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Swiss nuclear power plant shuts down reactor due to the heat 4 Random Boomer Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 661
Trump admin tries to kill the most indisputable evidence of human-caused climate change by shuttering observatory 10 Dulcinea Jul 2025 Jul 2025 19 929
CNN: Google just bought 200 megawatts of fusion energy that doesn't even exist yet 8 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 790
Major reports about how climate change affects the US are removed from websites 3 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 497
Four Months To Go Before Next UN Climate Confab With The Process Thoroughly Stuck In The Mud 4 hatrack Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 441
Reuters: Heatwave across Europe leaves 8 dead as early summer temperatures hit records 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 406
Beyond Urban Heat Islands, Rural Areas Face Their Own Threats In Age Of Weather Extremes 1 hatrack Jul 2025 Jul 2025 8 423
Paris Closes Top Of The Eifel Tower; 90F + At Wimbledon; Italy Bans Outdoor Work During The Afternoon 2 hatrack Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 519
Govt Bans Tapwater For 60,000 Residents Of Eastern France: PFAS Contamination At 4X Legal Limit 0 hatrack Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 440
Environmental groups sue over "Alligator Alcatraz" - Face the Nation 0 Rhiannon12866 Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 348
Heatwave record broken at an altitude of over 3.1 miles in the Alps. 3 Tonk Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 633
We're Deep Frying The Rainforest - Climate Town 1 Escaped Floridian Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 488
Alpha-Gal Syndrome, Carried By Expanding Tick Populations, Has Gone From Dozens Of Cases In 2009 To 450,000 Today 40 hatrack Jun 2025 Jul 2025 62 4160
Zhangjiagang powered up with hydrogen. East China city using clean energy to support public transport 2 Caribbeans Jun 2025 Jul 2025 1 426
What Will Our World Look Like at 4 Degrees? 0 Uncle Joe Jun 2025 Jun 2025 10 696
An All-Out Attack on our Forests and Wildlife 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 517
Last-minute changes to Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' stun clean energy industry (and Elon Musk) 2 Eugene Jun 2025 Jun 2025 7 695
The Indian monsoon has now covered the entire country, just over a week earlier than average 1 OnlinePoker Jun 2025 Jun 2025 6 490
Under Current Trends, 70% Of Amazon Basin Rainforest Will Shift To Savannah When We Destroy 20-25% Of Its Historic Area 0 hatrack Jun 2025 Jun 2025 8 402
A Mysterious Blob of Cold Water Defies Ocean Heat - Now We Know Why 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 17 816
Oh No!! The Giant Pile Of Shit Bill Will Hurt Growth Of Data Centers And AI By Making Energy More Expensive!! 0 hatrack Jun 2025 Jun 2025 6 450
This message was self-deleted by its author 1 red dog 1 Jun 2025 Jun 2025 1 493
All Together Now! Microplastic Pollution, Ocean Acidification, Halogenated Methanes, Ozone Collapse... Delicious! 5 NNadir Jun 2025 Jun 2025 10 810
"World's First Hydrogen Helicopter Takes Off": Historic Flight Just Changed Aviation Forever & Left Engineers Speechless 3 Caribbeans Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 694
Mexico's President Threatens Eloon Over Debris Falls And Contamination From His Exploding Rockets 1 hatrack Jun 2025 Jun 2025 10 506
Daily Heat Records Set On Tuesday Alone For At Least 50 Cities Just In The Eastern US As Heatwave Clamped Down 5 hatrack Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 1226
Heat Emergencies Declared Across Western Europe; Temps In Spain & Portugal Pushing 108F 1 hatrack Jun 2025 Jun 2025 9 443
Google Is So Very Green That Their CO2 Pollution Has Risen 51% In Just 6 Years - Thanks, AI!!! 7 hatrack Jun 2025 Jun 2025 24 1217
Separations of Actinides and Lanthanides From Used Nuclear Fuel with Destructible Ligands. 0 NNadir Jun 2025 Jun 2025 3 421
A Non-Ablative Composite Refractory Material Tolerant To Temperatures Up to 2000 Degrees Centigrade. 0 NNadir Jun 2025 Jun 2025 3 454

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Cutting Energy Efficiency Home Tax Credits Would Save $21 Billion, So Let's Add $18 Billion In New Oil & Gas Tax Breaks 2 hatrack Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 482
Upper Atmosphere Cooling Rapidly; Stratosphere Lost 1% Of Its Depth (1,300 Feet) Since 1980 0 hatrack Jun 2025 Jun 2025 2 390
Climate Talks Shaping Up As The Mother Of All Shitshows; No Commitments, No Money, No Place To Stay In Belem 0 hatrack Jun 2025 Jun 2025 1 383
Post-Harvest Air Pollution In N. India Directly Responsible For 100s/1,000s Of Deaths In Multiple Cities 0 hatrack Jun 2025 Jun 2025 1 367
British Antarctic Survey Scientist Dr. Louise Sime On Antarctic Tipping Points, 2023's 5-Sigma Sea Ice Loss 0 hatrack Jun 2025 Jun 2025 3 365
Top 5 Whale Scenes BBC Earth 2 Uncle Joe Jun 2025 Jun 2025 12 556
Washington State Is Getting Hydrogen Fuel And It's Nine Times Cheaper Than California's 0 Caribbeans Jun 2025 Jun 2025 2 459
The desert is getting too hot for the saguaro cactus 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2025 Jun 2025 11 636
Shipping is one of the world's dirtiest industries - could this invention finally clean up cargo fleets? 2 jgo Jun 2025 Jun 2025 6 598
Toxic algae blooms are lasting longer in Lake Erie − why that's a worry for people and pets 0 Diamond_Dog Jun 2025 Jun 2025 2 371
"Hydrogen Just Got Cheaper Than Ever": New Solar Reactor Breakthrough Crushes Electrolysis Costs, Redefines Clean Energy 5 Caribbeans Jun 2025 Jun 2025 3 764
"Climate Impacts Aren't Better Conditions For Vineyards In Kent, They're Broad-Spectrum Enshittification" 0 hatrack Jun 2025 Jun 2025 6 423
2024 Antarctic Voyage Shows Freshening Seas, Microplastics Everywhere, Penguin Chicks Dying In Rainstorms 1 hatrack Jun 2025 Jun 2025 9 922
Climate Collapse Driving Early Arrival Of Midsummer Heat; IOW, June Is Now July 0 hatrack Jun 2025 Jun 2025 8 433
Giant Sequoias Are Taking Root in an Unexpected Place: Detroit 10 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 23 2999
Sweltering Heat At This Years Matches May Preview Extreme Conditions At 2026 World Cup 0 hatrack Jun 2025 Jun 2025 2 360
Hitachi Energy's HyFlex hydrogen-powered generator is gaining international recognition, earning two major awards 0 Caribbeans Jun 2025 Jun 2025 1 722
Commuter traffic stops for whales on Australia's humpback highway 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2025 Jun 2025 8 512
Another Hydrogen Perpetual Motion Machine, Steam Reforming of Methanol to Make Hydrogen. 2 NNadir Jun 2025 Jun 2025 0 486
In the Arizona desert, a farm raising fish raises questions about water use 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 790
The New York Governors Cuomo, Governor Hochul, and the Environment. 2 NNadir Jun 2025 Jun 2025 2 494
In South Africa, a Smart Gate Could Help Connect Elephants' Fragmented Habitat 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 430
Senator Whitehouse on Trump's EPA: "A Cesspool of Fossil Fuel-Driven Corruption" - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Jun 2025 Jun 2025 13 433
Bio-stimulated hydrogen production - Gold H2's Subsurface Hydrogen Breakthrough Could Rewrite Clean Energy Economics 1 Caribbeans Jun 2025 Jun 2025 2 562
Hydrogen Fuel Cells Take the Wheel: FAW Hongqi Cuts Hydrogen Use by 15% in Breakthrough 0 Caribbeans Jun 2025 Jun 2025 2 369
Paterson NJ Fire Chief Declared A Mass Casualty Event At HS Graduation Monday; 150+ Heat-Related Illnesses 5 hatrack Jun 2025 Jun 2025 14 676
US Forest Service plans to repeal rule that has blocked logging and mining across the West 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2025 Jun 2025 3 408
"Cancer Is Just Everywhere" - Iowa 1 Of 2 US States Where Cancer Is Increasing; Is Industrial Ag Part Of The Reason? 2 hatrack Jun 2025 Jun 2025 13 757
Major Australian Retirement Fund Claims "Net Zero" While Becoming Whitehaven Coal's 2nd- Biggest Shareholder 0 hatrack Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 394
"Death By 1,000 Cuts" - Max Temperature Increase For Coral Reef Survival 1-1.5C, And We're Already Topping Out 1 hatrack Jun 2025 Jun 2025 9 419

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Dr. Genevieve Gunther On Tipping Points, Doomerism And How Badly Nordhaus Missed The Mark On Economic Impacts 0 hatrack Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 458
Beyond 80N, Lightning Storms Increase From +/- 100 Per Year In The Early 2010s To More Than 7,000 Today 1 hatrack Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 513
Well, Well - Spain/Portugal Blackout In April Was Caused By Failures At Conventional Plants , Not By Renewables 1 hatrack Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 482
Eminent Domain Land Grab - petition 2 evemac Jun 2025 Jun 2025 7 579
Andrea becomes the first tropical storm of the Atlantic season 0 OnlinePoker Jun 2025 Jun 2025 3 519
Wheat, Barley, Soy Output Projected To Fall As Earth Warms, Particularly In US, Ukraine, Russia, China 3 hatrack Jun 2025 Jun 2025 3 539
Trump rescinds protections on 59m acres of national forest to allow logging 5 cbabe Jun 2025 Jun 2025 9 902
Wisconsin Supreme Court delivers win for environmentalists in fight over 'forever chemicals' 0 Eugene Jun 2025 Jun 2025 2 425
Q: "Why Is Big Tech Investing Billions In Fusion?" A: Because They Like Burning Money On Shiny Bullshit Like AI 8 hatrack Jun 2025 Jun 2025 6 1124
Climate Change 0 surfered Jun 2025 Jun 2025 2 395
TX Faces $150 Billion+ Bill For Water Infrastructure Through 2075, So Sales Tax Will Fund $1 Billion/Year For 20 Years 5 hatrack Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 598
Sen. Whitehouse Dives Into the Fossil Fuel-Funded RAGA Scheme: An "Industry Masked as Government" - Senator Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 502
Chinese scientists set new efficiency record for solar-to-hydrogen conversion 2 Caribbeans Jun 2025 Jun 2025 2 1841
404 Media: 'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community 10 OKIsItJustMe Jun 2025 Jun 2025 18 1308
Green Hydrogen Plans Evaporate; Projects Fold, PlugShare Deeply In Debt, AI Driving Demand For Cheapest Possible Energy 3 hatrack Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 516
Advanced AI models generate up to 50 times more CO₂ emissions than more common LLMs when answering the same questions 5 littlemissmartypants Jun 2025 Jun 2025 9 647
Northern Virginia data centers have topped 4,900 megawatts. What does that mean? 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 10 623
US Skips Bonn Climate Conference, Since They Can Shit All Over Discussions During Brazil Summit In December 1 hatrack Jun 2025 Jun 2025 8 441
"I Feel Like I've Been Lied To" Says TX Chiropractor Who Got Violently Ill From Measles 10 hatrack Jun 2025 Jun 2025 12 1280
10s Of Millions Face Deadly Conditions In Rare June Heatwave; Indices In The Low Hundreds In Multiple Cities 2 hatrack Jun 2025 Jun 2025 10 593
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