r/environment • u/simon_ritchie2000 • 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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r/environment • u/UpthefuckingTics • 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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r/environment • u/Maxcactus • 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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r/environment • u/sr_local • 2h ago

EU loosens carbon market rules to let industry pollute for longer

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r/environment • u/Wagamaga • 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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r/environment • u/FreeHugs23 • 3h ago

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

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r/environment • u/phillygirllovesbagel • 17h ago

Trump exempts 20 more polluting plants from clean air regulation

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r/environment • u/losangelestimes • 18h ago

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

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r/environment • u/DoremusJessup • 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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r/environment • u/adriano10 • 20h ago

Volunteer firefighter suspected of starting devastating France forest fire

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r/environment • u/ObtainSustainability • 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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r/environment • u/theindependentonline • 23h ago

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

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r/environment • u/scientificamerican • 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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r/environment • u/ufexplore • 1d ago

From fields to space farming, new tool detects crop drought stress before it's visible

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r/environment • u/Aromatic-Search-2942 • 1d ago

Elon Musk spent estimated $1 billion on an energy company to power xAI, filings reveal — APR Energy owns a fleet of trailer-mounted gas and diesel turbines capable of generating more than 1 gigawatt

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r/environment • u/FreeHugs23 • 1d ago

Indigenous and Climate Campaigners Decry ‘Deep Betrayal’ as Michigan Issues Key Enbridge Line 5 Permits

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r/environment • u/gwmiles • 1d ago

Wildfire smoke gives Detroit most polluted air in world, company says

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r/environment • u/Naurgul • 1d ago

What living in one of the world's hottest towns feels like (Banda, a town in northern India)

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r/environment • u/regedit2023 • 1d ago

Defossilize our chemical world: Achieving net zero means eliminating fossil fuels, not carbon — the chemical element has a crucial part to play in powering the modern world - Nature.com

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r/environment • u/cadencotarded • 1d ago

Revealed: how Europe’s most powerful farming lobby killed EU’s pesticide law | European Union

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r/environment • u/zsreport • 1d ago

Washington tribes sue to save endangered species habitats nationwide

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r/environment • u/GeographicalMagazine • 1d ago

Storks eating 'junk food' face health risks, study finds

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r/environment • u/Maxcactus • 1d ago

Canadian wildfire smoke returns to NYC, Tri-State: Here we go again.

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r/environment • u/TheoryResident1805 • 1d ago

Impact of Global Warming: Czechia's Love for White Wine Could Clash With Climate Change as Warmer Weather Favors Red Grapes

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r/environment • u/sleepiestOracle • 1d ago

Colorado producers look to cut losses and stay afloat, in extreme drought

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