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The Shitty Fingerprints Of Trump's Cronies All Over Project 2025 He Denies Knowing Anything About 0 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 7 448
BP-Owned Carbon "Offset" Company's Assets Based Largely On Forests In No Danger Of Being Logged 0 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 7 340
Why your air conditioning bill is about to soar - the energy required rises with the SQUARE of the temperature differenc 10 progree Jul 2024 Jul 2024 13 6537
The $1.7 billion bet on American-made EVs, explained by the Secretary of Energy 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 357
"Incandescent" Anger Over Sewage Pollution Drove 1st Tory Loss In 100 Years In West Sussex District 1 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 11 487
Afthanistan Uniquely Vulnerable To Climate Collapse; Taliban Try To Reconcile Science With Islamic Fundamentalism 1 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 8 464
Thwaites Glacier - New Data Show Warm (mid-30s F) Seawater Penetrates Daily Miles Beyond Grounding Line 1 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 8 442
With Beryl Breaking Records Six Weeks Into Hurricane Season, Scientists Worry About What's Next 0 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 7 377
Cary Institute: Forest carbon storage has declined across much of the Western US, likely due to drought and fire 2 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 364
Demand for rare elements used in clean energy could help clean up abandoned coal mines in US 2 sl8 Jul 2024 Jul 2024 9 532
New Study Reveals Greenland Ice Melting Threatens Life on Earth - Thom Hartmann 5 Rhiannon12866 Jul 2024 Jul 2024 8 610
Thylacines, Toolache Wallabies, Bulldog Rats - Visiting The Austalian Museum's Extinction Cabinets 1 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 443
2023's Soaked Summer Cut UK Farm Income Nearly 20%, Farm Output By 13% YOY 3 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 373
London Science Museum Cuts Equinor Sponsorship; Gag Clause, Failure To Hit Paris Targets Cited 0 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 434
The Summer Of Missing Butterflies; License Plate Survey Shows 78% UK Insect Decline 2004-23 0 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 8 391
Alaska's Juneau Icefield Is Melting at an 'Incredibly Worrying' 50,000 Gallons per Second, Researchers Find 2 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 12 757
Institute for Basic Science: Unprecedented Warming Threatens Earth's Lakes and their Ecosystems 1 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 542
Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research: High and low tide cause low and high methane fluxes 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 319
MIT Hurricane Scientist Kerry Emmanuel On Beryl "A Category 1 Shouldn't Knock Out Your Power System" 8 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 16 864
Three Mile Island reopening chatter keeps getting more serious 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 470
The Messenger, a film about songbirds and their welfare 1 Beringia Jul 2024 Jul 2024 8 460
Near-Doubling Of Demand For TX Electrical Grid Projected By 2030, Most Of It From Bitcoin & Data Centers 2 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 6 480
James Hansen et al: Reflections on Time Scales and Butterflies 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 427
NTSB Chair Slams Norfolk Southern For Threats During Palestine Inquest; Vinyl Chloride Burn Unnecessary 0 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 6 369
AI brings soaring emissions for Google and Microsoft, a major contributor to climate change 2 sl8 Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 505
Day Six At Or Above 115F For Las Vegas; Records Tumbling Across The West 0 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 413
China building two-thirds of world's wind and solar projects 2 Jilly_in_VA Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 540
Reuters: US announces record oil and gas pollution penalty against Marathon Oil 3 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 517
AP: Houston keeps buckling under storms like Beryl. The fixes aren't coming fast enough 6 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 529
Reuters: Energy companies win dismissal of Baltimore's climate change case 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 315

Environment & Energy Continued...

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AP: A look at heat records that have been broken around the world 2 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 5160
Group sues federal government, claims it ignores harms of idle offshore oil and gas infrastructure 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 333
Daily Surface Air Temperature, Tropics (23.5S-23.5N, 0-360E) 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 1 274
NZ Sea-Surface Temperatures Hit Record Highs; Increase In Some Areas 3X Global Average Rise 1 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 417
The predicament of climate scientists on the road to a super tropical Earth 2 Brenda Jul 2024 Jul 2024 10 574
Sea-Level Rise Across Southern US Among Fastest On Earth; Approaching 1/2" Per Year In FL Panhandle As Of 2021 6 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 11 664
How a Texas man turned Whataburger into the state's power outage tracker 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2024 Jul 2024 7 500
Oh, Goody! Here's A TX Oil Baron/Bible Beating Xtian Who's Shoveling Money To TSF, Among Other Whack Candidates 0 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 10 567
Ranking Member Raskin's Opening Statement at Hearing with EPA Administrator - Oversight Committee Democrats 2 Rhiannon12866 Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 469
Will Climate Change Turn The Border Into a Real Crisis? - Thom Hartmann 0 Rhiannon12866 Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 436
It's So Hot In The West That Medical Helicopters Are Having To Cancel Runs - It's Too Hot To Fly 3 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 16 595
Imagine That!! The Already-Shitty TX Power Grid Has To Deal With Endlessly Growing Demand From Bitcoin Mining 2 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 9 667
Las Vegas On Track For Record 5th Straight Day Over 115F - Streak Could Run Through Friday 2 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 6 427
Massive blue whale seen off the coast of Massachusetts in rare double sighting 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2024 Jul 2024 8 501
Spoof ExxonMobil Ad Nails Just How Easy It's Been for Big Oil 1 cbabe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 6 493
Extinction In Wild Of Florida Keys Cactus Confirmed; Wiped Out By Rising Sea Levels, Saltwater Intrusion 1 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 407
In Record Heat, Athens Mayor Works To Permanently Expand Tree Planting, Water Access, Public Cooling Centers 0 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 394
Private Water Company Runs TV Ad About How Much They Care; UK Govt. Bans It As Deceptive 0 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 464
'Chemical recycling': 15-minute reaction turns old clothes into useful molecules 2 sl8 Jul 2024 Jul 2024 10 493
As It Filled Rivers W. Shit, Thames Water Failed To Complete 108 Upgrades Paid For By Customers 0 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 478
China's landfills brim with textile waste as fast fashion reigns and recycling takes a back seat 0 Dulcinea Jul 2024 Jul 2024 1 386
"The Right Wants To Go Back To A Past That No Longer Exists. The Left Wants A Future It Will Not Dare To Fund" 3 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 10 752
US EPA - Climate Change Indicators: Heat Waves 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 6 396
Florida: tree cactus becomes first local species killed off by sea-level rise 0 Eugene Jul 2024 Jul 2024 6 1146
Reuters: Greek islands face water crisis as tourist season peaks 1 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 7 439
AP: Tourists still flock to Death Valley amid searing US heat wave blamed for several deaths 2 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 427
1.8 Million Acres Of The Pantanal Have Burned So Far In 2024; Countless 1,000s Of Animals Killed 2 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 12 1644
After Years Of Warnings And Official Inaction, China Taking Frantic Action To Address Another Deadly Summer Of Floods 3 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 458
Oil & Gas Waste Is Exempt From Regulation, And The Industry Injects 18 Billion Barrels/Year Into The Ground 0 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 9 470
The Guardian: Hurricane Beryl supercharged by 'crazy' ocean temperatures, experts say 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 7 469

Environment & Energy Continued...

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AP: Nearly 1,000 homes in Cape Town destroyed by storms as city braces for a week of bad weather 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 392
Reuters: Japan issues heatstroke warning as 'cooling shelters' offer respite 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 316
Reuters : US offshore wind will fall short of Biden's 2030 goal, analysis says 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 293
Reuters: China state media slams Sinograin over alleged use of fuel tankers to transport cooking oil 1 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 433
Reuters: Colombia deforestation fell to 23-year low in 2023 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 1 305
The ancient tree from India that could fuel America's future 6 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 8 751
Reuters: Republican challenge to ESG investing rule could showcase risk to US agency powers 1 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 418
The Guardian: Temperatures 1.5C above pre-industrial era average for 12 months, data shows 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 11 358
Northwest ecosystems changed dramatically when wolves were nearly exterminated, study finds 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2024 Jul 2024 8 417
The Independent: Warning of more deaths as 2024 set to be hottest year on record 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 300
MIT Study: Weaker ocean circulation could enhance CO2 buildup in the atmosphere 1 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 432
Across Sicily, Annual Rainfall Has Fallen 40% Since 2001; 1/3 Of Island "Doomed To Desertification" By 2030 4 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 9 528
SpaceX rockets blew away local bird habitats after Elon Musk 'misled' NPS officials about expansion, NYT reports 1 Eugene Jul 2024 Jul 2024 6 524
Paris Is Burning: Last Year Shows Global Temps 1.6C Over 1850-1900 Baseline, Past 1.5C Climate Goal 0 hatrack Jul 2024 Jul 2024 8 402
As climate change threatens island nations, some turn to digitizing their history - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 408
The Guardian: 'Potentially historic' heatwave threatens more than 130 million people across US 6 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 10 720
Reuters: Foes of California's electric car targets take their case to US Supreme Court 2 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 705
Reuters: Years-long wait for permits blocking European wind farms, industry says 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 414
Reuters: China, struggling to make use of a boom in energy storage, calls for even more 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 1 518
Reuters: Germany gives apartment-dwellers legal right to solar power 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 450
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