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Satellite launch pollution rapidly accumulating in the upper atmosphere 3 OKIsItJustMe Yesterday 38 min ago 7 334
US government planning dramatic Colorado River water cuts due to drought, overuse 0 OKIsItJustMe 1 hr ago 1 hr ago 1 175
Harrison Ford: 4 applegrove 2 hrs ago 1 hr ago 19 368
Scientists Identify Hidden Accelerant in Antarctic Ice Loss 1 OKIsItJustMe 9 hrs ago 4 hrs ago 10 435
Heatwaves in high 40 degrees Celsius are 'new normal' for India and Pakistan, scientists warn 0 OKIsItJustMe 4 hrs ago 4 hrs ago 4 298
Coal pollution is cutting solar power output, study finds 0 OKIsItJustMe 6 hrs ago 6 hrs ago 6 272
Watchdog groups urge Senate to investigate Samuel Alito over oil stock conflicts 0 OKIsItJustMe 11 hrs ago 11 hrs ago 6 239
No, No, It's Not Global Warming Driving Explosion In Tick Numbers - IT'S A CONSPIRACY WITH BILL GATES!!!! 3 hatrack 14 hrs ago 12 hrs ago 16 423
Chronic Wasting Disease detected on National Elk Refuge 0 mahatmakanejeeves 14 hrs ago 14 hrs ago 8 321
Wyoming's wolves hit lowest population since 2005 0 mahatmakanejeeves 14 hrs ago 14 hrs ago 6 281
4,813 Fires So Far This Year In GA; Elsewhere In The Southeast, Drought And Hurricane Debris Helping Drive The Burning 0 hatrack 14 hrs ago 14 hrs ago 5 245
Trump administration aims to roll back limits on toxic wastewater from coal-fired power plants 0 mahatmakanejeeves 17 hrs ago 17 hrs ago 2 242
Structural Changes in Supported Rhodium in Catalytic Reactions. 0 NNadir 19 hrs ago 19 hrs ago 1 197
Oh, The Humanity - BP Faces Shareholder Revolt Over Plan To Dump Climate Reporting, Lack Of Plan For Everything Else 1 hatrack Apr 24 19 hrs ago 6 339
So Cute!!! TX GQP Rep "Concerned" Re NOAA Plan For Massive Budget Cuts, Closing Mauna Loa Observatory 2 hatrack Apr 29 19 hrs ago 8 500
With 300 Data Centers Operating Or Planned In California, Some Residents Wondering Where The Water Will Come From 3 hatrack Apr 30 20 hrs ago 12 491
After Decades Of Growing Nitrate Pollution, GQP In Iowa Introduces "Too Little, Too Late" Funding For Water Treatment 3 hatrack May 2 20 hrs ago 8 487
40,000 People Live In Gibraltar, A City w/o Any Sewage Treatment; Decade After Decade, Shit & Plastic Flow Into The Sea 2 hatrack May 6 20 hrs ago 11 539
"Filthy", "Mind-Blowing", "Legally Problematic" - Federal Judge's Take On Proposed Bayer Roundup Settlement 4 hatrack Saturday 20 hrs ago 13 524
Detailed breakdown on Tesla's new battery design 9 Finishline42 Wednesday Yesterday 3 592
US EPA proposes delaying enforcement of Biden vehicle pollution rule 0 OKIsItJustMe Yesterday Yesterday 3 171
El Nino Prediction - 82% chance in May-July 2026 - 96% chance in December 2026-February 2027 0 OKIsItJustMe Yesterday Yesterday 9 385
New research reveals rapid methane release mechanism at the front of retreating ice sheets (during last glacial cycle) 0 OKIsItJustMe Yesterday Yesterday 4 299
Alberta Premier: Building An Oil Pipeline To The Pacific "Consistent With The Teachings Of Jesus" 6 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 5 393
In Chile, A Retired Kindergarten Teacher Guards The Only Continental Colony Of King Penguins On Earth 2 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 15 388
Best Cryptic Headline Of The Week - Choughs Reappear At Tintagel After Decades Of Absence 3 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 12 437
Buildling A Wall Of Money - Oil Majors Will Likely Use Exploding Profits To Lock In Trump-Era Policies 1 hatrack Sunday Yesterday 5 376
April 2026 4th-Warmest Global April On Record; Earth's Oceans Saw 2nd-Warmest Temps Recorded For The Same Month 1 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 3 233

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Hydrogen-fueled drone submarine with 17 sensors could scan Hormuz for naval mines 0 Caribbeans Yesterday Yesterday 0 290
Multiple Large-Scale "Carbon Capture" Projects Slated For Illinois; Increasingly, Residents Aren't Buying The Story 4 hatrack Saturday Yesterday 7 559
US Drinking Water Systems Under Growing Strain From Coast To Coast - Drought, Floods, Debris Flows 1 hatrack Wednesday Yesterday 9 432
El Nino Teeing Up A Major Fire Year; Drought Already Hit SE Asia; Globally, Alaska-Sized Area Has Already Burned 1 hatrack Wednesday Yesterday 4 408
Vibrio Bacteria Pushing North To Seas Once Too Cold To Support It, Like Gulf Of Maine; +/- 100 Fatalities/Year In US 2 hatrack Wednesday Yesterday 4 263
Sustainability Blahblah Clean Fuels Blah - European Airline Emissions Higher Than Pre-COVID; Ryanair Up 50% Since 2019 2 hatrack Sunday Yesterday 4 365
Sen. Whitehouse: "We Must Not let Creeping Political Influence Compromise the NRC" 0 Rhiannon12866 Yesterday Yesterday 4 275
Oceans Are Warming? Senate Republicans Disagree. - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 3 Rhiannon12866 Wednesday Yesterday 6 330
Data Centers Already Using 6% Of Electricity Available In The US And The UK; Pushback Begins At 5% 5 hatrack Wednesday Yesterday 8 380
Pardon me if this was posted earlier: Summer is getting longer, and it's happening faster than we thought 4 OKIsItJustMe Wednesday Wednesday 7 398
Electricity could produce cement with almost no carbon footprint 0 OKIsItJustMe Wednesday Wednesday 9 372
Study Finds Wetter Storms Mean Drier Conditions Over Time 0 OKIsItJustMe Wednesday Wednesday 3 250
When the Schuylkill swallowed the city: Lessons from Hurricane Ida's historic flood 2 OKIsItJustMe Wednesday Wednesday 6 409
Time to Wake Up #307: The Mischief Continues - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 5 Rhiannon12866 Wednesday Wednesday 26 863
Newly recognized pollutant widely present in atmosphere 1 OKIsItJustMe Wednesday Wednesday 10 505
Governor Sherrill, NJ, Working to Keep Her Nuclear Promise. 1 NNadir Wednesday Wednesday 4 288
Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan 0 thought crime Wednesday Wednesday 12 350
LIDAR Flights Reveal Western Snowpack Crisis; California's Snowpack Was At 18% Of Avg 4/1, Declining Since Then 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 5 394
A New Study Explains How Carbon Dioxide Cools the Upper Atmosphere--and Warms Earth Below 0 OKIsItJustMe Wednesday Wednesday 2 242
UC Irvine team identifies where renewable hydrogen delivers the greatest social benefit 0 OKIsItJustMe Tuesday Tuesday 1 245
xAI Adds 19 New Gas Turbines Despite Ongoing Lawsuit 0 OKIsItJustMe Tuesday Tuesday 4 297
How underwater speakers are helping revive coral reefs devastated by climate change - PBS NewsHour 2 Rhiannon12866 Tuesday Tuesday 10 450
This 600-Mile Liquid Hydrogen eVTOL Just Got A 20-Aircraft Order 1 Caribbeans Monday Tuesday 9 431
Lobbying battle intensifies as E15 ethanol bill nears US vote 1 Eugene Tuesday Tuesday 0 299
'I couldn't breathe': the sinister spread of France's killer seaweed 1 cbabe Tuesday Tuesday 10 490
A Uranium Adsorbing Alginate Polyacylonitrile Membrane With Superior Regeneration Performance. 9 NNadir Sunday Tuesday 3 828
As drought worsens, Western states brace for wildfires, water shortages 3 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Monday Monday 8 333
Oil Crisis? How about we Reduce Demand? Here's How 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Monday Monday 4 416
Despite gains combating deforestation in Brazil's Amazon, forest degradation is a looming threat 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Monday Monday 1 233
It looks like the Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory's Instrument is back up, with the second highest measurement ever seen. 0 NNadir Monday Monday 7 994

Environment & Energy Continued...

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"Green Finance", "Carbon Offsets" Just More Ways To Greenwash, Create Market Plays While Doing Nothing For Climate 3 hatrack Monday Monday 4 371
No One Is Certain, But EPA Estimates That There are 3.7 Million Abandoned US Oil/Gas Wells, 58% Of Them Unsealed 4 hatrack Sunday Monday 18 731
Airline emissions in Europe top pre-Covid levels despite pledge to decarbonise 2 OKIsItJustMe Friday Sunday 3 376
"It Is Time To Close The Chapter On FEMA" - Trump Committee Plans To Deliberately Destroy Federal Emergency Response 7 hatrack Sunday Sunday 22 735
Odd But Interesting: GQP Senate Candidate In LA Staking His Campaign On Opposing "Carbon Capture" Projects 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 5 417
It turns out there is an analytical reason we will not get a weekly data point at Mauna Loa for the 2nd time in half... 3 NNadir Saturday Sunday 9 475
Um, delicious!!! Recovery of Highly Toxic Tellurium Used for Super Efficient Solar Cells. 1 NNadir Friday Sunday 1 573
German Engineers Packed Hydrogen Into Hollow Tractor Wheels. Now the Machines Run All Day Without Heavy Batteries 4 Caribbeans Saturday Saturday 20 1106
Metrobus cancellations after hydrogen bus fire in Crawley 7 NNadir Saturday Saturday 2 685
Concentrated Solar Power finds a new Niche 3 thought crime Friday Saturday 3 513
World's largest nuclear facility could be built in Ontario with new $300M deal 5 OnlinePoker May 7 Saturday 3 432
Toxic Heavy Metals - Tungsten, Selenium, Arsenic - Concentrating In San Luis Valley Water Supply As Drought Stretches On 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 4 331
Superfund Sites In New Jersey Awaiting Cleanup For 40 Years Or More; W. EPA Gutted, Remediation Grinding To A Halt 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 6 299
Senior Interior Official Flat-Out Said Changes In Federal Grazing Policy Personally Enriched Her - 6 Months Ago 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 6 339
The disaster unfolding on Russia's Black Sea coast is of its own making 0 mahatmakanejeeves Saturday Saturday 5 475
War. What is it good for? Absolutely Nothing. But... 0 thought crime Friday Friday 1 317
'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds 16 OKIsItJustMe May 4 Friday 13 1054
NOAA/ESRL - April 2026 Atmospheric CO2 Content: 431.12 ppm; April 2025 429.64 ppm; April 2024 426.51 ppm 6 hatrack Friday Friday 2 372
Antarctica sea ice collapse driven by triple whammy of climate chaos, scientists find 1 OKIsItJustMe Friday Friday 10 388
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