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One Of Few AI Outcomes We Can Be Reasonably Sure Of: A Projected Doubling Of Air Pollution In Texas 2 hatrack Jun 2025 May 16 6 802
Yes, This Should Work Well - EPA Ready To Hand Texas Power To Authorize "Carbon Capture" Projects 6 hatrack Jun 2025 May 16 5 1200
Shitstain Yanks US Out Of Plan For Salmon Recovery In PNW Because It's "Radical Environmentalism" Hurrdurr Hurrdurr 1 hatrack Jun 2025 May 16 9 830
Michigan fights Trump administration in court over order keeping coal plant online 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 16 May 16 9 678
US government planning dramatic Colorado River water cuts due to drought, overuse 1 OKIsItJustMe May 15 May 16 4 452
Satellite launch pollution rapidly accumulating in the upper atmosphere 3 OKIsItJustMe May 14 May 15 9 713
Scientists Identify Hidden Accelerant in Antarctic Ice Loss 1 OKIsItJustMe May 15 May 15 11 999
Heatwaves in high 40 degrees Celsius are 'new normal' for India and Pakistan, scientists warn 0 OKIsItJustMe May 15 May 15 5 723
Coal pollution is cutting solar power output, study finds 0 OKIsItJustMe May 15 May 15 8 498
No, No, It's Not Global Warming Driving Explosion In Tick Numbers - IT'S A CONSPIRACY WITH BILL GATES!!!! 3 hatrack May 15 May 15 16 942
Chronic Wasting Disease detected on National Elk Refuge 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 15 May 15 8 537
4,813 Fires So Far This Year In GA; Elsewhere In The Southeast, Drought And Hurricane Debris Helping Drive The Burning 0 hatrack May 15 May 15 5 529
Trump administration aims to roll back limits on toxic wastewater from coal-fired power plants 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 15 May 15 3 422
Structural Changes in Supported Rhodium in Catalytic Reactions. 0 NNadir May 15 May 15 1 435
Oh, The Humanity - BP Faces Shareholder Revolt Over Plan To Dump Climate Reporting, Lack Of Plan For Everything Else 1 hatrack Apr 24 May 15 6 503
So Cute!!! TX GQP Rep "Concerned" Re NOAA Plan For Massive Budget Cuts, Closing Mauna Loa Observatory 2 hatrack Apr 29 May 15 8 670
With 300 Data Centers Operating Or Planned In California, Some Residents Wondering Where The Water Will Come From 3 hatrack Apr 30 May 15 12 724
After Decades Of Growing Nitrate Pollution, GQP In Iowa Introduces "Too Little, Too Late" Funding For Water Treatment 3 hatrack May 2 May 15 8 727
40,000 People Live In Gibraltar, A City w/o Any Sewage Treatment; Decade After Decade, Shit & Plastic Flow Into The Sea 2 hatrack May 6 May 15 11 808
"Filthy", "Mind-Blowing", "Legally Problematic" - Federal Judge's Take On Proposed Bayer Roundup Settlement 4 hatrack May 9 May 15 13 841
Detailed breakdown on Tesla's new battery design 9 Finishline42 May 13 May 14 3 1321
El Nino Prediction - 82% chance in May-July 2026 - 96% chance in December 2026-February 2027 0 OKIsItJustMe May 14 May 14 9 619
New research reveals rapid methane release mechanism at the front of retreating ice sheets (during last glacial cycle) 0 OKIsItJustMe May 14 May 14 4 738
Alberta Premier: Building An Oil Pipeline To The Pacific "Consistent With The Teachings Of Jesus" 6 hatrack May 14 May 14 5 909
In Chile, A Retired Kindergarten Teacher Guards The Only Continental Colony Of King Penguins On Earth 2 hatrack May 14 May 14 15 718
Best Cryptic Headline Of The Week - Choughs Reappear At Tintagel After Decades Of Absence 3 hatrack May 14 May 14 12 760
Buildling A Wall Of Money - Oil Majors Will Likely Use Exploding Profits To Lock In Trump-Era Policies 1 hatrack May 10 May 14 5 569
April 2026 4th-Warmest Global April On Record; Earth's Oceans Saw 2nd-Warmest Temps Recorded For The Same Month 1 hatrack May 14 May 14 3 461
Hydrogen-fueled drone submarine with 17 sensors could scan Hormuz for naval mines 0 Caribbeans May 14 May 14 0 546
Multiple Large-Scale "Carbon Capture" Projects Slated For Illinois; Increasingly, Residents Aren't Buying The Story 4 hatrack May 9 May 14 7 941

Environment & Energy Continued...

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US Drinking Water Systems Under Growing Strain From Coast To Coast - Drought, Floods, Debris Flows 1 hatrack May 13 May 14 9 650
El Nino Teeing Up A Major Fire Year; Drought Already Hit SE Asia; Globally, Alaska-Sized Area Has Already Burned 1 hatrack May 13 May 14 4 591
Vibrio Bacteria Pushing North To Seas Once Too Cold To Support It, Like Gulf Of Maine; +/- 100 Fatalities/Year In US 2 hatrack May 13 May 14 4 492
Sustainability Blahblah Clean Fuels Blah - European Airline Emissions Higher Than Pre-COVID; Ryanair Up 50% Since 2019 2 hatrack May 10 May 14 4 539
Sen. Whitehouse: "We Must Not let Creeping Political Influence Compromise the NRC" 0 Rhiannon12866 May 14 May 14 4 438
Oceans Are Warming? Senate Republicans Disagree. - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 3 Rhiannon12866 May 13 May 14 5 635
Data Centers Already Using 6% Of Electricity Available In The US And The UK; Pushback Begins At 5% 5 hatrack May 13 May 14 8 784
Pardon me if this was posted earlier: Summer is getting longer, and it's happening faster than we thought 4 OKIsItJustMe May 13 May 13 7 737
Electricity could produce cement with almost no carbon footprint 0 OKIsItJustMe May 13 May 13 9 586
Study Finds Wetter Storms Mean Drier Conditions Over Time 0 OKIsItJustMe May 13 May 13 3 395
When the Schuylkill swallowed the city: Lessons from Hurricane Ida's historic flood 2 OKIsItJustMe May 13 May 13 6 690
Time to Wake Up #307: The Mischief Continues - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 5 Rhiannon12866 May 13 May 13 26 1290
Newly recognized pollutant widely present in atmosphere 1 OKIsItJustMe May 13 May 13 10 729
Governor Sherrill, NJ, Working to Keep Her Nuclear Promise. 1 NNadir May 13 May 13 4 491
Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan 0 thought crime May 13 May 13 12 550
LIDAR Flights Reveal Western Snowpack Crisis; California's Snowpack Was At 18% Of Avg 4/1, Declining Since Then 0 hatrack May 13 May 13 5 541
A New Study Explains How Carbon Dioxide Cools the Upper Atmosphere--and Warms Earth Below 0 OKIsItJustMe May 13 May 13 2 394
UC Irvine team identifies where renewable hydrogen delivers the greatest social benefit 0 OKIsItJustMe May 12 May 12 1 416
How underwater speakers are helping revive coral reefs devastated by climate change - PBS NewsHour 2 Rhiannon12866 May 12 May 12 10 859
This 600-Mile Liquid Hydrogen eVTOL Just Got A 20-Aircraft Order 1 Caribbeans May 11 May 12 9 641
Lobbying battle intensifies as E15 ethanol bill nears US vote 1 Eugene May 12 May 12 0 480
'I couldn't breathe': the sinister spread of France's killer seaweed 1 cbabe May 12 May 12 10 699
A Uranium Adsorbing Alginate Polyacylonitrile Membrane With Superior Regeneration Performance. 9 NNadir May 10 May 12 3 1463
As drought worsens, Western states brace for wildfires, water shortages 3 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 11 May 11 8 545
Oil Crisis? How about we Reduce Demand? Here's How 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 11 May 11 4 587
It looks like the Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory's Instrument is back up, with the second highest measurement ever seen. 0 NNadir May 11 May 11 7 1151
"Green Finance", "Carbon Offsets" Just More Ways To Greenwash, Create Market Plays While Doing Nothing For Climate 3 hatrack May 11 May 11 4 706
No One Is Certain, But EPA Estimates That There are 3.7 Million Abandoned US Oil/Gas Wells, 58% Of Them Unsealed 4 hatrack May 10 May 11 18 1042
Airline emissions in Europe top pre-Covid levels despite pledge to decarbonise 2 OKIsItJustMe May 8 May 10 3 531
"It Is Time To Close The Chapter On FEMA" - Trump Committee Plans To Deliberately Destroy Federal Emergency Response 7 hatrack May 10 May 10 22 1160

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Odd But Interesting: GQP Senate Candidate In LA Staking His Campaign On Opposing "Carbon Capture" Projects 0 hatrack May 10 May 10 5 544
It turns out there is an analytical reason we will not get a weekly data point at Mauna Loa for the 2nd time in half... 3 NNadir May 9 May 10 9 743
Um, delicious!!! Recovery of Highly Toxic Tellurium Used for Super Efficient Solar Cells. 1 NNadir May 8 May 10 1 787
German Engineers Packed Hydrogen Into Hollow Tractor Wheels. Now the Machines Run All Day Without Heavy Batteries 4 Caribbeans May 9 May 9 20 1520
Concentrated Solar Power finds a new Niche 3 thought crime May 8 May 9 3 784
World's largest nuclear facility could be built in Ontario with new $300M deal 5 OnlinePoker May 7 May 9 3 696
Toxic Heavy Metals - Tungsten, Selenium, Arsenic - Concentrating In San Luis Valley Water Supply As Drought Stretches On 1 hatrack May 9 May 9 4 478
Superfund Sites In New Jersey Awaiting Cleanup For 40 Years Or More; W. EPA Gutted, Remediation Grinding To A Halt 0 hatrack May 9 May 9 6 414
Senior Interior Official Flat-Out Said Changes In Federal Grazing Policy Personally Enriched Her - 6 Months Ago 0 hatrack May 9 May 9 6 444
The disaster unfolding on Russia's Black Sea coast is of its own making 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 9 May 9 5 605
War. What is it good for? Absolutely Nothing. But... 0 thought crime May 8 May 8 1 436
'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds 16 OKIsItJustMe May 4 May 8 13 1626
NOAA/ESRL - April 2026 Atmospheric CO2 Content: 431.12 ppm; April 2025 429.64 ppm; April 2024 426.51 ppm 6 hatrack May 8 May 8 2 678
Antarctica sea ice collapse driven by triple whammy of climate chaos, scientists find 1 OKIsItJustMe May 8 May 8 10 514
New solar cells hit 30% efficiency and still work after 1,000 hours of power 3 Caribbeans May 7 May 8 6 778
Saskatchewan's plan to extend life of coal power to cost $26B over 25 years: NDP 0 OnlinePoker May 8 May 8 1 379
Trump's crackdown on China-linked solar firms stalls U.S. factory boom 0 OKIsItJustMe May 8 May 8 6 505
EU purchases from Russia's largest natural gas field hit record 3bn (pounds) 0 OKIsItJustMe May 8 May 8 1 416
Nutrient imbalance may drive coral disease more than heat stress, new study suggests 0 OKIsItJustMe May 8 May 8 3 355
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