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Uncovering the Source of Widespread 'Forever Chemical' Contamination in North Carolina 2 usonian Nov 23 Nov 25 14 471
New CO₂ conversion system slashes energy use and triples formic acid production 2 sue4e3 Nov 24 Nov 24 9 404
Deep in the Amazon, scientists build a 'time capsule' to predict future of climate change - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Nov 24 Nov 24 2 387
U.N. climate talks end without agreement on phasing out fossil fuels 0 Dulcinea Nov 24 Nov 24 3 289
COP30 pushes through uneasy deal that fails to secure new fossil fuel promises - Global News 1 Rhiannon12866 Nov 23 Nov 23 1 340
Exxon freezes plans for major hydrogen plant amid weak customer demand 1 NickB79 Nov 22 Nov 23 6 429
Efforts to Reduce the High Energy, Carbon and Chemical Waste Cost of Recycling Lithium Ion Batteries. 2 NNadir Nov 21 Nov 23 3 602
Former U.S. VP Al Gore Reveals Shocking Data on Global Warming and Extreme Climate Events AC1N 10 Uncle Joe Nov 22 Nov 22 13 821
Who Will Have Enough? Battery Mineral Demand and Sufficiency in Vehicle Producing Countries. 0 NNadir Nov 22 Nov 22 2 814
Dead Sea of Solar Cells: Antinuke Little Benny Sovacool Discovers that Deserts Are Actually Vital Ecosystems. 3 NNadir Nov 21 Nov 22 4 622
New membrane sets record for separating hydrogen from CO₂ 1 sue4e3 Nov 21 Nov 21 4 372
Sea level rise threatens the North Sea coast more than expected 2 sue4e3 Nov 21 Nov 21 3 387
First-ever full Earth system simulation provides new tool to understand climate change 1 sue4e3 Nov 21 Nov 21 6 352
Warning! This "Colorful Chart" is Censored by IPCC - James Hansen, Pushker Kharecha and Dylan Morgan 4 OKIsItJustMe Nov 21 Nov 21 8 677
NPR: 3 massive changes you'll see as the climate careens toward tipping points 4 OKIsItJustMe Nov 19 Nov 21 14 786
Cameras capture B.C. sea wolf raiding crab traps in first possible 'tool use' 4 OnlinePoker Nov 18 Nov 21 16 590
Data center growth drives locals to fight for more say 1 douglas9 Nov 17 Nov 21 6 393
The skyrocketing costs of climate change - Senate Environment & Public Works Committee - Senator Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Nov 21 Nov 21 5 293
Time to Wake Up 303: Recapping COP30 - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Nov 20 Nov 20 3 308
South Korean Plan To End All Coal-Fired Generation By 2040 Leaves Australian Coal Exporters Scrambling 1 hatrack Nov 20 Nov 20 3 304
Hedge-Fund Billionaire Wants To Tap East Texas Groundwater For Cities; Rural East Texas MAGA Residents Not Happy At All 2 hatrack Nov 20 Nov 20 11 499
Indonesia Fettered To Broken, Coal-Rich Development; So, As Bali Floods Showed, "We Can No Longer Predict The Seasons" 0 hatrack Nov 20 Nov 20 2 425
Trump's Climate Rollbacks: 1.3 Million Projected Global Deaths as COP30 Gets Underway in Brazil - FIVE MINUTE NEWS 0 Rhiannon12866 Nov 20 Nov 20 2 342
"The Salmon Are Everywhere" In OR/CA's Klamath River 1 Yr After Dam Removals, Even In Upstream Tributaries 7 hatrack Nov 19 Nov 20 61 1159
Stopping Trump's License to Pollute - Senator Adam Schiff 1 Rhiannon12866 Nov 19 Nov 19 2 272
Colorado running out of options for new source of wolves after Washington rejects request 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 19 Nov 19 3 404
One of America's most dangerous volcanoes will soon power homes 3 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 19 Nov 19 8 596
Al Gore on America's Noticeable Absence at COP30 Climate Conference - Amanpour and Company PBS 2 Rhiannon12866 Nov 13 Nov 19 5 434
Protect Arctic public lands from the Trump administration's attacks. 0 red dog 1 Nov 19 Nov 19 1 312
Facilties Flop At Climate Confab; Stifling Heat & Humidity Indoors, Leaking Roofs, Broken Toilets, Oppressive Noise 1 hatrack Nov 19 Nov 19 5 483

Environment & Energy Continued...

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At Current CO2 Output, NJ Facing Between 2.2 And 3.8 Feet Of Sea-Level Rise By 2100; W. Ice Sheet Loss, 4.5 Feet 2 hatrack Nov 19 Nov 19 4 350
October 2025 Atmospheric CO2 Concentration 424.87 ppm; October 2024 422.38 ppm; October 2023 418.82 ppm 3 hatrack Nov 18 Nov 19 1 315
A little bird is signaling a major problem -- and that bird is the insurance industry 0 douglas9 Nov 19 Nov 19 10 687
1,000 Of 1,600 Individual Corals Tracked At World Heritage Ningaloo Reef Dead As Result Of Latest Marine Heatwave 0 hatrack Nov 19 Nov 19 4 276
An Antarctic Glacier Retreated (i.e. "Melted & Collapsed) 5 Miles In 2 Months; Rate Of Retreat 10X Prior Record 7 hatrack Nov 5 Nov 19 15 636
September 2025 Atmospheric CO2 Content 424.37 ppm; September 2024 422.99 ppm; September 2023 418.50 0 hatrack Nov 18 Nov 18 3 225
We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It's a Revelation. 0 douglas9 Nov 18 Nov 18 10 413
Ocean with David Attenborough examines industrialization's destructive relationship with the sea and the hope for its 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 17 Nov 17 7 336
Video: What's really happening in the ocean's "dark zones" - China's huge invisible fishing fleet 0 OKIsItJustMe Nov 17 Nov 17 4 407
Some good news about the bad news. 2 NNadir Nov 16 Nov 17 13 666
Skin cancer cluster found in 15 Pennsylvania counties with or near farmland 3 OKIsItJustMe Nov 17 Nov 17 23 796
53,000 Animals - Half Of Breeding Female Elephant Seals On South Georgia - Dead From Bird Flu Since 2023 0 hatrack Nov 17 Nov 17 15 453
Insect-Eating Birds Begin Gradual Comeback In France After Ban On Neonicotinoid Pesticides In Fields 2022 0 hatrack Nov 17 Nov 17 14 437
Nearly 20,000 Glacial Lakes Span The Himalayas As Warming Takes Its Toll; Detailed Risk Analysis Hasn't Even Begun 0 hatrack Nov 17 Nov 17 10 658
EPA Science Advisory Board Empty Since Feb; New Prospects - Climate Liars, Chemical Company Reps Nominated By A Lobbyist 0 hatrack Nov 17 Nov 17 6 354
Fossil Fuel Lobbyists At CRAP30 Outnumber All Individual National Delegations Except For Brazil 2 hatrack Nov 16 Nov 17 6 530
Comment: U.S. climate efforts didn't hurt economy; they grew it 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 16 Nov 16 6 321
Abdication - Whatever Happens After The Belem Garbage Fire, It's Going To Happen Without The United States 4 hatrack Nov 16 Nov 16 17 898
UK High Court Finds Australian Firm BHP Liable For 2015 Dam Collapse That Killed 19, Dumped Toxic Waste In Brazil 0 hatrack Nov 16 Nov 16 4 423
Severe floods threaten global rice yields, study finds 1 OKIsItJustMe Nov 16 Nov 16 1 327
Largest One-Year Increase In Yellow Fever Cases In S. America Since 1960; Dengue Spreading There And In Europe 2 hatrack Nov 15 Nov 15 7 429
Toxic Plastic Bead Spill Spreading On England's South Coast; Southern Water Just Raised Its Avg. Rates 47% This Year 1 hatrack Nov 15 Nov 15 4 420
Saudi Arabia A "Wrecking Ball" On Climate Action; Their Climate Worst-Case - Heatwaves At/Above 133F For Weeks On End 0 hatrack Nov 15 Nov 15 8 453
A spreadsheet of reflecting a decade of the IEA's World Energy Outlook data for consumption and sources of energy. 0 NNadir Nov 15 Nov 15 3 294
Sierra Club Statement on Interior's Sellout of Western Arctic 1 douglas9 Nov 14 Nov 15 7 396
Renewable energy is cheaper, creates more growth and creates more jobs than fossil fuel does/will 6 applegrove Nov 14 Nov 14 8 518
After 13 Years, No End In Sight For Caribbean Sargassum Invasion; Toxic Air, Buried Beaches, Clogged Rivers 1 hatrack Nov 14 Nov 14 4 2926
More Than Half Of All National Delegation Members At CRAP30 Have Obscured Their Affiliations: "Guest", "Other" Popular 0 hatrack Nov 14 Nov 14 5 333
But But But . . . Drill Baby, Drill!! World Facing Oil Glut In 2026 Of Roughly 4 Million Barrels/Day, Per IEA Forecast 0 hatrack Nov 14 Nov 14 3 290
At Current (Increasing) Emissions Rates, 1.5C Threshold Of Catastrophic Warming Will Be Surpassed By 2030 1 hatrack Nov 13 Nov 13 5 265

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Zanzibar's 'solar mamas' are trained as technicians to help light up communities 2 Jilly_in_VA Nov 13 Nov 13 4 311
Finally, Something To Bring Americans Together - Pretty Much Everybody Hates Data Centers And Crypto Mines 1 hatrack Nov 13 Nov 13 14 528
From Mining to Manufacturing: Scientific Challenges and Opportunities behind Battery Production 0 NNadir Nov 13 Nov 13 3 250
2021 4-Day OR/WA Heatwave: "No Examples Of Heatwave-Induced Foliar Death At This Scale In The Historical Record" 0 hatrack Nov 13 Nov 13 6 320
Welcome To "Don't Say Climate!" Politics - Even As First Flailing Attempts To Cope W. What's Coming Begin 1 hatrack Nov 10 Nov 13 3 459
US 'disappointed' that Rolls-Royce will build UK's first small modular reactors 6 OnlinePoker Nov 13 Nov 13 4 482
Fears for elephant seals as bird flu kills half of population on South Georgia 1 muriel_volestrangler Nov 13 Nov 13 6 275
A flotilla kicks off the People's Summit for activists at UN climate talks 0 Jilly_in_VA Nov 13 Nov 13 3 250
Earth Still On Track For 2.6C Increase - i.e. "Global Disaster"; FF Emissions Up Again By +/- 1% In 2025 3 hatrack Nov 13 Nov 13 9 497
Climatologist Jolle Gergis On Why Planting Trees And "Net Zero" Accounting Tricks Are Insidious, Feel-Good Bullshit 2 hatrack Nov 10 Nov 13 6 494
From "Dulled Acceptance" To "Magical Thinking" - Elizabeth Kolbert On Our Response To A Crisis That Is Not Going Away 2 hatrack Nov 11 Nov 13 13 615
The 2025 IEA World Energy Outlook Has Been Released. Coal grew faster in 2024 than either solar or wind. 3 NNadir Nov 13 Nov 13 0 362
Brazil's JBS - Planet's Biggest Beef Company - "Recommending Climate Policy" At CRAP-30 0 hatrack Nov 13 Nov 13 5 428
FULL PRESSER: Newsom Slams Trump at COP30, 'Polluted Heart of Climate Crisis is Donald Trump' - DRM News 0 Rhiannon12866 Nov 13 Nov 13 8 509
Prescribed burns central to wildfire legislation moving through Congress 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 12 Nov 12 2 337
Iceland deems possible Atlantic current collapse a security risk 0 nitpicked Nov 12 Nov 12 10 672
The clock is ticking on the shrinking Colorado River as Western states miss a key deadline 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 12 Nov 12 4 290
Australia's Liberal Party (They're Not) Stance On Climate Spirals Off To Somewhere Between Incoherence And Insanity 1 hatrack Nov 12 Nov 12 2 310
7 Colorado Basin States Miss Deadline For Cuts In Water Use; Generation Halt Powell Possible By Late 2026 2 hatrack Nov 12 Nov 12 11 350
In Delhi, More Now Die From Air Pollution Than From Obesity Or Diabetes; Protest AQ And You'll Go To Jail 2 hatrack Nov 11 Nov 12 8 359
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