r/environment 1h ago

China just bolted 50 megawatts of solar panels over an alpine meadow at 11,000 feet on the Tibetan Plateau, and the dark silicon that should have baked the ground like a parking lot froze it for 50 extra days a year instead, seven more weeks of winter under the rows

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autonocion.com
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r/environment 23h ago

Canadian wildfires never caused US skies to turn orange in the past. Here’s what changed

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independent.co.uk
368 Upvotes

r/environment 30m ago

There's a magic formula for saving $5 trillion, adding 1 million jobs a year, slashing 22 billion tons of carbon emissions and saving 278,000 lives, all in the US alone. So naturally, we're not using it.

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bloomberg.com
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r/environment 2h ago

EU loosens carbon market rules to let industry pollute for longer

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politico.eu
45 Upvotes

r/environment 17h ago

Trump exempts 20 more polluting plants from clean air regulation

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thehill.com
1.5k Upvotes

r/environment 20h ago

Volunteer firefighter suspected of starting devastating France forest fire

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bbc.com
43 Upvotes

r/environment 23h ago

Bill McKibben: “We live on a planet where the cheapest way to make power is to point a sheet of glass at the sun.”

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pv-magazine-usa.com
476 Upvotes

r/environment 2h ago

US Gov Report Details 'Robust' Ties Between Climate Crisis and Extreme Weather Events. The report follows on the heels of deadly heatwaves in Europe and the US that were both deemed to be “virtually impossible” without the climate emergency.

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commondreams.org
132 Upvotes

r/environment 23h ago

A controversial new ruling from the Federal Communications Commission leaves no one responsible for regulating light pollution and other ill effects from skyrocketing numbers of satellites

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scientificamerican.com
143 Upvotes

r/environment 3h ago

Out-of-Control Canadian Wildfires Prompt Calls for ‘Nuremberg Trials for Big Oil’

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commondreams.org
841 Upvotes

r/environment 18h ago

After wildfires destroyed 95% of this California tribe's forests, members uncovered 1,200 ancestral sites

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latimes.com
315 Upvotes

r/environment 1h ago

Did you know that ground zero for global warming is in Oil Springs Ontario and they are celebrating the oil industry this weekend while the rest of us are struggling to breathe?

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sarnianewstoday.ca
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r/environment 19h ago

Climate rights group Greenpeace Africa has called for a halt to a proposed oil refinery project by Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote, in Kenya's coastal region, warning of the environmental risks.

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rfi.fr
53 Upvotes