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Ash dieback is triple whammy for net zero plans 1 OKIsItJustMe Aug 22 Aug 22 5 433
BC's Coastal Fires Have Entered a New Era 2 OKIsItJustMe Aug 21 Aug 21 6 591
Shitstain Ordered MI Coal Plant To Remain Open; Operating Costs $1 Million/Day - And Guess Who's Going To Pay? 5 hatrack Aug 21 Aug 21 10 795
"Green Hydrogen Is Finally in the Pipes" as Sinopec Begins Historic Blend Into China's Gas Grid 23 Caribbeans Aug 2 Aug 21 1 996
Florida's climate-focused tech sector faces uncertainty after federal cuts - PBS NewsHour 2 Rhiannon12866 Aug 21 Aug 21 2 416
Oz's Mountain Ash Trees - Up to 80M High - Lose +/- 9% Of Their Limited Numbers For Each 1C Temperature Increase 0 hatrack Aug 21 Aug 21 4 334
U.S. developers report half of new electric generating capacity will come from solar 2 OKIsItJustMe Aug 20 Aug 21 4 413
Land Mines As Wildlife Protection: Korea's DMZ One Of The Most Biodiverse Places In Asia 1 hatrack Aug 21 Aug 21 3 335
Driven By Drought, UK Grain Harvest Begins 2 Weeks Early; Apples Boom But Potatoes, Brassicae In Big Trouble 0 hatrack Aug 21 Aug 21 5 366
Ozone will warm planet more than first thought, study finds 0 Jim__ Aug 21 Aug 21 7 525
How One Woman Is Stalling Green Energy Projects in Oregon 20 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 17 Aug 20 3 921
Abrupt Antarctic changes could have catastrophic consequences if emissions don't fall 2 OKIsItJustMe Aug 20 Aug 20 10 645
Well, Good Luck W. That: Brazil Issues "Urgent Call" For National Climate Plans - Exactly 28 Submitted So Far 1 hatrack Aug 20 Aug 20 7 546
Scientists Lay It Out - Over 100 Misleading Statements And Lies In DOE Climate "Study" Written By Hand-Picked Hacks 3 hatrack Aug 20 Aug 20 17 565
Confimed Chikungunya Cases Top 240,000 Worldwide; Painful, Debilitating Disease Detected In China For First Time 1 hatrack Aug 20 Aug 20 12 593
Why would Trump want algae blooms in the Great Lakes? 6 applegrove Aug 19 Aug 20 8 566
India's Bold Ambition: Pioneering Green Hydrogen on a Global Scale 0 Caribbeans Aug 19 Aug 19 0 305
"A Climate Of Unparalleled Malevolence" - The Permian Extinction And How Deeply The Rate Of CO2 Output Matters 3 hatrack Aug 19 Aug 19 10 505
As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant At National Weather Servce Offices In Texas 10 hatrack Jul 2025 Aug 19 7 1095
North Pacific waters are acidifying more rapidly below the surface 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 19 Aug 19 11 347
Long-Term Biochar Use Found to Sustainably Boost Crop Yields and Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 19 Aug 19 3 1397
Central Valley groundwater pumping, land-sinking stressing Aqueduct. Is there a fix? 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 19 Aug 19 5 280
Soy Exports At 20-Year Low As Rain And Disease Plague Crops In Upper Midwest States 2 hatrack Aug 19 Aug 19 2 380
1,000s Of Abandoned Boats Of All Types Pollute US Estuaries, Rivers, Beaches, Typically Abandoned After Hurricanes 1 hatrack Aug 19 Aug 19 6 389
Ocracoke And Hatteras Evacuated: Erin Expected To Bring 20' Waves, Flooding And Erosion 0 hatrack Aug 19 Aug 19 9 443
"The Misconduct Was Pervasive" - Line 3 Non-Violent Protestor's Felony Conviction Overturned By Appeals Court 0 hatrack Aug 19 Aug 19 7 644
Businesses face 'chaos' as EPA aims to repeal its authority over climate pollution 0 Dulcinea Aug 19 Aug 19 2 353
Will Oil Demand Peak Soon? Trump Administration Doesn't Want to Hear It. -NYT 0 Caribbeans Aug 19 Aug 19 4 387
Jio Set to Launch India's First Hydrogen-Powered Hybrid Scooter at Just ₹17,000 Rupee ($195 USD) 0 Caribbeans Aug 19 Aug 19 1 336
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 10 454

Environment & Energy Continued...

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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 5 342
Top House Democrat Pressing USFS For Accurate Information Re. Fire Crew Numbers, Getting Lies In Response 0 hatrack Aug 18 Aug 18 10 404
Wow! Great tidal turbine: 1 applegrove Aug 17 Aug 18 12 483
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse on Democrats' Failures--and Opportunities for a Climate Comeback 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 18 Aug 18 10 356
Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying 3 cliffside Aug 17 Aug 18 9 479
LFSCOE: The True Cost of Solar and Wind Energy in Texas and Germany in Answer to the Question... 1 NNadir Aug 17 Aug 17 1 566
After a Drought Last Year, Ohio Farmers Wished for Rain. Now Downpours Are Destroying Their Crops 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 17 Aug 17 4 353
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 7 367
Stalagmites in Mexican caves reveal duration and severity of drought during the Maya collapse 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 17 Aug 17 14 470
Another gold rush could bring open pit mines to South Dakota's Black Hills 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 17 Aug 17 8 361
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 1 522
Trump told polluters to email him for an exemption. In California, three places have already been approved 1 Dulcinea Aug 17 Aug 17 8 456
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 7 332
Jellyfish Shut Down French Nuclear Power Plant - NY Times 2 Caribbeans Aug 16 Aug 17 4 315
60 percent of the world's land area is in a precarious state 5 OKIsItJustMe Aug 16 Aug 17 7 529
Black metal could give a heavy boost to solar power generation 1 OKIsItJustMe Aug 16 Aug 17 19 722
'Revolutionary' seafloor fiber sensing reveals how falling ice drives glacial retreat in Greenland 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 16 Aug 16 7 284
How a White House plan to overturn a key EPA regulation threatens children's health - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Aug 16 Aug 16 2 287
Former LCV Head - 20 Years Back, About 20% Of Candidates They Endorsed Were GOP; In 2024, Zero 1 hatrack Aug 16 Aug 16 7 342
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 6 464
An Economic Argument That the Three Mile Island Meltdown Cost the US 14 Trillion Dollars 14 NNadir Aug 14 Aug 16 3 682
Area Of Spain Burned In Wildfires In 2025 Already Three Times Seasonal Average From 2006 To 2024 0 hatrack Aug 16 Aug 16 5 288
Overnight Low Temperature Records Set In Israel (96.8F) And Jordan (95F) 1 hatrack Aug 16 Aug 16 8 342
South Korean judges order companies responsible for fatal hydrogen explosion to pay billions of won in damages: reports 0 NNadir Aug 16 Aug 16 0 290
How Hydrogen-Powered Helicopter Flight Could Help Healthcare 1 Caribbeans Aug 16 Aug 16 1 299
Hydrogen Buses Hit the Road in Tasmania with Local Refuelling Tech 1 Caribbeans Aug 15 Aug 16 2 335
SolarStratos Makes History: 9,521 Meters Reached Using Only Solar Power 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 15 Aug 15 8 254
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 10 428
National Academy Organizes Rapid Response To Trump's "Scientific" Hackfest Downplaying Climate Threat 6 hatrack Aug 15 Aug 15 4 397
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 9 351

Environment & Energy Continued...

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July 2025 Atmospheric CO2 Concentration 427.87 ppm; July 2024 425.55 ppm; July 2023 421.83 ppm 9 hatrack Aug 15 Aug 15 10 485
Pedophile Party Members Who Voted For Big Bullshit Bill Have Lifetime Take Of $105 Million From Oil Industry 1 hatrack Aug 15 Aug 15 6 351
Plastic pollution talks fail as negotiators in Geneva reject draft treaties 2 muriel_volestrangler Aug 15 Aug 15 2 330
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 6 287
Warming In Svalbard 7X Global Average; Glaciers' Melt Powered In Part By Rich Microbial Ecosystem Within Them 0 hatrack Aug 15 Aug 15 7 296
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 1 280
Hydrogen Bus Explosion in Chungju Injures Three in South Korea 0 NNadir Aug 15 Aug 15 4 367
World's first 30MW pure hydrogen gas turbine project breaks ground in Ordos 1 OKIsItJustMe Aug 14 Aug 15 5 483
Department of Energy Announces Initial Selections for New Reactor Pilot Program 1 OKIsItJustMe Aug 14 Aug 15 2 348
Lake on the 79N Glacier is splitting the ice - leaving permanent changes 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 14 Aug 14 3 352
Human emissions drove the megadrought in the western U.S. 2 OKIsItJustMe Aug 14 Aug 14 8 411
Philippines gets first megawatt-scale floating solar farm 2 Caribbeans Aug 14 Aug 14 2 413
Solastalgia 4 littlemissmartypants Aug 14 Aug 14 10 534
Study: Southwest US Drought May Persist Until 2100 As Global Warming Produces Major Shifts In Pacific Temperatures 0 hatrack Aug 14 Aug 14 5 377
Pedophile Party Reps Demand Canada "Take Action" Because Of Wildfire Smoke, But GOP Action On Warming Strangely Missing 2 hatrack Aug 14 Aug 14 3 375
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 9 402
Acetone, Ethanol, Toluene, Lead - A Toxic Creek Winds Through NC Neighborhood, And Trump's EPA Doesn't Care 0 hatrack Aug 14 Aug 14 4 337
Conservationists again sue U.S. Fish and Wildlife for denying Oregon red tree voles protection 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 14 Aug 14 3 224
International "State of the Climate" report confirms record-high greenhouse gases, global temperatures, global sea level 2 OKIsItJustMe Aug 14 Aug 14 13 351
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 7 644
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