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Cameras capture B.C. sea wolf raiding crab traps in first possible 'tool use' 3 OnlinePoker 5 hrs ago 2 hrs ago 13 358
We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It's a Revelation. 0 douglas9 6 hrs ago 6 hrs ago 9 278
Ocean with David Attenborough examines industrialization's destructive relationship with the sea and the hope for its 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 20 hrs ago 19 hrs ago 6 176
Video: What's really happening in the ocean's "dark zones" - China's huge invisible fishing fleet 0 OKIsItJustMe 23 hrs ago 23 hrs ago 4 282
Some good news about the bad news. 2 NNadir Sunday Yesterday 13 500
Skin cancer cluster found in 15 Pennsylvania counties with or near farmland 3 OKIsItJustMe Yesterday Yesterday 23 550
53,000 Animals - Half Of Breeding Female Elephant Seals On South Georgia - Dead From Bird Flu Since 2023 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 15 322
Insect-Eating Birds Begin Gradual Comeback In France After Ban On Neonicotinoid Pesticides In Fields 2022 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 13 314
Nearly 20,000 Glacial Lakes Span The Himalayas As Warming Takes Its Toll; Detailed Risk Analysis Hasn't Even Begun 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 10 300
EPA Science Advisory Board Empty Since Feb; New Prospects - Climate Liars, Chemical Company Reps Nominated By A Lobbyist 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 6 233
Fossil Fuel Lobbyists At CRAP30 Outnumber All Individual National Delegations Except For Brazil 2 hatrack Sunday Yesterday 6 295
Data center growth drives locals to fight for more say 0 douglas9 Yesterday Yesterday 6 249
An Antarctic Glacier Retreated (i.e. "Melted & Collapsed) 5 Miles In 2 Months; Rate Of Retreat 10X Prior Record 5 hatrack Nov 5 Sunday 15 452
Comment: U.S. climate efforts didn't hurt economy; they grew it 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sunday Sunday 6 217
Abdication - Whatever Happens After The Belem Garbage Fire, It's Going To Happen Without The United States 4 hatrack Sunday Sunday 17 540
UK High Court Finds Australian Firm BHP Liable For 2015 Dam Collapse That Killed 19, Dumped Toxic Waste In Brazil 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 4 218
Severe floods threaten global rice yields, study finds 1 OKIsItJustMe Sunday Sunday 1 214
Largest One-Year Increase In Yellow Fever Cases In S. America Since 1960; Dengue Spreading There And In Europe 2 hatrack Saturday Saturday 7 280
Toxic Plastic Bead Spill Spreading On England's South Coast; Southern Water Just Raised Its Avg. Rates 47% This Year 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 4 300
Saudi Arabia A "Wrecking Ball" On Climate Action; Their Climate Worst-Case - Heatwaves At/Above 133F For Weeks On End 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 8 277
A spreadsheet of reflecting a decade of the IEA's World Energy Outlook data for consumption and sources of energy. 0 NNadir Saturday Saturday 3 211
Sierra Club Statement on Interior's Sellout of Western Arctic 1 douglas9 Friday Saturday 7 313
Renewable energy is cheaper, creates more growth and creates more jobs than fossil fuel does/will 6 applegrove Friday Friday 7 299
After 13 Years, No End In Sight For Caribbean Sargassum Invasion; Toxic Air, Buried Beaches, Clogged Rivers 1 hatrack Friday Friday 4 960
More Than Half Of All National Delegation Members At CRAP30 Have Obscured Their Affiliations: "Guest", "Other" Popular 0 hatrack Friday Friday 5 249
But But But . . . Drill Baby, Drill!! World Facing Oil Glut In 2026 Of Roughly 4 Million Barrels/Day, Per IEA Forecast 0 hatrack Friday Friday 3 199
At Current (Increasing) Emissions Rates, 1.5C Threshold Of Catastrophic Warming Will Be Surpassed By 2030 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 5 184
Zanzibar's 'solar mamas' are trained as technicians to help light up communities 2 Jilly_in_VA Thursday Thursday 4 201

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Finally, Something To Bring Americans Together - Pretty Much Everybody Hates Data Centers And Crypto Mines 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 14 338
From Mining to Manufacturing: Scientific Challenges and Opportunities behind Battery Production 0 NNadir Thursday Thursday 3 159
2021 4-Day OR/WA Heatwave: "No Examples Of Heatwave-Induced Foliar Death At This Scale In The Historical Record" 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 6 243
Welcome To "Don't Say Climate!" Politics - Even As First Flailing Attempts To Cope W. What's Coming Begin 1 hatrack Nov 10 Thursday 3 371
US 'disappointed' that Rolls-Royce will build UK's first small modular reactors 6 OnlinePoker Thursday Thursday 4 292
Fears for elephant seals as bird flu kills half of population on South Georgia 1 muriel_volestrangler Thursday Thursday 6 184
A flotilla kicks off the People's Summit for activists at UN climate talks 0 Jilly_in_VA Thursday Thursday 3 162
Earth Still On Track For 2.6C Increase - i.e. "Global Disaster"; FF Emissions Up Again By +/- 1% In 2025 3 hatrack Thursday Thursday 9 372
Climatologist Jolle Gergis On Why Planting Trees And "Net Zero" Accounting Tricks Are Insidious, Feel-Good Bullshit 2 hatrack Nov 10 Thursday 6 316
From "Dulled Acceptance" To "Magical Thinking" - Elizabeth Kolbert On Our Response To A Crisis That Is Not Going Away 2 hatrack Tuesday Thursday 13 414
The 2025 IEA World Energy Outlook Has Been Released. Coal grew faster in 2024 than either solar or wind. 3 NNadir Thursday Thursday 0 259
Al Gore on America's Noticeable Absence at COP30 Climate Conference - Amanpour and Company PBS 1 Rhiannon12866 Thursday Thursday 3 276
Brazil's JBS - Planet's Biggest Beef Company - "Recommending Climate Policy" At CRAP-30 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 5 291
FULL PRESSER: Newsom Slams Trump at COP30, 'Polluted Heart of Climate Crisis is Donald Trump' - DRM News 0 Rhiannon12866 Thursday Thursday 8 420
Prescribed burns central to wildfire legislation moving through Congress 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Wednesday Wednesday 2 254
Iceland deems possible Atlantic current collapse a security risk 0 nitpicked Wednesday Wednesday 10 359
The clock is ticking on the shrinking Colorado River as Western states miss a key deadline 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Wednesday Wednesday 4 215
Australia's Liberal Party (They're Not) Stance On Climate Spirals Off To Somewhere Between Incoherence And Insanity 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 2 242
7 Colorado Basin States Miss Deadline For Cuts In Water Use; Generation Halt Powell Possible By Late 2026 2 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 11 264
In Delhi, More Now Die From Air Pollution Than From Obesity Or Diabetes; Protest AQ And You'll Go To Jail 2 hatrack Tuesday Wednesday 8 282
Integrated Vapor Transport (IVT) Boosts Moisture Air Currents Can Carry; WV In Bullseye Of New Rainfall Conditions 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 5 365
Trump plan would open California to offshore oil drilling 3 mahatmakanejeeves Tuesday Tuesday 5 302
"I've been thinking about this possibility for 15 years": Killer whale experts make new discovery off North American coa 0 marmar Tuesday Tuesday 7 444
Modeling Shows Potential For "Burp" Of Heat From Southern Ocean - Absorbed Over Time, It Could Be Released Suddenly 3 hatrack Nov 8 Tuesday 14 397
Aedes Aegypti Mosquito, Which Carries Dengue, Couldn't Survive In The Rockies. Now They're Thriving In Western CO. 1 hatrack Nov 10 Nov 10 5 251
Absence Of Shitstain's Hacks & Cronies And Their "Full Thug Tactics" A Welcome Change At CRAP-30 0 hatrack Nov 10 Nov 10 3 233
Southern Water "Very Sorry" For Massive Toxic Spill, Which They Lied About; "Unclear" If They Will Face Legal Action 0 hatrack Nov 10 Nov 10 3 262
2nd Typhoon In 1 Week Hits Phillipine Island Of Luzon, Forcing Suspension Of Ongoing Rescue Operations 0 hatrack Nov 10 Nov 10 3 195
Forests, Yes; Funding, Yes - But Any Meaningful Engagement On Fossil Fuels Highly Unlikely At Climate Summit 2 hatrack Nov 9 Nov 9 6 308
Survey Of 2,000 Australian Women w/o Kids Finds That 40% Are Reluctant To Reproduce Thanks To Global Warming 2 hatrack Nov 9 Nov 9 7 254

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Drax Continues To Generate "Sustainable" Energy By Burning 250-Year Old Trees From Canada 3 hatrack Nov 9 Nov 9 10 285
"Catastrophic" - Toxic Plastic Beads Swamp Beloved English Beach; Cleanup Nearly Impossible 0 hatrack Nov 9 Nov 9 16 435
But Market Forces!!! As Emptiness Of Most Carbon Offset Programs Becomes Clear, Global Carbon Prices In Freefall 3 hatrack Nov 6 Nov 9 3 346
I Wish We Could Ignore Bill Gates On Climate, But He's A Billionaire So We Can't 1 hatrack Nov 8 Nov 8 8 347
NM Forests Painfully Vulnerable To Warming; Controlled Burns & Clearing Down 53% Under Shitstain Admin 3 hatrack Nov 8 Nov 8 8 342
"Unprecedented" Access For Oil & Gas Lobbyists Over Past Four Climate Summits - This Is What Corprate Capture Looks Like 0 hatrack Nov 8 Nov 8 7 279
Voters' anger over high electricity bills and data centers loom over 2026 midterms 1 Eugene Nov 8 Nov 8 14 390
Making the Case: The "Stop Work" President - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Nov 8 Nov 8 4 319
Climate Journalist Learned How to Scuba Dive to Report on Ocean Research - Amanpour and Company PBS 0 Rhiannon12866 Nov 8 Nov 8 2 204
As Brazil Cracks Down on Forest Clearing, Emissions Fall 0 douglas9 Nov 7 Nov 7 10 232
Solar doing so well in Australia, they are offering electricity for free at times: 4 applegrove Nov 6 Nov 7 13 316
Amazon Rainforest Lakes Hit Temperatures As High As 104F During Mass Dieoff Of Dolphins And Fish 1 hatrack Nov 7 Nov 7 13 341
Venezuelan Oil -- American Gangster Politics 4 douglas9 Nov 7 Nov 7 12 348
Shitstain Nominates Former Rep. And Oilfield Services CEO Steve Pearce To Head Bureau Of Livestock And Mining 2 hatrack Nov 7 Nov 7 5 326
National Park Skeleton Crews, Missed Court Dates As Environmental Agencies' Work Grinds To A Halt 0 hatrack Nov 7 Nov 7 8 316
188 Confirmed Dead So Far In 10 Regions In The Phillipines After Devastating Hit By Typhoon Kalmaegi 1 hatrack Nov 7 Nov 7 4 332
Toyota Sued for $5.7 Billion Over Mirai Hydrogen Cars 1 NickB79 Nov 2 Nov 6 6 367
As CRAP-30 Begins, UK Announces It Will Not Contribute To Flagship Fund Fighting Tropical Deforestation 0 hatrack Nov 6 Nov 6 3 271
How Strange! Electricity Prices In California Substantially Higher From Investor-Owned Utilites Than From Public Ones! 3 hatrack Nov 6 Nov 6 8 408
Nearly 70% Of New England In Level 2 Or 3 Drought As Flash Droughts Become More Common, Faster 0 hatrack Nov 6 Nov 6 9 390
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