r/environment • u/Top_Awareness_6996 • 3h 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 • 10h 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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841 Upvotes
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r/environment • u/DukeOfGeek • 4h ago

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

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89 Upvotes
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r/environment • u/stankmanly • 9h ago

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

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r/environment • u/ihavetwinsx2 • 8h ago

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

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r/environment • u/HazardousWeather • 6h ago

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

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r/environment • u/sfgate • 2h ago

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

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r/environment • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 14h ago

‘They paved paradise’: fighting back over the loss of green spaces in Cameroon’s capital. Concrete sprawl in Yaoundé has devastated the city’s trees and parks, so volunteers are stepping up, shrub by shrub.

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r/environment • u/lebron7 • 25m ago

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

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r/environment • u/OrneryCupcake9481 • 5h ago

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

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r/environment • u/hernannadal • 4h ago

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

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8 Upvotes
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r/environment • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 10h 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/The_Weekend_Baker • 8h 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/Naurgul • 13h ago

How Europe's emptying countryside is fuelling a new wildfire crisis • In the 1950s the countryside was a mosaic of crop fields and pastures, intersected by rural roads. If a fire ignited, the fragmented landscape would limit its spread

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r/environment • u/npr • 5m ago

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

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r/environment • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 1d ago

New Trump rule allows hunters to bait bears in Alaska with doughnuts, bacon and more. Critics decry Trump administration rule that lets hunters lure bears with human foods on federal lands in Alaska.

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1.0k Upvotes
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r/environment • u/zsreport • 1d ago

Geopolitical Tension and Funding Cuts Are Crushing Arctic Wildlife Research

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140 Upvotes
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r/environment • u/Potential_Being_7226 • 1d ago

Amid Iowa’s Water Crisis, Factory Farms Get a Pass on Environmental Permitting

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r/environment • u/mhicreachtain • 1d ago

Burnham to reveal plans for AI unit to tackle wildfires after scorching summer

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18 Upvotes
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r/environment • u/No-Pride-8979 • 1d ago

Ocean deoxygenation has increased by 15% in coastal regions since 1960, driven by warmer waters and runoff—here is how it directly threatens global marine ecosystems and food security.

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r/environment • u/TheNational_News • 1d ago

The fight to save marine life: how specialists are tackling the oil spill off the UAE coast

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45 Upvotes
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r/environment • u/FreeHugs23 • 2d ago

As the Colorado River Basin Faces a Growing Water Crisis, Scientists Warn That Its Backup Groundwater Supplies Are Also Being Depleted, Raising Concerns About Long-Term Water Security for Millions of People Across the American West

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320 Upvotes
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r/environment • u/Potential_Being_7226 • 2d ago

"Really livid" - Colorado community fights plan to spray weed killer from drones

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407 Upvotes
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r/environment • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 2d ago

Ahead of landmark climate trial in Canada, Indigenous youth eye impacts in the North. Canada’s North, especially the Yukon, is warming faster than the rest of the country and most of the world.

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60 Upvotes
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r/environment • u/Grevillea_banksii • 2d ago

How Trump Gave the Worst Polluters a Free Pass

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264 Upvotes
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