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Hydrogen Cooking Stove Turns Water Into Clean Fuel 1 Caribbeans 6 hrs ago 5 hrs ago 8 324
Seattle-based company accused of fishing violations in Alaska's Bering Sea 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 11 hrs ago 6 hrs ago 1 245
EPA Head Of Methane Regulations Worked For Oil Majors Lobbying Against Methane Regulations In His Last Job 3 hatrack Apr 1 10 hrs ago 8 374
World's first megawatt-class hydrogen turboprop engine completes maiden flight test 2 Caribbeans Monday 10 hrs ago 4 450
Radioactive Water Discharged into Hudson River for Decades 8 Caribbeans Yesterday 11 hrs ago 8 449
☀️ March Heat: US Endured Hottest March on Record as Experts Warned of 'Nonsurvivable' Heatwaves 0 appalachiablue 21 hrs ago 21 hrs ago 10 436
Building El Nino 0 OnlinePoker Thursday Thursday 4 240
City animals act in the same brazen ways around the world 3 Judi Lynn Thursday Thursday 13 398
Fossil fuels as a "weapon of war": Investigative journalist Antonia Juhasz and Chris Hayes - "Why Is This Happening?" 4 Rhiannon12866 Tuesday Thursday 5 432
Mass Drownings Of Penguin Chicks/Hypothermia Behind "Endangered" Update; 4/5 Bellinghausen Sea Colonies Gone 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 16 291
IUCN Declares Emperor Penguins Endangered: Antarctic Fur Seals Also Added To List As Numbers Plunge 50% 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 3 196
EPA Head Praises Climate Deniers In Person In DC Speech: "A Moment To Celebrate. It Is A Day To Celebrate Vindication" 3 hatrack Thursday Thursday 7 331
Washington declares statewide drought, marks fourth year of drought in some agricultural areas 0 cbabe Thursday Thursday 2 237
Nebraska - One Fire In March 2026 Broke Annual Record For Area Burned; Ranching Making Grasslands More Vulnerable 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 2 286
4/7/26 Drought Monitor: Slight Increase In Level 2-4 Drought Across Lower 48, But YTD Nearly Double 2025 (36% vs. 19%) 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 7 181
What To Expect When You're Expecting The End Of The World - Jem Bendell And The Deep Adaptation Paper 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 6 321
Earth's Smells Are Disappearing Because of Climate Change, and It's a Vast Cultural Loss 2 Judi Lynn Thursday Thursday 10 408
Another Oil Rush, Another Boomtown, Another Deforestation Spike In Impoverished Northeastern Brazil 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 4 262
More Than 21% Of USDA Workforce Gone In Year 1 Of Shitstain 2; Climate, Conservation, Inspection, Research Hard-Hit 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 12 405
A Tribute to two scientists: Paul Ehrlich and Madhav Gadgil 2 jfz9580m Tuesday Wednesday 5 844
A Nuclear Renaissance? Live video discussion on the geopolitics of energy... 2 littlemissmartypants Tuesday Tuesday 3 284
Corpus Christi Water Crisis Prompts Regional Response To (All Together Now!) Pump Even More Groundwater, But Faster 1 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 9 434
So Cute!! Some MAGA Voters And Public Figures - Including Katie Miller - Support More Solar, 'Cuz 'Murca 1 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 4 474
Heat/Drought Impacts Span Most Of US; Wheat, Beef, Peanuts, Rice, Sugarcane Hit; Irrigation In West Hitting Limits 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 8 379
More Than 10,000 STEM PhDs Have Left Federal Agencies In 1 Year; Climatologist Kate Marvel One Of Them (Interview) 1 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 12 360
Swiss Forest Study Shows Some Deciduous Species May Be Able To Adapt To Extreme Heat, But Heat + Drought Deadly 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 3 376
New Weekly CO2 Concentration Record Set at the Mauna Loa Observatory, 431.73 ppm 5 NNadir Sunday Monday 8 604
What Americans Really Pay for Electricity 4 mahatmakanejeeves Monday Monday 6 601

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Beavers Emerge As Unlikely Allies In Carbon Removal, New Study Finds 3 Judi Lynn Monday Monday 10 339
7 Weeks Out From Hurricane Season, Fmr. Senator Kickass T. Horsefucker Considering Cutting +/- Half Of 20,000 FEMA Staff 1 hatrack Monday Monday 5 474
Trump's Interior Department Preparing To Ban Bison From Federal Grazing Lands, And To Choke Out Tribal Bison Herds 3 hatrack Sunday Monday 12 562
California's Ocean Temperatures Spiking; La Jolla Station Reported Pacific At 10F Over Historical Average In March 1 hatrack Sunday Sunday 9 444
(Re)drilling North Sea Fields Would Do Nearly Nothing To Cut UK Gas Imports; Jackdaw - 2%; Rosebank - 1% 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 2 313
Much like the old (more honest) days: What so called "renewable energy" is all about. 4 NNadir Apr 3 Sunday 2 719
Merlin - UK's Smallest Bird Of Prey - Extinct By 2050 (W. 200+ Other Species) If Emissions, Land Use Don't Change 2 hatrack Apr 1 Sunday 6 376
Shitstain Moving Forest Service HQ To Salt Lake City; When He Moved BLM HQ Last Term, 90% Of Agency Staff Quit 2 hatrack Apr 1 Sunday 2 403
Iowa Already Faces Massive Problem In Nitrate Pollution In Water; Warming is Making That Pollution Even Worse 3 hatrack Apr 2 Sunday 5 380
Climate Model: Thwaites Ice Loss Alone Will Equal Entire Current Ice Loss From Antarctic By 2060s (+/- 200 Gt Per Year) 1 hatrack Apr 2 Sunday 9 373
On The Brink Of What Could Be The Worst Fire Season In US History, Complete Revamp Of Federal Fire System Underway 4 hatrack Saturday Sunday 11 610
Bluebells, Frogspawn, Birds' Eggs, Flowering Trees - UK Experiencing Earliest Biological Spring Ever Recorded 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 8 340
Microwave Mel Gibson Makes Farty Mouth Noises About "Regulating" Microplastics, But Of Course It's Toothless, Empty PR 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 8 491
During Shitstain 1, Fish & Wildlife Service Added 22 Threatened/Endangered Species; To Date In Shitstain 2, Zero 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 5 299
The Trump administration is paying this company $1 billion to quit building wind farms 2 Caribbeans Apr 1 Saturday 5 344
Google Boosts "Net-Zero" By, Uh . . . Powering TX AI Site With Gas Plant That Will Emit More CO2 Than San Francisco 5 hatrack Apr 3 Apr 3 10 413
Sherwood Plots: A Difference Between the Economics of Material Isolation in the 1950's and 2020s. 1 NNadir Apr 3 Apr 3 4 430
Study - Loss Of Barents Sea Ice Is Increasing Frequency Of Simultaneous Summer Heatwaves in Europe, E. Asia 1 hatrack Apr 3 Apr 3 12 390
New England governors unite for nuclear 7 NNadir Apr 2 Apr 3 5 484
Florida Power & Light Profit Margin - 27 Cents Per Revenue Dollar - Highest In US; Doesn't Include New $7 Billion Hike 1 hatrack Apr 3 Apr 3 8 465
Interagency Fire Center Assigns "Signiticant Fire Potential" To Much Of Southern Wyoming For April Through June 0 hatrack Apr 3 Apr 3 2 327
A 'failed experiment'? Biofuels under the spotlight as EU scrambles for alternative energy 2 littlemissmartypants Apr 2 Apr 3 3 320
We now have to feed starving bees. What we have done to the ecosystem!!! 5 applegrove Mar 28 Apr 2 17 607
Loss Of Snowpack Across West Moving At A "Stunning" Pace; Rio Grande Basin At 8% Of Avg, Lower Colorado At 10% 4 hatrack Apr 2 Apr 2 11 447
O&G rights chatting with someone 2 Marthe48 Apr 2 Apr 2 4 355
"I've Never Heard Roars Like This Except For A Basketball Game" As PA Borough Votes Down Permit For Giant Datacenter 1 hatrack Apr 2 Apr 2 23 577
EOS - Another Record Low For Maximum Winter Arctic Sea Ice (Again - 2025 Was The Prior Winter Low) 0 hatrack Apr 2 Apr 2 4 310
After Chemical Industry Lobbying, EPA Considers Dropping Clean Air Protections For For Plastic Waste Recycling 2 hatrack Apr 2 Apr 2 4 287
3/31/26 Drought Monitor - Parts/All Of Every Contiguous State In Some Level Of Drought; 28.98% In Levels 2-4 Drought 0 hatrack Apr 2 Apr 2 6 394
Western US Cities Cutting Water Use & Irrigation; Half Of 120 Western Ski Resorts Closed Early Or Never Opened This Year 0 hatrack Apr 2 Apr 2 8 403

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Yale Study: Cancer Rates Between 4% And 8% Higher In CA/IA/TX Counties Where People Live Near CAFOs 0 hatrack Apr 2 Apr 2 10 568
Forest Service headquarters to relocate to Salt Lake City in major restructuring plan 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 1 Apr 1 2 309
Data Centers create heat islands around themselves where temperatures go up, up to 16 degrees farenheight. 0 applegrove Apr 1 Apr 1 5 318
Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 1 Apr 1 15 390
Coolant Industry Claims To Be Moving Ahead On Eliminating HFCs, Despite Shitstain's Administrative Tantrums 1 hatrack Apr 1 Apr 1 2 429
MIQ - 3rd Party System That "Certifies" Methane Output - Not Even Close On Actual Totals, Enables Gaming The System 0 hatrack Apr 1 Apr 1 6 373
Federal Judge Rules That AL Power Solar Fee, Among Highest In US, Can Remain; Their Residential Rates Highest In US 2 hatrack Mar 31 Mar 31 11 553
Bringing this topic back up for those who care about protecting our public lands and waterways 0 blue_jay Mar 31 Mar 31 4 341
FEMA - Can't Attend This Year's National Hurricane Conference, So State & Local Governments Should "Do More" 4 hatrack Mar 31 Mar 31 4 473
Japan's Inland Sea Oyster Farmers Reporting Mortality Rates Of Up To 90%; Heat, Oxygen Deprivation Wiping Out Shellfish 0 hatrack Mar 31 Mar 31 7 367
Shocked, Shocked! AI Melting Tech Emissions Targets; In 5 Years, Microsoft Emissions Up 23%, Google 50%, Amazon Up 33% 0 hatrack Mar 31 Mar 31 11 435
The sheep farmer who turned a 1800 call to coal giant AGL into a major solar grazing deal 1 usonian Mar 30 Mar 31 9 420
Raptor Resource Project Baby Eagle Cam 0 littlemissmartypants Mar 30 Mar 30 4 296
Starbucks Flogs Its Plastic Cups As "Widely Recyclable", But Only 1-2% Of Polypropylene Is Actually Ever Recycled 3 hatrack Mar 30 Mar 30 7 520
David Suzuki: Still Fighting for the Planet at 90 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 30 Mar 30 7 341
Two Kona Storms Brought 50 Inches Of Rain To Oahu: "I've Never Seen Anything Like It" 1 hatrack Mar 30 Mar 30 9 451
New Weekly CO2 Concentration Record Set at the Mauna Loa Observatory, 430.93 ppm 4 NNadir Mar 29 Mar 30 7 705
Why gold prospectors in Switzerland extract gold from gravel pits - Focus on Europe - DW News 0 TexasTowelie Mar 30 Mar 30 3 395
Trump is forcing coal plants to stay open. It could cost customers billions 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 29 Mar 29 5 410
Scotland runs on windpower and nothing else for a bit: 3 applegrove Mar 29 Mar 29 18 606
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