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As drought worsens, Western states brace for wildfires, water shortages 3 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Monday Monday 8 360
Oil Crisis? How about we Reduce Demand? Here's How 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Monday Monday 4 440
It looks like the Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory's Instrument is back up, with the second highest measurement ever seen. 0 NNadir Monday Monday 7 1010
"Green Finance", "Carbon Offsets" Just More Ways To Greenwash, Create Market Plays While Doing Nothing For Climate 3 hatrack Monday Monday 4 419
No One Is Certain, But EPA Estimates That There are 3.7 Million Abandoned US Oil/Gas Wells, 58% Of Them Unsealed 4 hatrack Sunday Monday 18 772
Airline emissions in Europe top pre-Covid levels despite pledge to decarbonise 2 OKIsItJustMe May 8 Sunday 3 391
"It Is Time To Close The Chapter On FEMA" - Trump Committee Plans To Deliberately Destroy Federal Emergency Response 7 hatrack Sunday Sunday 22 789
Odd But Interesting: GQP Senate Candidate In LA Staking His Campaign On Opposing "Carbon Capture" Projects 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 5 433
It turns out there is an analytical reason we will not get a weekly data point at Mauna Loa for the 2nd time in half... 3 NNadir May 9 Sunday 9 510
Um, delicious!!! Recovery of Highly Toxic Tellurium Used for Super Efficient Solar Cells. 1 NNadir May 8 Sunday 1 610
German Engineers Packed Hydrogen Into Hollow Tractor Wheels. Now the Machines Run All Day Without Heavy Batteries 4 Caribbeans May 9 May 9 20 1150
Concentrated Solar Power finds a new Niche 3 thought crime May 8 May 9 3 535
World's largest nuclear facility could be built in Ontario with new $300M deal 5 OnlinePoker May 7 May 9 3 457
Toxic Heavy Metals - Tungsten, Selenium, Arsenic - Concentrating In San Luis Valley Water Supply As Drought Stretches On 1 hatrack May 9 May 9 4 347
Superfund Sites In New Jersey Awaiting Cleanup For 40 Years Or More; W. EPA Gutted, Remediation Grinding To A Halt 0 hatrack May 9 May 9 6 309
Senior Interior Official Flat-Out Said Changes In Federal Grazing Policy Personally Enriched Her - 6 Months Ago 0 hatrack May 9 May 9 6 349
The disaster unfolding on Russia's Black Sea coast is of its own making 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 9 May 9 5 484
War. What is it good for? Absolutely Nothing. But... 0 thought crime May 8 May 8 1 331
'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds 16 OKIsItJustMe May 4 May 8 13 1123
NOAA/ESRL - April 2026 Atmospheric CO2 Content: 431.12 ppm; April 2025 429.64 ppm; April 2024 426.51 ppm 6 hatrack May 8 May 8 2 413
Antarctica sea ice collapse driven by triple whammy of climate chaos, scientists find 1 OKIsItJustMe May 8 May 8 10 402
New solar cells hit 30% efficiency and still work after 1,000 hours of power 3 Caribbeans May 7 May 8 6 526
Saskatchewan's plan to extend life of coal power to cost $26B over 25 years: NDP 0 OnlinePoker May 8 May 8 1 297
Trump's crackdown on China-linked solar firms stalls U.S. factory boom 0 OKIsItJustMe May 8 May 8 6 402
EU purchases from Russia's largest natural gas field hit record 3bn (pounds) 0 OKIsItJustMe May 8 May 8 1 313
Nutrient imbalance may drive coral disease more than heat stress, new study suggests 0 OKIsItJustMe May 8 May 8 3 258
New Material Technology Boasts High-Performance Carbon Dioxide Absorption 0 OKIsItJustMe May 8 May 8 2 286
Turning plastic waste into clean fuel using sunlight 1 OKIsItJustMe May 8 May 8 8 407
Brilliant idea for ocean based power generation on front page of the Financial Times yesterday 32 Pluvious May 6 May 8 44 3041
The Pentagon is delaying wind power development -- even on private land 4 applegrove May 7 May 7 9 511

Environment & Energy Continued...

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'Indian Nino' Drove Record Heat in 2023 and 2024, New UMD Study Finds 0 OKIsItJustMe May 7 May 7 4 308
Hidden methane emerging from beneath the ice reveals Greenland's sensitivity to climate change 0 OKIsItJustMe May 7 May 7 4 455
How trees in urban areas are key to cooling down a warmer world 0 OKIsItJustMe May 7 May 7 5 362
Study Projects Plant Extinction Rates Through 2100. (7% to 16% of global plant species at high risk of extinction) 0 OKIsItJustMe May 7 May 7 4 316
Forest Fuel Treatments Reduce Wildfire Spread, Prevent $2.8 Billion in Damage 0 OKIsItJustMe May 7 May 7 6 457
When faith meets a melting point: New study warns Hajj pilgrimage is breaching human survivability limits 0 OKIsItJustMe May 7 May 7 9 502
Scientists stunned: Volcano cleans up after itself by removing methane from the air 2 OKIsItJustMe May 7 May 7 6 583
Rapidly melting Antarctic ice shelves may cause global sea levels to rise far faster than expected - new study 3 OKIsItJustMe May 7 May 7 4 406
Deforestation lessens Amazon rainfall, and climate change hastens that process 0 OKIsItJustMe May 7 May 7 4 267
Odds Improve For The El Nino Currently Building In The Pacific To Be The Hottest Ever Recorded 2 hatrack May 7 May 7 6 529
China's Green Hydrogen Production Capacity Surpasses 1.1 Million Tons 1 Caribbeans May 5 May 7 2 361
Norway Prepares To Meet A Climate-Shattered Future By . . . Extending Natural Gas Production Until 2048!!! 1 hatrack May 7 May 7 4 393
Who Will Decide Whether Roundup Requires Cancer Warnings? The 9 Toxicologists Of The Supreme Court, Of Course 1 hatrack May 7 May 7 9 382
Imagine falling off the roof of a 565 foot building. 5 hunter May 2 May 7 6 970
A Discussion, Written Before the War, of the Properties of Ukrainian Used Nuclear Fuel in a Russian Journal. 3 NNadir May 5 May 7 3 431
Oregon's 2026 Fire Season Began In March; It's Expected To End Sometime In October 0 hatrack May 7 May 7 0 273
Mexico City Sinking At Rate Of Up To 2 Cm/month, As Revealed By New NASA Orbital Radar System 1 hatrack May 7 May 7 4 380
Pushback To Car Bloat May Be Growing In Europe As Popularity Of American Testosterone Shitwagons Grows 0 hatrack May 7 May 7 6 548
Electrification and energy efficiency 1 thought crime May 5 May 6 5 411
Ford Just Wrote Off $20 Billion In Dumped EV Investments, But Swears An "Affordable" EV Pickup On Its Way 2 hatrack May 6 May 6 6 546
Corporate Grain & Fertilizer Insiders Bank $66 Milliion From Shares Sold Since Iran War Jacked Up Price Of Everything 0 hatrack May 6 May 6 4 342
For 60 Years, Texas Legislature Rejected Over 60 Flood Safety Bills Limiting Development In Known Flood Zones 1 hatrack May 6 May 6 6 549
August 2025 Rockslide Tsunami Reached 1,500+ Feet In Height In Alaskan Fjord Routinely Visited By Cruise Ships 0 hatrack May 6 May 6 7 549
Is Trump's DOJ Now Big Oil's Personal Law Firm? - Thom Hartmann 0 Rhiannon12866 May 6 May 6 7 312
"It's Coming:" Energy Expert on Iran Oil Shock's Impact on U.S. - Amanpour and Company PBS 0 Rhiannon12866 May 6 May 6 6 403
Put a Roof on it. 5 thought crime May 5 May 5 11 650
Did you find an animal nesting near your house? Here's what to do 5 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 4 May 5 13 856
Thousands of Americans warned to 'shut windows now' as plume of 'hazardous' air engulfs Arizona 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 5 May 5 14 999
'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds 2 JBTaurus83 May 5 May 5 10 512
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a plastic trash nightmare. It could also be part of a much bigger, hidden problem 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 5 May 5 18 535

Environment & Energy Continued...

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AI falls short in predicting weather extremes 3 OKIsItJustMe May 4 May 5 6 500
Operando Monitoring of Plutonium on Ion Exchange Columns Using UV/Vis/NIR Spectroscopy. 0 NNadir May 5 May 5 3 433
New Weekly CO2 Concentration Record Set at the Mauna Loa Observatory, 432.44 ppm 14 NNadir May 3 May 5 6 1342
Why the Trump administration is paying billions to abandon wind farms - PBS NewsHour 4 Rhiannon12866 May 5 May 5 4 465
Coastal Louisiana Facing Up To 23 Feet Of Sea Level Rise; "In Paleo-Climate Terms, New Orleans Is Already Gone" 4 hatrack May 5 May 5 11 600
Actual Methane Releases From Australian Coal Mines More Than Double Official Government Estimates 0 hatrack May 5 May 5 5 319
IEA - Methane Leaks Still At/Near Record Highs In 2025; Turkmenistan In The Lead, But Texas Among Top Ten Leakers 1 hatrack May 5 May 5 4 322
Impact of budget cuts on Natl parks..Yosemite visitor numbers explode as park does away with reservation system 3 BlueWaveNeverEnd May 4 May 5 15 730
Norwegian fish farms polluting fjords with waste likened to 'raw sewage of millions of people' 1 Eugene May 5 May 5 10 438
Iran war gives small boost to thermal coal, further gains possible 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 5 May 5 2 284
Hyundai Accelerates Supply of Hydrogen City Buses Targeting 400 Units in Seoul 11 OKIsItJustMe May 3 May 4 3 878
Towngas launches Hong Kong's first hydrogen-powered EV charging system for a commercial building 5 Caribbeans May 3 May 4 3 588
Climate Scientist James Hansen on, um, Religion. 23 NNadir May 1 May 4 1 1713
The countdown to 2030 0 OKIsItJustMe May 3 May 3 3 353
Solar ranch in Tennessee aims to prove grazing cattle under the panels is a farmland win-win 4 OKIsItJustMe May 1 May 3 41 1173
UK Airlines Get Go-Ahead To Cancel/Consolidate Flights And Routes As Fuel Supply Dictates This Summer 0 hatrack May 3 May 3 4 392
2 Buses, 3 Hours, 13 Miles - How Americans In "Transit Deserts" Get Groceries Without Cars 0 hatrack May 3 May 3 19 729
India to see above-average number of heatwave days in May as energy demand surges 0 OKIsItJustMe May 3 May 3 1 322
How LNG interests are seeking to disrupt global talks on decarbonising shipping 0 OKIsItJustMe May 2 May 2 2 368
Commonwealth Fusion Systems - Our SPARC fusion facility is now about 75% done. Take a virtual tour of the progress 0 OKIsItJustMe May 2 May 2 2 583
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