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AP: 'Hellishly hot' southern Europe bakes under heat wave, worst still to come as temperatures top 104F 2 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 9 453
AP: Will the Seine be clean enough by the Olympics? Not even the experts know yet 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 350
NPR: California's wildfires are burning far more land so far this year than in 2023 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 342
226,000+ Centerpoint Customers Still w/o Power A Full Week After Beryl's Landfall 1 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 7 410
New LA Law - Insurance Companies Can Cancel Up To 5% Of Their Long-Time Home Insurance Policies Each Year 3 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 9 509
China's Output Of Perfluorocarbons - 1,000s Of Times More Potent Than CO2 - Up 78% In 10 Years 1 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 8 350
UK Water Regulator Begins Investigation Into Four Water Companies Left Not Already Under Investigation 0 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 329
60,000 Beluga Whales Are On The Move - Watch Their Annual Migration Live 2 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 10 556
AP: Indonesia's massive metals build-out is felling the forest for batteries 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 329
Debt-Ridden Thames Water Dumps Solar Firm; But Don't Worry, Its Executives Will Get Lots Of Severance Pay! 0 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 353
High Temps Across Balkans In +/- 105F Range; Nighttime Athens Lows 87F; Fire Risk Spiking 0 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 268
DC Hits 102F Monday 7/15; Heat Index 7/16 Pegged At 105F - Hottest Summer On Record So Far 0 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 286
Oh, Goody - Shitstain's GOP And Their Positions On Climate And Energy, Just In Time For The Convention 0 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 477
World's rarest whale may have washed up on New Zealand beach, possibly shedding clues on species 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 378
Reuters: China asks WTO to set up panel for US electric vehicle subsidies dispute 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 1 294
POSTEC Could High-Temperature Single Crystals Enable Electric Vehicles Capable of Traveling Up to One million Km? 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 7 443
AP: World's first hydrogen-powered commercial ferry to run on San Francisco Bay, and it's free to ride 6 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 580
Climate Change Toll in Alaska 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2024 Jul 2024 6 378
U.S. House committee advances bill that would halt application of new silica dust rule 4 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2024 Jul 2024 8 463
Nations gather to negotiate deep sea mining code as opposition mounts 0 sl8 Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 242
The Shitty Fingerprints Of Trump's Cronies All Over Project 2025 He Denies Knowing Anything About 0 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 7 439
BP-Owned Carbon "Offset" Company's Assets Based Largely On Forests In No Danger Of Being Logged 0 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 7 329
Why your air conditioning bill is about to soar - the energy required rises with the SQUARE of the temperature differenc 10 progree Jul 2024 Jul 2024 13 6495
The $1.7 billion bet on American-made EVs, explained by the Secretary of Energy 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 347
"Incandescent" Anger Over Sewage Pollution Drove 1st Tory Loss In 100 Years In West Sussex District 1 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 11 470
Afthanistan Uniquely Vulnerable To Climate Collapse; Taliban Try To Reconcile Science With Islamic Fundamentalism 1 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 8 455
Thwaites Glacier - New Data Show Warm (mid-30s F) Seawater Penetrates Daily Miles Beyond Grounding Line 1 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 8 432
With Beryl Breaking Records Six Weeks Into Hurricane Season, Scientists Worry About What's Next 0 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 7 364
Cary Institute: Forest carbon storage has declined across much of the Western US, likely due to drought and fire 2 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 348
Demand for rare elements used in clean energy could help clean up abandoned coal mines in US 2 sl8 Jul 2024 Jul 2024 9 503

Environment & Energy Continued...

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New Study Reveals Greenland Ice Melting Threatens Life on Earth - Thom Hartmann 5 Rhiannon12866 Jul 2024 Jul 2024 8 577
Thylacines, Toolache Wallabies, Bulldog Rats - Visiting The Austalian Museum's Extinction Cabinets 1 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 424
2023's Soaked Summer Cut UK Farm Income Nearly 20%, Farm Output By 13% YOY 3 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 359
London Science Museum Cuts Equinor Sponsorship; Gag Clause, Failure To Hit Paris Targets Cited 0 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 421
The Summer Of Missing Butterflies; License Plate Survey Shows 78% UK Insect Decline 2004-23 0 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 8 381
Alaska's Juneau Icefield Is Melting at an 'Incredibly Worrying' 50,000 Gallons per Second, Researchers Find 2 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 12 738
Institute for Basic Science: Unprecedented Warming Threatens Earth's Lakes and their Ecosystems 1 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 530
Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research: High and low tide cause low and high methane fluxes 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 302
MIT Hurricane Scientist Kerry Emmanuel On Beryl "A Category 1 Shouldn't Knock Out Your Power System" 8 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 16 813
Three Mile Island reopening chatter keeps getting more serious 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 457
The Messenger, a film about songbirds and their welfare 1 Beringia Jul 2024 Jul 2024 8 437
Near-Doubling Of Demand For TX Electrical Grid Projected By 2030, Most Of It From Bitcoin & Data Centers 2 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 6 462
James Hansen et al: Reflections on Time Scales and Butterflies 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 400
NTSB Chair Slams Norfolk Southern For Threats During Palestine Inquest; Vinyl Chloride Burn Unnecessary 0 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 6 359
AI brings soaring emissions for Google and Microsoft, a major contributor to climate change 2 sl8 Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 491
Day Six At Or Above 115F For Las Vegas; Records Tumbling Across The West 0 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 401
China building two-thirds of world's wind and solar projects 2 Jilly_in_VA Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 520
Reuters: US announces record oil and gas pollution penalty against Marathon Oil 3 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 486
AP: Houston keeps buckling under storms like Beryl. The fixes aren't coming fast enough 6 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 497
Reuters: Energy companies win dismissal of Baltimore's climate change case 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 296
AP: A look at heat records that have been broken around the world 2 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 5147
Group sues federal government, claims it ignores harms of idle offshore oil and gas infrastructure 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 319
Daily Surface Air Temperature, Tropics (23.5S-23.5N, 0-360E) 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 1 265
NZ Sea-Surface Temperatures Hit Record Highs; Increase In Some Areas 3X Global Average Rise 1 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 402
The predicament of climate scientists on the road to a super tropical Earth 2 Brenda Jul 2024 Jul 2024 10 557
Sea-Level Rise Across Southern US Among Fastest On Earth; Approaching 1/2" Per Year In FL Panhandle As Of 2021 6 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 11 624
How a Texas man turned Whataburger into the state's power outage tracker 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2024 Jul 2024 7 480
Oh, Goody! Here's A TX Oil Baron/Bible Beating Xtian Who's Shoveling Money To TSF, Among Other Whack Candidates 0 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 10 558
Ranking Member Raskin's Opening Statement at Hearing with EPA Administrator - Oversight Committee Democrats 2 Rhiannon12866 Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 440
Will Climate Change Turn The Border Into a Real Crisis? - Thom Hartmann 0 Rhiannon12866 Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 424

Environment & Energy Continued...

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It's So Hot In The West That Medical Helicopters Are Having To Cancel Runs - It's Too Hot To Fly 3 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 16 575
Imagine That!! The Already-Shitty TX Power Grid Has To Deal With Endlessly Growing Demand From Bitcoin Mining 2 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 9 631
Las Vegas On Track For Record 5th Straight Day Over 115F - Streak Could Run Through Friday 2 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 6 406
Massive blue whale seen off the coast of Massachusetts in rare double sighting 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2024 Jul 2024 8 487
Spoof ExxonMobil Ad Nails Just How Easy It's Been for Big Oil 1 cbabe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 6 477
Extinction In Wild Of Florida Keys Cactus Confirmed; Wiped Out By Rising Sea Levels, Saltwater Intrusion 1 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 389
In Record Heat, Athens Mayor Works To Permanently Expand Tree Planting, Water Access, Public Cooling Centers 0 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 384
Private Water Company Runs TV Ad About How Much They Care; UK Govt. Bans It As Deceptive 0 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 452
'Chemical recycling': 15-minute reaction turns old clothes into useful molecules 2 sl8 Jul 2024 Jul 2024 10 479
As It Filled Rivers W. Shit, Thames Water Failed To Complete 108 Upgrades Paid For By Customers 0 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 466
China's landfills brim with textile waste as fast fashion reigns and recycling takes a back seat 0 Dulcinea Jul 2024 Jul 2024 1 377
"The Right Wants To Go Back To A Past That No Longer Exists. The Left Wants A Future It Will Not Dare To Fund" 3 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 10 734
US EPA - Climate Change Indicators: Heat Waves 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 6 377
Florida: tree cactus becomes first local species killed off by sea-level rise 0 Eugene Jul 2024 Jul 2024 6 1139
Reuters: Greek islands face water crisis as tourist season peaks 1 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 7 430
AP: Tourists still flock to Death Valley amid searing US heat wave blamed for several deaths 2 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 410
1.8 Million Acres Of The Pantanal Have Burned So Far In 2024; Countless 1,000s Of Animals Killed 2 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 12 1626
After Years Of Warnings And Official Inaction, China Taking Frantic Action To Address Another Deadly Summer Of Floods 3 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 440
Oil & Gas Waste Is Exempt From Regulation, And The Industry Injects 18 Billion Barrels/Year Into The Ground 0 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 9 461
The Guardian: Hurricane Beryl supercharged by 'crazy' ocean temperatures, experts say 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 7 459
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