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Don't worry. Be happy. Server Farms Will Learn for Themselves How to Be All Renewabley and "Green." 0 NNadir 18 min ago 18 min ago 0 81
Potential Interactions Between Birds And Floating Photovoltaic Solar Energy: Spatially Informed Species Vulnerabilities 1 NNadir 36 min ago 20 min ago 2 113
"It's Not Just a Cost. It's a Scheme." Sen. Whitehouse Blasts Trump's Anti-Clean Energy Crusade - Senator Whitehouse 2 Rhiannon12866 3 hrs ago 35 min ago 8 200
Airports Across Asia Screening For Nipah Virus After Two Cases Confirmed In W. Bengal; 40-70% Fatality Rate, No Vaccine 2 hatrack 16 hrs ago 12 hrs ago 7 322
America Leads Global, Massive Expansion Of Gas Power Plants Because Of (All Together Now!) AI. USA!! USA!! USA!! 1 hatrack 17 hrs ago 15 hrs ago 1 207
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is Yet Again Under Threat, This Time From Congress 0 douglas9 16 hrs ago 16 hrs ago 9 284
Awwww!!!! Shitstain Backs Away From Pushing EPA To Gut Endangerment Finding - It Would Likely Lose In Court 0 hatrack 16 hrs ago 16 hrs ago 5 267
Wastewater Geysers, Land Cracks & Subsidence Prompt West TX Landowner To Sue 8 Oil Companies For Damages 0 hatrack 17 hrs ago 17 hrs ago 2 206
Conoco Phillips Rig On Its Way To Drill Falls Over, Catches On Fire - The Rig "Left The Road" 0 hatrack 17 hrs ago 17 hrs ago 3 274
Well, Good Luck: OK State Senator Trying To Rein In Pollution Of Groundwater From Fracking Operations 0 hatrack 17 hrs ago 17 hrs ago 5 191
Data centers are facing an image problem. The tech industry is spending millions to rebrand them. 1 douglas9 Yesterday 17 hrs ago 11 241
Environmental Activists Sued To Get UK National Security Assessment; Even Then, It Was Redacted 1 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 3 244
Guardian - What It's Like In Victoria These Days, When The Temperature Finally Dips Below 104F At 8:30 PM 1 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 9 340
Shitstain's EPA: 66 Environmental Rollbacks In One Year: "I Am For Whatever President Trump Is Advocating For" 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 8 344
Jacking Up Prices, Censoring Bookstores - But Worst Part Of Assault On NPS Devastating Loss Of Institutional Knowledge 2 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 17 415
This Storm Is Exactly What You'd Expect In A Warming World; BTW, How Will FEMA Respond (Assuming It Can)? 1 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 10 551
After Millei Cuts Firefighting Funds 81%, Argentina Faces Tough Go Fighting Huge Fires In Monoculure Pine Forests 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 3 356
All-Time Record Highs Across S. Australia, Victoria Approaching 50C (122F); Overnight Low In Adelaide Was 95F 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 8 310
I'm through one of my son's recent publications almost in tears. 7 NNadir Friday Monday 53 1641
The Ocean Already 30% More Acidic Than In Preindustrial Era; Key Planetary Limit For Acidification Was Breached In 2020 0 hatrack Monday Monday 11 278
New Mexico Sues 3 Texas Oil Execs For Offloading Cleanup For 100s Of Abandoned Wells While Pocketing Profits 3 hatrack Monday Monday 15 371
Since There's No Problem That Can't Be Solved W. Marketing, Prepare For Lots Of Shiny, Green Data Center Advertising 1 hatrack Monday Monday 6 308
At Late-January Seasonal Maximum Extent, Arctic Sea Ice Still Well Below All-Time Prior Record Lows 0 hatrack Monday Monday 5 222
Pakistan Turned To China To Address Power Shortages, Now Faces Severe Pollution And Crippling Debt For Coal Plants 0 hatrack Monday Monday 2 253
Poof!! ExxonMobil Creates Whole New Accounting System For GHGs, And Climate Collapse Is YOUR Fault, NOT Theirs!! 1 hatrack Monday Monday 8 384
"Snow Drought" Means Significant Drawdown Likely From Flaming Gorge Dam This Spring In Effort To Prop Up Powell & Mead 3 hatrack Sunday Sunday 7 440
Australia's Winter 2025-25 Heatwave Worst Since 2019-20's Black Summer, Made 5X More Likely By Global Warming 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 6 223
To Breathe In Delhi Means Inhaling (On Average) The Equivalent Of Half A Pack Of Cigarettes Every Day 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 4 304

Environment & Energy Continued...

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A California Climate Expert Is Working to Restore Climate Risk Scores Deleted by Zillow 1 littlemissmartypants Sunday Sunday 7 280
Joshua trees are flowering in the Calif. desert. That's bad news. 2 BlueWaveNeverEnd Sunday Sunday 21 813
"Most Of The Data Centers Do Not Consume Water" - Ladies & Gentlemen, The Governor Of Utah!! 9 hatrack Saturday Saturday 9 570
"Everything Is Worse Since Drax Came Here": "Green" Energy For UK, Pollution & Lung Disease For LA, MS Residents 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 6 358
Nevada Snowpack Quarter Below January Median; Warmest December Ever For Elko, Reno And Las Vegas 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 3 267
Science/AAAS - Muskism, Voughtism, Trumpism - Three Different Approaches To Destroying Science And Government 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 9 279
MIT Modeling In The Wake of CRAP 30 Shows 1.5C By 2030, 1.8C By 2050 And 3C By 2100 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 6 314
Why Earth's melting glaciers matter more than we think - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Saturday Saturday 4 326
Arkansas to become best source of lithium in US through new process - NewsNation 0 TexasTowelie Friday Friday 3 307
Measuring Economic Recovery in Post Covid China by Monitoring Air Pollutants (NO2) 0 NNadir Thursday Thursday 4 241
FDA Used To Screen For 8 Foodborne Pathogens. Now They Screen For 2, W. Inspection Rates Collapsing 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 8 381
"Global Water Bankruptcy" Has Arrived; 2 Billion Live On Sinking Ground; 75% Live In Countries "Water-Insecure" Or Worse 1 hatrack Jan 21 Jan 21 3 344
Bobby Brainworm Sez "Eat More Meat And Dairy!!"; His Guidelines Would Require An Additional 100 Million Acres Of Land 5 hatrack Jan 20 Jan 21 7 417
UK Restaurant Chain Facing Eviction From Enfield Site After Felling 500-Year-Old Oak On Leased Property 1 hatrack Jan 21 Jan 21 22 538
Just 32 National & Private Corporations Are Responsible For 50% Of Human Carbon Dioxide Emissions 0 hatrack Jan 21 Jan 21 11 453
Oil Companies Realize That This President Blocking Wind Farms Could Mean Another President Blocking Refineries 0 hatrack Jan 21 Jan 21 12 471
19 Dead, 135 Square Miles Burn In Central Chile; Similar In Chubut, Argentina, But Fire Response Funding Cut, Because $$ 1 hatrack Jan 20 Jan 21 6 423
As Temperatures Rise, Dengue & Chikunyungya Gain Ground In Dhaka, Home To 37 Million Residents 0 hatrack Jan 20 Jan 20 5 281
Army Corps to look at $1.5B underwater Columbia River power line project 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 20 Jan 20 1 234
Scientists At Rutgers Marine Research Station Film The Destruction Of Their Own Facility By Rising Ocean 4 hatrack Dec 17 Jan 19 12 537
Gates Charity Trust Pledged To Divest From Fossil Fuels In 2019; In 2024, $254 Invested In Chevron, Shell, BP 1 hatrack Jan 19 Jan 19 3 457
Scientists Warm Of "Regime Shift" In Oceans As Warming And Pollution Drive Massive Algae Blooms Not Seen Before 2008 0 hatrack Jan 19 Jan 19 7 389
Japan Continues Slow Restart Of Nuclear Power Generation W. Upgraded Unit In Niigata Prefecture 0 hatrack Jan 19 Jan 19 5 259
WY - 2024 Worst Fire Year Since Huge Yellowstone Fires Of 1988; State GOP: Cut Property Taxes Funding Fire Response 0 hatrack Jan 19 Jan 19 2 311
AK State Legislator Proposes 20 Center/Barrel Tax On State's Oil Production To Cover Costs Of Climate Collapse 0 hatrack Jan 19 Jan 19 3 408
"Patchwork" Of Remediation Efforts After LA Fires Shows Widespread Contamination By Lead, Asbestos, Other Toxins 0 hatrack Jan 19 Jan 19 4 288
If Biofuels Could Be Interesting, This One Would Top My List. 0 NNadir Jan 18 Jan 18 2 568
26 Years After Discovery Of Groundwater Contamination From Oil Drilling, The Cleanup Grinds On In Midland Texas 3 hatrack Jan 18 Jan 18 3 425
"Comprehensive" Failure Of Shitstain's Pledge To Cut Energy Bills In Half Across US: DC Up 23%, IN Up 17%, IL Up 15% 3 hatrack Jan 18 Jan 18 5 324
"Climate Pragmatism" A La Bill Gates Assumes That 3C Won't Be All That Bad; It Will Likely Be Far Worse Than We Imagine 1 hatrack Jan 18 Jan 18 6 364

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Little Things Going Away: What Happened To Recurring National Snow & Ice Data Center Updates & Tools 0 hatrack Jan 18 Jan 18 4 313
W. Last Week's Proposed Changes, The EPA Is Eliminating Its Powers To Regulate Pollution And To Protect Human Health 0 hatrack Jan 18 Jan 18 4 293
New Modeling Of Antarctic Ice Shelf Loss: Imagine 843 Ice Cubes 1 Kilometer Per Side Disappearing Every Year 0 hatrack Jan 18 Jan 18 5 317
Strange How An Economist Won The Nobel Prize For Arguing That We Shouldn't Do "Too Much" To Avert Climate Collapse 0 hatrack Jan 18 Jan 18 4 398
27 Engineered Stone Workers Dead From Silicosis In CA Alone In Six Years, So GOP Preparing To Protect Manufacturers 3 hatrack Jan 17 Jan 17 14 536
Annual Damages From Global Warming To Planet's Oceans +/- $2 Trillion (Fisheries, Reefs, Infrastructure) 0 hatrack Jan 17 Jan 17 7 375
1 Year After The Moss Landing Battery Fire, EPA Says No Problem, Despite WidespreadToxic Metal Deposition 0 hatrack Jan 17 Jan 17 4 413
Rotten. Crooked. Stupid. - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Jan 17 Jan 17 10 568
Rep. AOC Highlights Severe Job Loss After Department of Energy Cancels Billions in Energy Projects - Rep. AOC 8 Rhiannon12866 Jan 14 Jan 16 8 460
Should We Relax Our Server Contempt If Used to Understand Batteries and Solar Cells? 4 NNadir Jan 15 Jan 16 3 419
"Relentless Human-Caused Heat" Continued In 2025 At Or Above 1.5C "Limit"; ESA Projects 1.7C Increase In 2027 2 hatrack Jan 14 Jan 16 8 484
Shitstain Wants To Stop Any And All Coal Plant Shutdowns, Even If They're Falling Apart, Would Cost Billions To Fix 4 hatrack Jan 16 Jan 16 4 424
Authoritarianism Is Climate Policy - Persuading Voters They'll Be Protected When TSHTF (They Won't Be) 0 hatrack Jan 16 Jan 16 6 343
No Way!!! While Average US Residential Electrical Rates Rose 10% 2022-24, Industrial Rates (AI) Fell 3% 2 hatrack Jan 15 Jan 15 19 740
Florida Bill Would Block Any Attempts To Change Land Use/Development Rules That Recognize Reality Of Storms, Rising Seas 8 hatrack Jan 15 Jan 15 8 563
India: 10% of India's 150 elephant corridors now non-existent 0 Beringia Jan 15 Jan 15 4 324
Trump's Climate War Breaks the Law - UNFCCC - the treaty that underpins global climate cooperation - FIVE MINUTE NEWS 1 Rhiannon12866 Jan 15 Jan 15 2 271
Republicans still won't say it: climate change is real - Senate Environment & Public Works Committee 1 Rhiannon12866 Jan 14 Jan 15 3 295
OK, UT Legislatures Working On Immunity For Oil & Gas Companies Against Climate Lawsuits 0 hatrack Jan 14 Jan 14 1 351
After 20 Years, Brazil's Moratorium On Deforestation To Grow Soybeans Is Disintegrating 0 hatrack Jan 14 Jan 14 3 284
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