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Plastic pollution talks fail as negotiators in Geneva reject draft treaties 2 muriel_volestrangler Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 458
Global Heat Spike In 2023 Continued Through 2024; CO2 Content Rose At Record Rate In 2024, Matching 2015 Record 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 397
Warming In Svalbard 7X Global Average; Glaciers' Melt Powered In Part By Rich Microbial Ecosystem Within Them 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 412
British Gas Pours $2 Billion Into LNG Terminal, Even Though UK Gas Demand Hit Lowest Level In 30+ Years In 2024 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 395
Hydrogen Bus Explosion in Chungju Injures Three in South Korea 0 NNadir Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 493
World's first 30MW pure hydrogen gas turbine project breaks ground in Ordos 1 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 608
Department of Energy Announces Initial Selections for New Reactor Pilot Program 1 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 467
Lake on the 79N Glacier is splitting the ice - leaving permanent changes 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 446
Human emissions drove the megadrought in the western U.S. 2 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 556
Philippines gets first megawatt-scale floating solar farm 2 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 584
Solastalgia 4 littlemissmartypants Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 737
Study: Southwest US Drought May Persist Until 2100 As Global Warming Produces Major Shifts In Pacific Temperatures 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 478
Pedophile Party Reps Demand Canada "Take Action" Because Of Wildfire Smoke, But GOP Action On Warming Strangely Missing 2 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 507
1,500 Deaths Linked To Spain Heatwave, 8/12 Saw 198 Weather Stations @ 40C Or Above; Gov Fumbling Response At All Levels 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 524
Acetone, Ethanol, Toluene, Lead - A Toxic Creek Winds Through NC Neighborhood, And Trump's EPA Doesn't Care 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 440
Conservationists again sue U.S. Fish and Wildlife for denying Oregon red tree voles protection 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 339
International "State of the Climate" report confirms record-high greenhouse gases, global temperatures, global sea level 2 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 13 477
London's Newest Attraction: Wet Wipe Island, As Big As 2 Tennis Courts & Weighing As Much As 15 Doubledecker Buses 3 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 798
Dominion Energy (VA) Stated In Filing That Outside Monitor Checked Gas Plant Bids; Now They Admit That They Lied 2 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 615
Farming Already Uses An Area Equivalent To All Of Asia Plus All Of Europe And We're Still Razing Forests For Cheap Meat 3 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 602
2025 Set To Break 2022 Record For UK Wildfires; 5 Km2 Burned In Yorkshire National Park 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 352
Spain 5th Nation In A Week To Invoke EU Mutual Aid Pact For Fires; Lethal Heatwave Continues Across Southern Europe 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 406
After 2 Deaths During Multiple Days Of 100-110F Heat Indices, RAGBRAI's Future Increasingly Uncertain 4 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 808
Nearly 100 Nations Reject Toothless Plastics Treaty That Avoids Production Limits In Favor Of "Recycling" 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 477
Shistain Disbanded NOAA Group Tasked With Annual Update Of Flood Risk Back In January 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 493
Efforts to save local coral reefs ongoing amid sweltering South Florida summer - WPLG Local 10 Miami-Fort Lauderdale 1 Rhiannon12866 Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 408
Rock and glacial ice slide in the Endicott Arm area of Alaska generates 15 feet tsunami waves in fjord. 0 Tonk Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 671
EPA Will Now Let Big Polluters Stop Reporting CO2/Methane Output, But Satellites Are Already Tracking The Data 2 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 428
Swiss adventurer 'smashes altitude record' in solar-powered plane 3 littlemissmartypants Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 576
9 Years After 23 Residents Died In Catastrophic Flood, WV Officials Launching Study On Flood Mitigation On Kanawah River 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 391

Environment & Energy Continued...

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No El Nino, But 2025 On Track To Be One Of Three Hottest Years On Record; July Was The Third-Hottest July Ever 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 449
This is horrifying - Joe Rogan 2 applegrove Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 1096
Dengue Cases Spiking In Pacific Nations; 17 Deaths, 16,502 Cases So Far In 2025, And Yes, It's Warming-Related 2 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 454
W. Massive Bleaching And Coral Death Across Western Australia Reefs, Oil & Gas Major Extends Science Museum Sponsorship 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 350
Unpublished Gov Report Reveals "Intense And Scary" Climate Risks To Australia's Environment & Economy 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 379
China: Jiaxing Port Deploys 100 Hydrogen Trucks, Cutting 10,000 Tons of CO₂ Annually 0 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 379
Arizona Just Proved Jaguars Aren't Extinct in the U.S. 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2025 Aug 2025 12 585
US to retaliate against IMO members that back net zero emissions plan 1 Eugene Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 444
Parts of Europe burn as millions are facing record heat 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 433
Science Advances: Groundwater Mining Has Produced Greater SLR Impacts Than Melting Of Greenland's Ice Sheet 2 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 479
6 Years After Plan Launched For 22,000 km2 Native Forest Preserve In Saskatchewan, 90% Of It Has Been Destroyed By Fire 2 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 514
Shitstain's Budget Will Gut National Energy Labs In OR, CO, WA; Climate, Energy Efficiency Core Missions At These Sites 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 372
In Colorado, The Lee Fire Hits The State's Record For 5th-Largest Fire Ever At 130,000 Acres; 1,000+ Firefighters Deploy 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 449
1,000s Of FEMA Funding Requests Wait For ICE Barbie's Signature; Post-Helene, NC's Small, Rural Towns Hurt Most By Delay 2 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 582
Nearly 6,000 Residents Evacuated In Multiple Regions Of Spain As "Explosive" Fires Expand In 110F Heatwave 2 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 594
UK Ministers Approve Contingency Plans For Potential Collapse Of Thames Water 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 543
As Peak Of Hurricane Season Approaches, FEMA Diverts 100 Staffers To Help ICE Recruit Masked Clown Squad Members 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 409
China expands hydrogen bike-share network 1 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 474
India begins construction of first green hydrogen-powered ships 1 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 446
Canada wildfire season already second worst on record as experts warn of 'new reality' 0 Eugene Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 346
Top climate tech exec: The AC gap between Europe and America is becoming an economic liability 4 NickB79 Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 803
Tropical Storm Erin forms just west of Cabo Verde Islands 3 OnlinePoker Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 559
With those in power wedded to fossil fuels, the world needs a stronger pro-science mass movement to drive climate action 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 426
Annual Loss Of Coral Cover Across Great Barrier Reef Worst In 40 Years; 25% Mortality In North, 40% At One Tree Island 5 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 672
Swarm of jellyfish shuts nuclear power plant in France 6 cbabe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 678
In Western Australia, Up To 90% Of Corals Bleached Or Dead Across 900-Mile Stretch Of Reefs 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 326
Special "Corporate Court" Could Force UK Taxpayers To Pay Singapore Investors' Losses In Failed Lake District Coal Mine 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 372
Well, Good Luck With That: WV Families Suing Fracking Company Over VOCs Their Kids Are Inhaling 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 534
"An Environment Of Impunity Where Businesses No Longer Need To Even Pay Lip Service To Progress" 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 539
Another European Heatwave Bringing Temps At Or Beyond 110F To Spain And Portugal 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 422

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Perito Moreno Glacier Had Largely Held Steady; Science Now Shows Rapid Loss Of Ice Since 2019 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 408
Fire Closes Tourist Trails At Mt. Vesuvius While French Crews Continue Battling Huge Fire Near Pyrenees 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 399
Momentum sagging at UN plastic pollution treaty talks 0 Dulcinea Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 381
2026 GOP Budget Would Close NOAA Hurricane Research Center, Along w. More Than A Dozen Research/Forecast Sites Across US 3 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 524
UN says booming solar, wind and other green energy hits global tipping point for even lower costs 3 usonian Aug 2025 Aug 2025 13 691
Study - Atmospheric Rivers May Be Declining In Western States, Gathering Strength Farther East 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 554
Why The Fine Print Is Fine: BlackRock's "Sustainability" Goals Don't Mean A Thing; FF Investment Marches Right Along 2 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 549
Who's Helping JBS And Other Mega Beef Producers Greenwash Meat? The Nature Conservancy And WWF, Among Others 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 613
GOP 2026 Budget Bills Will Gut Environmental Agencies: 23% Of EPA Funding Eliminated, 6% Each For National Parks, FWS 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 483
OpenAI Chat GPT Will Save The World, But Altman And Company Won't Release Energy Use Of Updated Versions 1 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 489
Zeldin's EPA And Its Farcical GHG Policy Will Likely Face A Supreme Court Decision, Though Not For Years 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 448
So Cute!! 80% Of Registered Voters, And 58% Of Conservatives, Oppose Elimination Of Climate Research 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 19 609
Nearly 7,000 Angelenos Evacuated As Canyon Fire Grows; Another 14,000 Warned To Be Ready To Leave 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 510
Across China: Hydrogen energy fuels China's green shift - Xinhua 0 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 2025 0 422
Fortescue cancels $550 million hydrogen hub project in Buckeye 4 NickB79 Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 684
Climate Journalist on EPA's Actions Under Trump and Their Impact - Amanpour and Company PBS 0 Rhiannon12866 Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 384
ConEdison Seeking 11% Rate Hike As It Cuts Off A Record Number Of Customers - 88,000 For Jan-June 2025 0 hatrack Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 494
In disaster-prone Vanuatu, photos show sea animals returning to battered reefs. Can recovery happen? 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 424
Interior secretary announces end to Lava Ridge wind project in Idaho 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 436
The World's Largest Deforestation Project 3 muriel_volestrangler Aug 2025 Aug 2025 13 602
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