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A look inside Chicago's nation-leading air quality monitoring system 0 mucifer May 27 May 27 3 378
Seven Heat Deaths Confirmed In France In Latest Record Spike; Temperatures Over 100F Expected In Coming Week 1 hatrack May 26 May 26 9 380
Hottest UK May Temperature Record Lasts All Of 24 Hours; New High Of 95.2F Confirmed At Heathrow, Kew Gardens 1 hatrack May 26 May 26 5 354
The Southwest's drought is shrinking wildlife's suitable habitat 2 OKIsItJustMe May 26 May 26 4 424
Climate change weakens the purification function of lakes 0 OKIsItJustMe May 26 May 26 7 320
Why Trump administration's plan to attempt to destroy Pfas is 'nonsenscial' 1 Eugene May 26 May 26 6 442
South Asian Gig Workers - Delivery, Construction, Markets - Face Debilitating, Dangerous Heat By Night And Day 1 hatrack May 26 May 26 3 394
Millions Of Farmed Salmon And Trout Killed In UK Fish Farms; No Actions Taken Against Companies 1 hatrack May 26 May 26 10 613
A Preview Of London In 2052 - Deadly Heat, A Failing Grid, Supermarkets For The Rich - Plus Today's Red Flags 1 hatrack May 26 May 26 10 545
Record May temperatures hit Britain, France as heat dome builds over Europe - DW News 0 Rhiannon12866 May 26 May 26 3 462
A First Among Major Nations, India Is Industrializing With Solar 6 Brenda May 25 May 25 12 746
Super Cool: Alaska Cruise Line Experiments with new Fuel 3 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 25 May 25 6 552
Lake Powell - Bullfrog Marina Moving Across Channel For At Least 2 Years To Avoid Stranding As Reservoir Drops 2 hatrack May 25 May 25 7 486
A Utility Mega-Merger Is All About Data Centers 0 Brenda May 25 May 25 8 546
UT Governor Apologizes For Being An Asshole When He Slammed Opponents Of Giant Data Center 4 hatrack May 25 May 25 11 665
New Study Highlights Public Health Impacts of Gas Turbine-Powered Data Centers 1 nitpicked May 25 May 25 10 458
A Nice List of Organizations & Unions Supporting New York Governor Hochul's Call for a NY Nuclear Plant. 0 NNadir May 25 May 25 3 405
The Great Lakes States Were Thought To Be "Climate-Proof", But Michigan's Tornado And Flood Trend Proves Otherwise 1 hatrack May 25 May 25 13 659
Parts Of England Will Hit 95F On May 25th - Hottest May Temperature On Record 1 hatrack May 25 May 25 9 427
Shocked, Shocked! BHP - World's Biggest Mining Company - Shitcans Its Loudly Publicized Climate Plan 0 hatrack May 25 May 25 8 436
Everyone Thought Hydrogen Failed -- Here's What They Missed 5 Caribbeans May 23 May 24 7 938
Trump administration removes restrictions on substance banned or restricted by 190 countries 4 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 24 May 24 12 843
This Canadian Mine Might Release Enough Natural Hydrogen Each Year to Power 400 Homes, Hinting at an Untapped Source of 13 Judi Lynn May 21 May 24 2 1001
Sea level rise is swallowing US Mid-Atlantic farmland faster than expected, study finds 3 nitpicked May 19 May 24 28 980
Trump in DEEP TROUBLE as Americans Reach BREAKING POINT - Legal AF 1 Rhiannon12866 May 24 May 24 12 629
Aaaaaand Gov. Hochul Announces Elimination Of 2030 GHG Target From State's Climate Law 9 hatrack May 23 May 24 6 1149
We're Saved! Chinese Green Coal Guys Use High Entropy Alloys to Make Hydrogen Electrodes!!!! 3 NNadir May 23 May 23 1 652
Among SpaceX IPO Details: Company Spent $131 Million On Cybertrucks In 2025; Grok Potentially Dangerous; More 6 hatrack May 22 May 23 1 670
AP: Plastic bags don't go in the recycling bin. What should you do instead? 10 AStern May 21 May 23 23 1327
Indoor Air Pollution Is a Bigger Problem Than Most People Realize 1 ajie May 23 May 23 12 713

Environment & Energy Continued...

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The Heartland Institute Has A Bold New Plan - Win The AI Race (TM) By Powering It With Coal. Lots And Lots Of Coal! 5 hatrack May 23 May 23 4 591
Nicotine Derived Ionic Liquids For the Removal of Water from Gas Streams. 2 NNadir May 23 May 23 0 693
10,000 UK Properties, 114 Miles Of Road At Risk Of Destruction From Rising Seas & Coastal Erosion - No Plan In Sight 0 hatrack May 23 May 23 6 375
The Clash Between a Giant Coal Plant and Houston's Booming Suburbs 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 23 May 23 4 466
Global rice paddy greenhouse gas emissions have doubled during the past six decades 0 OKIsItJustMe May 23 May 23 3 390
Climate change drives 'emptying' of rural Bhutan 3 OKIsItJustMe May 22 May 23 11 578
602 Dams, Weirs And Sluices Removed From European Rivers And Streams In 2025 - A New Record 4 hatrack May 22 May 22 47 1326
Poland Bought Hydrogen Buses. Then The Fuel Bills Arrived 2 NNadir May 22 May 22 6 813
Cross post from the NJ forum: New Jersey Declares State of Emergency After April Freeze Wipes Out $300M in Crops. 4 NNadir May 22 May 22 8 1010
ArcelorMittal to pay record Canada Fisheries Act fine 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 22 May 22 2 358
Holtec and Rwanda advance plans to deploy SMR-300 nuclear reactors. 0 NNadir May 22 May 22 2 533
Electricity Generation from Solar Could Exceed Coal in ERCOT for the First Time in 2026 11 mahatmakanejeeves May 20 May 22 6 974
'Seed Transfer Zones' will help restore Brazil's degraded land 0 OKIsItJustMe May 22 May 22 1 291
Oops!! Shitstain's Big Oil Plans For Gulf Of Mexico, California, Would Cut Area Available For Military Exercises 0 hatrack May 22 May 22 2 453
Trump's Energy War Causes Affordability Crisis For Millions of Working Americans - FIVE MINUTE NEWS 0 Rhiannon12866 May 22 May 22 3 342
In my writings here, I will no longer refer to methane, the climate heating driving gas, as "natural gas." 0 NNadir May 22 May 22 3 360
How Denmark's wind and solar investments shield it from global energy turmoil - PBS NewsHour 1 Rhiannon12866 May 22 May 22 14 556
University of Alberta chemist turns ocean water into an abundant hydrogen source 4 Caribbeans May 21 May 22 6 583
Television news coverage of climate policy is limited and polarized in the US 1 OKIsItJustMe May 21 May 22 5 410
NC Beachfront Property Owners Get $50 Million In State Money To Dump More Sand, "Save" Their Stupid Fucking Homes 9 hatrack May 21 May 21 10 859
Colombia's climate crossroads: Trumpism casts shadow over presidential battle 0 OKIsItJustMe May 21 May 21 2 684
X-post: UN backs world court climate opinion; U.S. among few to oppose 1 OKIsItJustMe May 20 May 21 1 526
International Energy Agency video: How the Energy Landscape Changed Last Year 0 OKIsItJustMe May 21 May 21 1 324
The feds are coming for diesel truck owners. They're starting with your phone 6 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 21 May 21 8 858
Companies join a deep-sea mining rush after Trump executive order, as regulators fast-track permits 6 OKIsItJustMe May 21 May 21 4 594
Trump will ease refrigerant rule in effort to address surging grocery costs 7 OKIsItJustMe May 21 May 21 8 1015
Indian city records 48.2C temperature as sizzling heatwave empties roads 2 OKIsItJustMe May 21 May 21 4 526
Scientists map which genes are active in a developing seed to build hardier crops 0 OKIsItJustMe May 21 May 21 5 338
England must harvest rainfall and take action on water usage, Lords warn 0 OKIsItJustMe May 21 May 21 6 328
Kansas farmers hit hard by weather extremes and growing costs, wheat crop could be worst since 1972 5 OKIsItJustMe May 20 May 21 5 580

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Massive northeast Montana dust storm raises fears of another Dust Bowl era 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 21 May 21 6 549
The Simple Truth: Climate Change is Real - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 May 21 May 21 4 397
IEA: Global EV Outlook 2026 - Emerging battery chemistry and designs 2 OKIsItJustMe May 20 May 21 2 691
Close to 30% of cars sold this year are set to be electric as countries and consumers respond to energy crisis 8 OKIsItJustMe May 20 May 20 5 934
Young Americans demand court halt Trump's biggest rollbacks of pollution protections 2 OKIsItJustMe May 20 May 20 7 458
A gray wolf entered Sequoia National Park for the first time in a century 4 Beringia May 20 May 20 17 742
China is cutting emissions even faster than promised and may already have peaked, study shows 0 OKIsItJustMe May 20 May 20 3 582
Extreme weather events threaten river ecosystems 0 OKIsItJustMe May 20 May 20 4 376
Carbon markets underestimate the risks U.S. forests face from climate change 0 OKIsItJustMe May 20 May 20 1 385
IEA: Net Zero Emissions by 2050 - Acting now to limit overshoot 6 OKIsItJustMe May 20 May 20 1 914
The UK Is Built For A Climate That No Longer Exists; Heatwaves At/Above 40C Will Span The Country By 2050 1 hatrack May 20 May 20 6 545
BC Ex-Premier Drops Truth Bomb: "We've Spent Billions To Convince Ourselves Carbon Capture Works. It Doesn't Work". 2 hatrack May 20 May 20 10 655
After Trump Killed Rebates, EPA Now Cites Falling EV Sales As Reason To "Reconsider" (i.e. Kill) Tier 4 Air Standards 2 hatrack May 19 May 20 7 544
South Africa's CHARGE launches off-grid EV stations on Johannesburg-Durban corridor 3 OKIsItJustMe May 19 May 20 4 566
Appeals Court Rules That Suit Against Alabama Power Over 600 Acres Of Coal Waste, Groundwater Poisoning To Proceed 0 hatrack May 20 May 20 7 409
Research led by a Royal Holloway academic finds the 50 questions that could protect a vital ecosystem found across...globe 0 OKIsItJustMe May 19 May 19 4 319
South Africa's $5.8bn green hydrogen-ammonia project advancing 1 Caribbeans May 19 May 19 3 477
Why Fears Are Growing Over the Fate of a Key Atlantic Current (AMOC) 0 OKIsItJustMe May 19 May 19 14 702
'Foolish' CSIRO job cuts will mean Australia unable to provide climate projections to global reports, scientists warn 1 Eugene May 19 May 19 2 394
Warming Accelerates Ecological State Shift Along Maine Coast 0 OKIsItJustMe May 19 May 19 8 391
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