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The Cybertruck Was Supposed To Survive The Apocalypse; Can It Survive A Trip To The Grocery Store? 1 hatrack May 14 May 15 6 381
Energy Sec. Whines, Lies Through His Teeth To Congress, Denies Delaying Funding After Months Of Doing Just That 1 hatrack May 15 May 15 8 383
Denmark rethinking 40-year nuclear power ban amid Europe-wide shift 2 hunter May 14 May 15 4 320
After Months Of Toxic Algae Bloom Off S. Australia's Coast, 200 Species Killed, Including Sharks, Rays, Octopus 0 hatrack May 15 May 15 7 265
EPA rolls back Biden-era rules against 'forever chemicals' in drinking water - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 May 15 May 15 3 206
River Flows And Reservoir Lows Across UK May Test Or Break All-Time Record Lows As Summer Heat/Drought Start Early 1 hatrack May 14 May 14 3 228
After LA Fires Caused +/- 1/4 TRILLION In Damages, CA Assembly Somehow Just Can't Push "Polluters Pay" Bills For Big Oil 0 hatrack May 14 May 14 1 205
James Hansen and Pushker Kharecha - Large Cloud Feedback Confirms High Climate Sensitivity 2 OKIsItJustMe May 14 May 14 7 344
Collapsing GA Shrimp Industry Stuck Between Warming-Driven Black Gill Disease, Flood Of Farmed, Imported, Cheaper Shrimp 0 hatrack May 14 May 14 7 372
Plenty Of Pressure Applied By Insurers To Cut Adjusters' Estimate, Or "Claim Reassigned To Someone Who Complies" 2 hatrack May 14 May 14 11 422
Global Financial Regulators Decide That This Is A Good Time To Make Climate Risk Disclosures Voluntary 0 hatrack May 14 May 14 3 234
A chemical in plastics is tied to heart disease deaths 3 Judi Lynn May 14 May 14 14 528
To Reinvent What Was Already Invented, Nuclear Engineers Need the Right to Screw Up to Thus Save the World. 0 NNadir May 13 May 13 5 289
China leads hydrogen production and consumption in 2024 at more than 36.5 million tons 2 Caribbeans May 13 May 13 0 242
Facing lawsuit, USDA says it will restore climate change-related webpages 0 Eugene May 13 May 13 10 231
Hydrogen fuel cell trucks roll out across Georgia's roads: Is this a solution that could stick? Or just a detour? 3 Caribbeans May 13 May 13 1 297
Swamp Coolers, Once Effective Across Southwestern States, No Longer Work In Extreme Heat & Growing Humidity 2 hatrack May 13 May 13 8 642
Mercury fuels gold mining in Senegal. And it's poisoning the people who use it 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 13 May 13 2 227
As Pecos River Farmers' Water Deliveries Failed, Oil Companies Used 31,000 Acre-Feet Of River Water For Fracking 1 hatrack May 13 May 13 5 356
"Mass Balance" - Yet Another Greenwashy Attempt To Make "Advanced Recycling" Of Plastic Appear Real 1 hatrack May 13 May 13 5 312
Here's Something You Don't See Often, a Scientific Paper Titled "Hold My Beer..." 0 NNadir May 12 May 12 7 402
Planned AL Data Center Would Be The Size Of 18 Wal-Mart Super Centers, And Local Pols Know/Say Nothing About It 4 hatrack May 11 May 12 13 645
Can Scientists Harness the Magic of Mushrooms to Clean Up Polluted Landscapes? 2 Judi Lynn May 12 May 12 11 357
One woman's mission to help save cheetahs from extinction - PBS NewsHour 3 Rhiannon12866 May 11 May 12 7 320
Industry "Struggling To Understand" Shitstain's Plans To Destroy Energy Star Program, Which They (And Consumers) Support 2 hatrack May 12 May 12 8 373
Bananas Vulnerable To Warming; Cultivation May Become Impossible In 2/3 Of Central/South America By 2080 0 hatrack May 12 May 12 4 222
Seriously, Don't Fuck This Up, Guys: Pittsburgh Voters To Choose Whether To Keep Water Service Public 2 hatrack May 12 May 12 9 372
Pesky Thermodynamics: The Mathematics of Wasting Energy by Storage in Li Batteries. 5 NNadir May 11 May 11 5 495
How Los Alamos National Laboratory Helped Bring Hydrogen Power To Northern New Mexico 0 Caribbeans May 11 May 11 2 338
New Weekly CO2 Concentration Record Set at the Mauna Loa Observatory, 430.86 ppm 2 NNadir May 11 May 11 4 291

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Migration and Sources of Plutonium and Neptunium in the South China Sea and Indian Ocean 0 NNadir May 11 May 11 1 259
LA LNG Port Largest Single Investment In State's History: Also Largest Single Tax Break On Record - $2.8 Billion 1 hatrack May 11 May 11 4 277
What Do Reuters, WP, NYT, Financial Times Have In Common? They're All Paid For "Sponsored Content" By The Oil Industry 1 hatrack May 11 May 11 9 343
Tyson Tried To Market "Low-Carbon Beef", Got Called On Their Greenwashing And Dumped The Campaign 1 hatrack May 11 May 11 3 294
My gf wants me to spend $40k on an electric car 33 paulkienitz May 8 May 11 12 1543
Anti-Government Group Threatening Weather Radar Stations, Because Libtard Weather Control Freedumb Arglebargle Duuhhrr 3 hatrack May 10 May 10 11 431
Not having anyone around who knows the difference between water use and water pressure, 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 10 May 10 6 421
Gosh, That's Too Bad, Florida: Cuts To NOAA Mean Firing Miami-Based Hurricane Scientists And Climate Researchers 8 hatrack May 10 May 10 16 575
Defunding/Destroying NOAA Threatens Fragile Global Capacity To Accurately Measure GHG Trends 1 hatrack May 10 May 10 8 272
Energy Dominance!!! DOE Secy's Company's Stock Value Sliced In Half, Oil Price Below Point Of Profitibility 2 hatrack May 10 May 10 10 403
Nature - Populations Of Washington's Only Native Abalone Down 97% 1997 - 2017; Ocean Acidification Hitting Larvae Hard 0 hatrack May 10 May 10 6 254
Rocky Mountain Snowpack Below 50%; Powell At 31% Of Capacity, Water Agencies In Chaos, Thanks To Shitstain 0 hatrack May 10 May 10 9 389
3 Weeks Until Hurricane Season, FL Residents Still Dealing W. Helen, Debby And Idalia - And That's Just 2023 and 2024 0 hatrack May 10 May 10 2 264
Energy Star Is Voluntary, Is Supported By Industry And Has Saved $.5 Trillion Since Inception, So It Must Be Destroyed 3 hatrack May 9 May 10 17 373
Israel approves national hydrogen pipeline to boost clean energy 1 Caribbeans May 9 May 10 0 239
Babseiosis - A Malaria-Like Disease Spread By Ticks - Spreading Rapidly Through Mid-Atlantic States 8 hatrack May 9 May 9 17 595
This Is What Happens When You Build A Wildlife Pond 5 Uncle Joe May 9 May 9 60 1616
Texas Senate passes bill requiring solar plants to provide power at night 2 Eugene May 9 May 9 8 562
In Shitstain's First 100 Days, Environmental Enforcement Has Essentially Stopped; Zero Actions Against Major Violations 0 hatrack May 9 May 9 5 212
Youngkin Vetoes Two Bills Supporting Solar And Energy Storage, But Don't Forget, He's An "All Of The Above" Energy Guy 0 hatrack May 9 May 9 5 284
Plastics Companies Still Pimping "Advanced Recycling" Though It Has Never Scaled Or Made Economic Sense 1 hatrack May 9 May 9 3 303
60% Of EU Farmland Degraded, 40% In UK; Breakdown Driven At Least In Part By Extreme Weather, Warming 0 hatrack May 9 May 9 9 270
Multiple Midsummer Butterfly Species Emerging In UK Up To A Month Ahead Of Normal Schedule In Record-Warm Spring 0 hatrack May 9 May 9 6 248
One Of The Biggest Methane Sources On Earth Isn't A Country Or Company: It's Our Abandoned OIl & Gas Wells & Coal Mines 0 hatrack May 9 May 9 7 290
HyTerra Strikes Natural Hydrogen in Kansas at 96.1%: Is Geologic H2 the Game-Changer? 1 Caribbeans May 8 May 9 2 315
Trump admin ends extreme weather database that has tracked cost of disasters since 1980 2 Eugene May 8 May 8 2 286
Schiff Blasts GOP Efforts to Roll Back Climate Protections in Major Floor Speech - Senator Adam Schiff 0 Rhiannon12866 May 8 May 8 8 249
Norway and Sweden to Cooperate on Development of Lead Cooled Small Nuclear Reactors. 4 NNadir May 5 May 8 4 405
Scorpion Stings Already Spiking In Brazilian Cities; Will Get Worse As Warming And Urban Expansion Continue 2 hatrack May 8 May 8 7 417
San Diego Bay showing signs of improvement after reef balls installed 2 Uncle Joe May 8 May 8 19 670

Environment & Energy Continued...

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"Vast Green Expanses Have Turned To Fields Of Dust" As Loggers Flatten Gran Chaco; 370,000 Acres Destroyed In 2024 Alone 1 hatrack May 7 May 7 14 427
"Let Us Walk Blindfolded And Not Gather Any Information" - Shitstain Ends Funding For Ice Data, Science @ NSIDC 1 hatrack May 7 May 7 5 256
Time to Wake Up 298: The 10th Our Oceans Conference - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 May 7 May 7 4 215
On Climate, Governors Enter 'Trench Warfare Mode' 0 Brenda May 7 May 7 3 234
'Wind theft': The mysterious effect plaguing wind farms 8 NickB79 May 7 May 7 11 854
April 2025 Atmospheric CO2 Content 429.64 ppm; April 2024 426.51 ppm; April 2023 423.31 ppm 1 hatrack May 7 May 7 3 265
Lianas are taking over the rainforests, and it's visible from space 1 NickB79 May 7 May 7 9 510
Five Lakes In UNESCO World Heritage Park In Northern Patagonia Drying Rapidly; Surface Areas Down +/- 52% In 20 Years 2 hatrack May 7 May 7 7 312
UK Govt Confirmed As Funding Geoengineering Projects; Sulfate Aerosol Injections, "Restoring" Vanishing Sea Ice 2 hatrack May 7 May 7 5 338
Driest Spring On Record For Much Of Britain; Drought Next, Unless Record Flooding Of 2012 Repeats Itself 0 hatrack May 7 May 7 3 259
Scientists Project Doubling To Quadrupling Of Clear-Air Turbulance On Routes Along Jet Streams In Next Few Decades 0 hatrack May 7 May 7 6 348
This Hydrogen Powered Excavator Changes EVERYTHING! 1 Caribbeans May 6 May 6 6 382
"US Officials Stunned by China's Green Leap":Dachen Island's Zero-Carbon Shift Leaves Washington Scrambling for Answers 5 Caribbeans May 6 May 6 5 608
Chinese Operators Set a World Record for Continuous Operation of a CANDU 6 Nuclear Plant. 0 NNadir May 6 May 6 5 303
Fuck You, Don: Two Scientific Organizations Call For Papers, Will Take Up National Climate Assessment 2 hatrack May 6 May 6 19 605
Hawaii Legislature Passes Taxes On Lodging And Cruise Ships To Deal With Natural Disasters From Warming, Invasives 1 hatrack May 6 May 6 6 338
Attenborough at 99 delivers 'greatest message he's ever told' 7 nitpicked May 6 May 6 79 2111
England Has 85% Of World's Chalk Streams; These Vanishingly Rare Habitats Now At Risk From Labor Development Bill 0 hatrack May 6 May 6 6 393
Shitstain Regime Ends Air Quality Monitoring Near National Parks, Then (Supposedly) Reverses Itself When Story Breaks 0 hatrack May 6 May 6 4 366
2007 - 2021 Study: 3/4 Of North America's Bird Species Are In Decline, Even In Remote "Stronghold" Areas 0 hatrack May 6 May 6 4 260
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