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Preliminary results from the first EPA-permitted ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) field trial 0 OKIsItJustMe 5 hrs ago 5 hrs ago 5 216
Carbon Capture With Solar and Wind: One Doesn't Often See Perpetual Motion Machines in the Scientific Literature, but... 3 NNadir Saturday 7 hrs ago 3 291
The Biogeochemical Fate of the Long Lived Radioactive Fission Product Selenium-79. 1 NNadir Friday 7 hrs ago 0 411
Centuries of net-negative emissions required to secure a safe climate future 8 OKIsItJustMe Friday 7 hrs ago 5 429
Screen Capture of a Solar Industrial Park in Indiana and a Related Scientific Paper. 2 NNadir 14 hrs ago 8 hrs ago 4 401
Judges will not see climate change science in handbook for judges as they weigh evidence in court: 0 applegrove Saturday Saturday 8 298
"Staggeringly Low" Snowpack Across Most Of American West Already In Place; Now, Record-Crushing Heat Moves East From CA 2 hatrack Saturday Saturday 15 390
Agrivoltaics is either a green revolution or a poison pill for good land. Depends which farmers you ask. 0 littlemissmartypants Saturday Saturday 2 261
Why China could emerge a winner from Trump's global energy shock 3 mahatmakanejeeves Friday Saturday 2 313
Since Indian Company Is Investing In Brownsville Refinery, Trump Makes Farty Mouth Noises About ENERGY DOMINANCE 'MURCA! 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 5 348
Glacial lakes are growing rapidly in Alaska, and research shows where growth will continue 0 OKIsItJustMe Friday Friday 7 254
After Noem Gets Shitcanned, Responses Across What's Left Of FEMA Range From "Relieved To Celebratory" 3 hatrack Friday Friday 11 440
Philip Ball: Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve? 5 jfz9580m Friday Friday 5 421
Absolutely Crazy! Spiking Gas Prices Have More Americans Considering (Drum Roll, Please) Gay, Woke Electric Vehicles!! 6 hatrack Friday Friday 11 445
+/- $50 Million In Fines For Welsh Water After Survey Finds "Serious And Unacceptable" Failures, Repeated Sewage Spills 0 hatrack Friday Friday 4 279
Even In Alabama, State Legislature Moving To Reform Utility Commission - But It's Not What It Appears To Be 0 hatrack Friday Friday 5 344
Trump and Netanyahu's war's might just make us "Green" 0 mysteryowl Thursday Thursday 4 247
Lion DNA Used As Evidence To Convict Poachers In Zimbabwe In First Case Of Its Kind 2 hatrack Thursday Thursday 6 306
Huh. Trump's "Energy Dominance/Tiger Team" Doesn't Know Shit About What To Do Next Re. Energy Prices 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 2 309
The Taxpayer Toll For Australian Government Support For Fossil Fuel Industries - $31,020 Per Minute, Day In And Day Out 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 2 287
EPA Internal Oversight Office: "No Issues" W. Biden-Era Community Change Grants For Food/Energy Resilience 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 3 236
Bird losses are accelerating across North America, particularly in farming regions where agriculture is most intensive 1 marmar Wednesday Wednesday 9 416
2026 Isn't 1973, But Shitstain Gutting CAFE/GHG Rules Means This Oil Shock Will Still Drag US Economy 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 4 317
Global Warming Is Gathering Momentum, But Global Media Coverage Of Warming Fell 38% In 2025 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 8 397
1 In 3 Human Beings Already Hurt By Warming; On Average, 900 Hours Per Year Dangerous For Those Over 65 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 10 506
One Year After Lee Zeldin Blocked GHG Reduction Fund As "Criminal", DC Appeals Shreds Trump Lawyers In Arguments 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 13 450
46 Of 61 EPA Enforcement Actions in FY 2025 Initiated By Biden, But That Doesn't Stop Trumpy Bragging 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 4 308
Well, Well, Well: FBI "Investigating" Members Of Extinction Rebellion, Other Environmental & Activist Groups 3 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 9 567

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Black Rain Falls In Teheran After Israel Hits Oil Facilities; Monitors Struggling To Track Toxins, Health Threats 2 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 9 351
Global Warming - Bigger Hail: Attribution Study Links $350 Million In Damage From Paris Storm To Warming Trend 2 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 5 364
How Trump's EPA rollbacks give US states new tools in climate suits 0 Eugene Mar 8 Mar 8 3 262
Northern Territory Flooding Fills Streets W. Water, Crocodiles; Katherine River Flood Level Highest In Nearly 30 Years 1 hatrack Mar 8 Mar 8 12 621
After 40 Years Of Desalination FA, Corpus Christi Faces Drought-Induced FO - Water System Depletion Looms In 2027 7 hatrack Mar 8 Mar 8 20 743
Investigations As To How Noem Broke Federal Laws "Managing" FEMA Will Have Plenty To Work With 2 hatrack Mar 8 Mar 8 6 561
More Than 20% Of NIH Staff Have Left Since 1/25, So Instead Of Science, We Get RFK Jr. & Kid Rock In A Sauna 0 hatrack Mar 8 Mar 8 9 357
The audacious plan to refill the Great Salt Lake 3 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 7 Mar 7 3 445
The 'Great Texas Freeze' Killed Thousands of Purple Martins; Biologists Worry Recovery Could Take Decades 3 OKIsItJustMe Mar 7 Mar 7 7 735
Corrupt, Shit-Spilling UK Water Companies Sent 10s Of 1,000s Of Bailiffs For Unpaid Bills, Most For Less Than $1,000 1 hatrack Mar 7 Mar 7 4 350
Rate Of Global Heating Has Nearly Doubled From 0.2C Per Decade Through 2015 To 0.35C Per Decade Now 1 hatrack Mar 7 Mar 7 7 304
Data Center That Would Consume As Much Energy As Edmonton Too Much Even For Alberta Regulators 1 hatrack Mar 7 Mar 7 9 643
Nonlinear increase of compound drought-heatwave events since the early 2000s 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 7 Mar 7 4 587
JPL: Most Antarctic Ice Shelves "Remarkably Stable" But West Antarctic Ice Loss Area 30X Metro LA In 30 Yrs 0 hatrack Mar 7 Mar 7 4 607
Chris Ketcham: Clowns to the Left of Me, Fascists to the Right 5 jfz9580m Mar 6 Mar 7 1 501
24% Of EPA Workforce Gone Since 1/25; Staffers Who Left Had Median 30 Yrs Experience, Remaining Have 10 Yrs 0 hatrack Mar 7 Mar 7 5 366
US agency did not perform safety checks of more than 100 food ingredients, analysis finds 3 Eugene Mar 7 Mar 7 17 532
President Asshole, Techbros Sign "Ratepayer Protection Pledge", Pinky Swear AI Buildout Won't Spike Your Electric Bill 2 hatrack Mar 6 Mar 6 5 366
Significant acceleration of global warming since 2015 2 OKIsItJustMe Mar 6 Mar 6 4 312
'World-first accelerator-driven nuclear reactor' nears as China eyes '1000-year' energy source 2 OKIsItJustMe Mar 6 Mar 6 3 459
New Report: Decline of Populations of Migratory Species of Animals Covered by UN Treaty Worsens from 44% to 49% in 2 Yrs 1 OKIsItJustMe Mar 5 Mar 6 5 292
Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently 6 douglas9 Mar 6 Mar 6 92 2125
February 2026 Atmospheric CO2 Content 429.35 ppm; February 2025 427.09 ppm; February 2024 424.55 ppm 7 hatrack Mar 6 Mar 6 5 443
Mark Carney's Tar Sands Pipeline Deal With Alberta Premier Rapidly Turning Into An Environmental & Financial Shitshow 1 hatrack Mar 6 Mar 6 9 523
Even Career Climate Hack Marc Morano Stunned By Silence In Response To Shitstain's Assault On Climate Policy 2 hatrack Mar 6 Mar 6 9 483
A Rather Compelling Scientific Rumination on Wind Energy and Sustainability: Blade Waste. 0 NNadir Mar 6 Mar 6 3 545
Study: Projected "Disturbance" Of European Forests - By Fire, Flooding, Drought, Disease - Set To Rise 30% By 2100 1 hatrack Mar 6 Mar 6 2 332
Nuclear regulator grants licence for Nexgen to build uranium mine in northern Sask. 0 OnlinePoker Mar 6 Mar 6 2 304
NRC Issues First Commercial Reactor Construction Approval in 10 Years For TerraPower in Wyoming 1 OKIsItJustMe Mar 5 Mar 5 3 267
2040 climate target: Council (of the EU) gives final green light 1 OKIsItJustMe Mar 5 Mar 5 2 315

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Sea levels are much higher than often assumed. How is that possible? 5 OKIsItJustMe Mar 5 Mar 5 5 464
The Insurance Industry Was "Realistic" About Climate Risks; Now Multiple Industry Associations Denying There's A Problem 1 hatrack Mar 5 Mar 5 5 550
Australian Regulator Suspends Antibiotic For Farmed Salmon After It Shows Up In Wild Populations 10 KM Distant 2 hatrack Mar 5 Mar 5 4 314
Study: Global Sea Level Estimates Are About 1 Foot Too Low On Average; In SE Asia & Indo-Pacific Up to 3 Feet 0 hatrack Mar 5 Mar 5 11 370
Seabird "Wreck" Spans Coasts Of Northwestern Europe; +/- 40,000 Dead, Starved & Sick Birds Washing Ashore 0 hatrack Mar 5 Mar 5 16 453
Chevron's hometown paper is quiet on climate. Guess who owns it? 1 douglas9 Mar 5 Mar 5 9 397
Belo Monte Megadam In Amazon Basin Generated Barely 1% Of Its Hydropower Capacity During 2024 Dry Season 1 hatrack Mar 5 Mar 5 3 303
Hotspots of accelerated bird decline linked to agricultural activity 2 OKIsItJustMe Mar 5 Mar 5 5 352
We may be underestimating the true carbon cost of northern wildfires 1 OKIsItJustMe Mar 5 Mar 5 2 340
Climate change pushes tropical insects to their heat limit 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 5 Mar 5 1 270
Global Shock - Joe Blogs 0 TexasTowelie Mar 5 Mar 5 3 304
'It's too warm': Greenland's fishermen are under threat from climate change 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 4 Mar 4 7 373
Pesticide Company to Stop Producing Weed Killer Linked to Parkinson's Disease 1 douglas9 Mar 4 Mar 4 2 461
Global Warming Shreds Colorado River Compact As Glen Canyon Dam Nears End Of Hydropower Generation, Possible Deadpool 6 hatrack Mar 2 Mar 4 13 713
After Being Sued, USDA Settles, Agrees To Provide Climate Risk Datasets For Farmers, Won't Guarantee For How Long 1 hatrack Mar 4 Mar 4 10 438
Port Isabel Independent School District Rejects $160 Million Tax Break For Giant Gulf Coast LNG Project 0 hatrack Mar 4 Mar 4 8 350
Warmest Winter In 135 Years Of Weather Records For Wyoming; Snowpack Below Avg At Altitude, At Record Lows Elsewhere 0 hatrack Mar 4 Mar 4 9 368
Four indicted in Sweetwater wind turbine blade dumping probe; cleanup not yet started 5 NNadir Mar 3 Mar 4 3 623
Why MAGA suddenly loves solar power 3 douglas9 Mar 2 Mar 3 7 930
Generational Toxicity and Incomplete Recovery from Spent Lithium-Ion Battery Leachate in an Aquatic Microinvertebrate 1 NNadir Mar 2 Mar 3 1 548
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