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To Breathe In Delhi Means Inhaling (On Average) The Equivalent Of Half A Pack Of Cigarettes Every Day 0 hatrack Jan 25 Jan 25 4 390

A California Climate Expert Is Working to Restore Climate Risk Scores Deleted by Zillow 1 littlemissmartypants Jan 25 Jan 25 7 341

Joshua trees are flowering in the Calif. desert. That's bad news. 2 BlueWaveNeverEnd Jan 25 Jan 25 21 898

"Most Of The Data Centers Do Not Consume Water" - Ladies & Gentlemen, The Governor Of Utah!! 9 hatrack Jan 24 Jan 24 9 692

"Everything Is Worse Since Drax Came Here": "Green" Energy For UK, Pollution & Lung Disease For LA, MS Residents 1 hatrack Jan 24 Jan 24 6 445

Nevada Snowpack Quarter Below January Median; Warmest December Ever For Elko, Reno And Las Vegas 1 hatrack Jan 24 Jan 24 3 322

Science/AAAS - Muskism, Voughtism, Trumpism - Three Different Approaches To Destroying Science And Government 0 hatrack Jan 24 Jan 24 9 351

MIT Modeling In The Wake of CRAP 30 Shows 1.5C By 2030, 1.8C By 2050 And 3C By 2100 0 hatrack Jan 24 Jan 24 6 360

Why Earth's melting glaciers matter more than we think - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Jan 24 Jan 24 4 385

Arkansas to become best source of lithium in US through new process - NewsNation 0 TexasTowelie Jan 23 Jan 23 3 356

Measuring Economic Recovery in Post Covid China by Monitoring Air Pollutants (NO2) 0 NNadir Jan 22 Jan 22 4 291

FDA Used To Screen For 8 Foodborne Pathogens. Now They Screen For 2, W. Inspection Rates Collapsing 1 hatrack Jan 22 Jan 22 8 510

"Global Water Bankruptcy" Has Arrived; 2 Billion Live On Sinking Ground; 75% Live In Countries "Water-Insecure" Or Worse 1 hatrack Jan 21 Jan 21 3 437

Bobby Brainworm Sez "Eat More Meat And Dairy!!"; His Guidelines Would Require An Additional 100 Million Acres Of Land 5 hatrack Jan 20 Jan 21 7 486

UK Restaurant Chain Facing Eviction From Enfield Site After Felling 500-Year-Old Oak On Leased Property 1 hatrack Jan 21 Jan 21 22 581

Just 32 National & Private Corporations Are Responsible For 50% Of Human Carbon Dioxide Emissions 0 hatrack Jan 21 Jan 21 11 575

Oil Companies Realize That This President Blocking Wind Farms Could Mean Another President Blocking Refineries 0 hatrack Jan 21 Jan 21 12 512

19 Dead, 135 Square Miles Burn In Central Chile; Similar In Chubut, Argentina, But Fire Response Funding Cut, Because $$ 1 hatrack Jan 20 Jan 21 6 465

As Temperatures Rise, Dengue & Chikunyungya Gain Ground In Dhaka, Home To 37 Million Residents 0 hatrack Jan 20 Jan 20 5 322

Army Corps to look at $1.5B underwater Columbia River power line project 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 20 Jan 20 1 268

Scientists At Rutgers Marine Research Station Film The Destruction Of Their Own Facility By Rising Ocean 4 hatrack Dec 17 Jan 19 12 584

Gates Charity Trust Pledged To Divest From Fossil Fuels In 2019; In 2024, $254 Invested In Chevron, Shell, BP 1 hatrack Jan 19 Jan 19 3 514

Scientists Warm Of "Regime Shift" In Oceans As Warming And Pollution Drive Massive Algae Blooms Not Seen Before 2008 0 hatrack Jan 19 Jan 19 7 422

Japan Continues Slow Restart Of Nuclear Power Generation W. Upgraded Unit In Niigata Prefecture 0 hatrack Jan 19 Jan 19 5 294

WY - 2024 Worst Fire Year Since Huge Yellowstone Fires Of 1988; State GOP: Cut Property Taxes Funding Fire Response 0 hatrack Jan 19 Jan 19 2 349

AK State Legislator Proposes 20 Center/Barrel Tax On State's Oil Production To Cover Costs Of Climate Collapse 0 hatrack Jan 19 Jan 19 3 440

"Patchwork" Of Remediation Efforts After LA Fires Shows Widespread Contamination By Lead, Asbestos, Other Toxins 0 hatrack Jan 19 Jan 19 4 320

If Biofuels Could Be Interesting, This One Would Top My List. 0 NNadir Jan 18 Jan 18 2 745

26 Years After Discovery Of Groundwater Contamination From Oil Drilling, The Cleanup Grinds On In Midland Texas 3 hatrack Jan 18 Jan 18 3 479

"Comprehensive" Failure Of Shitstain's Pledge To Cut Energy Bills In Half Across US: DC Up 23%, IN Up 17%, IL Up 15% 3 hatrack Jan 18 Jan 18 5 371

Environment & Energy Continued...

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"Climate Pragmatism" A La Bill Gates Assumes That 3C Won't Be All That Bad; It Will Likely Be Far Worse Than We Imagine 1 hatrack Jan 18 Jan 18 6 400

Little Things Going Away: What Happened To Recurring National Snow & Ice Data Center Updates & Tools 0 hatrack Jan 18 Jan 18 4 343

W. Last Week's Proposed Changes, The EPA Is Eliminating Its Powers To Regulate Pollution And To Protect Human Health 0 hatrack Jan 18 Jan 18 4 324

New Modeling Of Antarctic Ice Shelf Loss: Imagine 843 Ice Cubes 1 Kilometer Per Side Disappearing Every Year 0 hatrack Jan 18 Jan 18 5 346

Strange How An Economist Won The Nobel Prize For Arguing That We Shouldn't Do "Too Much" To Avert Climate Collapse 0 hatrack Jan 18 Jan 18 4 441

27 Engineered Stone Workers Dead From Silicosis In CA Alone In Six Years, So GOP Preparing To Protect Manufacturers 3 hatrack Jan 17 Jan 17 14 584

Annual Damages From Global Warming To Planet's Oceans +/- $2 Trillion (Fisheries, Reefs, Infrastructure) 0 hatrack Jan 17 Jan 17 7 396

1 Year After The Moss Landing Battery Fire, EPA Says No Problem, Despite WidespreadToxic Metal Deposition 0 hatrack Jan 17 Jan 17 4 459

Rotten. Crooked. Stupid. - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Jan 17 Jan 17 10 590

Rep. AOC Highlights Severe Job Loss After Department of Energy Cancels Billions in Energy Projects - Rep. AOC 8 Rhiannon12866 Jan 14 Jan 16 8 507

Should We Relax Our Server Contempt If Used to Understand Batteries and Solar Cells? 4 NNadir Jan 15 Jan 16 3 463

"Relentless Human-Caused Heat" Continued In 2025 At Or Above 1.5C "Limit"; ESA Projects 1.7C Increase In 2027 2 hatrack Jan 14 Jan 16 8 523

Shitstain Wants To Stop Any And All Coal Plant Shutdowns, Even If They're Falling Apart, Would Cost Billions To Fix 4 hatrack Jan 16 Jan 16 4 464

Authoritarianism Is Climate Policy - Persuading Voters They'll Be Protected When TSHTF (They Won't Be) 0 hatrack Jan 16 Jan 16 6 369

No Way!!! While Average US Residential Electrical Rates Rose 10% 2022-24, Industrial Rates (AI) Fell 3% 2 hatrack Jan 15 Jan 15 19 779

Florida Bill Would Block Any Attempts To Change Land Use/Development Rules That Recognize Reality Of Storms, Rising Seas 8 hatrack Jan 15 Jan 15 8 603

India: 10% of India's 150 elephant corridors now non-existent 0 Beringia Jan 15 Jan 15 4 355

Trump's Climate War Breaks the Law - UNFCCC - the treaty that underpins global climate cooperation - FIVE MINUTE NEWS 1 Rhiannon12866 Jan 15 Jan 15 2 292

Republicans still won't say it: climate change is real - Senate Environment & Public Works Committee 1 Rhiannon12866 Jan 14 Jan 15 3 315

OK, UT Legislatures Working On Immunity For Oil & Gas Companies Against Climate Lawsuits 0 hatrack Jan 14 Jan 14 1 360

After 20 Years, Brazil's Moratorium On Deforestation To Grow Soybeans Is Disintegrating 0 hatrack Jan 14 Jan 14 3 293

EPA Will Stop Calculating How PM 2.5 & Ozone Cuts Save Lives/Health; Now, Only Costs To Industry To Be Calculated 1 hatrack Jan 14 Jan 14 9 350

"Near-Universal" Opposition To Gigantic AL Data Center; Now Developer Wants Another 900 Acres Rezoned As Industrial 0 hatrack Jan 14 Jan 14 4 434

Thanks, AI!! At Least 15 US Coal Plants Set For Retirement Are Online "For The Forseeable Future" 3 hatrack Jan 14 Jan 14 7 599

EPA Proposal Would Block State & Tribal Action To Oppose Pipelines And Data Centers That Threaten Water Quality 1 hatrack Jan 14 Jan 14 9 457

Trump's wind energy assault sinks permitting reform - Senate Environment & Public Works Committee 14 Rhiannon12866 Jan 8 Jan 13 5 1123

Analysis: Coal power drops in China and India for first time in 52 years after clean-energy records 3 OnlinePoker Jan 13 Jan 13 5 362

Fracking Industry Executives Are Salivating Over the AI Data Center Boom 1 douglas9 Jan 13 Jan 13 3 472

Himalayan Snowpack Falling Quickly Compared To 1980-2020 Baseline; No DecemberRain/Snow In Nearly All Of Northern India 2 hatrack Jan 13 Jan 13 3 352

House Passes Bill To Claw Back $500 Million In Abandoned Mine Cleanup Money From VA, IL, KY, WV 1 hatrack Jan 13 Jan 13 4 491

Environment & Energy Continued...

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No Wonder Trump Loves Venezuelan Oil - Its Decaying Infrastructure Leaks 13 Billion M3 Of Methane Each Year 1 hatrack Jan 13 Jan 13 7 420

"Embarassing" - Tour Down Under Cyclists Wondering Why Ever-Hotter Race Sponsored By Oil/Gas Company Santos 0 hatrack Jan 13 Jan 13 9 456

After Up To Two Feet Of Rain In Queensland, Multiple Communities May Be Cut Off For Weeks Or Months 0 hatrack Jan 13 Jan 13 7 430

Cold weather and data centres drive up US greenhouse gas emissions 2.4% 1 muriel_volestrangler Jan 13 Jan 13 3 354

Damn the torpedoes! Trump ditches a crucial climate treaty as he moves to dismantle America's climate protections 1 marmar Jan 11 Jan 12 7 430

A bill to transfer all liabilities and responsibilities for decommissioned or damaged offshore oil and gas platforms 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 12 Jan 12 7 516

Thousands Of Flying Foxes Died In Southeastern Australian Heatwave; Worst Dieoff Since Black Summer Of 2019-20 1 hatrack Jan 12 Jan 12 6 472

850,000 Acres Of Victoria Bushland Burned In One Week After Worst Heatwave In Years; One Dead, 300 Structures Gone 1 hatrack Jan 12 Jan 12 9 512

Oh Just Fucking Shoot Me: CRAP31 Head Plans "Engagement" With Global Petrostates As Best Approach For Climate Talks 0 hatrack Jan 12 Jan 12 9 708

Austria's glaciers: Hope on thin ice? - DW News 0 TexasTowelie Jan 12 Jan 12 4 291

Greenland's harsh environment and lack of infrastructure have prevented rare earth mining 3 nitpicked Jan 11 Jan 11 5 699

Tracing Groundwater Uranium Cycling in the Northern Plains, United States 3 NNadir Jan 10 Jan 10 2 704

Big Dairy Producer To Slightly Limit Groundwater Use, Compensate Residents, But 80% Of AZ Groundwater Still Unprotected 3 hatrack Jan 10 Jan 10 5 468

Long Lines, Chaos At Entry Points For 11 Popular National Parks So Rangers Can Charge Foreign Visitors An Extra $100 1 hatrack Jan 10 Jan 10 8 486

Shitstain Wants $50/Barrel Oil. He Also Wants Increased Oil Production. More Economic Genius Below. 1 hatrack Jan 9 Jan 9 2 392

PNAS - West Antarctic Ice Sheet Retreated Repeatedly & Rapidly During Pliocene Epoch @ Temps 3-4C Higher Than Now 0 hatrack Jan 9 Jan 9 4 338

Ocean Warming Breaks Record for Ninth Straight Year 0 douglas9 Jan 9 Jan 9 11 321

Environmentalists decry Trump deal giving Utah control of national park land 2 douglas9 Jan 9 Jan 9 12 622

Earth's Oceans Absorbed Record Amounts Of Heat In 2025; N. Pacific, Tropical/S. Atlantic, Southern Ocean Led The Uptake 0 hatrack Jan 9 Jan 9 9 358

Shitstain Leaves Global Climate Talks; It Won't Change What's Coming, May Ease Other Nations' Efforts 0 hatrack Jan 9 Jan 9 6 436

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