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Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War 1 DBoon Dec 1 Dec 1 7 443
Livestock Graze on Millions of Acres of Western Public Lands. 0 douglas9 Dec 1 Dec 1 5 418
Why a rare bird that vanished 30 years ago might soon return 6 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 28 Dec 1 10 682
Giant Chinese Port In Coastal Peru Has The Capacity To Destroy Most Of What Remains Of The Amazon Basin 2 hatrack Dec 1 Dec 1 7 530
'Climate smart' beef? After a lawsuit, Tyson agrees to drop the label. 1 douglas9 Dec 1 Dec 1 6 501
SE Asian Death Toll Rises Past 1,300 Across Multiple Countries; Massive Damage In Sumatra, Sri Lanka, Southern Thailand 0 hatrack Dec 1 Dec 1 5 611
It's Almost Impossible for Tristan Gooley to Get Lost. That's One Reason He Has Millions of Followers 2 Judi Lynn Dec 1 Dec 1 9 570
Two College Students Are Building a Robot to Replant Burned Forests 0 Judi Lynn Dec 1 Dec 1 14 471
Beavers are Dam Good for Biodiversity, Bringing Bats, Butterflies and Other Critters to Their Neighborhoods 0 Judi Lynn Dec 1 Dec 1 9 374
At Least 900 Dead And Counting In Flooding And Landslides Across Indonesia, Thailand And Sri Lanka 1 hatrack Nov 30 Dec 1 3 493
Prepare To Be Shocked - +/- 100 Planned TX Chemical Plant Expansiions Will Hit Poor Black & Brown People The Hardest 0 hatrack Nov 30 Nov 30 7 406
Ocean in coastal areas becoming more acidic than previously thought 2 OKIsItJustMe Nov 30 Nov 30 3 448
Biden's Policies Were The Biggest Direct Investment In State Since LBJ, But That's Not What WV Voters Wanted. Oh Well. 16 hatrack Nov 29 Nov 29 36 1641
Australia Will Miss Recently Announced 2035 Emissions Target "By A Country Mile" Unless It, You Know, Does Something 3 hatrack Nov 27 Nov 29 4 486
Study Finds Sweeping Water Losses Across Europe 2002-2024, From Spain To Ukraine And From The UK To Poland 4 hatrack Nov 29 Nov 29 7 660
Shocked, Shocked: Researchers Find "Significant" Fracking Contamination In 71 Of 74 Water Samples In New Freeport, PA 0 hatrack Nov 29 Nov 29 9 580
Huh. Urging Prayers For Rain In Iran Ineffective - God Appears Helpless Against Bad Infrastructure, Corruption, Drought 0 hatrack Nov 29 Nov 29 7 418
Trump's Food Policy Bombshell: Are Toxic Chemicals About to Hit Every American Meal? - Thom Hartmann 0 Rhiannon12866 Nov 29 Nov 29 6 700
African Forests Now Net Carbon Source; 3/3 Of World's Key Tropical Forest Areas Now Produce More CO2 Than They Absorb 4 hatrack Nov 28 Nov 29 8 533
Scientists may have solved why this ancient, advanced civilization vanished 3 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 28 Nov 28 15 1037
Earth system models overstate carbon removal: New findings suggest nitrogen fixation is 50% lower than thought 5 NickB79 Nov 27 Nov 28 5 645
Token Appearances At CRAP-30 By Fortune 100 Important, AccordingTo Executives, Carbon Credit Traders, Greenwashing Orgs 0 hatrack Nov 28 Nov 28 5 520
TX Regulator Mad About Proposed "Carbon Capture" Project, Because Joe Biden And The UN And Muh Monneeee!!!! 0 hatrack Nov 28 Nov 28 3 450
When the well runs dry 2 littlemissmartypants Nov 26 Nov 27 7 455
Kilowatts or connections? Trump's favored nuclear start-ups soar to riches. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 27 Nov 27 2 383
Studies show how the people of Rapa Nui made and moved the giant statues - and what caused the island's deforestation 1 marmar Nov 27 Nov 27 19 655
"Deadliest Talk Show Ever" - COP30 Statement Couldn't Even Articulate Need To Abandon Fossil Fuels 0 hatrack Nov 26 Nov 26 1 497
Rio Grande May Be In Worse Shape Than The Colorado; 52% Of All Direct & Indirect Water Consumption Is Unsustainable 1 hatrack Nov 26 Nov 26 7 511
North Sea "Carbon Capture" Program Plans To Store .02% Of Total Projected Annual Output of 40 Billion Tons CO2 By 2030 2 hatrack Nov 26 Nov 26 3 481
So Cute!! FL Congressional Republicans "Express Concern" About Their Lord & Master's Plan For Offshore Oil Drilling 1 hatrack Nov 26 Nov 26 3 509

Environment & Energy Continued...

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CARB Leadership Splinters Over Critique Of State's "Carbon Offset" Programs Based On California's Forests 0 hatrack Nov 26 Nov 26 2 324
EPA Abandons Rule To Restrict Particulate Pollution That Would Have Prevented 1,000s Of Dead Americans Every Year 1 hatrack Nov 26 Nov 26 5 436
Canada to Refurbish Pickering Nuclear Reactors 5, 6, 7, and 8. 0 NNadir Nov 26 Nov 26 4 428
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 NNadir Nov 26 Nov 26 1 164
'It fully changed my life!' How young rewilders transformed a farm - and began a movement 2 cbabe Nov 25 Nov 25 10 616
Radioactive Cesium for Chemical Production, Hydrogen Peroxide from Seawater.. 1 NNadir Nov 25 Nov 25 1 654
Uncovering the Source of Widespread 'Forever Chemical' Contamination in North Carolina 2 usonian Nov 23 Nov 25 14 534
New CO₂ conversion system slashes energy use and triples formic acid production 2 sue4e3 Nov 24 Nov 24 9 444
Deep in the Amazon, scientists build a 'time capsule' to predict future of climate change - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Nov 24 Nov 24 2 434
U.N. climate talks end without agreement on phasing out fossil fuels 0 Dulcinea Nov 24 Nov 24 3 324
COP30 pushes through uneasy deal that fails to secure new fossil fuel promises - Global News 1 Rhiannon12866 Nov 23 Nov 23 1 401
Exxon freezes plans for major hydrogen plant amid weak customer demand 1 NickB79 Nov 22 Nov 23 6 502
Efforts to Reduce the High Energy, Carbon and Chemical Waste Cost of Recycling Lithium Ion Batteries. 2 NNadir Nov 21 Nov 23 3 672
Former U.S. VP Al Gore Reveals Shocking Data on Global Warming and Extreme Climate Events AC1N 10 Uncle Joe Nov 22 Nov 22 13 936
Who Will Have Enough? Battery Mineral Demand and Sufficiency in Vehicle Producing Countries. 0 NNadir Nov 22 Nov 22 2 861
Dead Sea of Solar Cells: Antinuke Little Benny Sovacool Discovers that Deserts Are Actually Vital Ecosystems. 3 NNadir Nov 21 Nov 22 4 704
New membrane sets record for separating hydrogen from CO₂ 1 sue4e3 Nov 21 Nov 21 4 429
Sea level rise threatens the North Sea coast more than expected 2 sue4e3 Nov 21 Nov 21 3 449
First-ever full Earth system simulation provides new tool to understand climate change 1 sue4e3 Nov 21 Nov 21 6 399
Warning! This "Colorful Chart" is Censored by IPCC - James Hansen, Pushker Kharecha and Dylan Morgan 4 OKIsItJustMe Nov 21 Nov 21 8 831
NPR: 3 massive changes you'll see as the climate careens toward tipping points 4 OKIsItJustMe Nov 19 Nov 21 14 870
Cameras capture B.C. sea wolf raiding crab traps in first possible 'tool use' 4 OnlinePoker Nov 18 Nov 21 16 659
Data center growth drives locals to fight for more say 1 douglas9 Nov 17 Nov 21 6 423
The skyrocketing costs of climate change - Senate Environment & Public Works Committee - Senator Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Nov 21 Nov 21 5 336
Time to Wake Up 303: Recapping COP30 - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Nov 20 Nov 20 3 338
South Korean Plan To End All Coal-Fired Generation By 2040 Leaves Australian Coal Exporters Scrambling 1 hatrack Nov 20 Nov 20 3 354
Hedge-Fund Billionaire Wants To Tap East Texas Groundwater For Cities; Rural East Texas MAGA Residents Not Happy At All 2 hatrack Nov 20 Nov 20 11 555
Indonesia Fettered To Broken, Coal-Rich Development; So, As Bali Floods Showed, "We Can No Longer Predict The Seasons" 0 hatrack Nov 20 Nov 20 2 477
Trump's Climate Rollbacks: 1.3 Million Projected Global Deaths as COP30 Gets Underway in Brazil - FIVE MINUTE NEWS 0 Rhiannon12866 Nov 20 Nov 20 2 395
"The Salmon Are Everywhere" In OR/CA's Klamath River 1 Yr After Dam Removals, Even In Upstream Tributaries 7 hatrack Nov 19 Nov 20 61 1268

Environment & Energy Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
Stopping Trump's License to Pollute - Senator Adam Schiff 1 Rhiannon12866 Nov 19 Nov 19 2 324
Colorado running out of options for new source of wolves after Washington rejects request 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 19 Nov 19 3 453
One of America's most dangerous volcanoes will soon power homes 3 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 19 Nov 19 8 671
Al Gore on America's Noticeable Absence at COP30 Climate Conference - Amanpour and Company PBS 2 Rhiannon12866 Nov 13 Nov 19 5 485
Protect Arctic public lands from the Trump administration's attacks. 0 red dog 1 Nov 19 Nov 19 1 357
Facilties Flop At Climate Confab; Stifling Heat & Humidity Indoors, Leaking Roofs, Broken Toilets, Oppressive Noise 1 hatrack Nov 19 Nov 19 5 547
At Current CO2 Output, NJ Facing Between 2.2 And 3.8 Feet Of Sea-Level Rise By 2100; W. Ice Sheet Loss, 4.5 Feet 2 hatrack Nov 19 Nov 19 4 404
October 2025 Atmospheric CO2 Concentration 424.87 ppm; October 2024 422.38 ppm; October 2023 418.82 ppm 3 hatrack Nov 18 Nov 19 1 368
A little bird is signaling a major problem -- and that bird is the insurance industry 0 douglas9 Nov 19 Nov 19 10 722
1,000 Of 1,600 Individual Corals Tracked At World Heritage Ningaloo Reef Dead As Result Of Latest Marine Heatwave 0 hatrack Nov 19 Nov 19 4 305
An Antarctic Glacier Retreated (i.e. "Melted & Collapsed) 5 Miles In 2 Months; Rate Of Retreat 10X Prior Record 7 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 19 15 691
September 2025 Atmospheric CO2 Content 424.37 ppm; September 2024 422.99 ppm; September 2023 418.50 0 hatrack Nov 18 Nov 18 3 276
We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It's a Revelation. 0 douglas9 Nov 18 Nov 18 10 450
Ocean with David Attenborough examines industrialization's destructive relationship with the sea and the hope for its 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 17 Nov 17 7 395
Video: What's really happening in the ocean's "dark zones" - China's huge invisible fishing fleet 0 OKIsItJustMe Nov 17 Nov 17 4 453
Some good news about the bad news. 2 NNadir Nov 16 Nov 17 13 718
Skin cancer cluster found in 15 Pennsylvania counties with or near farmland 3 OKIsItJustMe Nov 17 Nov 17 23 857
53,000 Animals - Half Of Breeding Female Elephant Seals On South Georgia - Dead From Bird Flu Since 2023 0 hatrack Nov 17 Nov 17 15 481
Insect-Eating Birds Begin Gradual Comeback In France After Ban On Neonicotinoid Pesticides In Fields 2022 0 hatrack Nov 17 Nov 17 14 466
Nearly 20,000 Glacial Lakes Span The Himalayas As Warming Takes Its Toll; Detailed Risk Analysis Hasn't Even Begun 0 hatrack Nov 17 Nov 17 10 690
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