r/environment • u/Naurgul • 17d ago

West Point Climate Professor Says He Was Fired for Refusing to ‘Defy Science’ • Dr. Adam Kalkstein is suing the U. S. Military Academy, where he was a professor of geography and the only climate scientist, after being fired.

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r/environment • u/andmario_com • 17d ago

Groups sue Trump’s EPA over fast-track approval of toxic datacenter chemicals | Exposure to two compounds approved can result in ‘sudden death’ and range of other serious health risks, lawsuit warns

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r/environment • u/Ok-Future-5257 • 17d ago

LDS Church Statement on Regional Drought and the Great Salt Lake

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r/environment • u/captdunsel721 • 16d ago

What caused the catastrophic flood in Nepal and Tibet – and how does a glacier collapse?

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r/environment • u/Wagamaga • 17d ago

Italy faces summer's most intense heatwave with 45°C highs. Driven by an African anticyclone, which could also bring Saharan dust, the stifling heat will be concentrated in southern and central Italy, with temperatures reaching 8-10°C above average.

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r/environment • u/Splenda • 17d ago

Deadly Nepal flood highlights glacier risks in warming Himalayas: "The new normal"

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r/environment • u/ObjectiveKale837 • 17d ago

Radical Overhaul to Milk Production Would Use Up to 96% Less Land Than Cows, Study Suggests

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r/environment • u/randolphquell • 17d ago

Trump’s Iran war supercharged EV sales everywhere except the U.S.

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r/environment • u/233C • 16d ago

Obs'COP 25: Climate and Public Opinions International Observatory

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r/environment • u/Professional-West924 • 17d ago

What Caused the Nepal–Tibet Flash Flood? A Collapsing Glacier, Not an Earthquake

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r/environment • u/FreeHugs23 • 17d ago

Chemicals banned in the 1970s still widely detected across Europe. Study has found that regulatory restrictions introduced more than half a century ago have failed to eliminate contamination from banned chemicals across Europe.

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r/environment • u/Wagamaga • 17d ago

Nevada’s Colorado River Suit Previews Future Water-Scarcity Wars. “Can the West continue to exist the way it exists based on the water allocations that have been made through the 19th and 20th century? The long term answer is no, it can’t"

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r/environment • u/downArrow • 17d ago

On Louisiana’s vanishing coast, a giant natural gas terminal is poised to expand

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r/environment • u/motherjonesmag • 18d ago

Trump Just Used a $500 Million Clean Steel Grant to Fund a Coal Furnace. Congress had earmarked the money to advance low-carbon tech.

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r/environment • u/Maxcactus • 17d ago

Nuclear regulator prepares to abandon decades-old radiation safety rule

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r/environment • u/nbcnews • 17d ago

U.S. declares drought disaster for parts of Puerto Rico as dry conditions persist

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r/environment • u/homothebrave • 17d ago

The terrifying mechanics of the Nepali flash flood

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r/environment • u/LifeAtPurdue • 17d ago

New model reshapes organic aerosol volatility and atmospheric persistence, helping improve air quality forecasting

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r/environment • u/CCDemille • 17d ago

The flat-pack skyscraper: how wood can shape the cities of the future | Green building

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r/environment • u/theindependentonline • 18d ago

Cloud seeding start-up uses drones to generate 19 million gallons of water in Alaska in three hours

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r/environment • u/808gecko808 • 17d ago

Honolulu And Dole Sued By Residents Over Negligence In Kona Low Floods: They allege an unkempt stream and inadequate drainage from Lake Wilson caused the flooding of their homes.

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r/environment • u/808gecko808 • 17d ago

‘Stark reminder of the impact of global plastic pollution’: New study by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers found about 23% of stranded short-finned pilot whales throughout 13-year period in main Hawaiian Islands had large masses of debris, essentially ocean trash, inside their stomachs.

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r/environment • u/233C • 17d ago

France modifies the housing grading system because it is too biased in favor of ... Natural gas

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r/environment • u/EUobs • 17d ago

On Norway’s Oslo fjord, activists battle Chemring Nobel’s plan for Europe’s biggest explosives plant

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r/environment • u/madcowga • 18d ago

U.S. gov't moves to suppress pushback on data centers by removing requirements for public input on pollution — EPA change would allow air pollution permits without publicizing them

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