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For The First Time In More Than 1,000 Years Of Human Habitation, Mosquitoes Found In Iceland 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 461
Delhi Kicks Off Smog Season Shrouded In Fireworks Smoke After Diwali; AQ Index Above 500 - 10X "Healthy" Level 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 346
Sure, Why Not!! Just In Time For CRAP 30, Brazil Greenlights Oil Drilling At The Mouth Of Amazon River 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 429
Permafrost thawed by climate change threatens remote villages in Alaska - PBS NewsHour 1 Rhiannon12866 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 395
The US-Mexico Border Wall May Pose Perils to Pollinators 0 douglas9 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 412
Illinois 1 Of 7 States To Pass Laws Requiring Education On Climate Change, But Funding Lacking So Far 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 409
Mystery heatwave warms Pacific Ocean to new record 1 muriel_volestrangler Oct 2025 Oct 2025 16 606
Facing Projected AI Demand Spike, 11 Governors In States Served By Largest Grid Operator Demanding More Authority 4 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 635
Scuttling Columbia Basin pact ignores peril to salmon 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 342
Trump administration quietly canceled the nation's largest solar project 4 Dulcinea Oct 2025 Oct 2025 13 758
Thanks To "Bullying", "Intimidation" From Trump Reps, All-But-Assured Small Levy On Maritime Emissions Scrapped 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 343
The humble plant that could save the world -- or destroy it 1 sue4e3 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 17 749
The Climate Speech at the Princeton NJ, No Kings Event. 0 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 429
Xi Pledged in 2021 That China Would End Support Of Coal Overseas; 17 Units Planned Or Underway In Indonesia Alone 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 339
Trump's War On Clean Energy - Glenn Kirschner 0 Rhiannon12866 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 365
'Bigger, hotter, faster': Extreme blazes drive rise in CO₂ fire emissions 0 sue4e3 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 303
Last Coal Power Plant In New England Closes Down Three Years Ahead Of Schedule 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 377
3 Months After Deadly TX Floods, 22% Of Applications For FEMA Aid Found Eligible In Kerr County - Site Of Most Deaths 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 434
Advanced Nuclear Fuel Manufacture Finds Its Way into Industrial Chemical Engineering Literature. 0 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 412
California takes on Big Plastic for selling nonrecyclable shopping bags 1 douglas9 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 444
Southern Ocean's low-salinity Antarctic waters continue absorbing CO₂ despite climate model predictions 1 sue4e3 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 341
World's oceans losing their greenness through global heating, study finds 0 sue4e3 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 287
Renewed legal battle ramps up over Columbia Basin dams and salmon 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 316
FL Local Govs Attempt To Defend Against Rising Seas & Bad Weather, Receive Threats, Lawsuits From Desantis In Return 4 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 623
Coral Species Known For Resistance To Bleaching Is Doing Exactly That Off Atlantic Coast Of S. Florida 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 410
Shitstain's FEMA Adding New Hurdles To Emergency Aid, Delaying Payouts To Already-Declared Disasters 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 445
Oh, Great: Leaked Draft Shows Brazil To Press COP 30 Delegates To "Vastly Increase" Biofuels Production 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 520
Democratizing global climate modeling 0 sue4e3 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 262
Founder's Pledge - Branded As "Green" - Is Just A Way For The Rich To Fund Anti-Science Pressure Groups 3 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 547
September 2025 3rd-Warmest September In Instrumental Record (Behind September 2023 & September 2024) 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 332

Environment & Energy Continued...

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As Recently As 30 Years Ago, Greenland Thawed While Antarctica Remained Largely Untouched By Warming. Not Any More . . 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 370
Largest primate in Americas could lose up to 61% of its climatically suitable habitat by 2090 1 sue4e3 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 511
Rain in the Sahara? Researchers predict a wetter future for the desert 0 sue4e3 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 385
Jumbo drop in estimates of India elephant population 0 sue4e3 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 382
Study reveals decline in North Atlantic dolphin lifespan and population growth 0 sue4e3 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 319
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 sue4e3 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 0 249
Australia's rainforests are the first to switch from carbon sink to carbon source, study warns 0 Jim__ Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 365
Eloon Predicted 250K CyberDumpster Sales/Year; So Far In 2025, The Total (Per Tesla) Is 16,000 6 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 723
Average Annual Increase In Atmospheric CO2 Biggest On Record In 2024; Same For GHGs Methane, Nitrous Oxide 4 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 10 562
Back In May, Trump's EPA Canceled $20 Million Grant To Prepare For AK Floods; October Floods Flattened AK Villages 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 496
After Floods In 2019, 2020, 2023 And 2024, English Town Of Tenbury Wells Uninsurable; High Street Slowly Emptying 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 424
UK Government Must Prepare For Heat And Drought Far Beyond Existing Plans For Expected Extremes 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 371
Extreme Heat Hurts Troops; Extreme Weather Hits Bases - But Shitstain's Pentagon No Longer Plans For Warming 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 388
The West's power grid could be stitched together -- if red and blue states buy in 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 380
23,000 Homes Had Insulation Installed Under Tory Energy Efficiency Scheme; 98% Of Them Will Need Repair Or Replacement 2 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 594
1 In 6 Lab-Confirmed Bacterial Infections Antibiotic-Resistant; 40% Of Drugs Lost Potency w. Common Infections 2018-23 3 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 565
The medieval folklore of Britain's endangered wildlife 'omens 0 sue4e3 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 394
Data centers are booming. But there are big energy and environmental risks 2 Dulcinea Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 452
8 Million Homes In England At Risk From Flooding; Entire Neighborhoods And Towns May Be Abandoned As Uninsurable 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 537
Coral die-off marks Earth's first climate 'tipping point', scientists say 4 Submariner Oct 2025 Oct 2025 18 533
Planet's Forest Health In "Dismal" Condition; Agriculture Gets 70X The Subsidies Dedicated To Restore, Protect Forests 3 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 457
New Zealand accused of 'full-blown climate denial' over cuts to methane reduction targets 0 Eugene Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 320
Sen. John Curtis (R-UT) To Attend COP-30 Climate Conference In Brazil, For Reasons That Remain Utterly Obscure 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 434
UK Diesel Cheating Scandal Snares Ford, Mercedes, Renault, Nissan And Peugeot/Citroen; Damages Pegged @ $8 Billion+ 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 354
Christmas Island Shrew Officially Extinct; 39 Australian Mammal Species Gone Since 1788, More Than In Any Other Nation 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 11 440
Brown, Stinking Tapwater In Small TX Town One Problem; 90% Cuts In Fed Funding Help Another; Taste Of Freedom Unchanged 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 560
EPA Inspector General's Office Lists 13 Problems In September Report; Former Staff Report "Incapacitating" Staffing Cuts 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 439
European Commission Tells Trump To Get Stuffed On Pressure To Weaken Environmental Rules 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 10 496
You're kidding, right? Solar and Wind's Hidden Price Tag: Why Cost Isn't the Whole Story 0 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 657
Solar Photovoltaic Development in West Africa Will Face Million-Ton Waste Challenges, and Off-Grid Systems Will Dominate 2 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 0 773

Environment & Energy Continued...

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A Nuclear Engineer Comments on HBO's Chernobyl Reactor Movie Series, Episode 5. 1 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 594
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 0 273
Elon Musk's Satellites Now Constantly Falling Out of the Sky 3 turbinetree Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 582
Adventures in "Green" Batteries, Fluorinated Ionic Liquids (and other PFAS) in European Waters. 0 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 399
Al Gore Comes Around on Nuclear Energy. 3 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 698
All-European team leads lead-cooled EAGLES reactor project 0 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 541
Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas 1 DBoon Oct 2025 Oct 2025 13 554
As Drought Grinds On In NE British Columbia, Fracking Water Consumption In Area Rose 50% In 2024 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 351
Sen. Whitehouse: "Trump is Moving Money from Pockets of Normal Americans to Fossil Fuel Megadonors" 1 Rhiannon12866 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 515
Study: 61% Of Global Bird Species In Global Survey Declining As IUCN Convenes 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 373
8 Houses Fell Into The Sea Last Week Alone On The Outer Banks; NC Officials Bracing For More, Staging Debris Crews 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 459
TOTAL Havoc BREAKS LOOSE as Trump DESTROYS WEATHER FORECASTS - Meidas Touch 0 Rhiannon12866 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 553
Despite Overwhelming Public Opposition, Bessemer AL City Council Approves Zoning For Gigantic Data Center 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 519
Comprehensive Plant Inventories From 1884 To 1931 Were Nearly Tossed; Now Provide Priceless Window On Habitats Over Time 2 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 436
UK Security Agencies Prepared Major Report On Warming Threats To National Security; Release Suddenly Delayed 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 371
"Forever Chemicals" - PFAS Gas - Routinely Used At Data/AI Centers. No Testing Or Use Data Required 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 11 531
Headline: "Where Are The Climate Republicans?" Answer - They Never Gave A Shit In The First Place 2 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 496
20 Years On, "Great Green Wall" Of Trees Across Sahara Faltering As Seedlings Die, Money Dries Up 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 10 505
Nestle Abandons Pretense Of Action, Leaves Global Alliance To Cut Methane From Dairy Industry 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 487
Illegal gold mining clears 140,000 hectares of Peruvian Amazon 1 hunter Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 392
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