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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse on Democrats' Failures--and Opportunities for a Climate Comeback 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 18 Aug 18 10 291
Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying 3 cliffside Aug 17 Aug 18 9 367
LFSCOE: The True Cost of Solar and Wind Energy in Texas and Germany in Answer to the Question... 1 NNadir Aug 17 Aug 17 1 448
After a Drought Last Year, Ohio Farmers Wished for Rain. Now Downpours Are Destroying Their Crops 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 17 Aug 17 4 297
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 7 297
Stalagmites in Mexican caves reveal duration and severity of drought during the Maya collapse 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 17 Aug 17 14 408
Another gold rush could bring open pit mines to South Dakota's Black Hills 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 17 Aug 17 8 303
Trump administration faces lawsuit over "secret report" on climate change 1 Dulcinea Aug 17 Aug 17 4 341
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 1 363
Trump told polluters to email him for an exemption. In California, three places have already been approved 1 Dulcinea Aug 17 Aug 17 8 392
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 7 279
Jellyfish Shut Down French Nuclear Power Plant - NY Times 2 Caribbeans Aug 16 Aug 17 4 249
60 percent of the world's land area is in a precarious state 5 OKIsItJustMe Aug 16 Aug 17 7 315
Black metal could give a heavy boost to solar power generation 1 OKIsItJustMe Aug 16 Aug 17 19 655
'Revolutionary' seafloor fiber sensing reveals how falling ice drives glacial retreat in Greenland 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 16 Aug 16 7 232
How a White House plan to overturn a key EPA regulation threatens children's health - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Aug 16 Aug 16 2 235
Former LCV Head - 20 Years Back, About 20% Of Candidates They Endorsed Were GOP; In 2024, Zero 1 hatrack Aug 16 Aug 16 7 286
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 6 406
An Economic Argument That the Three Mile Island Meltdown Cost the US 14 Trillion Dollars 14 NNadir Aug 14 Aug 16 3 482
Area Of Spain Burned In Wildfires In 2025 Already Three Times Seasonal Average From 2006 To 2024 0 hatrack Aug 16 Aug 16 5 243
Overnight Low Temperature Records Set In Israel (96.8F) And Jordan (95F) 1 hatrack Aug 16 Aug 16 8 284
South Korean judges order companies responsible for fatal hydrogen explosion to pay billions of won in damages: reports 0 NNadir Aug 16 Aug 16 0 216
How Hydrogen-Powered Helicopter Flight Could Help Healthcare 1 Caribbeans Aug 16 Aug 16 1 219
Hydrogen Buses Hit the Road in Tasmania with Local Refuelling Tech 1 Caribbeans Aug 15 Aug 16 2 232
SolarStratos Makes History: 9,521 Meters Reached Using Only Solar Power 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 15 Aug 15 8 203
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 10 341
National Academy Organizes Rapid Response To Trump's "Scientific" Hackfest Downplaying Climate Threat 6 hatrack Aug 15 Aug 15 4 299
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 9 293
July 2025 Atmospheric CO2 Concentration 427.87 ppm; July 2024 425.55 ppm; July 2023 421.83 ppm 9 hatrack Aug 15 Aug 15 10 368
Pedophile Party Members Who Voted For Big Bullshit Bill Have Lifetime Take Of $105 Million From Oil Industry 1 hatrack Aug 15 Aug 15 6 289

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Plastic pollution talks fail as negotiators in Geneva reject draft treaties 2 muriel_volestrangler Aug 15 Aug 15 2 247
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 6 237
Warming In Svalbard 7X Global Average; Glaciers' Melt Powered In Part By Rich Microbial Ecosystem Within Them 0 hatrack Aug 15 Aug 15 7 252
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 1 231
Hydrogen Bus Explosion in Chungju Injures Three in South Korea 0 NNadir Aug 15 Aug 15 4 290
World's first 30MW pure hydrogen gas turbine project breaks ground in Ordos 1 OKIsItJustMe Aug 14 Aug 15 5 411
Department of Energy Announces Initial Selections for New Reactor Pilot Program 1 OKIsItJustMe Aug 14 Aug 15 2 273
Lake on the 79N Glacier is splitting the ice - leaving permanent changes 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 14 Aug 14 3 301
Human emissions drove the megadrought in the western U.S. 2 OKIsItJustMe Aug 14 Aug 14 8 339
Philippines gets first megawatt-scale floating solar farm 2 Caribbeans Aug 14 Aug 14 2 345
Solastalgia 4 littlemissmartypants Aug 14 Aug 14 10 448
Study: Southwest US Drought May Persist Until 2100 As Global Warming Produces Major Shifts In Pacific Temperatures 0 hatrack Aug 14 Aug 14 5 319
Pedophile Party Reps Demand Canada "Take Action" Because Of Wildfire Smoke, But GOP Action On Warming Strangely Missing 2 hatrack Aug 14 Aug 14 3 299
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 9 337
Acetone, Ethanol, Toluene, Lead - A Toxic Creek Winds Through NC Neighborhood, And Trump's EPA Doesn't Care 0 hatrack Aug 14 Aug 14 4 282
Conservationists again sue U.S. Fish and Wildlife for denying Oregon red tree voles protection 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 14 Aug 14 3 170
International "State of the Climate" report confirms record-high greenhouse gases, global temperatures, global sea level 2 OKIsItJustMe Aug 14 Aug 14 13 290
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 7 548
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 8 388
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 9 370
2025 Set To Break 2022 Record For UK Wildfires; 5 Km2 Burned In Yorkshire National Park 0 hatrack Aug 14 Aug 14 4 199
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 5 264
After 2 Deaths During Multiple Days Of 100-110F Heat Indices, RAGBRAI's Future Increasingly Uncertain 4 hatrack Aug 14 Aug 14 9 551
Nearly 100 Nations Reject Toothless Plastics Treaty That Avoids Production Limits In Favor Of "Recycling" 0 hatrack Aug 14 Aug 14 8 303
Shistain Disbanded NOAA Group Tasked With Annual Update Of Flood Risk Back In January 0 hatrack Aug 14 Aug 14 7 328
Efforts to save local coral reefs ongoing amid sweltering South Florida summer - WPLG Local 10 Miami-Fort Lauderdale 1 Rhiannon12866 Aug 14 Aug 14 4 222
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 6 435
EPA Will Now Let Big Polluters Stop Reporting CO2/Methane Output, But Satellites Are Already Tracking The Data 2 hatrack Aug 13 Aug 13 7 231
Swiss adventurer 'smashes altitude record' in solar-powered plane 3 littlemissmartypants Aug 13 Aug 13 7 350
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 2 226

Environment & Energy Continued...

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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 3 254
This is horrifying - Joe Rogan 2 applegrove Aug 13 Aug 13 8 846
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 4 250
W. Massive Bleaching And Coral Death Across Western Australia Reefs, Oil & Gas Major Extends Science Museum Sponsorship 0 hatrack Aug 12 Aug 12 3 186
Unpublished Gov Report Reveals "Intense And Scary" Climate Risks To Australia's Environment & Economy 0 hatrack Aug 12 Aug 12 5 226
China: Jiaxing Port Deploys 100 Hydrogen Trucks, Cutting 10,000 Tons of CO₂ Annually 0 Caribbeans Aug 12 Aug 12 1 192
Arizona Just Proved Jaguars Aren't Extinct in the U.S. 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 12 Aug 12 12 381
US to retaliate against IMO members that back net zero emissions plan 1 Eugene Aug 12 Aug 12 3 251
Parts of Europe burn as millions are facing record heat 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 12 Aug 12 6 269
Science Advances: Groundwater Mining Has Produced Greater SLR Impacts Than Melting Of Greenland's Ice Sheet 2 hatrack Aug 12 Aug 12 6 275
6 Years After Plan Launched For 22,000 km2 Native Forest Preserve In Saskatchewan, 90% Of It Has Been Destroyed By Fire 2 hatrack Aug 12 Aug 12 6 306
Shitstain's Budget Will Gut National Energy Labs In OR, CO, WA; Climate, Energy Efficiency Core Missions At These Sites 0 hatrack Aug 12 Aug 12 6 215
In Colorado, The Lee Fire Hits The State's Record For 5th-Largest Fire Ever At 130,000 Acres; 1,000+ Firefighters Deploy 1 hatrack Aug 12 Aug 12 5 277
1,000s Of FEMA Funding Requests Wait For ICE Barbie's Signature; Post-Helene, NC's Small, Rural Towns Hurt Most By Delay 2 hatrack Aug 12 Aug 12 10 362
Nearly 6,000 Residents Evacuated In Multiple Regions Of Spain As "Explosive" Fires Expand In 110F Heatwave 2 hatrack Aug 12 Aug 12 4 330
UK Ministers Approve Contingency Plans For Potential Collapse Of Thames Water 0 hatrack Aug 12 Aug 12 4 403
As Peak Of Hurricane Season Approaches, FEMA Diverts 100 Staffers To Help ICE Recruit Masked Clown Squad Members 0 hatrack Aug 12 Aug 12 4 234
China expands hydrogen bike-share network 1 Caribbeans Aug 11 Aug 12 3 230
India begins construction of first green hydrogen-powered ships 1 Caribbeans Aug 11 Aug 11 3 216
Canada wildfire season already second worst on record as experts warn of 'new reality' 0 Eugene Aug 11 Aug 11 5 196
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