r/environment2 Feb 16 '25

We need your help!

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We need your help! We're trying to create and popularize an entire set of "alternative" sub-reddits.

These sub-reddits all end in a "2". So just take the name of a huge, multi-million-user "main" sub-reddit and add a "2" to the name -- e.g. /r/Politics2, /r/WorldPolitics2, /r/News2, /r/WTF2 and so on.

These sub-reddits are smaller and have fewer rules than the huge mega-million-user large sub-reddits. Our idea is to create a set of friendlier sub-reddits with an emphasis on civility and not personal insults and ad hominem attacks.

But we need your help!

We need your time, your posts, your comments and we need you to mention our alternative sub-reddits in other places and to tell others. (Basic "publicity.")

  • Please post submissions!

  • Post comments and reply to others.

  • Help us popularize these alternatives to the heavily censored and sometimes too heavily trafficked mainstream subs by telling others of our existence.

Together we can develop another option inside of reddit.

Want to become a moderator? Or help run your own "2" alternative sub? There are possibilities for that too.


r/environment2 12h ago

Republicans Are Trying to Give Big Oil Immunity for Causing Climate Chaos | A new report further links fossil fuel emissions to extreme weather events. States are trying to make polluters pay.

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r/environment2 9h ago

Rising Emissions, Depleting Water and Vanishing Land—UN Scientists: AI Is Threatening Natural Resources for Billions. By 2030, AI's water use will match the needs of 1.3 billion people while its power use triples that of 650 million, UN University investigation warns

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r/environment2 1d ago

After More Than 60 Years Presumed Dead, A Coral Reef Is Alive and Thriving Off The Coast Of Benin | Could this be the first of a whole network of overlooked deep-water reefs off the West African coast?

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r/environment2 10h ago

U.S. Is Backing Anaerobic Digesters. Scientists and Advocates Say Stronger Guardrails Are Needed.

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There are no federal methane standards for manure digesters, leaving operators to rely on voluntary guidance.


r/environment2 1d ago

Earth's Oceans Are Rapidly Losing Oxygen. It Could Destabilize the Planet | Human activity is draining oxygen from marine waters, and it's past time to take this crisis seriously.

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r/environment2 1d ago

Rising seas magnify the dangers of coastal Georgia’s industrial past

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r/environment2 2d ago

Nearly 1,000 Wildfires in Canada Continue to Burn as Trump & Carney Double Down on Fossil Fuels | Carney is selling this snake oil solution of carbon capture and storage to go alongside the oil and gas pipeline. But he’s offering a tax credit for oil companies...

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r/environment2 2d ago

Scientists Studying Earth's Flowering Plants Issue a Stark Warning to Humanity | In a recent paper published in Science, an international team of biologists warns that we risk losing more than a fifth of the evolutionary history of flowering plants, as a result of ever-increasing human pressures .

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r/environment2 2d ago

Erin Brockovich Launches Crowdsourced Map Tracking Secretive AI Data Center Expansion Across US Communities

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r/environment2 3d ago

Fears are widespread about data centre impacts on Canada’s water, environment: poll

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I a developed a neurological condition. I worked in CFB Cold Lake and CFB Bagotville. I have lived in base, off base. I remember my daughter being in the bathtub, playing with her toys-when I noticed the water turning from lightly tinned yellow to dark tea colour. I removed her. We packed up and headed to a friend house off base.

How many environmental infractions does DND have vs neighbouring privately owned companies, googling is a good thing.


r/environment2 2d ago

Germany just blew up two massive nuclear cooling towers to make way for something incredible - a 700 MWh battery storage facility! Here's why this matters.

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r/environment2 3d ago

Meta AI Data Center Linked To Rare Bacteria In City’s Water System

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r/environment2 3d ago

Battery additions alone vastly outpace new nuclear (189.5 GWh storage vs ~1 GW nuclear in 2025),

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r/environment2 4d ago

Climate Crisis-Denying Trump Threatens Canada With New Tariffs Over Wildfire Smoke | “When wildfires hit America, Canada sends firefighters,” said one journalist. “When wildfires hit Canada, America sends tariffs.”

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r/environment2 4d ago

U.S. Underestimates Peril if Los Alamos Were to Leak Plutonium, Study Says

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r/environment2 3d ago

Climate-Impacted Communities Across Asia Are Taking Their Fight To Court

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NEW: Worsening climate impacts, corporate greenwashing, and slow government action have driven communities across Asia to the courts.

“That’s what I hope I can do, even though I’m just an ordinary person,” said Trixy Elle, a fish vendor in the Philippines and a litigant. “If one day my grandchildren ask me what I did for nature, at least I have an answer: I fought for your future.”

This story is produced by The Xylom and copublished by Grist.


r/environment2 4d ago

US-Israeli Bombing Has Harmed Iran’s Wildlife, Farms, and Water Supply | Toxic pollution from the war on Iran will continue to devastate the country’s environment for years to come.

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r/environment2 5d ago

Map of every Clean Water Act (NPDES) discharge violation in the US

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r/environment2 6d ago

Earthjustice Sues to Block Trump’s Move to Gut Endangered Species Act | The Interior and Commerce departments announced a rule change last week that would reinterpret the word “harm” in the language of the law to no longer include destruction of habitat where endangered species live.

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r/environment2 4d ago

Ex-NMP Anthea Ong questions whether all housing alternatives were explored before clearing Singapore forests

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r/environment2 6d ago

Scientists Finally Solved the Mystery of Earth’s ‘Great Dying.’ It’s Bad News for Our Future | The greatest mass extinction of all time was triggered by climatic conditions that are beginning to reappear today, scientists warn.

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r/environment2 6d ago

New proposal may limit public voice in Texas pollution permit decisions.

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r/environment2 6d ago

Wildfire smoke will worsen in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic through Friday | More than 115 million people could be exposed to unhealthy air quality. See the forecast for 20 cities.

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r/environment2 6d ago

Even remote Pacific fish are full of microplastics. A large analysis of fish caught around Fiji, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu found that roughly one in three contained microplastics. Reef and bottom-dwelling fish were most affected, linking exposure to where fish live and how they feed.

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