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World's first reactor converts ocean CO₂ into biodegradable bioplastic feedstock 9 sue4e3 5 hrs ago 2 hrs ago 9 233
Shocking! Study Shows Tea Party Was Decades In The Making, A Creature Of The Tobacco Industry & The Koch Brothers 20 hatrack 9 hrs ago 6 hrs ago 65 1983
Central Maine Power Wants To Raise Rates By $400+ Avg/Year; Also Wants 9.8% Guaranteed Profit For Its Shareholders 1 hatrack 9 hrs ago 9 hrs ago 4 211
Planet's Biggest Meat & Dairy Companies Produce More Methane Than EU Plus UK: Tonnage Equals Saudi GHG Output 1 hatrack 19 hrs ago 11 hrs ago 5 142
Not One Major Bank Commits To Stop Funding Oil/Gas/Coal; Their Only Recent Changes Cut "Targets" 0 hatrack 18 hrs ago 18 hrs ago 3 135
Since NOAA No Longer Tracks Disaster Costs, Former Employees Do; So Far In 2025, $101 Billion In US Losses 1 hatrack 19 hrs ago 19 hrs ago 8 315
AI Data Centers Bringing Blackouts Lasting Days, Water Shortages Lasting Weeks, And Public Fury 7 hatrack Yesterday 22 hrs ago 61 1749
New Shitstain Rule Will Cut Safety Reviews For Asbestos, Dioxin, Formaldehyde; States To Lose Authority To Restrict Them 5 hatrack Yesterday 22 hrs ago 8 299
Life Cycle Analysis, Carbon and Health Risks of Wind Turbine Blade Waste. 3 NNadir Tuesday Yesterday 1 274
Ypsilanti City Council calls for halt to University of Michigan data center project 1 littlemissmartypants Yesterday Yesterday 4 195
American e-waste is causing a 'hidden tsunami' in Southeast Asia, watchdog report says 0 douglas9 Yesterday Yesterday 2 207
Why America's Tiny Ocean Defies Geography 0 Uncle Joe Yesterday Yesterday 15 517
Global use of coal hit record high in 2024 2 muriel_volestrangler Yesterday Yesterday 1 215
Infectious Diseases (CWD & EHD) Hammering Deer Populations In Multiple Midwestern States 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 11 273
One Of Vance's "Closest Friends" - Neurologist w/o Any Leadership Background - Dodges Hiring Freeze To Run NIH Dept. 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 8 306
GOP-Led Public Service Comm In Georgia Pushing For 10 GW New Generation - 80% For AI, W. Ratepayers Footing The Bill 9 hatrack Sunday Tuesday 9 330
CO2 Uptake By Amazon Forests Falters; Atmospheric CO2 Content Spikes, Satellite Providing These Data May Be Shut Down 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 9 153
New: 1,000s Of Positions Eliminated/ Furloughed, Mostly @ EPA & Interior; Science, EE, Pollution/Toxics Law Enforcement 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 6 180
October Heat Records Fall In Queensland And NSW As Sydney Suburbs Push 40C; Statewide, 32 Bushfires In NSW ; 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 4 158
For The First Time In More Than 1,000 Years Of Human Habitation, Mosquitoes Found In Iceland 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 6 261
Delhi Kicks Off Smog Season Shrouded In Fireworks Smoke After Diwali; AQ Index Above 500 - 10X "Healthy" Level 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 3 173
Sure, Why Not!! Just In Time For CRAP 30, Brazil Greenlights Oil Drilling At The Mouth Of Amazon River 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 3 227
Permafrost thawed by climate change threatens remote villages in Alaska - PBS NewsHour 1 Rhiannon12866 Monday Monday 5 183
The US-Mexico Border Wall May Pose Perils to Pollinators 0 douglas9 Monday Monday 4 227
Illinois 1 Of 7 States To Pass Laws Requiring Education On Climate Change, But Funding Lacking So Far 0 hatrack Monday Monday 7 245
Mystery heatwave warms Pacific Ocean to new record 1 muriel_volestrangler Saturday Sunday 16 412
Facing Projected AI Demand Spike, 11 Governors In States Served By Largest Grid Operator Demanding More Authority 4 hatrack Saturday Sunday 3 346
Scuttling Columbia Basin pact ignores peril to salmon 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sunday Sunday 9 185

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Trump administration quietly canceled the nation's largest solar project 4 Dulcinea Oct 14 Sunday 13 455
Thanks To "Bullying", "Intimidation" From Trump Reps, All-But-Assured Small Levy On Maritime Emissions Scrapped 1 hatrack Friday Sunday 4 174
The humble plant that could save the world -- or destroy it 1 sue4e3 Saturday Sunday 17 517
The Climate Speech at the Princeton NJ, No Kings Event. 0 NNadir Sunday Sunday 6 237
Xi Pledged in 2021 That China Would End Support Of Coal Overseas; 17 Units Planned Or Underway In Indonesia Alone 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 3 177
Trump's War On Clean Energy - Glenn Kirschner 0 Rhiannon12866 Saturday Saturday 4 197
'Bigger, hotter, faster': Extreme blazes drive rise in CO₂ fire emissions 0 sue4e3 Saturday Saturday 3 145
Last Coal Power Plant In New England Closes Down Three Years Ahead Of Schedule 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 6 233
3 Months After Deadly TX Floods, 22% Of Applications For FEMA Aid Found Eligible In Kerr County - Site Of Most Deaths 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 7 280
Advanced Nuclear Fuel Manufacture Finds Its Way into Industrial Chemical Engineering Literature. 0 NNadir Saturday Saturday 1 220
California takes on Big Plastic for selling nonrecyclable shopping bags 1 douglas9 Saturday Saturday 7 265
Southern Ocean's low-salinity Antarctic waters continue absorbing CO₂ despite climate model predictions 1 sue4e3 Friday Friday 4 172
World's oceans losing their greenness through global heating, study finds 0 sue4e3 Friday Friday 1 153
Renewed legal battle ramps up over Columbia Basin dams and salmon 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Friday Friday 5 184
FL Local Govs Attempt To Defend Against Rising Seas & Bad Weather, Receive Threats, Lawsuits From Desantis In Return 4 hatrack Friday Friday 6 353
Coral Species Known For Resistance To Bleaching Is Doing Exactly That Off Atlantic Coast Of S. Florida 1 hatrack Friday Friday 9 247
Shitstain's FEMA Adding New Hurdles To Emergency Aid, Delaying Payouts To Already-Declared Disasters 1 hatrack Friday Friday 6 270
Oh, Great: Leaked Draft Shows Brazil To Press COP 30 Delegates To "Vastly Increase" Biofuels Production 0 hatrack Friday Friday 3 314
Democratizing global climate modeling 0 sue4e3 Thursday Thursday 1 119
Founder's Pledge - Branded As "Green" - Is Just A Way For The Rich To Fund Anti-Science Pressure Groups 3 hatrack Thursday Thursday 8 258
September 2025 3rd-Warmest September In Instrumental Record (Behind September 2023 & September 2024) 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 3 170
As Recently As 30 Years Ago, Greenland Thawed While Antarctica Remained Largely Untouched By Warming. Not Any More . . 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 7 237
Largest primate in Americas could lose up to 61% of its climatically suitable habitat by 2090 1 sue4e3 Oct 15 Oct 15 7 353
Rain in the Sahara? Researchers predict a wetter future for the desert 0 sue4e3 Oct 15 Oct 15 4 245
Jumbo drop in estimates of India elephant population 0 sue4e3 Oct 15 Oct 15 8 241
Study reveals decline in North Atlantic dolphin lifespan and population growth 0 sue4e3 Oct 15 Oct 15 7 183
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 sue4e3 Oct 15 Oct 15 0 113
Australia's rainforests are the first to switch from carbon sink to carbon source, study warns 0 Jim__ Oct 15 Oct 15 6 213
Eloon Predicted 250K CyberDumpster Sales/Year; So Far In 2025, The Total (Per Tesla) Is 16,000 6 hatrack Oct 14 Oct 15 5 412
Average Annual Increase In Atmospheric CO2 Biggest On Record In 2024; Same For GHGs Methane, Nitrous Oxide 4 hatrack Oct 15 Oct 15 10 292

Environment & Energy Continued...

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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 4 305
After Floods In 2019, 2020, 2023 And 2024, English Town Of Tenbury Wells Uninsurable; High Street Slowly Emptying 0 hatrack Oct 15 Oct 15 5 280
UK Government Must Prepare For Heat And Drought Far Beyond Existing Plans For Expected Extremes 0 hatrack Oct 15 Oct 15 7 225
Extreme Heat Hurts Troops; Extreme Weather Hits Bases - But Shitstain's Pentagon No Longer Plans For Warming 0 hatrack Oct 15 Oct 15 7 255
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 4 223
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 5 386
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 8 352
The medieval folklore of Britain's endangered wildlife 'omens 0 sue4e3 Oct 14 Oct 14 7 250
Data centers are booming. But there are big energy and environmental risks 2 Dulcinea Oct 14 Oct 14 6 294
8 Million Homes In England At Risk From Flooding; Entire Neighborhoods And Towns May Be Abandoned As Uninsurable 0 hatrack Oct 14 Oct 14 8 385
Coral die-off marks Earth's first climate 'tipping point', scientists say 4 Submariner Oct 13 Oct 14 18 299
Planet's Forest Health In "Dismal" Condition; Agriculture Gets 70X The Subsidies Dedicated To Restore, Protect Forests 3 hatrack Oct 13 Oct 13 6 234
New Zealand accused of 'full-blown climate denial' over cuts to methane reduction targets 0 Eugene Oct 13 Oct 13 4 192
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 1 258
UK Diesel Cheating Scandal Snares Ford, Mercedes, Renault, Nissan And Peugeot/Citroen; Damages Pegged @ $8 Billion+ 0 hatrack Oct 13 Oct 13 3 199
Christmas Island Shrew Officially Extinct; 39 Australian Mammal Species Gone Since 1788, More Than In Any Other Nation 1 hatrack Oct 13 Oct 13 11 276
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 9 391
EPA Inspector General's Office Lists 13 Problems In September Report; Former Staff Report "Incapacitating" Staffing Cuts 0 hatrack Oct 13 Oct 13 8 293
European Commission Tells Trump To Get Stuffed On Pressure To Weaken Environmental Rules 0 hatrack Oct 13 Oct 13 10 327
You're kidding, right? Solar and Wind's Hidden Price Tag: Why Cost Isn't the Whole Story 0 NNadir Oct 12 Oct 12 3 495
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