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No More Plastic Bags at stores in California 10 Beringia Thursday 57 min ago 7 441
Non-Response To H5N1 Outbreak At Dairy Factory Shows Nothing Has Changed W. America's Industrial Meat And Milk 6 hatrack Yesterday 1 hr ago 26 590
Plastic pellets known as 'nurdles' are polluting beaches and waterways 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 2 hrs ago 2 hrs ago 4 168
Dead fin whale discovered on bow of ship in New Jersey marine terminal 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 4 hrs ago 3 hrs ago 5 197
Texas clears the way for petrochemical expansion as experts warn of health risks 0 douglas9 11 hrs ago 11 hrs ago 4 281
Canada has just broken a world record in nuclear fusion... 14 OnlinePoker 22 hrs ago 19 hrs ago 59 1590
Are folks in Europe as upset about giant data centers as we are here in the US 2 CurtEastPoint 22 hrs ago 21 hrs ago 7 255
A rare whale is having an encouraging season for births. Scientists warn it might still go extinct 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Yesterday Yesterday 4 147
Even Former Senator Flouncy Strutmuppet Can't Help Data Center Industry; Pushback Coming Across Deep Red States 5 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 23 689
In 2004, Trek Across Arctic Ice Saw Temps In 60s; In 2025, Arctic Report Card Shows Accelerating System Failure 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 6 187
Western Queensland Plains Smothered By 8" - 20" Of Rain; Small Towns Like Winton Cut Off For A Week And Counting 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 7 211
2025 Hottest & Sunniest Year On Record For UK; Six Hottest Years Since Records Began In 1884 Took Place Since 2002 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 3 172
December 2025 Atmospheric CO2 Content 427.49 ppm; December 2024 425.40 ppm; December 2023 421.86 ppm 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 6 155
Paleodata From Greenland Show Ice Dome 50 Miles Broad And 1,600 Feet High Melted Completely w/i Last 10,000 Years 2 hatrack Monday Monday 11 195
Honey-Making Stingless Bees in the Peruvian Amazon Become the First Insects to Gain Legal Rights 1 Judi Lynn Monday Monday 6 182
After A Year Of Shitstain Gutting America's Science And Emergency Response, "People Will Suffer - It's Just That Simple" 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 9 264
Another Benefit From The Bullshit That Is AI: "Just An Unbelievable Amount Of Pollution" 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 10 273
Few Florida Staghorn Corals Survived 2023 Bleaching; Many That Remain In Path Of Federal Dredging Project 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 2 199
Satellite Measurements Show Slight But Steady Declines In Heights Of 41 Dams In 13 States & Puerto Rico 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 5 232
Voltage, inertia and the Iberian blackout part 2: faulty PV inverter crashed the grid 2 NNadir Sunday Sunday 4 270
Officials enlist hunters in battle against ginormous hogs taking over US region: 'You want that number ... going down' 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sunday Sunday 2 289
"They Didn't De-Extinct Anything" - No Substantial Differences Between "Dire Wolves" And Those Living In North America 2 hatrack Wednesday Saturday 11 443
Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 4 douglas9 Friday Friday 29 1094
Electric Power Reliability, Energy Burdens, and Climate Change Beliefs in the United States 6 NNadir Wednesday Friday 2 757
Jordan Has Lost +/- 70% Of Its Olive Crop After Months Of Relentless Drought And Heat 10-15C Above Averages 3 hatrack Friday Friday 5 334
Ring-Necked Parakeet Population In England An Estimated 15,000 Pairs, Producing New Pressure On Native Birds 1 hatrack Friday Friday 6 329
2025 UK Survey Finds 646 Flowering Plant Species In Bloom During November-December Study Period 0 hatrack Friday Friday 6 241
UNL Cuts Dept Of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences - NE Has Seen 26 Billion-Dollar Disasters Since 2005; 4 In Prior 20 Years 1 hatrack Friday Friday 3 363

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Onboard an expedition to study a massive, melting glacier in Antarctica - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Friday Friday 4 237
Americans Know The Reality Of Warming, Even If Their Insane Government Won't Admit Its Existence 6 hatrack Thursday Thursday 14 394
2005 - Cabinet Ministers Explicitly Warned Australia's Right-Wing Government Of Warming Impacts; Nothing Really Changed 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 1 247
Christmas Eve In Iceland - A Balmy High Of 68F, Highest Temperature For The Day On Record 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 9 357
England's Fire Services Dealt With 27,000 Fires In Forests, On Crop And Grasslands During 2025, Hottest Year On Record 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 5 241
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 applegrove Dec 30 Dec 30 0 58
Engineered material uses light to destroy PFAS, other contaminants 2 OKIsItJustMe Dec 29 Dec 30 9 358
GameChangers 2025: The Unstoppable Rise of Environmental Crime 0 douglas9 Dec 30 Dec 30 3 336
Category '6' tropical cyclone hot spots are growing 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 29 Dec 29 5 284
Feedback loops accelerate warming, other atmospheric changes in Arctic 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 29 Dec 29 3 196
China mandates "No Fire, No Explosion" EV battery rule as 294 national standards finalized 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 29 Dec 29 3 266
European Energy energises Northern Europe's largest combined solar and battery park 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 29 Dec 29 3 202
Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere developed at the University of Helsinki 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 29 Dec 29 8 325
Reactor Pressure Vessel (RPV) Ingots 8 Finishline42 Dec 28 Dec 29 3 553
Nursing Home Explosion Kills More People than Died From Radiation at Fukushima But Not As Many As Died from Fear... 6 NNadir Dec 27 Dec 29 11 796
Stingless bees from the Amazon granted legal rights in world first 4 marmar Dec 29 Dec 29 13 405
AI data centers use so much energy and water: 11 applegrove Dec 27 Dec 29 16 643
George Monbiot: How One Conversation W. Joe Rogan & Mel Gibson Embodied Everything Stupid That Is America Today 5 hatrack Dec 27 Dec 29 12 679
More Than 180 Ski Resorts Have Closed In France Alone As Snow Continues Retreat To Higher Altitudes 2 hatrack Dec 28 Dec 28 12 467
Scientists work to decode wolf howls in Yellowstone with AI technology - PBS NewsHour 8 Rhiannon12866 Dec 27 Dec 28 8 389
Too Bad, So Sad - Shitstain's Big Ag Bailouts, EPA's Speedy Pestcide Approvals Alienating Antivax MAHA Voters 0 hatrack Dec 28 Dec 28 14 439
Conservation Groups Acquire Nearly 3,000 Acres Of Near-Pristine TX Coastal Land To Protect Last Wild Whooping Cranes 0 hatrack Dec 28 Dec 28 15 436
Solar Energy from space...! 4 pbmus Dec 27 Dec 28 14 656
How a company in landlocked Nebraska is helping fight plastic pollution in oceans - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Dec 28 Dec 28 6 420
A great info hub... 2 2naSalit Dec 27 Dec 27 12 374
America's biggest oil field is turning into a pressure cooker 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 26 Dec 26 5 454
How Bull Connor And George Wallace Wrenched Alabama Power Into The Rate-Hiking, Coal-Heavy Nightmare It Is Today 0 hatrack Dec 26 Dec 26 6 341
US voters linking climate crisis to rising bills despite Trump's 'green scam' claims 2 Eugene Dec 26 Dec 26 11 422
Chilean Govt & Tompkins Conservation Prep National Park Status For 500,000 Remote Acres In Southern Patagonia 0 hatrack Dec 25 Dec 25 5 288
Republicans aim to exempt major polluters from Pfas cleanup costs 0 Eugene Dec 24 Dec 24 7 323

Environment & Energy Continued...

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West Antarctica's history of rapid melting foretells sudden shifts in continent's 'catastrophic' geology 1 marmar Dec 24 Dec 24 7 355
Ice Shelf Supporting Thwaites Glacier Has Lost Connection To Ocean Floor; Cracks In Positive Feedback Loop 1 hatrack Dec 24 Dec 24 36 925
Farmed Salmon Company Greenwashing With Sports Sponsorships & Beach Cleanups, And The Scots Are Not Having It 0 hatrack Dec 24 Dec 24 3 366
Concierge Disaster Recovery Services - Coming Soon To Fire/Flood-Hit Upscale Neighborhoods Near YOU!! 0 hatrack Dec 24 Dec 24 4 340
UK Met Office - 2025 "More Likely Than Not" To Break All-Time Records Set In 2022; Christmas Cold Snap May Intervene 0 hatrack Dec 24 Dec 24 1 214
NRC's Rushed Approval of Bill Gates' Experimental Wyoming Nuclear Reactor will Imperil Public Health, the Environment 9 OKIsItJustMe Dec 11 Dec 23 5 699
Regenerative Capitalism Will Save The Planet! And It's Based On Carbon Credits (Along With Massive Bank Loans) 2 hatrack Dec 23 Dec 23 4 400
"Climate Lysenkoism" - Michael Mann On Trump's Full-On Stalinist Approach To Climate Science And Reality 1 hatrack Dec 23 Dec 23 6 370
Trump halts East Coast projects in latest blow against wind power - PBS NewsHour 2 Rhiannon12866 Dec 22 Dec 22 6 347
Why Finland's reindeer are dying by the thousands - CNN 4 TexasTowelie Dec 22 Dec 22 6 612
Whitmer Undoes Her Own Environmental Legacy By Backing (You Guessed It!) Tax Incentives For Data Centers 1 hatrack Dec 22 Dec 22 6 346
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 TexasTowelie Dec 22 Dec 22 0 166
SF Blackout Blocks Streets & Intersections With Paralyzed Waymo Cabs 1 hatrack Dec 21 Dec 21 8 466
Shocked, Shocked: Major UK Grocer Delays Net-Zero Plan For Another 15 Years (But It'll Be Great In 2050!) 2 hatrack Dec 17 Dec 21 4 352
For The 5th Time In 3 Years, Exxon & Pals Pushing SCOTUS For Liability Help; Also Pushing Congress For Legal Immunity 2 hatrack Dec 21 Dec 21 6 410
After Gutting Climate Laws In 2025, President Vought & Oval Office Assistant Try To Make Change Permanent In 2026 2 hatrack Dec 21 Dec 21 4 337
Their Clients Include BP, Aramco & Shell; Now They're Advising UK Arts Orgs On How To Justify Taking Oil & Gas Money 1 hatrack Dec 21 Dec 21 2 361
More Climate Leadership From Amazon! A Koch-Sponsored AI & Energy Conference Chock-Full Of Paid Climate Liars 0 hatrack Dec 21 Dec 21 5 348
Refreshing Honesty From LNG Exec: "Let's Plant A Few Trees And Call That An Offset, That Was All Bullshit" 0 hatrack Dec 21 Dec 21 4 340
At 2.0 - 2.5C Increase, Amazon Basin Hits Tipping Point; After That, 50-70% Of Forest Becomes Savannah,W. Global Impacts 0 hatrack Dec 21 Dec 21 2 265
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