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How Trump's EPA rollbacks give US states new tools in climate suits 0 Eugene Yesterday Yesterday 3 197
Northern Territory Flooding Fills Streets W. Water, Crocodiles; Katherine River Flood Level Highest In Nearly 30 Years 1 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 12 497
After 40 Years Of Desalination FA, Corpus Christi Faces Drought-Induced FO - Water System Depletion Looms In 2027 7 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 19 550
Investigations As To How Noem Broke Federal Laws "Managing" FEMA Will Have Plenty To Work With 2 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 6 406
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 Yesterday Yesterday 9 284
The audacious plan to refill the Great Salt Lake 3 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Saturday Saturday 3 355
The 'Great Texas Freeze' Killed Thousands of Purple Martins; Biologists Worry Recovery Could Take Decades 3 OKIsItJustMe Saturday Saturday 7 640
Corrupt, Shit-Spilling UK Water Companies Sent 10s Of 1,000s Of Bailiffs For Unpaid Bills, Most For Less Than $1,000 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 4 286
Rate Of Global Heating Has Nearly Doubled From 0.2C Per Decade Through 2015 To 0.35C Per Decade Now 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 7 234
Data Center That Would Consume As Much Energy As Edmonton Too Much Even For Alberta Regulators 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 9 578
Nonlinear increase of compound drought-heatwave events since the early 2000s 0 OKIsItJustMe Saturday Saturday 4 487
JPL: Most Antarctic Ice Shelves "Remarkably Stable" But West Antarctic Ice Loss Area 30X Metro LA In 30 Yrs 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 4 496
Chris Ketcham: Clowns to the Left of Me, Fascists to the Right 5 jfz9580m Friday Saturday 1 421
24% Of EPA Workforce Gone Since 1/25; Staffers Who Left Had Median 30 Yrs Experience, Remaining Have 10 Yrs 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 5 309
US agency did not perform safety checks of more than 100 food ingredients, analysis finds 3 Eugene Saturday Saturday 17 446
President Asshole, Techbros Sign "Ratepayer Protection Pledge", Pinky Swear AI Buildout Won't Spike Your Electric Bill 2 hatrack Friday Friday 5 288
Significant acceleration of global warming since 2015 2 OKIsItJustMe Friday Friday 4 256
'World-first accelerator-driven nuclear reactor' nears as China eyes '1000-year' energy source 2 OKIsItJustMe Friday Friday 3 387
New Report: Decline of Populations of Migratory Species of Animals Covered by UN Treaty Worsens from 44% to 49% in 2 Yrs 1 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Friday 5 253
Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently 6 douglas9 Friday Friday 92 1995
February 2026 Atmospheric CO2 Content 429.35 ppm; February 2025 427.09 ppm; February 2024 424.55 ppm 7 hatrack Friday Friday 5 324
Mark Carney's Tar Sands Pipeline Deal With Alberta Premier Rapidly Turning Into An Environmental & Financial Shitshow 1 hatrack Friday Friday 9 440
Even Career Climate Hack Marc Morano Stunned By Silence In Response To Shitstain's Assault On Climate Policy 2 hatrack Friday Friday 9 427
A Rather Compelling Scientific Rumination on Wind Energy and Sustainability: Blade Waste. 0 NNadir Friday Friday 3 426
Study: Projected "Disturbance" Of European Forests - By Fire, Flooding, Drought, Disease - Set To Rise 30% By 2100 1 hatrack Friday Friday 2 266
Nuclear regulator grants licence for Nexgen to build uranium mine in northern Sask. 0 OnlinePoker Friday Friday 2 250
NRC Issues First Commercial Reactor Construction Approval in 10 Years For TerraPower in Wyoming 1 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Thursday 3 223
2040 climate target: Council (of the EU) gives final green light 1 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Thursday 2 255

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Sea levels are much higher than often assumed. How is that possible? 5 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Thursday 5 384
The Insurance Industry Was "Realistic" About Climate Risks; Now Multiple Industry Associations Denying There's A Problem 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 5 419
Australian Regulator Suspends Antibiotic For Farmed Salmon After It Shows Up In Wild Populations 10 KM Distant 2 hatrack Thursday Thursday 4 266
Study: Global Sea Level Estimates Are About 1 Foot Too Low On Average; In SE Asia & Indo-Pacific Up to 3 Feet 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 11 322
Seabird "Wreck" Spans Coasts Of Northwestern Europe; +/- 40,000 Dead, Starved & Sick Birds Washing Ashore 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 16 414
Chevron's hometown paper is quiet on climate. Guess who owns it? 1 douglas9 Thursday Thursday 9 352
Belo Monte Megadam In Amazon Basin Generated Barely 1% Of Its Hydropower Capacity During 2024 Dry Season 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 3 240
Hotspots of accelerated bird decline linked to agricultural activity 2 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Thursday 5 288
We may be underestimating the true carbon cost of northern wildfires 1 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Thursday 2 279
Climate change pushes tropical insects to their heat limit 0 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Thursday 1 228
Global Shock - Joe Blogs 0 TexasTowelie Thursday Thursday 3 265
'It's too warm': Greenland's fishermen are under threat from climate change 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Wednesday Wednesday 7 321
Pesticide Company to Stop Producing Weed Killer Linked to Parkinson's Disease 1 douglas9 Wednesday Wednesday 2 394
Global Warming Shreds Colorado River Compact As Glen Canyon Dam Nears End Of Hydropower Generation, Possible Deadpool 6 hatrack Monday Wednesday 13 626
After Being Sued, USDA Settles, Agrees To Provide Climate Risk Datasets For Farmers, Won't Guarantee For How Long 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 10 379
Port Isabel Independent School District Rejects $160 Million Tax Break For Giant Gulf Coast LNG Project 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 8 305
Warmest Winter In 135 Years Of Weather Records For Wyoming; Snowpack Below Avg At Altitude, At Record Lows Elsewhere 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 9 323
Four indicted in Sweetwater wind turbine blade dumping probe; cleanup not yet started 5 NNadir Tuesday Wednesday 3 540
Why MAGA suddenly loves solar power 3 douglas9 Monday Tuesday 7 884
Generational Toxicity and Incomplete Recovery from Spent Lithium-Ion Battery Leachate in an Aquatic Microinvertebrate 1 NNadir Monday Tuesday 1 481
Leaked Databases Show Efforts At NPS To Erase History & Reality - Slavery, First Nations, LGBTQ, Climate, Civil War 1 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 13 338
The culture war is coming for your electricity 1 douglas9 Tuesday Tuesday 21 571
UK Slashes Funding For Climate Aid And Nature Protection Across Developing World 1 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 3 300
Cities Across SW France & Basque Regions In Spain Set All-Time February Temps Up To 13C Over Averages 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 8 299
HFCs Have Warming Potential 100s To 1,000s More Than CO2; Appeal Underway To SCOTUS Re. Whether They Can Be Regulated 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 6 305
Utah Pushes For Residents To Pay More For Electricity, Because Anything Not Coal-Powered Is Woke And Gay 3 hatrack Monday Monday 8 384
Thousands advised to stay inside in Mississippi 8 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 1 Monday 72 2784
3 Weeks After Citizens Sued Dow Over Years Of Plastic Pollution, Company Pushing TX To Legalize That Pollution 0 hatrack Monday Monday 7 350
'Humans Riding Bikes Are More Energy-Efficient Than Any Other Animal On The Planet' 5 sop Mar 1 Mar 1 21 635
Big Tech Tries To Greenwash AI, Fails - 26% Of Climate Claims Cite Actual Research; 36% Cite No Evidence Whatsoever 1 hatrack Mar 1 Mar 1 10 440

Environment & Energy Continued...

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In Survey Of 195 US Cities, Average Winters Nine Days Shorter Compared To 1970-1997 Baseline 1 hatrack Mar 1 Mar 1 3 298
98% Of 2,778 Serious UK Water Pollution Incidents Downgraded By Ministry, 83% w/o Site Visits 0 hatrack Mar 1 Mar 1 4 335
Dirty Water, Death And Decline - The Inside Story Of UK's Water Privitazation Scandal 0 hatrack Mar 1 Mar 1 7 339
NRDC - US Sulfur Dioxide Emissions Up 18% YOY In 2025; 24% Increase For 71 Plants That Requested Pollution Exemptions 2 hatrack Feb 27 Mar 1 4 238
After Hurricane Helene, Cascade Of Health Effects From Mold Spreading Across NC 1 hatrack Feb 28 Feb 28 10 404
Shitstain Cutting System Requiring Emergency Plans For High-Risk Chemical Sites; Chemical Safety Board Also Targeted 1 hatrack Feb 28 Feb 28 4 357
2025 US Power Plant Inventory: Sulfur Dioxide Output Up 18%, NOx Emissions Up 7%, CO2 Emissions Up 4% 1 hatrack Feb 28 Feb 28 5 291
'I live in constant fear': surge in giant sinkholes threatens Turkey's farmers 0 muriel_volestrangler Feb 28 Feb 28 7 357
Study: Emissions Inventories For Colorado OIl & Gas Operations At Least 50% Too Low 0 hatrack Feb 28 Feb 28 2 260
Oceanic DDT Off Los Angeles County from 20th Century Chemical Waste Practices. 1 NNadir Feb 27 Feb 27 5 340
Judge orders protective measures for Columbia River salmon after Trump canceled historic deal 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 27 Feb 27 7 347
Nearly All US Coal Power Plants Could Have Met Pollution Rules For Toxic Metals; Shitstain's EPA Cut Those Rules Anyway 2 hatrack Feb 27 Feb 27 5 393
Judge says he will order Greenpeace to pay an expected $345 million in oil pipeline protest case 5 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 26 Feb 27 4 515
Colorado River Compact In Tatters, Interior Shows That It Will Barely Intervene (If At All) In Fractious 7-State Talks 0 hatrack Feb 27 Feb 27 6 374
More Than A Year Later, No Trace Of $400 Million In USDA Grant To Improve Irrigation Efficiency For AZ Farmers 0 hatrack Feb 27 Feb 27 4 398
Study: Southern Right Whales Shift Reproduction; Lack Of Food Means 1 Calf Every 4 Years, Not 3 Years 0 hatrack Feb 27 Feb 27 1 265
Emperor Penguins Face Death From Hypothermia During Molt As Sea Ice Disintegrates 2 hatrack Feb 26 Feb 26 13 380
"Abysmal Snowpack" Conditions In Rocky Mountain States; Even Average Seasonal Totals Likely Out Of Reach 2 hatrack Feb 26 Feb 26 9 488
For Decades Oil Majors Preempted Local Climate Lawsuits W. Clean Air Act; Now w. End Of Endangerment Finding, They Can't 2 hatrack Feb 26 Feb 26 13 366
Survey Of 8,000 Tropical Plant Species Across Continents Shows Flowering Times Now Months Early & Late 0 hatrack Feb 26 Feb 26 6 333
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