smoke, But GOP Action On Warming Strangely Missing 2 hatrack Aug 14 Aug 14 3 395

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1,500 Deaths Linked To Spain Heatwave, 8/12 Saw 198 Weather Stations @ 40C Or Above; Gov Fumbling Response At All Levels 0 hatrack Aug 14 Aug 14 9 421
Acetone, Ethanol, Toluene, Lead - A Toxic Creek Winds Through NC Neighborhood, And Trump's EPA Doesn't Care 0 hatrack Aug 14 Aug 14 4 354
Conservationists again sue U.S. Fish and Wildlife for denying Oregon red tree voles protection 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 14 Aug 14 3 239
International "State of the Climate" report confirms record-high greenhouse gases, global temperatures, global sea level 2 OKIsItJustMe Aug 14 Aug 14 13 368
London's Newest Attraction: Wet Wipe Island, As Big As 2 Tennis Courts & Weighing As Much As 15 Doubledecker Buses 3 hatrack Aug 14 Aug 14 7 668
Dominion Energy (VA) Stated In Filing That Outside Monitor Checked Gas Plant Bids; Now They Admit That They Lied 2 hatrack Aug 14 Aug 14 8 490
Farming Already Uses An Area Equivalent To All Of Asia Plus All Of Europe And We're Still Razing Forests For Cheap Meat 3 hatrack Aug 14 Aug 14 9 451
2025 Set To Break 2022 Record For UK Wildfires; 5 Km2 Burned In Yorkshire National Park 0 hatrack Aug 14 Aug 14 4 264
Spain 5th Nation In A Week To Invoke EU Mutual Aid Pact For Fires; Lethal Heatwave Continues Across Southern Europe 0 hatrack Aug 14 Aug 14 5 325
After 2 Deaths During Multiple Days Of 100-110F Heat Indices, RAGBRAI's Future Increasingly Uncertain 4 hatrack Aug 14 Aug 14 9 654
Nearly 100 Nations Reject Toothless Plastics Treaty That Avoids Production Limits In Favor Of "Recycling" 0 hatrack Aug 14 Aug 14 8 391
Shistain Disbanded NOAA Group Tasked With Annual Update Of Flood Risk Back In January 0 hatrack Aug 14 Aug 14 7 401
Efforts to save local coral reefs ongoing amid sweltering South Florida summer - WPLG Local 10 Miami-Fort Lauderdale 1 Rhiannon12866 Aug 14 Aug 14 4 315
Rock and glacial ice slide in the Endicott Arm area of Alaska generates 15 feet tsunami waves in fjord. 0 Tonk Aug 13 Aug 13 6 525
EPA Will Now Let Big Polluters Stop Reporting CO2/Methane Output, But Satellites Are Already Tracking The Data 2 hatrack Aug 13 Aug 13 7 315
Swiss adventurer 'smashes altitude record' in solar-powered plane 3 littlemissmartypants Aug 13 Aug 13 7 442
9 Years After 23 Residents Died In Catastrophic Flood, WV Officials Launching Study On Flood Mitigation On Kanawah River 1 hatrack Aug 13 Aug 13 2 297
No El Nino, But 2025 On Track To Be One Of Three Hottest Years On Record; July Was The Third-Hottest July Ever 1 hatrack Aug 13 Aug 13 3 334
This is horrifying - Joe Rogan 2 applegrove Aug 13 Aug 13 8 938
Dengue Cases Spiking In Pacific Nations; 17 Deaths, 16,502 Cases So Far In 2025, And Yes, It's Warming-Related 2 hatrack Aug 12 Aug 13 4 340
W. Massive Bleaching And Coral Death Across Western Australia Reefs, Oil & Gas Major Extends Science Museum Sponsorship 0 hatrack Aug 12 Aug 12 3 255
Unpublished Gov Report Reveals "Intense And Scary" Climate Risks To Australia's Environment & Economy 0 hatrack Aug 12 Aug 12 5 297
China: Jiaxing Port Deploys 100 Hydrogen Trucks, Cutting 10,000 Tons of CO₂ Annually 0 Caribbeans Aug 12 Aug 12 1 266
Arizona Just Proved Jaguars Aren't Extinct in the U.S. 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 12 Aug 12 12 470
US to retaliate against IMO members that back net zero emissions plan 1 Eugene Aug 12 Aug 12 3 339
Parts of Europe burn as millions are facing record heat 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 12 Aug 12 6 343
Science Advances: Groundwater Mining Has Produced Greater SLR Impacts Than Melting Of Greenland's Ice Sheet 2 hatrack Aug 12 Aug 12 6 361
6 Years After Plan Launched For 22,000 km2 Native Forest Preserve In Saskatchewan, 90% Of It Has Been Destroyed By Fire 2 hatrack Aug 12 Aug 12 6 386
Shitstain's Budget Will Gut National Energy Labs In OR, CO, WA; Climate, Energy Efficiency Core Missions At These Sites 0 hatrack Aug 12 Aug 12 6 285
In Colorado, The Lee Fire Hits The State's Record For 5th-Largest Fire Ever At 130,000 Acres; 1,000+ Firefighters Deploy 1 hatrack Aug 12 Aug 12 5 352

Environment & Energy Continued...

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1,000s Of FEMA Funding Requests Wait For ICE Barbie's Signature; Post-Helene, NC's Small, Rural Towns Hurt Most By Delay 2 hatrack Aug 12 Aug 12 10 450
Nearly 6,000 Residents Evacuated In Multiple Regions Of Spain As "Explosive" Fires Expand In 110F Heatwave 2 hatrack Aug 12 Aug 12 4 462
UK Ministers Approve Contingency Plans For Potential Collapse Of Thames Water 0 hatrack Aug 12 Aug 12 4 469
As Peak Of Hurricane Season Approaches, FEMA Diverts 100 Staffers To Help ICE Recruit Masked Clown Squad Members 0 hatrack Aug 12 Aug 12 4 303
China expands hydrogen bike-share network 1 Caribbeans Aug 11 Aug 12 3 329
India begins construction of first green hydrogen-powered ships 1 Caribbeans Aug 11 Aug 11 3 315
Canada wildfire season already second worst on record as experts warn of 'new reality' 0 Eugene Aug 11 Aug 11 5 264
Top climate tech exec: The AC gap between Europe and America is becoming an economic liability 4 NickB79 Aug 11 Aug 11 10 627
Tropical Storm Erin forms just west of Cabo Verde Islands 3 OnlinePoker Aug 11 Aug 11 5 403
With those in power wedded to fossil fuels, the world needs a stronger pro-science mass movement to drive climate action 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 11 Aug 11 4 312
Annual Loss Of Coral Cover Across Great Barrier Reef Worst In 40 Years; 25% Mortality In North, 40% At One Tree Island 5 hatrack Aug 5 Aug 11 7 468
Swarm of jellyfish shuts nuclear power plant in France 6 cbabe Aug 11 Aug 11 5 471
In Western Australia, Up To 90% Of Corals Bleached Or Dead Across 900-Mile Stretch Of Reefs 0 hatrack Aug 11 Aug 11 9 245
Special "Corporate Court" Could Force UK Taxpayers To Pay Singapore Investors' Losses In Failed Lake District Coal Mine 0 hatrack Aug 11 Aug 11 3 278
Well, Good Luck With That: WV Families Suing Fracking Company Over VOCs Their Kids Are Inhaling 1 hatrack Aug 11 Aug 11 8 384
"An Environment Of Impunity Where Businesses No Longer Need To Even Pay Lip Service To Progress" 1 hatrack Aug 11 Aug 11 5 429
Another European Heatwave Bringing Temps At Or Beyond 110F To Spain And Portugal 0 hatrack Aug 11 Aug 11 6 336
Perito Moreno Glacier Had Largely Held Steady; Science Now Shows Rapid Loss Of Ice Since 2019 0 hatrack Aug 11 Aug 11 7 318
Fire Closes Tourist Trails At Mt. Vesuvius While French Crews Continue Battling Huge Fire Near Pyrenees 0 hatrack Aug 10 Aug 10 1 319
Momentum sagging at UN plastic pollution treaty talks 0 Dulcinea Aug 10 Aug 10 2 291
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