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Herculean Efforts To Protect Great Barrier Reef Do Everything Except Address The Reason For Its Accelerating Decline 0 hatrack 10 min ago 10 min ago 1 60
Illinois Taxpayers Face $1 Billion Bill To Clean Up The Mess From 1,000s Of Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells 0 hatrack 17 min ago 17 min ago 2 83
Trump Allies Near "Total Victory" In Effort To Wipe Out U.S. Climate Regulation 0 hatrack 20 min ago 20 min ago 3 107
Paul, Weiss Withdraws From At Least 4 ExxonMobil Climate Liability Cases Filed By Local Governments 0 hatrack 25 min ago 25 min ago 2 129
Trump Allies Near 'Total Victory' in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation 1 douglas9 3 hrs ago 3 hrs ago 6 232
World's First 20 MW Offshore Wind Turbine Powers Grid In China 0 OKIsItJustMe 7 hrs ago 7 hrs ago 4 210
Making hydrogen fuel cells 'less precious' 5 OKIsItJustMe 14 hrs ago 9 hrs ago 1 239
The Climate Science reference they don't want Judges to read 3 muriel_volestrangler 15 hrs ago 14 hrs ago 7 303
Fast-growing trees are taking over the forests of the future and putting biodiversity and climate resilience under press 4 OKIsItJustMe 17 hrs ago 15 hrs ago 7 325
Another El Nino Already? What Can We Learn from It? -- James Hansen, et al. 6 OKIsItJustMe Friday 16 hrs ago 12 537
CFC replacements behind hundreds of thousands of tonnes of global 'forever chemical' pollution 0 OKIsItJustMe 17 hrs ago 17 hrs ago 2 207
"More Everything Forever" Author On Magical Futurism Bullshit Churned Out By Musk, Thiel, Altman, et. al. 18 hatrack Friday 17 hrs ago 55 1876
Is Germany (Quietly) Rejecting the Green Deal? - Good Times Bad Times (The 20s Report) 1 TexasTowelie Yesterday 18 hrs ago 2 261
German energy policy moves from expensive stuff that doesn't work well to stuff that doesn't exist. 9 NNadir Wednesday 20 hrs ago 3 627
After A Decade Of Lawsuits, Corteva Will Stop Making Enlist Duo, Herbicide Mix Of Glyphosate And Agent Orange 4 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 9 331
More Than 200 Flood Alerts Issued Across England And Wales; 39 Days And Nights Of Rain In The UK Since 1/1/26 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 6 344
TX - 500+ Oil Tanks Sit In The Guadalupe River Floodplain; In 1998 Flood, The River Exceeded 7 Miles In Width 1 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 8 367
Guardian Invokes Betteridge's Law Of Headlines: "Economic Growth Is Still Heating The Planet. Is There Any Way Out?" 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 6 259
DOGE and the deluge: The hits on our cherished public recreation lands just keep coming 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Yesterday Yesterday 8 308
As Of 2/7/2026, Lake Powell Now Below 25% Of Capacity; Trash Screens Visible Above Penstocks On Dam Face 10 hatrack Sunday Sunday 19 811
Determining the Source of Water from the Combustion of Dangerous Fossil Fuels by Oxygen Isotopes. 0 NNadir Sunday Sunday 3 305
Potential For El Nino Year; Could Push Global Temps To Records In 2027 (23, 24, 25 Current Hottest Years) 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 7 249
Boring Old Local Citizen Action Stops (At Least For Now) Planned Datacenter In Suburban LA Community 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 7 225
NOAA ESRL - January 2026 Atmospheric CO2 Content: 428.62 ppm; January 2025 426.65 ppm; January 2024 422.80 ppm 6 hatrack Saturday Saturday 4 271
NOAA - Western US Snowpack Lowest In Decades, Esp. In CO River Headwaters Area; 2/1/26 Total Cover Lowest On Record 4 hatrack Saturday Saturday 10 361
At The Threshold Of 1.5C, Paris Is Dead; A Picture Of Rapid Climate Destabilization Is Becoming Increasingly Clear 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 12 399
In Greenland, 200 Companies Have Mining Licenses; 2 Mines Exist. Good Luck W. Your Big Plan, President Fuckstick 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 5 481
Federal Judge Strikes Down TX Law Intended To Target Critics Of Fossil Fuels 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 15 309

Environment & Energy Continued...

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In Memoriam: The Scientific Legacy of Dr. Katherine T. Peter 2 NNadir Friday Friday 14 322
Only seven new petrol-powered cars sold in Norway in January 0 hunter Friday Friday 7 273
Warmer Water From Emptier Colorado River Reservoirs Has Multiple Negative Impacts On Power Generation, Water Treatment 3 hatrack Friday Friday 8 315
Shocked, Shocked! Bezos Destroys WP Climate Reporting Team - 14 Of 19 Reporters On That Beat Are Now Gone 1 hatrack Friday Friday 9 387
One Year's Data From MethaneSat Showed Global CH4 Output From Oil & Gas Operations "Far Exceeds" Company Claims 0 hatrack Friday Friday 12 284
Electronic Waste Graveyard 2 douglas9 Thursday Thursday 9 424
You Don't Say!! Flawed Economic Models Mean Climate Collapse Could Also Collapse Global Economy 3 hatrack Thursday Thursday 12 394
This is very wonky so I'm putting it here rather than General Discussion. 4 flashman13 Tuesday Thursday 16 1829
EPA Destroying Environmental Protections Across The Board While Citing "National Security" For Clean Air Act Exemptions 2 hatrack Thursday Thursday 9 390
Six Weeks On, Massive Fires In Argentine Patagonia Have Destroyed 110,000+ Acres Of Forest 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 6 299
Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn 1 littlemissmartypants Wednesday Wednesday 5 317
What you don't know about Greenland's minerals - DW News 2 TexasTowelie Tuesday Wednesday 11 603
Across The Western US, Cities Reaching Aggressively For New Water - Pipelines, Groundwater, Desalination 2 hatrack Tuesday Wednesday 9 390
Darlington Nuclear Reactor Refurbishments Completed Ahead of Schedule and Under Budget. 0 NNadir Wednesday Wednesday 5 264
Greenland shatters temperature record, redrawing economy from fishing to minerals 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Wednesday Wednesday 6 366
Colorado Basin Snowpack At 55%, 7-State Deadline 2 Days Away (2/14) And Zero Prospects For An Agreement In Sight 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 9 361
1/3 Of Lawyers At DOJ Environmental Division Gone Since 1/25; Gridlocked Cases And Failed Enforcement Remain 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 3 299
Shitstain Now 0 And 5 In Attempts To Block Offshore Wind Projects; Federal Judge's Decision Clears Orsted To Proceed 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 2 219
At PNG Reef W. Natural CO2 Leak, Scientist Find Young Corals, Branching Corals & Soft Corals Die Off From Acidification 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 8 364
"It is extremely dire": Sen. Whitehouse Warns of Ongoing Climate-Driven Homeowners' Insurance Crisis - Senator Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Tuesday Tuesday 4 332
As Heat And Salinity Rise Steadily, Iraqis In Basra Now Forced To Grow Date Palm Seedlings In Laboratories 1 hatrack Feb 2 Feb 2 7 247
On The Edge Of The Atacama, Chile's Subterrenean Seedbank Stores Vital Species Frozen In Aluminum Pouches 0 hatrack Feb 2 Feb 2 7 266
Nuclear refurbishment done and under budget at Ontario's Darlington plant: minister 0 OnlinePoker Feb 2 Feb 2 2 199
Feral camels terrorizing Australian desert towns in search of water 0 jmbar2 Feb 2 Feb 2 12 594
OFFS - Meet The Energy Department's Cute New Mascot: It's Coalie, Urging Us To "Mine, Baby, Mine!" 7 hatrack Jan 30 Feb 2 6 597
NRDC: Another Alarm Call from the Arctic: Its Rivers Are Turning Orange 0 OKIsItJustMe Feb 1 Feb 1 10 398
Heatwave "Most Significant Ever" For SE Australia - For 8th Time Ever, Daily High Temp Of 50C Confirmed 3 hatrack Jan 31 Feb 1 11 424
EIA: 99%+ of new US capacity in 2026 will be solar, wind + storage 4 douglas9 Feb 1 Feb 1 4 408
The Amount of New Solar Power Production Capacity China Is Manufacturing Is Legitimately Mind-Blowing 4 highplainsdem Jan 31 Feb 1 12 458
"It's Not Just a Cost. It's a Scheme." Sen. Whitehouse Blasts Trump's Anti-Clean Energy Crusade - Senator Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Feb 1 Feb 1 3 267

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Melbourne Harbor And Beaches Awash In Venomous Lion's Mane Jellyfish 1 hatrack Feb 1 Feb 1 8 491
31 out of 48 papers the current issue of Environmental Science and Technology, an American Chemical Society... 1 NNadir Feb 1 Feb 1 13 583
The Imminent Copper Tailings Crisis in China 1 NNadir Jan 31 Jan 31 5 587
Quantifying the Environmental Impacts and Human Health Risks of Global Cobalt Mining and Processing 0 NNadir Jan 31 Jan 31 2 498
'Shameful': Trump's EPA accused of prioritizing big business over public health 1 douglas9 Jan 30 Jan 30 3 383
After Pathetic FEMA Performances In Multiple States, Natural Disaster Survivors Want Noem Fired 2 hatrack Jan 30 Jan 30 11 709
Performative Colorado River Talks Pending; Expectations Low, Since Littlest President Having Tantwums At AZ, CO 1 hatrack Jan 30 Jan 30 2 368
Potential Interactions Between Birds And Floating Photovoltaic Solar Energy: Spatially Informed Species Vulnerabilities 4 NNadir Jan 29 Jan 30 3 449
EPA Eliminating 13 Top Executive Positions; 2331 Employees - 13.5% Of Workforce - Gone Since January 2025 0 hatrack Jan 30 Jan 30 4 330
Scientific Mapping Project Shows East Coast Ghost Forests - Killed By Rising Seas - Are Far Larger Than Thought 0 hatrack Jan 30 Jan 30 10 384
Don't worry. Be happy. Server Farms Will Learn for Themselves How to Be All Renewabley and "Green." 0 NNadir Jan 29 Jan 29 2 509
"It's Not Just a Cost. It's a Scheme." Sen. Whitehouse Blasts Trump's Anti-Clean Energy Crusade - Senator Whitehouse 2 Rhiannon12866 Jan 29 Jan 29 8 358
Airports Across Asia Screening For Nipah Virus After Two Cases Confirmed In W. Bengal; 40-70% Fatality Rate, No Vaccine 2 hatrack Jan 29 Jan 29 7 433
America Leads Global, Massive Expansion Of Gas Power Plants Because Of (All Together Now!) AI. USA!! USA!! USA!! 1 hatrack Jan 29 Jan 29 1 368
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is Yet Again Under Threat, This Time From Congress 0 douglas9 Jan 29 Jan 29 9 386
Awwww!!!! Shitstain Backs Away From Pushing EPA To Gut Endangerment Finding - It Would Likely Lose In Court 0 hatrack Jan 29 Jan 29 5 363
Wastewater Geysers, Land Cracks & Subsidence Prompt West TX Landowner To Sue 8 Oil Companies For Damages 0 hatrack Jan 29 Jan 29 2 356
Conoco Phillips Rig On Its Way To Drill Falls Over, Catches On Fire - The Rig "Left The Road" 0 hatrack Jan 29 Jan 29 4 385
Well, Good Luck: OK State Senator Trying To Rein In Pollution Of Groundwater From Fracking Operations 0 hatrack Jan 29 Jan 29 5 282
Data centers are facing an image problem. The tech industry is spending millions to rebrand them. 1 douglas9 Jan 28 Jan 29 11 349
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