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Central Valley groundwater pumping, land-sinking stressing Aqueduct. Is there a fix? 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 19 Aug 19 5 256
Soy Exports At 20-Year Low As Rain And Disease Plague Crops In Upper Midwest States 2 hatrack Aug 19 Aug 19 2 347
1,000s Of Abandoned Boats Of All Types Pollute US Estuaries, Rivers, Beaches, Typically Abandoned After Hurricanes 1 hatrack Aug 19 Aug 19 6 366
Ocracoke And Hatteras Evacuated: Erin Expected To Bring 20' Waves, Flooding And Erosion 0 hatrack Aug 19 Aug 19 9 407
"The Misconduct Was Pervasive" - Line 3 Non-Violent Protestor's Felony Conviction Overturned By Appeals Court 0 hatrack Aug 19 Aug 19 7 440
Businesses face 'chaos' as EPA aims to repeal its authority over climate pollution 0 Dulcinea Aug 19 Aug 19 2 323
Will Oil Demand Peak Soon? Trump Administration Doesn't Want to Hear It. -NYT 0 Caribbeans Aug 19 Aug 19 4 354
Jio Set to Launch India's First Hydrogen-Powered Hybrid Scooter at Just ₹17,000 Rupee ($195 USD) 0 Caribbeans Aug 19 Aug 19 1 293
Canada Is Burning In Places It Didn't Burn Before; Atlantic And Prairie Provinces The Heart Of 2025 Fire Season 2 hatrack Aug 17 Aug 18 10 421
1/4 Of Spain's Weather Stations At/Above 104F; Cadiz At 114F; High/Extreme Fire Danger Across Most Of Country 0 hatrack Aug 18 Aug 18 5 317
Top House Democrat Pressing USFS For Accurate Information Re. Fire Crew Numbers, Getting Lies In Response 0 hatrack Aug 18 Aug 18 10 374
Wow! Great tidal turbine: 1 applegrove Aug 17 Aug 18 12 451
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse on Democrats' Failures--and Opportunities for a Climate Comeback 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 18 Aug 18 10 332
Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying 3 cliffside Aug 17 Aug 18 9 432
LFSCOE: The True Cost of Solar and Wind Energy in Texas and Germany in Answer to the Question... 1 NNadir Aug 17 Aug 17 1 515
After a Drought Last Year, Ohio Farmers Wished for Rain. Now Downpours Are Destroying Their Crops 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 17 Aug 17 4 326
Micro- And Nano-Plastics Are Literally Everywhere As Treaty Talks Collapse; But We "Can't Afford Despair" - Why Not? 1 hatrack Aug 17 Aug 17 7 326
Stalagmites in Mexican caves reveal duration and severity of drought during the Maya collapse 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 17 Aug 17 14 446
Another gold rush could bring open pit mines to South Dakota's Black Hills 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 17 Aug 17 8 336
Hydrogen Engine or Hydrogen Fuel Cell? Why Not Both? Volvo Trucks takes us inside its two-pronged development strategy 10 Caribbeans Aug 16 Aug 17 1 439
Trump told polluters to email him for an exemption. In California, three places have already been approved 1 Dulcinea Aug 17 Aug 17 8 426
26 In 2023, 39 In 2024: Rising Heat Deaths In El Paso Bring Little In The Way Of Public Health Response 0 hatrack Aug 17 Aug 17 7 307
Jellyfish Shut Down French Nuclear Power Plant - NY Times 2 Caribbeans Aug 16 Aug 17 4 285
60 percent of the world's land area is in a precarious state 5 OKIsItJustMe Aug 16 Aug 17 7 403
Black metal could give a heavy boost to solar power generation 1 OKIsItJustMe Aug 16 Aug 17 19 697
'Revolutionary' seafloor fiber sensing reveals how falling ice drives glacial retreat in Greenland 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 16 Aug 16 7 257
How a White House plan to overturn a key EPA regulation threatens children's health - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Aug 16 Aug 16 2 262
Former LCV Head - 20 Years Back, About 20% Of Candidates They Endorsed Were GOP; In 2024, Zero 1 hatrack Aug 16 Aug 16 7 313
Erin Went From A Category 1 To A Category 5 In 24 Hours And 20 Minutes - Earliest Cat 5 Ever In The Open Atlantic 1 hatrack Aug 16 Aug 16 6 439
An Economic Argument That the Three Mile Island Meltdown Cost the US 14 Trillion Dollars 14 NNadir Aug 14 Aug 16 3 579

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Area Of Spain Burned In Wildfires In 2025 Already Three Times Seasonal Average From 2006 To 2024 0 hatrack Aug 16 Aug 16 5 266
Overnight Low Temperature Records Set In Israel (96.8F) And Jordan (95F) 1 hatrack Aug 16 Aug 16 8 315
South Korean judges order companies responsible for fatal hydrogen explosion to pay billions of won in damages: reports 0 NNadir Aug 16 Aug 16 0 256
How Hydrogen-Powered Helicopter Flight Could Help Healthcare 1 Caribbeans Aug 16 Aug 16 1 251
Hydrogen Buses Hit the Road in Tasmania with Local Refuelling Tech 1 Caribbeans Aug 15 Aug 16 2 294
SolarStratos Makes History: 9,521 Meters Reached Using Only Solar Power 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 15 Aug 15 8 228
National Parks In "Survival Mode": Half Big Bend NP Staff Gone, 60 Vacant Positions In AK, No Lifeguards At Assateague 3 hatrack Aug 15 Aug 15 10 387
National Academy Organizes Rapid Response To Trump's "Scientific" Hackfest Downplaying Climate Threat 6 hatrack Aug 15 Aug 15 4 345
Homeless Are 1% Of Maricopa County Population, But Made Up 20% Of Deaths In 2024 At Arizona Burn Centers - It's That Hot 0 hatrack Aug 15 Aug 15 9 321
July 2025 Atmospheric CO2 Concentration 427.87 ppm; July 2024 425.55 ppm; July 2023 421.83 ppm 9 hatrack Aug 15 Aug 15 10 430
Pedophile Party Members Who Voted For Big Bullshit Bill Have Lifetime Take Of $105 Million From Oil Industry 1 hatrack Aug 15 Aug 15 6 322
Plastic pollution talks fail as negotiators in Geneva reject draft treaties 2 muriel_volestrangler Aug 15 Aug 15 2 289
Global Heat Spike In 2023 Continued Through 2024; CO2 Content Rose At Record Rate In 2024, Matching 2015 Record 0 hatrack Aug 15 Aug 15 6 267
Warming In Svalbard 7X Global Average; Glaciers' Melt Powered In Part By Rich Microbial Ecosystem Within Them 0 hatrack Aug 15 Aug 15 7 276
British Gas Pours $2 Billion Into LNG Terminal, Even Though UK Gas Demand Hit Lowest Level In 30+ Years In 2024 0 hatrack Aug 15 Aug 15 1 257
Hydrogen Bus Explosion in Chungju Injures Three in South Korea 0 NNadir Aug 15 Aug 15 4 330
World's first 30MW pure hydrogen gas turbine project breaks ground in Ordos 1 OKIsItJustMe Aug 14 Aug 15 5 454
Department of Energy Announces Initial Selections for New Reactor Pilot Program 1 OKIsItJustMe Aug 14 Aug 15 2 312
Lake on the 79N Glacier is splitting the ice - leaving permanent changes 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 14 Aug 14 3 326
Human emissions drove the megadrought in the western U.S. 2 OKIsItJustMe Aug 14 Aug 14 8 383
Philippines gets first megawatt-scale floating solar farm 2 Caribbeans Aug 14 Aug 14 2 380
Solastalgia 4 littlemissmartypants Aug 14 Aug 14 10 495
Study: Southwest US Drought May Persist Until 2100 As Global Warming Produces Major Shifts In Pacific Temperatures 0 hatrack Aug 14 Aug 14 5 355
Pedophile Party Reps Demand Canada "Take Action" Because Of Wildfire Smoke, But GOP Action On Warming Strangely Missing 2 hatrack Aug 14 Aug 14 3 339
1,500 Deaths Linked To Spain Heatwave, 8/12 Saw 198 Weather Stations @ 40C Or Above; Gov Fumbling Response At All Levels 0 hatrack Aug 14 Aug 14 9 378
Acetone, Ethanol, Toluene, Lead - A Toxic Creek Winds Through NC Neighborhood, And Trump's EPA Doesn't Care 0 hatrack Aug 14 Aug 14 4 312
Conservationists again sue U.S. Fish and Wildlife for denying Oregon red tree voles protection 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 14 Aug 14 3 200
International "State of the Climate" report confirms record-high greenhouse gases, global temperatures, global sea level 2 OKIsItJustMe Aug 14 Aug 14 13 323
London's Newest Attraction: Wet Wipe Island, As Big As 2 Tennis Courts & Weighing As Much As 15 Doubledecker Buses 3 hatrack Aug 14 Aug 14 7 612
Dominion Energy (VA) Stated In Filing That Outside Monitor Checked Gas Plant Bids; Now They Admit That They Lied 2 hatrack Aug 14 Aug 14 8 435

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Farming Already Uses An Area Equivalent To All Of Asia Plus All Of Europe And We're Still Razing Forests For Cheap Meat 3 hatrack Aug 14 Aug 14 9 402
2025 Set To Break 2022 Record For UK Wildfires; 5 Km2 Burned In Yorkshire National Park 0 hatrack Aug 14 Aug 14 4 229
Spain 5th Nation In A Week To Invoke EU Mutual Aid Pact For Fires; Lethal Heatwave Continues Across Southern Europe 0 hatrack Aug 14 Aug 14 5 286
After 2 Deaths During Multiple Days Of 100-110F Heat Indices, RAGBRAI's Future Increasingly Uncertain 4 hatrack Aug 14 Aug 14 9 599
Nearly 100 Nations Reject Toothless Plastics Treaty That Avoids Production Limits In Favor Of "Recycling" 0 hatrack Aug 14 Aug 14 8 345
Shistain Disbanded NOAA Group Tasked With Annual Update Of Flood Risk Back In January 0 hatrack Aug 14 Aug 14 7 357
Efforts to save local coral reefs ongoing amid sweltering South Florida summer - WPLG Local 10 Miami-Fort Lauderdale 1 Rhiannon12866 Aug 14 Aug 14 4 256
Rock and glacial ice slide in the Endicott Arm area of Alaska generates 15 feet tsunami waves in fjord. 0 Tonk Aug 13 Aug 13 6 464
EPA Will Now Let Big Polluters Stop Reporting CO2/Methane Output, But Satellites Are Already Tracking The Data 2 hatrack Aug 13 Aug 13 7 263
Swiss adventurer 'smashes altitude record' in solar-powered plane 3 littlemissmartypants Aug 13 Aug 13 7 388
9 Years After 23 Residents Died In Catastrophic Flood, WV Officials Launching Study On Flood Mitigation On Kanawah River 1 hatrack Aug 13 Aug 13 2 252
No El Nino, But 2025 On Track To Be One Of Three Hottest Years On Record; July Was The Third-Hottest July Ever 1 hatrack Aug 13 Aug 13 3 282
This is horrifying - Joe Rogan 2 applegrove Aug 13 Aug 13 8 882
Dengue Cases Spiking In Pacific Nations; 17 Deaths, 16,502 Cases So Far In 2025, And Yes, It's Warming-Related 2 hatrack Aug 12 Aug 13 4 282
W. Massive Bleaching And Coral Death Across Western Australia Reefs, Oil & Gas Major Extends Science Museum Sponsorship 0 hatrack Aug 12 Aug 12 3 211
Unpublished Gov Report Reveals "Intense And Scary" Climate Risks To Australia's Environment & Economy 0 hatrack Aug 12 Aug 12 5 250
China: Jiaxing Port Deploys 100 Hydrogen Trucks, Cutting 10,000 Tons of CO₂ Annually 0 Caribbeans Aug 12 Aug 12 1 217
Arizona Just Proved Jaguars Aren't Extinct in the U.S. 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 12 Aug 12 12 412
US to retaliate against IMO members that back net zero emissions plan 1 Eugene Aug 12 Aug 12 3 288
Parts of Europe burn as millions are facing record heat 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 12 Aug 12 6 297
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