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COP30 pushes through uneasy deal that fails to secure new fossil fuel promises - Global News 0 Rhiannon12866 5 hrs ago 5 hrs ago 1 144
Exxon freezes plans for major hydrogen plant amid weak customer demand 0 NickB79 10 hrs ago 10 hrs ago 6 205
Former U.S. VP Al Gore Reveals Shocking Data on Global Warming and Extreme Climate Events AC1N 10 Uncle Joe 20 hrs ago 12 hrs ago 12 473
Who Will Have Enough? Battery Mineral Demand and Sufficiency in Vehicle Producing Countries. 0 NNadir 20 hrs ago 20 hrs ago 2 331
Dead Sea of Solar Cells: Antinuke Little Benny Sovacool Discovers that Deserts Are Actually Vital Ecosystems. 3 NNadir Friday Yesterday 4 362
New membrane sets record for separating hydrogen from CO₂ 1 sue4e3 Friday Friday 4 247
Sea level rise threatens the North Sea coast more than expected 2 sue4e3 Friday Friday 3 264
First-ever full Earth system simulation provides new tool to understand climate change 1 sue4e3 Friday Friday 6 240
Warning! This "Colorful Chart" is Censored by IPCC - James Hansen, Pushker Kharecha and Dylan Morgan 4 OKIsItJustMe Friday Friday 8 433
NPR: 3 massive changes you'll see as the climate careens toward tipping points 4 OKIsItJustMe Wednesday Friday 14 600
Cameras capture B.C. sea wolf raiding crab traps in first possible 'tool use' 4 OnlinePoker Tuesday Friday 16 463
Data center growth drives locals to fight for more say 1 douglas9 Monday Friday 6 305
Efforts to Reduce the High Energy, Carbon and Chemical Waste Cost of Recycling Lithium Ion Batteries. 0 NNadir Friday Friday 3 270
The skyrocketing costs of climate change - Senate Environment & Public Works Committee - Senator Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Friday Friday 5 201
Time to Wake Up 303: Recapping COP30 - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Thursday Thursday 3 195
South Korean Plan To End All Coal-Fired Generation By 2040 Leaves Australian Coal Exporters Scrambling 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 3 203
Hedge-Fund Billionaire Wants To Tap East Texas Groundwater For Cities; Rural East Texas MAGA Residents Not Happy At All 2 hatrack Thursday Thursday 11 343
Indonesia Fettered To Broken, Coal-Rich Development; So, As Bali Floods Showed, "We Can No Longer Predict The Seasons" 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 2 208
Trump's Climate Rollbacks: 1.3 Million Projected Global Deaths as COP30 Gets Underway in Brazil - FIVE MINUTE NEWS 0 Rhiannon12866 Thursday Thursday 2 234
"The Salmon Are Everywhere" In OR/CA's Klamath River 1 Yr After Dam Removals, Even In Upstream Tributaries 7 hatrack Wednesday Thursday 61 925
Stopping Trump's License to Pollute - Senator Adam Schiff 1 Rhiannon12866 Wednesday Wednesday 2 179
Colorado running out of options for new source of wolves after Washington rejects request 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Wednesday Wednesday 3 285
One of America's most dangerous volcanoes will soon power homes 3 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Wednesday Wednesday 8 420
Al Gore on America's Noticeable Absence at COP30 Climate Conference - Amanpour and Company PBS 2 Rhiannon12866 Nov 13 Wednesday 5 324
Protect Arctic public lands from the Trump administration's attacks. 0 red dog 1 Wednesday Wednesday 1 220
Facilties Flop At Climate Confab; Stifling Heat & Humidity Indoors, Leaking Roofs, Broken Toilets, Oppressive Noise 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 5 362
At Current CO2 Output, NJ Facing Between 2.2 And 3.8 Feet Of Sea-Level Rise By 2100; W. Ice Sheet Loss, 4.5 Feet 2 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 4 252
October 2025 Atmospheric CO2 Concentration 424.87 ppm; October 2024 422.38 ppm; October 2023 418.82 ppm 3 hatrack Tuesday Wednesday 1 212

Environment & Energy Continued...

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A little bird is signaling a major problem -- and that bird is the insurance industry 0 douglas9 Wednesday Wednesday 10 519
1,000 Of 1,600 Individual Corals Tracked At World Heritage Ningaloo Reef Dead As Result Of Latest Marine Heatwave 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 4 181
An Antarctic Glacier Retreated (i.e. "Melted & Collapsed) 5 Miles In 2 Months; Rate Of Retreat 10X Prior Record 7 hatrack Nov 5 Wednesday 15 508
September 2025 Atmospheric CO2 Content 424.37 ppm; September 2024 422.99 ppm; September 2023 418.50 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 3 160
We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It's a Revelation. 0 douglas9 Tuesday Tuesday 10 339
Ocean with David Attenborough examines industrialization's destructive relationship with the sea and the hope for its 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Monday Monday 7 210
Video: What's really happening in the ocean's "dark zones" - China's huge invisible fishing fleet 0 OKIsItJustMe Monday Monday 4 327
Some good news about the bad news. 2 NNadir Sunday Monday 13 565
Skin cancer cluster found in 15 Pennsylvania counties with or near farmland 3 OKIsItJustMe Monday Monday 23 652
53,000 Animals - Half Of Breeding Female Elephant Seals On South Georgia - Dead From Bird Flu Since 2023 0 hatrack Monday Monday 15 378
Insect-Eating Birds Begin Gradual Comeback In France After Ban On Neonicotinoid Pesticides In Fields 2022 0 hatrack Monday Monday 14 363
Nearly 20,000 Glacial Lakes Span The Himalayas As Warming Takes Its Toll; Detailed Risk Analysis Hasn't Even Begun 0 hatrack Monday Monday 10 376
EPA Science Advisory Board Empty Since Feb; New Prospects - Climate Liars, Chemical Company Reps Nominated By A Lobbyist 0 hatrack Monday Monday 6 271
Fossil Fuel Lobbyists At CRAP30 Outnumber All Individual National Delegations Except For Brazil 2 hatrack Sunday Monday 6 369
Comment: U.S. climate efforts didn't hurt economy; they grew it 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sunday Sunday 6 254
Abdication - Whatever Happens After The Belem Garbage Fire, It's Going To Happen Without The United States 4 hatrack Sunday Sunday 17 642
UK High Court Finds Australian Firm BHP Liable For 2015 Dam Collapse That Killed 19, Dumped Toxic Waste In Brazil 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 4 278
Severe floods threaten global rice yields, study finds 1 OKIsItJustMe Sunday Sunday 1 248
Largest One-Year Increase In Yellow Fever Cases In S. America Since 1960; Dengue Spreading There And In Europe 2 hatrack Nov 15 Nov 15 7 349
Toxic Plastic Bead Spill Spreading On England's South Coast; Southern Water Just Raised Its Avg. Rates 47% This Year 1 hatrack Nov 15 Nov 15 4 345
Saudi Arabia A "Wrecking Ball" On Climate Action; Their Climate Worst-Case - Heatwaves At/Above 133F For Weeks On End 0 hatrack Nov 15 Nov 15 8 320
A spreadsheet of reflecting a decade of the IEA's World Energy Outlook data for consumption and sources of energy. 0 NNadir Nov 15 Nov 15 3 230
Sierra Club Statement on Interior's Sellout of Western Arctic 1 douglas9 Nov 14 Nov 15 7 334
Renewable energy is cheaper, creates more growth and creates more jobs than fossil fuel does/will 6 applegrove Nov 14 Nov 14 8 404
After 13 Years, No End In Sight For Caribbean Sargassum Invasion; Toxic Air, Buried Beaches, Clogged Rivers 1 hatrack Nov 14 Nov 14 4 1797
More Than Half Of All National Delegation Members At CRAP30 Have Obscured Their Affiliations: "Guest", "Other" Popular 0 hatrack Nov 14 Nov 14 5 271
But But But . . . Drill Baby, Drill!! World Facing Oil Glut In 2026 Of Roughly 4 Million Barrels/Day, Per IEA Forecast 0 hatrack Nov 14 Nov 14 3 221
At Current (Increasing) Emissions Rates, 1.5C Threshold Of Catastrophic Warming Will Be Surpassed By 2030 1 hatrack Nov 13 Nov 13 5 205
Zanzibar's 'solar mamas' are trained as technicians to help light up communities 2 Jilly_in_VA Nov 13 Nov 13 4 228
Finally, Something To Bring Americans Together - Pretty Much Everybody Hates Data Centers And Crypto Mines 1 hatrack Nov 13 Nov 13 14 390

Environment & Energy Continued...

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From Mining to Manufacturing: Scientific Challenges and Opportunities behind Battery Production 0 NNadir Nov 13 Nov 13 3 178
2021 4-Day OR/WA Heatwave: "No Examples Of Heatwave-Induced Foliar Death At This Scale In The Historical Record" 0 hatrack Nov 13 Nov 13 6 269
Welcome To "Don't Say Climate!" Politics - Even As First Flailing Attempts To Cope W. What's Coming Begin 1 hatrack Nov 10 Nov 13 3 399
US 'disappointed' that Rolls-Royce will build UK's first small modular reactors 6 OnlinePoker Nov 13 Nov 13 4 333
Fears for elephant seals as bird flu kills half of population on South Georgia 1 muriel_volestrangler Nov 13 Nov 13 6 210
A flotilla kicks off the People's Summit for activists at UN climate talks 0 Jilly_in_VA Nov 13 Nov 13 3 185
Earth Still On Track For 2.6C Increase - i.e. "Global Disaster"; FF Emissions Up Again By +/- 1% In 2025 3 hatrack Nov 13 Nov 13 9 420
Climatologist Jolle Gergis On Why Planting Trees And "Net Zero" Accounting Tricks Are Insidious, Feel-Good Bullshit 2 hatrack Nov 10 Nov 13 6 365
From "Dulled Acceptance" To "Magical Thinking" - Elizabeth Kolbert On Our Response To A Crisis That Is Not Going Away 2 hatrack Nov 11 Nov 13 13 476
The 2025 IEA World Energy Outlook Has Been Released. Coal grew faster in 2024 than either solar or wind. 3 NNadir Nov 13 Nov 13 0 285
Brazil's JBS - Planet's Biggest Beef Company - "Recommending Climate Policy" At CRAP-30 0 hatrack Nov 13 Nov 13 5 326
FULL PRESSER: Newsom Slams Trump at COP30, 'Polluted Heart of Climate Crisis is Donald Trump' - DRM News 0 Rhiannon12866 Nov 13 Nov 13 8 448
Prescribed burns central to wildfire legislation moving through Congress 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 12 Nov 12 2 273
Iceland deems possible Atlantic current collapse a security risk 0 nitpicked Nov 12 Nov 12 10 429
The clock is ticking on the shrinking Colorado River as Western states miss a key deadline 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 12 Nov 12 4 245
Australia's Liberal Party (They're Not) Stance On Climate Spirals Off To Somewhere Between Incoherence And Insanity 1 hatrack Nov 12 Nov 12 2 269
7 Colorado Basin States Miss Deadline For Cuts In Water Use; Generation Halt Powell Possible By Late 2026 2 hatrack Nov 12 Nov 12 11 295
In Delhi, More Now Die From Air Pollution Than From Obesity Or Diabetes; Protest AQ And You'll Go To Jail 2 hatrack Nov 11 Nov 12 8 305
Integrated Vapor Transport (IVT) Boosts Moisture Air Currents Can Carry; WV In Bullseye Of New Rainfall Conditions 1 hatrack Nov 12 Nov 12 5 389
Trump plan would open California to offshore oil drilling 3 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 11 Nov 11 5 354
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