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"It is extremely dire": Sen. Whitehouse Warns of Ongoing Climate-Driven Homeowners' Insurance Crisis - Senator Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 1 hr ago 1 hr ago 2 114
As Heat And Salinity Rise Steadily, Iraqis In Basra Now Forced To Grow Date Palm Seedlings In Laboratories 1 hatrack 6 hrs ago 5 hrs ago 7 155
On The Edge Of The Atacama, Chile's Subterrenean Seedbank Stores Vital Species Frozen In Aluminum Pouches 0 hatrack 6 hrs ago 6 hrs ago 7 173
Nuclear refurbishment done and under budget at Ontario's Darlington plant: minister 0 OnlinePoker 8 hrs ago 8 hrs ago 2 132
Feral camels terrorizing Australian desert towns in search of water 0 jmbar2 16 hrs ago 16 hrs ago 12 494
OFFS - Meet The Energy Department's Cute New Mascot: It's Coalie, Urging Us To "Mine, Baby, Mine!" 7 hatrack Friday Yesterday 6 489
NRDC: Another Alarm Call from the Arctic: Its Rivers Are Turning Orange 0 OKIsItJustMe Sunday Sunday 10 284
Heatwave "Most Significant Ever" For SE Australia - For 8th Time Ever, Daily High Temp Of 50C Confirmed 3 hatrack Saturday Sunday 11 334
EIA: 99%+ of new US capacity in 2026 will be solar, wind + storage 4 douglas9 Sunday Sunday 4 323
The Amount of New Solar Power Production Capacity China Is Manufacturing Is Legitimately Mind-Blowing 4 highplainsdem Saturday Sunday 12 365
"It's Not Just a Cost. It's a Scheme." Sen. Whitehouse Blasts Trump's Anti-Clean Energy Crusade - Senator Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Sunday Sunday 3 195
Melbourne Harbor And Beaches Awash In Venomous Lion's Mane Jellyfish 1 hatrack Sunday Sunday 8 425
31 out of 48 papers the current issue of Environmental Science and Technology, an American Chemical Society... 1 NNadir Sunday Sunday 13 491
The Imminent Copper Tailings Crisis in China 1 NNadir Saturday Saturday 5 461
Quantifying the Environmental Impacts and Human Health Risks of Global Cobalt Mining and Processing 0 NNadir Saturday Saturday 2 409
'Shameful': Trump's EPA accused of prioritizing big business over public health 1 douglas9 Friday Friday 3 300
After Pathetic FEMA Performances In Multiple States, Natural Disaster Survivors Want Noem Fired 2 hatrack Friday Friday 11 611
Performative Colorado River Talks Pending; Expectations Low, Since Littlest President Having Tantwums At AZ, CO 1 hatrack Friday Friday 2 292
Potential Interactions Between Birds And Floating Photovoltaic Solar Energy: Spatially Informed Species Vulnerabilities 4 NNadir Thursday Friday 3 350
EPA Eliminating 13 Top Executive Positions; 2331 Employees - 13.5% Of Workforce - Gone Since January 2025 0 hatrack Friday Friday 4 286
Scientific Mapping Project Shows East Coast Ghost Forests - Killed By Rising Seas - Are Far Larger Than Thought 0 hatrack Friday Friday 10 338
Don't worry. Be happy. Server Farms Will Learn for Themselves How to Be All Renewabley and "Green." 0 NNadir Thursday Thursday 2 399
"It's Not Just a Cost. It's a Scheme." Sen. Whitehouse Blasts Trump's Anti-Clean Energy Crusade - Senator Whitehouse 2 Rhiannon12866 Thursday Thursday 8 308
Airports Across Asia Screening For Nipah Virus After Two Cases Confirmed In W. Bengal; 40-70% Fatality Rate, No Vaccine 2 hatrack Thursday Thursday 7 384
America Leads Global, Massive Expansion Of Gas Power Plants Because Of (All Together Now!) AI. USA!! USA!! USA!! 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 1 298
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is Yet Again Under Threat, This Time From Congress 0 douglas9 Thursday Thursday 9 337
Awwww!!!! Shitstain Backs Away From Pushing EPA To Gut Endangerment Finding - It Would Likely Lose In Court 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 5 322
Wastewater Geysers, Land Cracks & Subsidence Prompt West TX Landowner To Sue 8 Oil Companies For Damages 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 2 264

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Conoco Phillips Rig On Its Way To Drill Falls Over, Catches On Fire - The Rig "Left The Road" 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 4 320
Well, Good Luck: OK State Senator Trying To Rein In Pollution Of Groundwater From Fracking Operations 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 5 234
Data centers are facing an image problem. The tech industry is spending millions to rebrand them. 1 douglas9 Wednesday Thursday 11 297
Environmental Activists Sued To Get UK National Security Assessment; Even Then, It Was Redacted 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 3 291
Guardian - What It's Like In Victoria These Days, When The Temperature Finally Dips Below 104F At 8:30 PM 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 9 391
Shitstain's EPA: 66 Environmental Rollbacks In One Year: "I Am For Whatever President Trump Is Advocating For" 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 8 443
Jacking Up Prices, Censoring Bookstores - But Worst Part Of Assault On NPS Devastating Loss Of Institutional Knowledge 2 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 17 464
This Storm Is Exactly What You'd Expect In A Warming World; BTW, How Will FEMA Respond (Assuming It Can)? 1 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 10 585
After Millei Cuts Firefighting Funds 81%, Argentina Faces Tough Go Fighting Huge Fires In Monoculure Pine Forests 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 3 387
All-Time Record Highs Across S. Australia, Victoria Approaching 50C (122F); Overnight Low In Adelaide Was 95F 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 8 346
I'm through one of my son's recent publications almost in tears. 7 NNadir Jan 23 Jan 26 53 1697
The Ocean Already 30% More Acidic Than In Preindustrial Era; Key Planetary Limit For Acidification Was Breached In 2020 0 hatrack Jan 26 Jan 26 11 308
New Mexico Sues 3 Texas Oil Execs For Offloading Cleanup For 100s Of Abandoned Wells While Pocketing Profits 3 hatrack Jan 26 Jan 26 15 410
Since There's No Problem That Can't Be Solved W. Marketing, Prepare For Lots Of Shiny, Green Data Center Advertising 1 hatrack Jan 26 Jan 26 6 362
At Late-January Seasonal Maximum Extent, Arctic Sea Ice Still Well Below All-Time Prior Record Lows 0 hatrack Jan 26 Jan 26 5 260
Pakistan Turned To China To Address Power Shortages, Now Faces Severe Pollution And Crippling Debt For Coal Plants 0 hatrack Jan 26 Jan 26 2 284
Poof!! ExxonMobil Creates Whole New Accounting System For GHGs, And Climate Collapse Is YOUR Fault, NOT Theirs!! 1 hatrack Jan 26 Jan 26 8 437
"Snow Drought" Means Significant Drawdown Likely From Flaming Gorge Dam This Spring In Effort To Prop Up Powell & Mead 3 hatrack Jan 25 Jan 25 7 485
Australia's Winter 2025-25 Heatwave Worst Since 2019-20's Black Summer, Made 5X More Likely By Global Warming 0 hatrack Jan 25 Jan 25 6 253
To Breathe In Delhi Means Inhaling (On Average) The Equivalent Of Half A Pack Of Cigarettes Every Day 0 hatrack Jan 25 Jan 25 4 339
A California Climate Expert Is Working to Restore Climate Risk Scores Deleted by Zillow 1 littlemissmartypants Jan 25 Jan 25 7 312
Joshua trees are flowering in the Calif. desert. That's bad news. 2 BlueWaveNeverEnd Jan 25 Jan 25 21 854
"Most Of The Data Centers Do Not Consume Water" - Ladies & Gentlemen, The Governor Of Utah!! 9 hatrack Jan 24 Jan 24 9 622
"Everything Is Worse Since Drax Came Here": "Green" Energy For UK, Pollution & Lung Disease For LA, MS Residents 1 hatrack Jan 24 Jan 24 6 409
Nevada Snowpack Quarter Below January Median; Warmest December Ever For Elko, Reno And Las Vegas 1 hatrack Jan 24 Jan 24 3 297
Science/AAAS - Muskism, Voughtism, Trumpism - Three Different Approaches To Destroying Science And Government 0 hatrack Jan 24 Jan 24 9 332
MIT Modeling In The Wake of CRAP 30 Shows 1.5C By 2030, 1.8C By 2050 And 3C By 2100 0 hatrack Jan 24 Jan 24 6 340
Why Earth's melting glaciers matter more than we think - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Jan 24 Jan 24 4 353
Arkansas to become best source of lithium in US through new process - NewsNation 0 TexasTowelie Jan 23 Jan 23 3 330
Measuring Economic Recovery in Post Covid China by Monitoring Air Pollutants (NO2) 0 NNadir Jan 22 Jan 22 4 277

Environment & Energy Continued...

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FDA Used To Screen For 8 Foodborne Pathogens. Now They Screen For 2, W. Inspection Rates Collapsing 1 hatrack Jan 22 Jan 22 8 487
"Global Water Bankruptcy" Has Arrived; 2 Billion Live On Sinking Ground; 75% Live In Countries "Water-Insecure" Or Worse 1 hatrack Jan 21 Jan 21 3 392
Bobby Brainworm Sez "Eat More Meat And Dairy!!"; His Guidelines Would Require An Additional 100 Million Acres Of Land 5 hatrack Jan 20 Jan 21 7 455
UK Restaurant Chain Facing Eviction From Enfield Site After Felling 500-Year-Old Oak On Leased Property 1 hatrack Jan 21 Jan 21 22 563
Just 32 National & Private Corporations Are Responsible For 50% Of Human Carbon Dioxide Emissions 0 hatrack Jan 21 Jan 21 11 516
Oil Companies Realize That This President Blocking Wind Farms Could Mean Another President Blocking Refineries 0 hatrack Jan 21 Jan 21 12 497
19 Dead, 135 Square Miles Burn In Central Chile; Similar In Chubut, Argentina, But Fire Response Funding Cut, Because $$ 1 hatrack Jan 20 Jan 21 6 449
As Temperatures Rise, Dengue & Chikunyungya Gain Ground In Dhaka, Home To 37 Million Residents 0 hatrack Jan 20 Jan 20 5 309
Army Corps to look at $1.5B underwater Columbia River power line project 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 20 Jan 20 1 257
Scientists At Rutgers Marine Research Station Film The Destruction Of Their Own Facility By Rising Ocean 4 hatrack Dec 17 Jan 19 12 564
Gates Charity Trust Pledged To Divest From Fossil Fuels In 2019; In 2024, $254 Invested In Chevron, Shell, BP 1 hatrack Jan 19 Jan 19 3 496
Scientists Warm Of "Regime Shift" In Oceans As Warming And Pollution Drive Massive Algae Blooms Not Seen Before 2008 0 hatrack Jan 19 Jan 19 7 410
Japan Continues Slow Restart Of Nuclear Power Generation W. Upgraded Unit In Niigata Prefecture 0 hatrack Jan 19 Jan 19 5 282
WY - 2024 Worst Fire Year Since Huge Yellowstone Fires Of 1988; State GOP: Cut Property Taxes Funding Fire Response 0 hatrack Jan 19 Jan 19 2 333
AK State Legislator Proposes 20 Center/Barrel Tax On State's Oil Production To Cover Costs Of Climate Collapse 0 hatrack Jan 19 Jan 19 3 429
"Patchwork" Of Remediation Efforts After LA Fires Shows Widespread Contamination By Lead, Asbestos, Other Toxins 0 hatrack Jan 19 Jan 19 4 313
If Biofuels Could Be Interesting, This One Would Top My List. 0 NNadir Jan 18 Jan 18 2 662
26 Years After Discovery Of Groundwater Contamination From Oil Drilling, The Cleanup Grinds On In Midland Texas 3 hatrack Jan 18 Jan 18 3 465
"Comprehensive" Failure Of Shitstain's Pledge To Cut Energy Bills In Half Across US: DC Up 23%, IN Up 17%, IL Up 15% 3 hatrack Jan 18 Jan 18 5 355
"Climate Pragmatism" A La Bill Gates Assumes That 3C Won't Be All That Bad; It Will Likely Be Far Worse Than We Imagine 1 hatrack Jan 18 Jan 18 6 391
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