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Averages 20 posts/day, top 10% activity. Most active Wednesdays around 10 AM UTC. Mostly link posts (100%).

Posts / Day Average posts per day this month. Arrow is change vs the prior calendar month.
20 4%
Avg Upvotes Mean net upvotes per post this month (upvotes minus downvotes). Arrow is change vs the prior month.
198 0%
Avg Comments Mean number of comments per post this month. Arrow is change vs the prior month when that month’s data is available.
7 13%
Activity Rank #7,562 by posts/day among 92,652 tracked SFW subreddits as of Jul 2026 (Top 10%). Arrow is spots gained or lost vs the prior month.
#7,562 443
Top 10%
Posts w/ Links The percentage of posts that link off-site. This counts true link posts plus text posts with a URL in the body. Image and video posts are not counted.
100%
Low-Reply Rate Share of posts with 0 or 1 comment. A single comment is often an automated mod reply rather than real community discussion.
54%

r/environment Traffic & Engagement

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Posts/Day Avg Upvotes Mean net upvotes per post in this bucket.

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Peak Day Sunday

Upvote Distribution

How upvoted posts perform Only posts with 2+ upvotes. The bands below show how those posts are spread by upvote count.

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6%
Posts that get upvoted Share of posts that received at least one upvote (2+ net upvotes). Most posts at 1 upvote are excluded. 82%
Median upvoted post Median upvotes among posts that received upvotes. Differs from Avg Upvotes in the snapshot, which includes every post. 68
Top post Highest upvote count on a single post this month. 2.8K

r/environment Most Active Times

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r/environment Flair Performance

Upvotes and volume by flair

This subreddit doesn't use post flairs.

No flaired posts were found in this month's data.

Post Type Breakdown

Share by text, image, or link

100%link posts

r/environment Trending Keywords

Ranked by how often they appear

KeywordMentions ▼UpvotesComments
climate
66 (10.6%)
1296
trump
55 (8.8%)
55417
water
44 (7.0%)
31614
data
43 (6.9%)
3119
heat
38 (6.1%)
35316
species
30 (4.8%)
3647
wildfires
27 (4.3%)
2036
drought
25 (4.0%)
592
power
25 (4.0%)
30913
wildfire
24 (3.9%)
496

r/environment Mentioned Domains

Most linked sites

Domain Links Upvotes
theguardian.com71110
commondreams.org18742
nytimes.com17389
apnews.com15167
inews.co.uk1238
youtu.be121
geographical.co.uk12131
reuters.com1224
youtube.com111
c.org111

r/environment Top Posts

Highest-performing posts

Arizona raised solar panels on stilts over its crops so one acre could grow food and make power at once — then researchers noticed a third job nobody put in the brochure: skin under the panels runs 21 degrees cooler, in a country where crop workers are 20 times more likely to die of heat

2.8K upvotes 88 comments link Jul 7

The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It’s Almost Incomprehensible

2.5K upvotes 72 comments link Jul 10

Trump Approves Toxic Cancer-Linked Forever Chemical Pesticides On Major Food Crops Never Before Used In America

2.5K upvotes 87 comments link Jul 1

Out-of-Control Canadian Wildfires Prompt Calls for ‘Nuremberg Trials for Big Oil’

2.4K upvotes 74 comments link Jul 17

Researchers declare catastrophic mortality event as 145 gray whales found dead on West Coast

2.3K upvotes 78 comments link Jul 9

The U.S. dumped 500,000 tons of oyster shells back into the ocean in 2007. Nearly two decades later, they have created a thriving habitat for thousands of marine species

2.1K upvotes 38 comments link Jul 27

Trump Guts Two National Monuments ‘At the Behest of Polluting Corporations Who Seek to Ravage Them’

2.1K upvotes 35 comments link Jul 14

AI companies are now destroying warehouses full of rare books

1.9K upvotes 81 comments link Jul 29

Trump administration admits it canceled clean-energy grants in states that voted for Kamala Harris

1.9K upvotes 30 comments link Jul 25

American and South Korean scientists just fed water bottles, shopping bags and yogurt tubs into a single reactor without sorting them first, drawing off hydrogen more than 90% pure while most of the plastic's carbon came out as solid rock

1.9K upvotes 44 comments link Jul 26

r/environment Audience Overlap

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r/environment FAQ

What's the best time to post on r/environment?

Based on posting volume, r/environment is most active on Wednesdays around 10 AM UTC. That window has the most community activity, but busier hours also mean more competition for attention.

How active is r/environment?

r/environment averages 20 posts per day and ranks in the top 10% for activity among tracked SFW subreddits.

How many upvotes do posts on r/environment get?

Posts on r/environment average about 198 upvotes this month (net score per post).

What kind of posts does r/environment get most?

On r/environment, most posts are link posts (100%)