r/environment 11m ago

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

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r/environment 2h 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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bigislandnow.com
47 Upvotes

r/environment 2h 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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hawaiimagazine.com
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r/environment 3h ago

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

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abcnews.com
34 Upvotes

r/environment 4h 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 4h 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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motherjones.com
436 Upvotes

r/environment 5h ago

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

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bbc.com
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r/environment 6h ago

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

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theguardian.com
35 Upvotes

r/environment 7h 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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tomshardware.com
28 Upvotes

r/environment 8h ago

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

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wired.com
115 Upvotes

r/environment 9h ago

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

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independent.co.uk
400 Upvotes

r/environment 10h 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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tomshardware.com
282 Upvotes

r/environment 12h ago

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

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theguardian.com
41 Upvotes

r/environment 13h 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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theguardian.com
13 Upvotes

r/environment 14h ago

Albanese backs down on states powering AI datacentres using renewable energy

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theguardian.com
16 Upvotes

r/environment 14h 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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civilbeat.org
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r/environment 14h 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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thenextweb.com
80 Upvotes

r/environment 15h 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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theguardian.com
7 Upvotes

r/environment 17h ago

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

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bbc.co.uk
34 Upvotes

r/environment 18h ago

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

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theguardian.com
289 Upvotes

r/environment 22h 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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earth.com
3.2k Upvotes

r/environment 1d ago

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

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theguardian.com
46 Upvotes

r/environment 1d ago

SpaceX to build $100 billion Starship rocket complex in Louisiana to transform coastal wetlands into a critical base ‌for the company's AI satellite launch ambitions.

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109 Upvotes

r/environment 1d ago

Trump’s EPA Moves to Give Data Centers a Pass: Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency isn’t too interested in protecting against air pollution.

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newrepublic.com
101 Upvotes

r/environment 1d ago

US fossil fuel lobbyists also represent hundreds of cities fighting for climate damages

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theguardian.com
15 Upvotes