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Trump and Netanyahu's war's might just make us "Green" 0 mysteryowl Mar 2026 Mar 2026 5 430
Lion DNA Used As Evidence To Convict Poachers In Zimbabwe In First Case Of Its Kind 2 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 7 583
Huh. Trump's "Energy Dominance/Tiger Team" Doesn't Know Shit About What To Do Next Re. Energy Prices 1 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 3 547
The Taxpayer Toll For Australian Government Support For Fossil Fuel Industries - $31,020 Per Minute, Day In And Day Out 0 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 3 596
EPA Internal Oversight Office: "No Issues" W. Biden-Era Community Change Grants For Food/Energy Resilience 0 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 4 416
Bird losses are accelerating across North America, particularly in farming regions where agriculture is most intensive 1 marmar Mar 2026 Mar 2026 10 666
2026 Isn't 1973, But Shitstain Gutting CAFE/GHG Rules Means This Oil Shock Will Still Drag US Economy 1 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 5 552
Global Warming Is Gathering Momentum, But Global Media Coverage Of Warming Fell 38% In 2025 1 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 9 701
1 In 3 Human Beings Already Hurt By Warming; On Average, 900 Hours Per Year Dangerous For Those Over 65 1 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 11 773
One Year After Lee Zeldin Blocked GHG Reduction Fund As "Criminal", DC Appeals Shreds Trump Lawyers In Arguments 0 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 14 632
46 Of 61 EPA Enforcement Actions in FY 2025 Initiated By Biden, But That Doesn't Stop Trumpy Bragging 0 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 5 513
Well, Well, Well: FBI "Investigating" Members Of Extinction Rebellion, Other Environmental & Activist Groups 3 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 10 898
Black Rain Falls In Teheran After Israel Hits Oil Facilities; Monitors Struggling To Track Toxins, Health Threats 2 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 10 653
Global Warming - Bigger Hail: Attribution Study Links $350 Million In Damage From Paris Storm To Warming Trend 2 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 6 594
How Trump's EPA rollbacks give US states new tools in climate suits 0 Eugene Mar 2026 Mar 2026 4 454
Northern Territory Flooding Fills Streets W. Water, Crocodiles; Katherine River Flood Level Highest In Nearly 30 Years 1 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 13 838
After 40 Years Of Desalination FA, Corpus Christi Faces Drought-Induced FO - Water System Depletion Looms In 2027 7 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 21 1435
Investigations As To How Noem Broke Federal Laws "Managing" FEMA Will Have Plenty To Work With 2 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 7 856
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 2026 Mar 2026 10 544
The audacious plan to refill the Great Salt Lake 3 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2026 Mar 2026 3 727
The 'Great Texas Freeze' Killed Thousands of Purple Martins; Biologists Worry Recovery Could Take Decades 3 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 7 1122
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 2026 Mar 2026 4 548
Rate Of Global Heating Has Nearly Doubled From 0.2C Per Decade Through 2015 To 0.35C Per Decade Now 1 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 7 567
Data Center That Would Consume As Much Energy As Edmonton Too Much Even For Alberta Regulators 1 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 9 905
Nonlinear increase of compound drought-heatwave events since the early 2000s 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 4 836
JPL: Most Antarctic Ice Shelves "Remarkably Stable" But West Antarctic Ice Loss Area 30X Metro LA In 30 Yrs 0 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 4 891
Chris Ketcham: Clowns to the Left of Me, Fascists to the Right 5 jfz9580m Mar 2026 Mar 2026 1 966
24% Of EPA Workforce Gone Since 1/25; Staffers Who Left Had Median 30 Yrs Experience, Remaining Have 10 Yrs 0 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 5 601
US agency did not perform safety checks of more than 100 food ingredients, analysis finds 3 Eugene Mar 2026 Mar 2026 17 856
President Asshole, Techbros Sign "Ratepayer Protection Pledge", Pinky Swear AI Buildout Won't Spike Your Electric Bill 2 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 5 624

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Significant acceleration of global warming since 2015 2 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 4 624
'World-first accelerator-driven nuclear reactor' nears as China eyes '1000-year' energy source 2 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 3 729
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 2026 Mar 2026 5 502
Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently 6 douglas9 Mar 2026 Mar 2026 92 2598
February 2026 Atmospheric CO2 Content 429.35 ppm; February 2025 427.09 ppm; February 2024 424.55 ppm 7 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 5 991
Mark Carney's Tar Sands Pipeline Deal With Alberta Premier Rapidly Turning Into An Environmental & Financial Shitshow 1 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 9 739
Even Career Climate Hack Marc Morano Stunned By Silence In Response To Shitstain's Assault On Climate Policy 2 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 9 787
A Rather Compelling Scientific Rumination on Wind Energy and Sustainability: Blade Waste. 0 NNadir Mar 2026 Mar 2026 3 788
Study: Projected "Disturbance" Of European Forests - By Fire, Flooding, Drought, Disease - Set To Rise 30% By 2100 1 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 2 538
Nuclear regulator grants licence for Nexgen to build uranium mine in northern Sask. 0 OnlinePoker Mar 2026 Mar 2026 2 486
NRC Issues First Commercial Reactor Construction Approval in 10 Years For TerraPower in Wyoming 1 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 3 490
2040 climate target: Council (of the EU) gives final green light 1 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 2 569
Sea levels are much higher than often assumed. How is that possible? 5 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 5 857
The Insurance Industry Was "Realistic" About Climate Risks; Now Multiple Industry Associations Denying There's A Problem 1 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 5 938
Australian Regulator Suspends Antibiotic For Farmed Salmon After It Shows Up In Wild Populations 10 KM Distant 2 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 4 550
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 2026 Mar 2026 11 544
Seabird "Wreck" Spans Coasts Of Northwestern Europe; +/- 40,000 Dead, Starved & Sick Birds Washing Ashore 0 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 16 614
Chevron's hometown paper is quiet on climate. Guess who owns it? 1 douglas9 Mar 2026 Mar 2026 9 610
Belo Monte Megadam In Amazon Basin Generated Barely 1% Of Its Hydropower Capacity During 2024 Dry Season 1 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 3 524
Hotspots of accelerated bird decline linked to agricultural activity 2 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 5 624
We may be underestimating the true carbon cost of northern wildfires 1 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 2 532
Climate change pushes tropical insects to their heat limit 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 1 442
Global Shock - Joe Blogs 0 TexasTowelie Mar 2026 Mar 2026 3 463
'It's too warm': Greenland's fishermen are under threat from climate change 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2026 Mar 2026 7 538
Pesticide Company to Stop Producing Weed Killer Linked to Parkinson's Disease 1 douglas9 Mar 2026 Mar 2026 2 685
Global Warming Shreds Colorado River Compact As Glen Canyon Dam Nears End Of Hydropower Generation, Possible Deadpool 6 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 13 1189
After Being Sued, USDA Settles, Agrees To Provide Climate Risk Datasets For Farmers, Won't Guarantee For How Long 1 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 10 639
Port Isabel Independent School District Rejects $160 Million Tax Break For Giant Gulf Coast LNG Project 0 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 8 517
Warmest Winter In 135 Years Of Weather Records For Wyoming; Snowpack Below Avg At Altitude, At Record Lows Elsewhere 0 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 9 563
Four indicted in Sweetwater wind turbine blade dumping probe; cleanup not yet started 5 NNadir Mar 2026 Mar 2026 3 1250

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Why MAGA suddenly loves solar power 3 douglas9 Mar 2026 Mar 2026 7 1208
Generational Toxicity and Incomplete Recovery from Spent Lithium-Ion Battery Leachate in an Aquatic Microinvertebrate 1 NNadir Mar 2026 Mar 2026 1 765
Leaked Databases Show Efforts At NPS To Erase History & Reality - Slavery, First Nations, LGBTQ, Climate, Civil War 1 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 13 548
The culture war is coming for your electricity 1 douglas9 Mar 2026 Mar 2026 21 813
UK Slashes Funding For Climate Aid And Nature Protection Across Developing World 1 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 3 531
Cities Across SW France & Basque Regions In Spain Set All-Time February Temps Up To 13C Over Averages 0 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 8 478
HFCs Have Warming Potential 100s To 1,000s More Than CO2; Appeal Underway To SCOTUS Re. Whether They Can Be Regulated 0 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 6 499
Utah Pushes For Residents To Pay More For Electricity, Because Anything Not Coal-Powered Is Woke And Gay 3 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 8 681
Thousands advised to stay inside in Mississippi 8 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2026 Mar 2026 72 3313
3 Weeks After Citizens Sued Dow Over Years Of Plastic Pollution, Company Pushing TX To Legalize That Pollution 0 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 7 537
'Humans Riding Bikes Are More Energy-Efficient Than Any Other Animal On The Planet' 5 sop Mar 2026 Mar 2026 21 1078
Big Tech Tries To Greenwash AI, Fails - 26% Of Climate Claims Cite Actual Research; 36% Cite No Evidence Whatsoever 1 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 10 705
In Survey Of 195 US Cities, Average Winters Nine Days Shorter Compared To 1970-1997 Baseline 1 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 3 495
98% Of 2,778 Serious UK Water Pollution Incidents Downgraded By Ministry, 83% w/o Site Visits 0 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 4 521
Dirty Water, Death And Decline - The Inside Story Of UK's Water Privitazation Scandal 0 hatrack Mar 2026 Mar 2026 7 529
NRDC - US Sulfur Dioxide Emissions Up 18% YOY In 2025; 24% Increase For 71 Plants That Requested Pollution Exemptions 2 hatrack Feb 2026 Mar 2026 4 501
After Hurricane Helene, Cascade Of Health Effects From Mold Spreading Across NC 1 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 10 625
Shitstain Cutting System Requiring Emergency Plans For High-Risk Chemical Sites; Chemical Safety Board Also Targeted 1 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 4 612
2025 US Power Plant Inventory: Sulfur Dioxide Output Up 18%, NOx Emissions Up 7%, CO2 Emissions Up 4% 1 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 5 488
'I live in constant fear': surge in giant sinkholes threatens Turkey's farmers 0 muriel_volestrangler Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 552
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