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Despite Overwhelming Public Opposition, Bessemer AL City Council Approves Zoning For Gigantic Data Center 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 535
Comprehensive Plant Inventories From 1884 To 1931 Were Nearly Tossed; Now Provide Priceless Window On Habitats Over Time 2 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 457
UK Security Agencies Prepared Major Report On Warming Threats To National Security; Release Suddenly Delayed 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 386
"Forever Chemicals" - PFAS Gas - Routinely Used At Data/AI Centers. No Testing Or Use Data Required 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 11 555
Headline: "Where Are The Climate Republicans?" Answer - They Never Gave A Shit In The First Place 2 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 517
20 Years On, "Great Green Wall" Of Trees Across Sahara Faltering As Seedlings Die, Money Dries Up 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 10 531
Nestle Abandons Pretense Of Action, Leaves Global Alliance To Cut Methane From Dairy Industry 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 510
Illegal gold mining clears 140,000 hectares of Peruvian Amazon 1 hunter Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 413
Trump Just Gutted The Wildest Public Land In America 4 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 Oct 2025 21 1405
An inside look at Idaho's $3M fight against invasive quagga mussels 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 361
More than 40 Trump administration picks tied directly to oil, gas and coal, analysis shows 1 douglas9 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 417
Biggest Federal Coal Lease Sale In 10 Years Brings One Bid - For 1/10th Cent Per Ton; Last Lease Sale Brought $1.10 2 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 552
Global Plastics Treaty Talks Collapsed In August After 3 Years Of Meetings; Now, Treaty Chair Resigning 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 462
UK Exports Of Plastic Waste To Developing Nations Nearly Doubled In Just The 1st 6 Months Of 2025 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 394
Insurance Coverage Near-Impossible For Coastal LA Residents As Insurance Companies Invest More In Exxon, BP, Etc. 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 543
Renewables Overtake Coal: Global Power Shift Leaves Trump Behind. - FIVE MINUTE NEWS 1 Rhiannon12866 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 392
That's Nice: EPA Does 180, Will Require Coke Plants To Monitor For Benzene, Chromium, Other Toxins After All 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 10 432
Brilliant - TikTok Video - "If The Tesla Cybertruck Was A Person" 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 1749
Brexit Allowed UK To "Take Control" Of North Sea Fishing; 59%Of Cod, Mackerel Pops Fished So Hard They Can't Repopulate 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 12 493
"Someday" Is Here: Colorado River Treaty Divides 15 Million AF Among Basin States; Last Year's Flow Was 8.5 Million AF 3 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 687
Wildfires Ravage One of Africa's Largest Nature Reserves 0 douglas9 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 450
Outcry as Trump plots more roads and logging in US forests: 'You can almost hear the chainsaws' 2 douglas9 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 585
EPA Will No Longer Collect GHG Emissions Data From Corporations, Utilities; Can Anyone Else Compile Information? 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 419
Judge Voids Huge Tax Break Exxon Rammed Through TX School Board; New Plastics Plant Now On Hold 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 507
Thames Water Removes 100-Ton Fatberg From Sewer; Chisels And High-Pressure Hoses Used In Project 3 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 10 708
Nearly 500,000 Planned Homes In Phoenix On Hold; State Water Agency Acknowledging Groundwater Reality 3 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 15 715
Study Of 25 Years Of Carbon Offsets Reveals A Legacy Of Failure; Not Even 1 In 5 Projects Did Anything To Cut GHGs 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 437
5 SE Asian Nations Collectively Lost Forest Area The Size Of Lebanon In 2024; 30% Of Losses In Protected Areas 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 377
Cracking The Future: How Pistachios Can Power Morocco's Green Growth - OpEd 3 Judi Lynn Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 540
OhNoAnyway - 80% Of Ohio's Only National Forest Now Classified As Eligible For Logging 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 596

Environment & Energy Continued...

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So Cute!! "Moderate" Republicans Are "Concerned" W. Shitstain's Farcical And Toxic Coal Policies 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 472
Scientists Find 1st Evidence Of Invasive Barnacles In Arctic; Polar Water Had Been Too Cold For Them To Live There 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 409
42 Former Fossil Fuel Operatives Among Appointees/Nominees For Federal Energy And Environmental Positions 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 406
Philippines to Launch First Coral Larvae Cryobank to Boost Reef Restoration 0 Judi Lynn Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 510
'All the trees are dead': An ancient California forest has been wiped out 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 Oct 2025 11 716
OPEC+ to raise oil production by 137,000 barrels per day in November 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 0 437
Explosive Growth In Valley Fever In CA, AZ In 2024; Now Shitstain's Medical Cuts Damaging Efforts To Respond 2 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 609
450 US Hydropower Sites Due For Relicensing In Next 10 Years; Average US Dam Age Is 65 Years 5 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 617
Pumped Hydro Plant In NSW Was To Cost $2 Billion In 2017; 65% Complete, It's Pushing $13 Billion 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 0 450
Some National Parks Closed, Some Operating w. Skeleton Staffing, Some Left The Gates Open - No One Knows What To Do 2 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 542
Solar becomes main source of electricity in the EU for the first time: 1 applegrove Oct 2025 Oct 2025 10 586
Bans on this landscaping tool continue to spread across the US. See where. 12 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2025 Oct 2025 37 3963
Something is wrong with Lake Itasca, the source of the Mississippi River 21 NickB79 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 51 3148
The Long Heat - New Book Shows Warming "Solutions" As Unwillingness To Challenge The Death-Grip Of Money 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 597
Study: Marine Shell Data Tracks Changes In Ocean Currents; Large Changes In Conveyer Possible Under Today's Conditions 2 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 789
After "Unfortunate" Fatal Explosion In AL Home, State Abandons Monitoring For Methane Leaks From Coal Mining 2 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 11 639
W. At Least A Dozen Norovirus Outbreaks Under Way, CDC Lays Off Cruise Ship Health Inspectors, Including Epidemiologist 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 16 627
Environmental Doublespeak Is Now So Common That One Doesn't Even Notice. 1 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 579
OHNOANYWAY: Net-Zero Banking Alliance Shutting Down - But They're Generously Bequeathing Us Their "Guidance" 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 487
After Decades Of Legendarily Awful Air Pollution, Santiago May Finally Be Turning The Corner 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 411
Hydrogen/Battery Energy Storage Site Begins Operations in California 0 Caribbeans Oct 2025 Oct 2025 0 520
Tourism is helping Uganda's endangered mountain gorillas make a comeback 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 694
'This is unprecedented:' Ecology restricts surface water use in the Yakima River Basin 0 cbabe Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 574
Global Warming Comes Knocking: "The Insurance Crisis In The US Is The Canary In The Coal Mine, And The Canary Is Dead" 5 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 17 1972
Of 200 Biggest Global Fires Since1980 - In Terms Of GDP Losses - 43% Took Place In The Last 10 Years 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 511
WY, MT & 12 Other Trump States' Attorneys General Accuse Tech Firms Of Greenwashing - As A Way To Destroy Climate Goals 2 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 780
From rooftops to honey jars, Athens is abuzz with urban beekeeping 0 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 650
Shitstain's DOE Gleefuly Cancels 226 Alt-Energy Programs W. $7.6 Billion In Funding - Including "Carbon Capture" And H 2 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 731
Duke Energy Unveils "We Don't Give A Fuck" Energy Plan; Will Keep Burning Coal For 2-4 More Years, Because AI 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 669
Apparently, Senior Tories Are "Concerned" About Badenoch Dumping Climate Plan. That's Nice . . . 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 493

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Berlin's Reintroduction Of Goshawks In City Parks A Model For UK; Mesopredator Control To Benefit Songbirds 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 566
Former NOAA Employees Launch Climate.us To Provide Data Scrubbed By Trump; AGU, AMS Reboot National Climate Assessment 7 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 52 1486
National Flood Insurance Program Now $22.5 Billion In Debt; Current Authorization Ended 9/30/2025 3 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 597
As Hurricanes Stir Up Coastal Waters, North Carolina Homes Collapse Into the Sea 6 Brenda Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 762
Remembering Jane Goodall and how she changed the way people see animals 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 388
New DOE Dirty Words, Per Memo: "Climate Change", "Sustainable", "Emissions", "Green", "Clean Energy","Carbon Footprint" 3 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 854
Antarctica's message to the world: scientists sound alarm on extreme events and tipping points 2 OKIsItJustMe Sep 2025 Oct 2025 9 2111
2018 - 2023: UK And Mainland Europe Lost Forests And Farmlands At A Rate of 600 Soccer Fields Per Day 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 685
Oh Goody! Now We Can See What Conservative Climate Leaders Like John Curtis And Lisa Murkowski Are Planning To Do 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 1143
Austrian energy company breaks ground on nation's largest green hydrogen project 0 Caribbeans Sep 2025 Sep 2025 1 1257
US energy department cracks down on workers' use of climate crisis language 2 Eugene Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 1263
MAAP #232: The Amazon Tipping Point - Importance of Flying Rivers Connecting the Amazon 0 OKIsItJustMe Sep 2025 Sep 2025 5 457
Plant-based dog food cuts environmental impact by over 90% vs. red meat 2 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 14 2455
Experiment Shows That Nanoplastic Particles Can Enter Vegetables; 5% Of Particles Deployed Entered Radishes In 5 Days 5 hatrack Sep 2025 Sep 2025 9 1624
Electric vehicle and plug-in hybrid vehicle occupancy rules change Tuesday at midnight 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 7 2065
The World Is Hurtling Into Climate Disaster And What Do Our Leaders Give Us? Oilfields & New Runways. 6 hatrack Sep 2025 Sep 2025 37 2986
60% Of Virginia Is Within The Chesapeake Bay Watershed - That Watershed Lost 50,000 Acres Of Forest Canopy In 7 Years 3 hatrack Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 2055
Will mining destroy America's most-visited wilderness? 4 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 7 2600
Apparently There's A "Generative AI Arms Race With China", Which Means Discounting, Digging And Burning All The Coal 0 hatrack Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 1987
EPA May Use 5-Member Hackfest's "Science" To Justify Abandoning GHG Action - Risking Judicial Rejection 0 hatrack Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 1911
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