r/environment • u/Top_Awareness_6996 • 7h 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 • 15h 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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r/environment • u/DukeOfGeek • 8h ago

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

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189 Upvotes
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r/environment • u/stankmanly • 13h ago

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

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r/environment • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 18h 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/ihavetwinsx2 • 12h ago

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

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r/environment • u/HazardousWeather • 10h ago

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

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r/environment • u/foodie_2598 • 1h ago

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

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r/environment • u/sfgate • 6h ago

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

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r/environment • u/npr • 4h ago

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

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38 Upvotes
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r/environment • u/lebron7 • 4h ago

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

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r/environment • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 14h 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/OrneryCupcake9481 • 9h ago

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

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r/environment • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 12h 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 • 17h 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/hernannadal • 8h ago

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

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r/environment • u/John3262005 • 29m ago

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

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