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AI Data Centers, Desperate for Electricity, Are Building Their Own Power Plants 5 question everything Oct 24 Oct 26 7 535

Trump claims 'wind mills' kill whales but quietly torpedoes the science 3 douglas9 Oct 24 Oct 25 11 524

What scientists saw underwater in Florida left them "shocked" -- and devastated 9 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 25 Oct 25 58 2129

Central Maine Power Wants To Raise Rates By $400+ Avg/Year; Also Wants 9.8% Guaranteed Profit For Its Shareholders 2 hatrack Oct 23 Oct 25 4 464

A Paper For Our Times: Toxic Ignorance Cycles 0 NNadir Oct 25 Oct 25 4 399

How the search for an extinct bird from Iceland led researchers to Cincinnati - WCPO 9 1 Rhiannon12866 Oct 24 Oct 24 4 335

Steve Bannon & Rebekah Mercer Funded Report On Terror Groups Like League of Conservation Voters, Sierra Club, Sunrise 3 hatrack Oct 24 Oct 24 11 585

+/- $1 Billion In Tax Breaks In 10 Years Wasn't Enough For TX LNG Company; Local Official Suggested They Pay More, Fired 1 hatrack Oct 24 Oct 24 3 342

Trump administration finalizes plan to open pristine Alaska wildlife refuge to oil and gas drilling 1 Dulcinea Oct 24 Oct 24 5 344

Nature: Despite Greenwashing, FF Companies Own 1.42% of Renewable Capacity, Producing 0.1% Of Their Energy Output 1 hatrack Oct 24 Oct 24 2 325

2 Years Since Iowa's Water Quality Monitoring System Got State Support; Polk County Commits $200K To Keep Network Alive 0 hatrack Oct 24 Oct 24 1 270

World's first reactor converts ocean CO₂ into biodegradable bioplastic feedstock 10 sue4e3 Oct 23 Oct 24 11 579

Wild bear 'looking for a friend' breaks into California zoo, meets 3 captive bears 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 23 Oct 23 12 314

Catastrophic loss of Florida's staghorn and elkhorn corals highlights accelerating climate pressures for reefs worldwide 2 sue4e3 Oct 23 Oct 23 6 330

Shocking! Study Shows Tea Party Was Decades In The Making, A Creature Of The Tobacco Industry & The Koch Brothers 20 hatrack Oct 23 Oct 23 68 2716

Planet's Biggest Meat & Dairy Companies Produce More Methane Than EU Plus UK: Tonnage Equals Saudi GHG Output 1 hatrack Oct 22 Oct 23 5 397

Not One Major Bank Commits To Stop Funding Oil/Gas/Coal; Their Only Recent Changes Cut "Targets" 0 hatrack Oct 22 Oct 22 3 238

Since NOAA No Longer Tracks Disaster Costs, Former Employees Do; So Far In 2025, $101 Billion In US Losses 1 hatrack Oct 22 Oct 22 8 2515

AI Data Centers Bringing Blackouts Lasting Days, Water Shortages Lasting Weeks, And Public Fury 7 hatrack Oct 22 Oct 22 62 2073

New Shitstain Rule Will Cut Safety Reviews For Asbestos, Dioxin, Formaldehyde; States To Lose Authority To Restrict Them 5 hatrack Oct 22 Oct 22 8 567

Life Cycle Analysis, Carbon and Health Risks of Wind Turbine Blade Waste. 3 NNadir Oct 20 Oct 22 1 474

Ypsilanti City Council calls for halt to University of Michigan data center project 1 littlemissmartypants Oct 22 Oct 22 4 335

American e-waste is causing a 'hidden tsunami' in Southeast Asia, watchdog report says 0 douglas9 Oct 22 Oct 22 2 521

Why America's Tiny Ocean Defies Geography 0 Uncle Joe Oct 22 Oct 22 15 662

Global use of coal hit record high in 2024 2 muriel_volestrangler Oct 22 Oct 22 1 360

Infectious Diseases (CWD & EHD) Hammering Deer Populations In Multiple Midwestern States 0 hatrack Oct 22 Oct 22 11 402

One Of Vance's "Closest Friends" - Neurologist w/o Any Leadership Background - Dodges Hiring Freeze To Run NIH Dept. 0 hatrack Oct 22 Oct 22 8 434

GOP-Led Public Service Comm In Georgia Pushing For 10 GW New Generation - 80% For AI, W. Ratepayers Footing The Bill 9 hatrack Oct 19 Oct 21 9 570

CO2 Uptake By Amazon Forests Falters; Atmospheric CO2 Content Spikes, Satellite Providing These Data May Be Shut Down 0 hatrack Oct 21 Oct 21 9 260

New: 1,000s Of Positions Eliminated/ Furloughed, Mostly @ EPA & Interior; Science, EE, Pollution/Toxics Law Enforcement 0 hatrack Oct 21 Oct 21 6 318

Environment & Energy Continued...

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October Heat Records Fall In Queensland And NSW As Sydney Suburbs Push 40C; Statewide, 32 Bushfires In NSW ; 0 hatrack Oct 21 Oct 21 4 262

For The First Time In More Than 1,000 Years Of Human Habitation, Mosquitoes Found In Iceland 0 hatrack Oct 21 Oct 21 6 384

Delhi Kicks Off Smog Season Shrouded In Fireworks Smoke After Diwali; AQ Index Above 500 - 10X "Healthy" Level 0 hatrack Oct 21 Oct 21 3 276

Sure, Why Not!! Just In Time For CRAP 30, Brazil Greenlights Oil Drilling At The Mouth Of Amazon River 0 hatrack Oct 21 Oct 21 3 353

Permafrost thawed by climate change threatens remote villages in Alaska - PBS NewsHour 1 Rhiannon12866 Oct 20 Oct 20 5 302

The US-Mexico Border Wall May Pose Perils to Pollinators 0 douglas9 Oct 20 Oct 20 4 311

Illinois 1 Of 7 States To Pass Laws Requiring Education On Climate Change, But Funding Lacking So Far 0 hatrack Oct 20 Oct 20 7 329

Mystery heatwave warms Pacific Ocean to new record 1 muriel_volestrangler Oct 18 Oct 19 16 513

Facing Projected AI Demand Spike, 11 Governors In States Served By Largest Grid Operator Demanding More Authority 4 hatrack Oct 18 Oct 19 3 504

Scuttling Columbia Basin pact ignores peril to salmon 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 19 Oct 19 9 278

Trump administration quietly canceled the nation's largest solar project 4 Dulcinea Oct 14 Oct 19 13 604

Thanks To "Bullying", "Intimidation" From Trump Reps, All-But-Assured Small Levy On Maritime Emissions Scrapped 1 hatrack Oct 17 Oct 19 4 257

The humble plant that could save the world -- or destroy it 1 sue4e3 Oct 18 Oct 19 17 665

The Climate Speech at the Princeton NJ, No Kings Event. 0 NNadir Oct 19 Oct 19 6 344

Xi Pledged in 2021 That China Would End Support Of Coal Overseas; 17 Units Planned Or Underway In Indonesia Alone 0 hatrack Oct 19 Oct 19 3 266

Trump's War On Clean Energy - Glenn Kirschner 0 Rhiannon12866 Oct 18 Oct 18 4 290

'Bigger, hotter, faster': Extreme blazes drive rise in CO₂ fire emissions 0 sue4e3 Oct 18 Oct 18 3 223

Last Coal Power Plant In New England Closes Down Three Years Ahead Of Schedule 0 hatrack Oct 18 Oct 18 6 306

3 Months After Deadly TX Floods, 22% Of Applications For FEMA Aid Found Eligible In Kerr County - Site Of Most Deaths 0 hatrack Oct 18 Oct 18 7 357

Advanced Nuclear Fuel Manufacture Finds Its Way into Industrial Chemical Engineering Literature. 0 NNadir Oct 18 Oct 18 1 319

California takes on Big Plastic for selling nonrecyclable shopping bags 1 douglas9 Oct 18 Oct 18 7 363

Southern Ocean's low-salinity Antarctic waters continue absorbing CO₂ despite climate model predictions 1 sue4e3 Oct 17 Oct 17 4 259

World's oceans losing their greenness through global heating, study finds 0 sue4e3 Oct 17 Oct 17 1 220

Renewed legal battle ramps up over Columbia Basin dams and salmon 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 17 Oct 17 5 251

FL Local Govs Attempt To Defend Against Rising Seas & Bad Weather, Receive Threats, Lawsuits From Desantis In Return 4 hatrack Oct 17 Oct 17 6 490

Coral Species Known For Resistance To Bleaching Is Doing Exactly That Off Atlantic Coast Of S. Florida 1 hatrack Oct 17 Oct 17 9 327

Shitstain's FEMA Adding New Hurdles To Emergency Aid, Delaying Payouts To Already-Declared Disasters 1 hatrack Oct 17 Oct 17 6 356

Oh, Great: Leaked Draft Shows Brazil To Press COP 30 Delegates To "Vastly Increase" Biofuels Production 0 hatrack Oct 17 Oct 17 3 449

Democratizing global climate modeling 0 sue4e3 Oct 16 Oct 16 1 191

Founder's Pledge - Branded As "Green" - Is Just A Way For The Rich To Fund Anti-Science Pressure Groups 3 hatrack Oct 16 Oct 16 8 429

Environment & Energy Continued...

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September 2025 3rd-Warmest September In Instrumental Record (Behind September 2023 & September 2024) 0 hatrack Oct 16 Oct 16 3 261

As Recently As 30 Years Ago, Greenland Thawed While Antarctica Remained Largely Untouched By Warming. Not Any More . . 0 hatrack Oct 16 Oct 16 7 300

Largest primate in Americas could lose up to 61% of its climatically suitable habitat by 2090 1 sue4e3 Oct 15 Oct 15 7 425

Rain in the Sahara? Researchers predict a wetter future for the desert 0 sue4e3 Oct 15 Oct 15 4 314

Jumbo drop in estimates of India elephant population 0 sue4e3 Oct 15 Oct 15 8 314

Study reveals decline in North Atlantic dolphin lifespan and population growth 0 sue4e3 Oct 15 Oct 15 7 247

This message was self-deleted by its author 0 sue4e3 Oct 15 Oct 15 0 173

Australia's rainforests are the first to switch from carbon sink to carbon source, study warns 0 Jim__ Oct 15 Oct 15 6 288

Eloon Predicted 250K CyberDumpster Sales/Year; So Far In 2025, The Total (Per Tesla) Is 16,000 6 hatrack Oct 14 Oct 15 5 551

Average Annual Increase In Atmospheric CO2 Biggest On Record In 2024; Same For GHGs Methane, Nitrous Oxide 4 hatrack Oct 15 Oct 15 10 410

Back In May, Trump's EPA Canceled $20 Million Grant To Prepare For AK Floods; October Floods Flattened AK Villages 1 hatrack Oct 15 Oct 15 4 402

After Floods In 2019, 2020, 2023 And 2024, English Town Of Tenbury Wells Uninsurable; High Street Slowly Emptying 0 hatrack Oct 15 Oct 15 5 352

UK Government Must Prepare For Heat And Drought Far Beyond Existing Plans For Expected Extremes 0 hatrack Oct 15 Oct 15 7 300

Extreme Heat Hurts Troops; Extreme Weather Hits Bases - But Shitstain's Pentagon No Longer Plans For Warming 0 hatrack Oct 15 Oct 15 7 320

The West's power grid could be stitched together -- if red and blue states buy in 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 14 Oct 15 4 295

23,000 Homes Had Insulation Installed Under Tory Energy Efficiency Scheme; 98% Of Them Will Need Repair Or Replacement 2 hatrack Oct 14 Oct 14 5 496

1 In 6 Lab-Confirmed Bacterial Infections Antibiotic-Resistant; 40% Of Drugs Lost Potency w. Common Infections 2018-23 3 hatrack Oct 14 Oct 14 8 443

The medieval folklore of Britain's endangered wildlife 'omens 0 sue4e3 Oct 14 Oct 14 7 321

Data centers are booming. But there are big energy and environmental risks 2 Dulcinea Oct 14 Oct 14 6 356

8 Million Homes In England At Risk From Flooding; Entire Neighborhoods And Towns May Be Abandoned As Uninsurable 0 hatrack Oct 14 Oct 14 8 448

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