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Not One Major Bank Commits To Stop Funding Oil/Gas/Coal; Their Only Recent Changes Cut "Targets" 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 282
Since NOAA No Longer Tracks Disaster Costs, Former Employees Do; So Far In 2025, $101 Billion In US Losses 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 2565
AI Data Centers Bringing Blackouts Lasting Days, Water Shortages Lasting Weeks, And Public Fury 7 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 62 2171
New Shitstain Rule Will Cut Safety Reviews For Asbestos, Dioxin, Formaldehyde; States To Lose Authority To Restrict Them 5 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 663
Life Cycle Analysis, Carbon and Health Risks of Wind Turbine Blade Waste. 3 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 555
Ypsilanti City Council calls for halt to University of Michigan data center project 1 littlemissmartypants Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 383
American e-waste is causing a 'hidden tsunami' in Southeast Asia, watchdog report says 0 douglas9 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 568
Why America's Tiny Ocean Defies Geography 0 Uncle Joe Oct 2025 Oct 2025 15 737
Global use of coal hit record high in 2024 2 muriel_volestrangler Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 432
Infectious Diseases (CWD & EHD) Hammering Deer Populations In Multiple Midwestern States 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 11 447
One Of Vance's "Closest Friends" - Neurologist w/o Any Leadership Background - Dodges Hiring Freeze To Run NIH Dept. 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 481
GOP-Led Public Service Comm In Georgia Pushing For 10 GW New Generation - 80% For AI, W. Ratepayers Footing The Bill 9 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 694
CO2 Uptake By Amazon Forests Falters; Atmospheric CO2 Content Spikes, Satellite Providing These Data May Be Shut Down 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 305
New: 1,000s Of Positions Eliminated/ Furloughed, Mostly @ EPA & Interior; Science, EE, Pollution/Toxics Law Enforcement 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 361
October Heat Records Fall In Queensland And NSW As Sydney Suburbs Push 40C; Statewide, 32 Bushfires In NSW ; 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 308
For The First Time In More Than 1,000 Years Of Human Habitation, Mosquitoes Found In Iceland 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 429
Delhi Kicks Off Smog Season Shrouded In Fireworks Smoke After Diwali; AQ Index Above 500 - 10X "Healthy" Level 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 323
Sure, Why Not!! Just In Time For CRAP 30, Brazil Greenlights Oil Drilling At The Mouth Of Amazon River 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 404
Permafrost thawed by climate change threatens remote villages in Alaska - PBS NewsHour 1 Rhiannon12866 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 365
The US-Mexico Border Wall May Pose Perils to Pollinators 0 douglas9 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 369
Illinois 1 Of 7 States To Pass Laws Requiring Education On Climate Change, But Funding Lacking So Far 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 384
Mystery heatwave warms Pacific Ocean to new record 1 muriel_volestrangler Oct 2025 Oct 2025 16 575
Facing Projected AI Demand Spike, 11 Governors In States Served By Largest Grid Operator Demanding More Authority 4 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 587
Scuttling Columbia Basin pact ignores peril to salmon 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 321
Trump administration quietly canceled the nation's largest solar project 4 Dulcinea Oct 2025 Oct 2025 13 710
Thanks To "Bullying", "Intimidation" From Trump Reps, All-But-Assured Small Levy On Maritime Emissions Scrapped 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 313
The humble plant that could save the world -- or destroy it 1 sue4e3 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 17 715
The Climate Speech at the Princeton NJ, No Kings Event. 0 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 397

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Xi Pledged in 2021 That China Would End Support Of Coal Overseas; 17 Units Planned Or Underway In Indonesia Alone 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 317
Trump's War On Clean Energy - Glenn Kirschner 0 Rhiannon12866 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 338
'Bigger, hotter, faster': Extreme blazes drive rise in CO₂ fire emissions 0 sue4e3 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 274
Last Coal Power Plant In New England Closes Down Three Years Ahead Of Schedule 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 347
3 Months After Deadly TX Floods, 22% Of Applications For FEMA Aid Found Eligible In Kerr County - Site Of Most Deaths 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 403
Advanced Nuclear Fuel Manufacture Finds Its Way into Industrial Chemical Engineering Literature. 0 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 386
California takes on Big Plastic for selling nonrecyclable shopping bags 1 douglas9 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 418
Southern Ocean's low-salinity Antarctic waters continue absorbing CO₂ despite climate model predictions 1 sue4e3 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 316
World's oceans losing their greenness through global heating, study finds 0 sue4e3 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 263
Renewed legal battle ramps up over Columbia Basin dams and salmon 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 296
FL Local Govs Attempt To Defend Against Rising Seas & Bad Weather, Receive Threats, Lawsuits From Desantis In Return 4 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 570
Coral Species Known For Resistance To Bleaching Is Doing Exactly That Off Atlantic Coast Of S. Florida 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 381
Shitstain's FEMA Adding New Hurdles To Emergency Aid, Delaying Payouts To Already-Declared Disasters 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 411
Oh, Great: Leaked Draft Shows Brazil To Press COP 30 Delegates To "Vastly Increase" Biofuels Production 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 497
Democratizing global climate modeling 0 sue4e3 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 236
Founder's Pledge - Branded As "Green" - Is Just A Way For The Rich To Fund Anti-Science Pressure Groups 3 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 510
September 2025 3rd-Warmest September In Instrumental Record (Behind September 2023 & September 2024) 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 307
As Recently As 30 Years Ago, Greenland Thawed While Antarctica Remained Largely Untouched By Warming. Not Any More . . 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 344
Largest primate in Americas could lose up to 61% of its climatically suitable habitat by 2090 1 sue4e3 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 480
Rain in the Sahara? Researchers predict a wetter future for the desert 0 sue4e3 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 355
Jumbo drop in estimates of India elephant population 0 sue4e3 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 360
Study reveals decline in North Atlantic dolphin lifespan and population growth 0 sue4e3 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 293
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 sue4e3 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 0 215
Australia's rainforests are the first to switch from carbon sink to carbon source, study warns 0 Jim__ Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 334
Eloon Predicted 250K CyberDumpster Sales/Year; So Far In 2025, The Total (Per Tesla) Is 16,000 6 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 641
Average Annual Increase In Atmospheric CO2 Biggest On Record In 2024; Same For GHGs Methane, Nitrous Oxide 4 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 10 504
Back In May, Trump's EPA Canceled $20 Million Grant To Prepare For AK Floods; October Floods Flattened AK Villages 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 461
After Floods In 2019, 2020, 2023 And 2024, English Town Of Tenbury Wells Uninsurable; High Street Slowly Emptying 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 398
UK Government Must Prepare For Heat And Drought Far Beyond Existing Plans For Expected Extremes 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 349
Extreme Heat Hurts Troops; Extreme Weather Hits Bases - But Shitstain's Pentagon No Longer Plans For Warming 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 369

Environment & Energy Continued...

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The West's power grid could be stitched together -- if red and blue states buy in 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 348
23,000 Homes Had Insulation Installed Under Tory Energy Efficiency Scheme; 98% Of Them Will Need Repair Or Replacement 2 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 556
1 In 6 Lab-Confirmed Bacterial Infections Antibiotic-Resistant; 40% Of Drugs Lost Potency w. Common Infections 2018-23 3 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 518
The medieval folklore of Britain's endangered wildlife 'omens 0 sue4e3 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 369
Data centers are booming. But there are big energy and environmental risks 2 Dulcinea Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 416
8 Million Homes In England At Risk From Flooding; Entire Neighborhoods And Towns May Be Abandoned As Uninsurable 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 511
Coral die-off marks Earth's first climate 'tipping point', scientists say 4 Submariner Oct 2025 Oct 2025 18 479
Planet's Forest Health In "Dismal" Condition; Agriculture Gets 70X The Subsidies Dedicated To Restore, Protect Forests 3 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 410
New Zealand accused of 'full-blown climate denial' over cuts to methane reduction targets 0 Eugene Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 294
Sen. John Curtis (R-UT) To Attend COP-30 Climate Conference In Brazil, For Reasons That Remain Utterly Obscure 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 403
UK Diesel Cheating Scandal Snares Ford, Mercedes, Renault, Nissan And Peugeot/Citroen; Damages Pegged @ $8 Billion+ 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 329
Christmas Island Shrew Officially Extinct; 39 Australian Mammal Species Gone Since 1788, More Than In Any Other Nation 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 11 407
Brown, Stinking Tapwater In Small TX Town One Problem; 90% Cuts In Fed Funding Help Another; Taste Of Freedom Unchanged 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 525
EPA Inspector General's Office Lists 13 Problems In September Report; Former Staff Report "Incapacitating" Staffing Cuts 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 411
European Commission Tells Trump To Get Stuffed On Pressure To Weaken Environmental Rules 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 10 465
You're kidding, right? Solar and Wind's Hidden Price Tag: Why Cost Isn't the Whole Story 0 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 620
Solar Photovoltaic Development in West Africa Will Face Million-Ton Waste Challenges, and Off-Grid Systems Will Dominate 2 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 0 717
A Nuclear Engineer Comments on HBO's Chernobyl Reactor Movie Series, Episode 5. 1 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 549
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 0 252
Elon Musk's Satellites Now Constantly Falling Out of the Sky 3 turbinetree Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 535
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