r/environment • u/Top_Awareness_6996 • 16h ago

Newly discovered internal memos reveal that Big Oil and the plastics industry have "been aware of and concerned about the potential for microplastic contamination in the human body" for decades.

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r/environment • u/FreeHugs23 • 23h ago

Global Warming Has Nearly Doubled in Speed Since 2010, With Earth’s Average Temperature Rising at an Accelerated Rate Driven Primarily by Human-Caused Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Major Climate Study Finds

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957 Upvotes
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r/environment • u/DukeOfGeek • 16h ago

'It's offensively cheap': How solar power is quietly becoming bigger than nuclear

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322 Upvotes
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r/environment • u/foodie_2598 • 10h ago

Judge continues to block Trump admin. from cutting down trees at D.C. golf course

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187 Upvotes
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r/environment • u/stankmanly • 22h ago

UN sends warning to Chevron after plumes of methane found over Gorgon project

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r/environment • u/ihavetwinsx2 • 20h ago

‘Cheap water is over’: A $500 bill shows a Southwest suburb’s dilemma

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90 Upvotes
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r/environment • u/mhicreachtain • 5h ago

Super-rich get ‘double dividend’ from causes and costs of climate crisis, report finds

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r/environment • u/HazardousWeather • 18h ago

‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre | Environment

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r/environment • u/FreeHugs23 • 43m ago

‘A Crime of Extreme Inequality’: Richest 0.1% Generate More Carbon Pollution Than Half of Humanity | “The ultra-rich are setting the planet on fire and then charging the rest of us for the extinguishers.”

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r/environment • u/npr • 12h ago

Loggers say Roadless Rule repeal won't solve their biggest challenges

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56 Upvotes
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r/environment • u/lebron7 • 12h ago

Endangered turtles and ‘exceptional’ coral at risk from Woodside’s gas drilling in WA, watchdog says

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r/environment • u/Fit-Bee5561 • 2h ago

This Oil Company Is Linked to 1,000 Pollution Incidents and Other Violations. Oklahoma Never Punished It.

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54 Upvotes
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r/environment • u/sfgate • 15h ago

El Niño is bringing devil rays, hammerhead sharks and other unusual marine life to California

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51 Upvotes
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r/environment • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 22h ago

In northeastern North America, alpine zones are turning green. Using satellite data, scientists have detected where once-stable alpine ecosystems are transforming into greener, shrubbier places.

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r/environment • u/John3262005 • 8h ago

Trump to Ease Oil Well Methane Curbs in Bid to Lower Costs

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r/environment • u/OrneryCupcake9481 • 18h ago

Lawsuit Targets Utah Oil Highway Threatening World-Renowned Nine Mile Canyon – 10.6.26

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r/environment • u/GeographicalMagazine • 1h ago

UN urges India to suspend controversial mega-project on Great Nicobar Island

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r/environment • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 20h ago

RSPB Minsmere will never be the same after wildfire, says charity. "It'll be 20 years or more before those parts of the reserve start to look like they used to."

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r/environment • u/hernannadal • 16h ago

The dark side of Vaca Muerta: how fracking is polluting Argentina

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r/environment • u/mhicreachtain • 5h ago

Burnham in danger of sleepwalking into climate disaster, say campaigners

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r/environment • u/mhicreachtain • 5h ago

Cabinet split emerges over controversial Rosebank oilfield decision

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r/environment • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 2h ago

Japan’s largest marine DNA study detects 126 fish species further north than previously recorded. Nationwide mapping of environmental DNA reveals Japan's fish distributions in unprecedented detail, offering new insights into potential northward shifts and the challenges they could bring.

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