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The E/E pocket reference guide [View all] 83 Dead_Parrot Feb 2012 Mar 2024 44 117329
Centuries of net-negative emissions required to secure a safe climate future 4 OKIsItJustMe 1 hr ago 34 min ago 3 181
Why China could emerge a winner from Trump's global energy shock 2 mahatmakanejeeves 3 hrs ago 40 min ago 1 186
After Noem Gets Shitcanned, Responses Across What's Left Of FEMA Range From "Relieved To Celebratory" 3 hatrack 8 hrs ago 4 hrs ago 11 360
Philip Ball: Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve? 5 jfz9580m 12 hrs ago 7 hrs ago 4 306
Absolutely Crazy! Spiking Gas Prices Have More Americans Considering (Drum Roll, Please) Gay, Woke Electric Vehicles!! 6 hatrack 8 hrs ago 7 hrs ago 10 366
+/- $50 Million In Fines For Welsh Water After Survey Finds "Serious And Unacceptable" Failures, Repeated Sewage Spills 0 hatrack 8 hrs ago 8 hrs ago 4 239
Even In Alabama, State Legislature Moving To Reform Utility Commission - But It's Not What It Appears To Be 0 hatrack 8 hrs ago 8 hrs ago 5 273
Trump and Netanyahu's war's might just make us "Green" 0 mysteryowl 16 hrs ago 16 hrs ago 4 219
Lion DNA Used As Evidence To Convict Poachers In Zimbabwe In First Case Of Its Kind 2 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 6 269
Huh. Trump's "Energy Dominance/Tiger Team" Doesn't Know Shit About What To Do Next Re. Energy Prices 1 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 2 279
The Taxpayer Toll For Australian Government Support For Fossil Fuel Industries - $31,020 Per Minute, Day In And Day Out 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 2 201
EPA Internal Oversight Office: "No Issues" W. Biden-Era Community Change Grants For Food/Energy Resilience 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 3 200
Bird losses are accelerating across North America, particularly in farming regions where agriculture is most intensive 1 marmar Wednesday Wednesday 9 361
2026 Isn't 1973, But Shitstain Gutting CAFE/GHG Rules Means This Oil Shock Will Still Drag US Economy 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 4 285
Global Warming Is Gathering Momentum, But Global Media Coverage Of Warming Fell 38% In 2025 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 8 340
1 In 3 Human Beings Already Hurt By Warming; On Average, 900 Hours Per Year Dangerous For Those Over 65 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 10 455
One Year After Lee Zeldin Blocked GHG Reduction Fund As "Criminal", DC Appeals Shreds Trump Lawyers In Arguments 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 13 390
46 Of 61 EPA Enforcement Actions in FY 2025 Initiated By Biden, But That Doesn't Stop Trumpy Bragging 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 4 265
Well, Well, Well: FBI "Investigating" Members Of Extinction Rebellion, Other Environmental & Activist Groups 3 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 8 524
Black Rain Falls In Teheran After Israel Hits Oil Facilities; Monitors Struggling To Track Toxins, Health Threats 2 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 9 317
Global Warming - Bigger Hail: Attribution Study Links $350 Million In Damage From Paris Storm To Warming Trend 2 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 5 335
How Trump's EPA rollbacks give US states new tools in climate suits 0 Eugene Sunday Sunday 3 245
Northern Territory Flooding Fills Streets W. Water, Crocodiles; Katherine River Flood Level Highest In Nearly 30 Years 1 hatrack Sunday Sunday 12 604
After 40 Years Of Desalination FA, Corpus Christi Faces Drought-Induced FO - Water System Depletion Looms In 2027 7 hatrack Sunday Sunday 19 681
Investigations As To How Noem Broke Federal Laws "Managing" FEMA Will Have Plenty To Work With 2 hatrack Sunday Sunday 6 521
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 Sunday Sunday 9 337
The audacious plan to refill the Great Salt Lake 3 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Saturday Saturday 3 410
The 'Great Texas Freeze' Killed Thousands of Purple Martins; Biologists Worry Recovery Could Take Decades 3 OKIsItJustMe Saturday Saturday 7 699

Environment & Energy Continued...

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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 4 326
Rate Of Global Heating Has Nearly Doubled From 0.2C Per Decade Through 2015 To 0.35C Per Decade Now 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 7 283
Data Center That Would Consume As Much Energy As Edmonton Too Much Even For Alberta Regulators 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 9 617
Nonlinear increase of compound drought-heatwave events since the early 2000s 0 OKIsItJustMe Saturday Saturday 4 548
JPL: Most Antarctic Ice Shelves "Remarkably Stable" But West Antarctic Ice Loss Area 30X Metro LA In 30 Yrs 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 4 568
Chris Ketcham: Clowns to the Left of Me, Fascists to the Right 5 jfz9580m Friday Saturday 1 468
24% Of EPA Workforce Gone Since 1/25; Staffers Who Left Had Median 30 Yrs Experience, Remaining Have 10 Yrs 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 5 349
US agency did not perform safety checks of more than 100 food ingredients, analysis finds 3 Eugene Saturday Saturday 17 499
President Asshole, Techbros Sign "Ratepayer Protection Pledge", Pinky Swear AI Buildout Won't Spike Your Electric Bill 2 hatrack Friday Friday 5 345
Significant acceleration of global warming since 2015 2 OKIsItJustMe Friday Friday 4 287
'World-first accelerator-driven nuclear reactor' nears as China eyes '1000-year' energy source 2 OKIsItJustMe Friday Friday 3 432
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 Friday 5 273
Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently 6 douglas9 Friday Friday 92 2082
February 2026 Atmospheric CO2 Content 429.35 ppm; February 2025 427.09 ppm; February 2024 424.55 ppm 7 hatrack Friday Friday 5 407
Mark Carney's Tar Sands Pipeline Deal With Alberta Premier Rapidly Turning Into An Environmental & Financial Shitshow 1 hatrack Friday Friday 9 498
Even Career Climate Hack Marc Morano Stunned By Silence In Response To Shitstain's Assault On Climate Policy 2 hatrack Friday Friday 9 463
A Rather Compelling Scientific Rumination on Wind Energy and Sustainability: Blade Waste. 0 NNadir Friday Friday 3 512
Study: Projected "Disturbance" Of European Forests - By Fire, Flooding, Drought, Disease - Set To Rise 30% By 2100 1 hatrack Friday Friday 2 314
Nuclear regulator grants licence for Nexgen to build uranium mine in northern Sask. 0 OnlinePoker Friday Friday 2 283
NRC Issues First Commercial Reactor Construction Approval in 10 Years For TerraPower in Wyoming 1 OKIsItJustMe Mar 5 Mar 5 3 245
2040 climate target: Council (of the EU) gives final green light 1 OKIsItJustMe Mar 5 Mar 5 2 291
Sea levels are much higher than often assumed. How is that possible? 5 OKIsItJustMe Mar 5 Mar 5 5 433
The Insurance Industry Was "Realistic" About Climate Risks; Now Multiple Industry Associations Denying There's A Problem 1 hatrack Mar 5 Mar 5 5 497
Australian Regulator Suspends Antibiotic For Farmed Salmon After It Shows Up In Wild Populations 10 KM Distant 2 hatrack Mar 5 Mar 5 4 293
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 11 348
Seabird "Wreck" Spans Coasts Of Northwestern Europe; +/- 40,000 Dead, Starved & Sick Birds Washing Ashore 0 hatrack Mar 5 Mar 5 16 440
Chevron's hometown paper is quiet on climate. Guess who owns it? 1 douglas9 Mar 5 Mar 5 9 377
Belo Monte Megadam In Amazon Basin Generated Barely 1% Of Its Hydropower Capacity During 2024 Dry Season 1 hatrack Mar 5 Mar 5 3 276
Hotspots of accelerated bird decline linked to agricultural activity 2 OKIsItJustMe Mar 5 Mar 5 5 327
We may be underestimating the true carbon cost of northern wildfires 1 OKIsItJustMe Mar 5 Mar 5 2 315

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Climate change pushes tropical insects to their heat limit 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 5 Mar 5 1 248
Global Shock - Joe Blogs 0 TexasTowelie Mar 5 Mar 5 3 287
'It's too warm': Greenland's fishermen are under threat from climate change 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 4 Mar 4 7 355
Pesticide Company to Stop Producing Weed Killer Linked to Parkinson's Disease 1 douglas9 Mar 4 Mar 4 2 432
Global Warming Shreds Colorado River Compact As Glen Canyon Dam Nears End Of Hydropower Generation, Possible Deadpool 6 hatrack Mar 2 Mar 4 13 679
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 10 414
Port Isabel Independent School District Rejects $160 Million Tax Break For Giant Gulf Coast LNG Project 0 hatrack Mar 4 Mar 4 8 329
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 9 351
Four indicted in Sweetwater wind turbine blade dumping probe; cleanup not yet started 5 NNadir Mar 3 Mar 4 3 592
Why MAGA suddenly loves solar power 3 douglas9 Mar 2 Mar 3 7 912
Generational Toxicity and Incomplete Recovery from Spent Lithium-Ion Battery Leachate in an Aquatic Microinvertebrate 1 NNadir Mar 2 Mar 3 1 520
Leaked Databases Show Efforts At NPS To Erase History & Reality - Slavery, First Nations, LGBTQ, Climate, Civil War 1 hatrack Mar 3 Mar 3 13 358
The culture war is coming for your electricity 1 douglas9 Mar 3 Mar 3 21 594
UK Slashes Funding For Climate Aid And Nature Protection Across Developing World 1 hatrack Mar 3 Mar 3 3 332
Cities Across SW France & Basque Regions In Spain Set All-Time February Temps Up To 13C Over Averages 0 hatrack Mar 3 Mar 3 8 314
HFCs Have Warming Potential 100s To 1,000s More Than CO2; Appeal Underway To SCOTUS Re. Whether They Can Be Regulated 0 hatrack Mar 3 Mar 3 6 323
Utah Pushes For Residents To Pay More For Electricity, Because Anything Not Coal-Powered Is Woke And Gay 3 hatrack Mar 2 Mar 2 8 417
Thousands advised to stay inside in Mississippi 8 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 1 Mar 2 72 2820
3 Weeks After Citizens Sued Dow Over Years Of Plastic Pollution, Company Pushing TX To Legalize That Pollution 0 hatrack Mar 2 Mar 2 7 373
'Humans Riding Bikes Are More Energy-Efficient Than Any Other Animal On The Planet' 5 sop Mar 1 Mar 1 21 672
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