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From "Dulled Acceptance" To "Magical Thinking" - Elizabeth Kolbert On Our Response To A Crisis That Is Not Going Away 2 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 13 858
The 2025 IEA World Energy Outlook Has Been Released. Coal grew faster in 2024 than either solar or wind. 3 NNadir Nov 2025 Nov 2025 0 631
Brazil's JBS - Planet's Biggest Beef Company - "Recommending Climate Policy" At CRAP-30 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 5 609
FULL PRESSER: Newsom Slams Trump at COP30, 'Polluted Heart of Climate Crisis is Donald Trump' - DRM News 0 Rhiannon12866 Nov 2025 Nov 2025 8 671
Prescribed burns central to wildfire legislation moving through Congress 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2025 Nov 2025 2 464
Iceland deems possible Atlantic current collapse a security risk 0 nitpicked Nov 2025 Nov 2025 10 838
The clock is ticking on the shrinking Colorado River as Western states miss a key deadline 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2025 Nov 2025 4 460
Australia's Liberal Party (They're Not) Stance On Climate Spirals Off To Somewhere Between Incoherence And Insanity 1 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 2 477
7 Colorado Basin States Miss Deadline For Cuts In Water Use; Generation Halt Powell Possible By Late 2026 2 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 11 547
In Delhi, More Now Die From Air Pollution Than From Obesity Or Diabetes; Protest AQ And You'll Go To Jail 2 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 8 559
Integrated Vapor Transport (IVT) Boosts Moisture Air Currents Can Carry; WV In Bullseye Of New Rainfall Conditions 1 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 5 610
Trump plan would open California to offshore oil drilling 3 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 5 700
"I've been thinking about this possibility for 15 years": Killer whale experts make new discovery off North American coa 0 marmar Nov 2025 Nov 2025 7 685
Modeling Shows Potential For "Burp" Of Heat From Southern Ocean - Absorbed Over Time, It Could Be Released Suddenly 3 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 14 755
Aedes Aegypti Mosquito, Which Carries Dengue, Couldn't Survive In The Rockies. Now They're Thriving In Western CO. 1 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 5 560
Absence Of Shitstain's Hacks & Cronies And Their "Full Thug Tactics" A Welcome Change At CRAP-30 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 474
Southern Water "Very Sorry" For Massive Toxic Spill, Which They Lied About; "Unclear" If They Will Face Legal Action 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 437
2nd Typhoon In 1 Week Hits Phillipine Island Of Luzon, Forcing Suspension Of Ongoing Rescue Operations 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 409
Forests, Yes; Funding, Yes - But Any Meaningful Engagement On Fossil Fuels Highly Unlikely At Climate Summit 2 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 6 710
Survey Of 2,000 Australian Women w/o Kids Finds That 40% Are Reluctant To Reproduce Thanks To Global Warming 2 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 7 561
Drax Continues To Generate "Sustainable" Energy By Burning 250-Year Old Trees From Canada 3 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 10 613
"Catastrophic" - Toxic Plastic Beads Swamp Beloved English Beach; Cleanup Nearly Impossible 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 16 678
But Market Forces!!! As Emptiness Of Most Carbon Offset Programs Becomes Clear, Global Carbon Prices In Freefall 3 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 693
I Wish We Could Ignore Bill Gates On Climate, But He's A Billionaire So We Can't 1 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 8 588
NM Forests Painfully Vulnerable To Warming; Controlled Burns & Clearing Down 53% Under Shitstain Admin 3 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 8 689
"Unprecedented" Access For Oil & Gas Lobbyists Over Past Four Climate Summits - This Is What Corprate Capture Looks Like 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 7 584
Voters' anger over high electricity bills and data centers loom over 2026 midterms 1 Eugene Nov 2025 Nov 2025 14 655
Making the Case: The "Stop Work" President - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Nov 2025 Nov 2025 4 543
Climate Journalist Learned How to Scuba Dive to Report on Ocean Research - Amanpour and Company PBS 0 Rhiannon12866 Nov 2025 Nov 2025 2 397
As Brazil Cracks Down on Forest Clearing, Emissions Fall 0 douglas9 Nov 2025 Nov 2025 10 456

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Solar doing so well in Australia, they are offering electricity for free at times: 4 applegrove Nov 2025 Nov 2025 13 754
Amazon Rainforest Lakes Hit Temperatures As High As 104F During Mass Dieoff Of Dolphins And Fish 1 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 13 606
Venezuelan Oil -- American Gangster Politics 4 douglas9 Nov 2025 Nov 2025 12 715
Shitstain Nominates Former Rep. And Oilfield Services CEO Steve Pearce To Head Bureau Of Livestock And Mining 2 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 5 577
National Park Skeleton Crews, Missed Court Dates As Environmental Agencies' Work Grinds To A Halt 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 8 508
188 Confirmed Dead So Far In 10 Regions In The Phillipines After Devastating Hit By Typhoon Kalmaegi 1 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 4 665
Toyota Sued for $5.7 Billion Over Mirai Hydrogen Cars 1 NickB79 Nov 2025 Nov 2025 6 727
As CRAP-30 Begins, UK Announces It Will Not Contribute To Flagship Fund Fighting Tropical Deforestation 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 473
How Strange! Electricity Prices In California Substantially Higher From Investor-Owned Utilites Than From Public Ones! 3 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 8 760
Nearly 70% Of New England In Level 2 Or 3 Drought As Flash Droughts Become More Common, Faster 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 9 597
Companies Estimated Their Toxic Output For Decades; Biden Required Monitoring, But Now That's Gone (Of Course) 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 5 398
My Governor to be speaks on energy. 1 NNadir Nov 2025 Nov 2025 7 544
The Lancet - One Person Dies From Extreme Heat Every Minute; Heat Death Rate Up 23% Since 1990s 1 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 8 620
2018-23: 1.9 Million Home Insurance Policies Went Away; In 2021 & 2022, 18 LA & FL Insurance Companies Insolvent 1 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 7 632
Flyborne Kala-Azar, Fatal If Untreated, On Brink Of Becoming Endemic In Kenya - Thanks In Part To Destruction Of USAID 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 15 561
Inequities from the Embedded Plastic Flow and Carbon Footprint Transfers in International Trade 0 NNadir Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 546
Australians to get three hours of free electricity every day under solar scheme 2 OnlinePoker Nov 2025 Nov 2025 8 593
US strikes $80 billion deal for new nuclear power plants (Reuters) 2 eppur_se_muova Nov 2025 Nov 2025 5 804
Trump Admin threatens Europeans over green shipping rules: 3 applegrove Nov 2025 Nov 2025 7 757
Claim: UK Regulator Lets Water Firms Charge Customers Twice To Cover Companies' Failure To Clean Up Their Acts 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 2 426
"This Is Absurd" - 3% Of International Climate Aid Helps Move People Away From Polluting Industries 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 4 518
Ecuador Plans to Host a US Military Base in the Galapagos Islands to Fight Drug Trafficking 8 douglas9 Nov 2025 Nov 2025 7 1252
New Wet-Fart Funding From DOE: $100 Million To "Modernize" Coal Plants - A Sliver Of What Serious Plan Would Cost 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 4 453
Brazil to blast channel in Amazon river to increase shipping - Reuters 2 TexasTowelie Nov 2025 Nov 2025 6 606
The American Southwest, a film by Ben Masters 4 Beringia Nov 2025 Nov 2025 7 850
Alabama Power Customers Paid More Than Any Customers In US In 2024; For Very Poor, 1/4 Of Income For Electricity 2 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 7 738
The NPS Had An Employee Whose Job it Was To Seal Leaky Oil Wells In National Parks - Now He's Been Fired 1 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 14 629
For 20 Years, ExxonMobil Paid Climate Liars To Weaken Support For Climate Action Across Latin America 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 5 465
Black vultures attack and kill cattle. Climate change is one reason they're spreading north 2 NickB79 Nov 2025 Nov 2025 4 837
Bolivia's Cerro Rico Beginning To Collapse; After Centuries Of Silver Mining, It's Riddled With Tunnels 2 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 9 994

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Senate declines to halt plan to kill off half-million barred owls by Fish and Wildlife Service 2 NickB79 Nov 2025 Nov 2025 10 860
A note on the scale of CO2 emissions connected with steel manufacture. 0 NNadir Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 514
At Least 27 Rare Earth Mines Operating In Laos; Possible Threat To Multiple River Basins, But Hard Data Lacking 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 4 474
Per Shitstain Inc., Alaska Is "Open For Business" But Nobody's Buying; State Agency Sole New Oil Leaseholder 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 11 576
4 Months After Shitstain Cut Listeria Monitoring, At Least 6 Die, 25+ Hospitalized (From Precooked Pasta) 3 hatrack Oct 2025 Nov 2025 15 720
CSX Derailment Sends 4,000 Gallons Of Diesel & 4,000 Tons Of Coal Into Remote Chickahominy River Wetlands 2 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 11 745
What Does Alberta's Oil Wealth Pay For? Not Education - Alberta Is Dead Last In Per-Pupil Spending Among Provinces 4 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 4 773
Italian Chemical Plant Poisoned Water W. PFAS; After Bankruptcy, It Closed - And Now Operates In India 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 6 797
Emergency DOE Order To Keep Michigan Coal Plant Open Has Cost $80 Million Since May - Customers Across MISO Will Pay 1 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 7 566
Pritzker set to sign sweeping battery legislation for renewable 2 applegrove Oct 2025 Nov 2025 3 565
Fucking Brazil Prepares To Unveil Another Fucking Carbon Offset Proposal At Fucking Climate Summit 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 630
Be like Andrew: 1 applegrove Oct 2025 Oct 2025 12 594
Bureau Of Meteorology: October 2025 Will Be Hottest October Ever For Queensland, Northern Territory 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 377
Since 20 January 2025, Average Electricity Prices In The United States Have Increased 11% 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 438
No Administration Delegation Will Attend CRAP-30; Former State Dept: "Most Countries Would Prefer There Be No US" 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 481
Govt Shut Down, But BLM Busy Issuing Drilling Permits, While Some EPA Staff Work To Cut Mercury Rules 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 391
FWS Proposes Endangered Species Status For Rare Orchid, Despite April Order Rescinding Almost All ESA Protections 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 451
UN Secretary General: "Let's Recognize Our Failure" - 1.5C Climate Target Negotiated In Paris Is Dead 3 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 12 706
The fall of the CBS News climate team 1 douglas9 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 10 601
How Do You Deal With Heat Deaths Caused By Warming? If You're A Right-Wing Think Tank, You Deny They Even Exist 2 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 12 647
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