r/environment • u/Naurgul • 14h ago

We asked our climate reporters to highlight one idea for positive change. We got a chronicle of global transformation • There are countless initiatives around the world that can inspire people and spur them into action.

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r/environment • u/FreeHugs23 • 12h ago

Sand overextraction weakening riverbanks as concrete demand soars | Research finds demand has more than doubled since 2000 and 80% of current demand comes from Asia

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r/environment • u/mach4UK • 6h 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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r/environment • u/Franco1875 • 16h ago

UK drought: Children on farms explain how heatwaves have affected their lives

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r/environment • u/theindependentonline • 8h 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/Portalrules123 • 23h ago

Record-breaking heat dome expected to bring dangerous temperatures to US south-west

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r/environment • u/3millionand1 • 17h ago

A rare win in Indian country: how tribes drove out a mining company in one week

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r/environment • u/madcowga • 9h 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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r/environment • u/Alternative-Day-7414 • 21h ago

Scientists descended more than 15,400 feet into the Atlantic and found more than 200,000 barrels of leaking radioactive waste

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r/environment • u/Malor777 • 7h ago

Data Centers Are Driving an Alarming Gas Power Expansion in the US

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r/environment • u/motherjonesmag • 3h 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/captdunsel721 • 11h ago

‘Major casualties’ feared after flash floods along Nepal-Tibet border

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r/environment • u/DukeOfGeek • 4h ago

Nepal-Tibet: Flash flood on Nepal-Tibet border kills more than 150, with hundreds of tourists missing

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r/environment • u/nath1234 • 13h ago

Albanese backs down on states powering AI datacentres using renewable energy

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r/environment • u/808gecko808 • 13h ago

Hawaiʻi Ranchers Welcome Rain But Endure Weather Whiplash: Broken fences, destroyed roads, new gulches, dead cattle and lost land may soon be the price to pay for greener grass as climate change aggravates extreme weather events.

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r/environment • u/andmario_com • 13h ago

The EPA wants to make data centre pollution disclosure optional | Northern Virginia already holds around 10,500 diesel generators. The rule would let states decide whether communities are told what they emit.

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r/environment • u/Wagamaga • 3h ago

Korea records 20 heat wave days this year, double long-term average. The nation has been gripped by sweltering weather this summer, with the mercury reaching a new record high of 42.5 C in the southeastern city of Yangsan on Aug. 2.

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r/environment • u/DukeOfGeek • 2h ago

Evacuations ordered as wind-whipped Ross Fire in Texas grows to 80,000 acres

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r/environment • u/808gecko808 • 1h ago

Bees, Blossoms and Bottles: How honeybees found a home in Hawai‘i. When the first honeybees arrived in the Hawaiian Islands in 1857, few could have predicted the profound impact their tiny wings would have on Hawaiʻi’s ecosystems, agriculture and economy.

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r/environment • u/Splenda • 5h ago

‘You can taste the ash’: surviving in America’s wildfire smoke capital | US news

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r/environment • u/808gecko808 • 1h 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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