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Coral die-off marks Earth's first climate 'tipping point', scientists say 4 Submariner Oct 13 Oct 14 18 387

Planet's Forest Health In "Dismal" Condition; Agriculture Gets 70X The Subsidies Dedicated To Restore, Protect Forests 3 hatrack Oct 13 Oct 13 6 319

New Zealand accused of 'full-blown climate denial' over cuts to methane reduction targets 0 Eugene Oct 13 Oct 13 4 248

Sen. John Curtis (R-UT) To Attend COP-30 Climate Conference In Brazil, For Reasons That Remain Utterly Obscure 1 hatrack Oct 13 Oct 13 1 342

UK Diesel Cheating Scandal Snares Ford, Mercedes, Renault, Nissan And Peugeot/Citroen; Damages Pegged @ $8 Billion+ 0 hatrack Oct 13 Oct 13 3 276

Christmas Island Shrew Officially Extinct; 39 Australian Mammal Species Gone Since 1788, More Than In Any Other Nation 1 hatrack Oct 13 Oct 13 11 345

Brown, Stinking Tapwater In Small TX Town One Problem; 90% Cuts In Fed Funding Help Another; Taste Of Freedom Unchanged 1 hatrack Oct 13 Oct 13 9 460

EPA Inspector General's Office Lists 13 Problems In September Report; Former Staff Report "Incapacitating" Staffing Cuts 0 hatrack Oct 13 Oct 13 8 367

European Commission Tells Trump To Get Stuffed On Pressure To Weaken Environmental Rules 0 hatrack Oct 13 Oct 13 10 404

You're kidding, right? Solar and Wind's Hidden Price Tag: Why Cost Isn't the Whole Story 0 NNadir Oct 12 Oct 12 3 564

Solar Photovoltaic Development in West Africa Will Face Million-Ton Waste Challenges, and Off-Grid Systems Will Dominate 2 NNadir Oct 11 Oct 12 0 625

A Nuclear Engineer Comments on HBO's Chernobyl Reactor Movie Series, Episode 5. 1 NNadir Oct 11 Oct 11 3 479

This message was self-deleted by its author 0 NNadir Oct 11 Oct 11 0 198

Elon Musk's Satellites Now Constantly Falling Out of the Sky 3 turbinetree Oct 10 Oct 11 6 453

Adventures in "Green" Batteries, Fluorinated Ionic Liquids (and other PFAS) in European Waters. 0 NNadir Oct 11 Oct 11 2 303

Al Gore Comes Around on Nuclear Energy. 3 NNadir Oct 11 Oct 11 1 550

All-European team leads lead-cooled EAGLES reactor project 0 NNadir Oct 11 Oct 11 4 449

Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas 1 DBoon Oct 10 Oct 10 13 450

As Drought Grinds On In NE British Columbia, Fracking Water Consumption In Area Rose 50% In 2024 0 hatrack Oct 10 Oct 10 3 270

Sen. Whitehouse: "Trump is Moving Money from Pockets of Normal Americans to Fossil Fuel Megadonors" 1 Rhiannon12866 Oct 10 Oct 10 9 418

Study: 61% Of Global Bird Species In Global Survey Declining As IUCN Convenes 0 hatrack Oct 10 Oct 10 5 289

8 Houses Fell Into The Sea Last Week Alone On The Outer Banks; NC Officials Bracing For More, Staging Debris Crews 0 hatrack Oct 10 Oct 10 7 381

TOTAL Havoc BREAKS LOOSE as Trump DESTROYS WEATHER FORECASTS - Meidas Touch 0 Rhiannon12866 Oct 10 Oct 10 6 477

Despite Overwhelming Public Opposition, Bessemer AL City Council Approves Zoning For Gigantic Data Center 1 hatrack Oct 9 Oct 10 6 421

Comprehensive Plant Inventories From 1884 To 1931 Were Nearly Tossed; Now Provide Priceless Window On Habitats Over Time 2 hatrack Oct 9 Oct 9 8 338

UK Security Agencies Prepared Major Report On Warming Threats To National Security; Release Suddenly Delayed 1 hatrack Oct 9 Oct 9 4 286

"Forever Chemicals" - PFAS Gas - Routinely Used At Data/AI Centers. No Testing Or Use Data Required 1 hatrack Oct 4 Oct 9 11 425

Headline: "Where Are The Climate Republicans?" Answer - They Never Gave A Shit In The First Place 2 hatrack Oct 9 Oct 9 6 386

20 Years On, "Great Green Wall" Of Trees Across Sahara Faltering As Seedlings Die, Money Dries Up 1 hatrack Oct 9 Oct 9 10 405

Nestle Abandons Pretense Of Action, Leaves Global Alliance To Cut Methane From Dairy Industry 0 hatrack Oct 9 Oct 9 3 378

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Illegal gold mining clears 140,000 hectares of Peruvian Amazon 1 hunter Oct 8 Oct 9 5 303

Trump Just Gutted The Wildest Public Land In America 4 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 8 Oct 8 21 1229

An inside look at Idaho's $3M fight against invasive quagga mussels 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 8 Oct 8 2 265

More than 40 Trump administration picks tied directly to oil, gas and coal, analysis shows 1 douglas9 Oct 8 Oct 8 6 305

Biggest Federal Coal Lease Sale In 10 Years Brings One Bid - For 1/10th Cent Per Ton; Last Lease Sale Brought $1.10 2 hatrack Oct 8 Oct 8 4 382

Global Plastics Treaty Talks Collapsed In August After 3 Years Of Meetings; Now, Treaty Chair Resigning 0 hatrack Oct 8 Oct 8 4 350

UK Exports Of Plastic Waste To Developing Nations Nearly Doubled In Just The 1st 6 Months Of 2025 0 hatrack Oct 8 Oct 8 5 281

Insurance Coverage Near-Impossible For Coastal LA Residents As Insurance Companies Invest More In Exxon, BP, Etc. 0 hatrack Oct 8 Oct 8 4 425

Renewables Overtake Coal: Global Power Shift Leaves Trump Behind. - FIVE MINUTE NEWS 1 Rhiannon12866 Oct 8 Oct 8 3 259

That's Nice: EPA Does 180, Will Require Coke Plants To Monitor For Benzene, Chromium, Other Toxins After All 1 hatrack Oct 7 Oct 7 10 320

Brilliant - TikTok Video - "If The Tesla Cybertruck Was A Person" 0 hatrack Oct 7 Oct 7 5 1647

Brexit Allowed UK To "Take Control" Of North Sea Fishing; 59%Of Cod, Mackerel Pops Fished So Hard They Can't Repopulate 1 hatrack Oct 7 Oct 7 12 379

"Someday" Is Here: Colorado River Treaty Divides 15 Million AF Among Basin States; Last Year's Flow Was 8.5 Million AF 3 hatrack Oct 7 Oct 7 8 523

Wildfires Ravage One of Africa's Largest Nature Reserves 0 douglas9 Oct 7 Oct 7 6 345

Outcry as Trump plots more roads and logging in US forests: 'You can almost hear the chainsaws' 2 douglas9 Oct 7 Oct 7 9 437

EPA Will No Longer Collect GHG Emissions Data From Corporations, Utilities; Can Anyone Else Compile Information? 0 hatrack Oct 7 Oct 7 4 314

Judge Voids Huge Tax Break Exxon Rammed Through TX School Board; New Plastics Plant Now On Hold 0 hatrack Oct 7 Oct 7 6 405

Thames Water Removes 100-Ton Fatberg From Sewer; Chisels And High-Pressure Hoses Used In Project 3 hatrack Oct 6 Oct 6 10 550

Nearly 500,000 Planned Homes In Phoenix On Hold; State Water Agency Acknowledging Groundwater Reality 3 hatrack Oct 6 Oct 6 15 581

Study Of 25 Years Of Carbon Offsets Reveals A Legacy Of Failure; Not Even 1 In 5 Projects Did Anything To Cut GHGs 1 hatrack Oct 6 Oct 6 8 336

5 SE Asian Nations Collectively Lost Forest Area The Size Of Lebanon In 2024; 30% Of Losses In Protected Areas 0 hatrack Oct 6 Oct 6 3 258

Cracking The Future: How Pistachios Can Power Morocco's Green Growth - OpEd 3 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 4 384

OhNoAnyway - 80% Of Ohio's Only National Forest Now Classified As Eligible For Logging 1 hatrack Oct 6 Oct 6 7 478

So Cute!! "Moderate" Republicans Are "Concerned" W. Shitstain's Farcical And Toxic Coal Policies 0 hatrack Oct 6 Oct 6 2 382

Scientists Find 1st Evidence Of Invasive Barnacles In Arctic; Polar Water Had Been Too Cold For Them To Live There 0 hatrack Oct 6 Oct 6 2 315

42 Former Fossil Fuel Operatives Among Appointees/Nominees For Federal Energy And Environmental Positions 0 hatrack Oct 6 Oct 6 2 315

Philippines to Launch First Coral Larvae Cryobank to Boost Reef Restoration 0 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 1 369

'All the trees are dead': An ancient California forest has been wiped out 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 6 Oct 6 11 589

OPEC+ to raise oil production by 137,000 barrels per day in November 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 5 Oct 5 0 343

Explosive Growth In Valley Fever In CA, AZ In 2024; Now Shitstain's Medical Cuts Damaging Efforts To Respond 2 hatrack Oct 5 Oct 5 5 480

Environment & Energy Continued...

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450 US Hydropower Sites Due For Relicensing In Next 10 Years; Average US Dam Age Is 65 Years 5 hatrack Oct 5 Oct 5 1 421

Pumped Hydro Plant In NSW Was To Cost $2 Billion In 2017; 65% Complete, It's Pushing $13 Billion 1 hatrack Oct 5 Oct 5 0 332

Some National Parks Closed, Some Operating w. Skeleton Staffing, Some Left The Gates Open - No One Knows What To Do 2 hatrack Oct 5 Oct 5 3 432

Solar becomes main source of electricity in the EU for the first time: 1 applegrove Oct 4 Oct 4 10 459

Bans on this landscaping tool continue to spread across the US. See where. 12 Jilly_in_VA Oct 4 Oct 4 37 3613

Something is wrong with Lake Itasca, the source of the Mississippi River 21 NickB79 Oct 4 Oct 4 51 2451

The Long Heat - New Book Shows Warming "Solutions" As Unwillingness To Challenge The Death-Grip Of Money 1 hatrack Oct 4 Oct 4 8 482

Study: Marine Shell Data Tracks Changes In Ocean Currents; Large Changes In Conveyer Possible Under Today's Conditions 2 hatrack Oct 4 Oct 4 8 669

After "Unfortunate" Fatal Explosion In AL Home, State Abandons Monitoring For Methane Leaks From Coal Mining 2 hatrack Oct 4 Oct 4 11 510

W. At Least A Dozen Norovirus Outbreaks Under Way, CDC Lays Off Cruise Ship Health Inspectors, Including Epidemiologist 0 hatrack Oct 4 Oct 4 16 540

Environmental Doublespeak Is Now So Common That One Doesn't Even Notice. 1 NNadir Oct 4 Oct 4 2 437

OHNOANYWAY: Net-Zero Banking Alliance Shutting Down - But They're Generously Bequeathing Us Their "Guidance" 0 hatrack Oct 4 Oct 4 6 397

After Decades Of Legendarily Awful Air Pollution, Santiago May Finally Be Turning The Corner 0 hatrack Oct 4 Oct 4 5 322

Hydrogen/Battery Energy Storage Site Begins Operations in California 0 Caribbeans Oct 3 Oct 3 0 357

Tourism is helping Uganda's endangered mountain gorillas make a comeback 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 3 Oct 3 5 567

'This is unprecedented:' Ecology restricts surface water use in the Yakima River Basin 0 cbabe Oct 3 Oct 3 6 457

Global Warming Comes Knocking: "The Insurance Crisis In The US Is The Canary In The Coal Mine, And The Canary Is Dead" 5 hatrack Oct 3 Oct 3 17 1770

Of 200 Biggest Global Fires Since1980 - In Terms Of GDP Losses - 43% Took Place In The Last 10 Years 1 hatrack Oct 3 Oct 3 3 388

WY, MT & 12 Other Trump States' Attorneys General Accuse Tech Firms Of Greenwashing - As A Way To Destroy Climate Goals 2 hatrack Oct 3 Oct 3 4 630

From rooftops to honey jars, Athens is abuzz with urban beekeeping 0 Jilly_in_VA Oct 3 Oct 3 4 534

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