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r/environment

Current news, information and issues related to the environment. Founded 2008 · 1.6M members · links only

1.6M members. The best post we have captured here reached 56K upvotes, which works out to 36 per 1,000 members.

36peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.6Mmembers
56Kbest post
6.6Kmost comments
206posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

97%
Link 97% Video 2% Text 1%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Climate activist dies after setting himself on fire outside US Supreme Court on Earth Day

↑ 56K 💬 4.6K link 2022

NYC wants to take 25% of its street space away from cars in favor of a walkable/bikeable city

↑ 48.9K 💬 1.7K link 2022

Bill Gates thinks the 1% should foot the bill for renewable energy, and he's offering the first $2B.

↑ 48.7K 💬 1.5K link 2017

Supreme Court says EPA does not have authority to set climate standards for power plants

↑ 44.4K 💬 6.4K link 2022

'Holy Crap This Is Insane': Citing Coronavirus Pandemic, EPA Indefinitely Suspends Environmental Rules - "The EPA uses this global pandemic to create…

↑ 38.5K 💬 1.2K link 2020

75% of people want single-use plastics banned, global survey finds

↑ 36.1K 💬 1.2K link 2022

‘Disturbing’: weedkiller ingredient tied to cancer found in 80% of US urine samples

↑ 35.6K 💬 2.6K link 2022

California just shy of 100% powered by renewables for first time

↑ 35K 💬 2.2K link 2022

Bernie Sanders Wants to Defund U.S. Military: Spend $1.5 Trillion on Climate Change. “Instead of spending $1.5 trillion on weapons to kill one other,…

↑ 34.8K 💬 1.7K link 2019

Experts eviscerate Joe Rogan’s ‘wackadoo’ and ‘deadly’ interview with Jordan Peterson on climate crisis

↑ 33.9K 💬 6.6K link 2022

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/environment, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/environment?
r/environment describes itself this way: Current news, information and issues related to the environment. It was founded in 2008 and has 1.6M members.
How many members does r/environment have?
r/environment has about 1.6M members. ViralHunt has tracked 206 of its posts; the biggest reached 56K upvotes, which is 36 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/environment?
"Climate activist dies after setting himself on fire outside US Supreme Court on Earth Day" reached 56K upvotes and 4.6K comments in 2022, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/environment.
What subreddits are similar to r/environment?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/alberta, r/goodnews, r/AnarchyChess, r/minnesota, r/Amazing.
What kind of posts do best on r/environment?
Of the posts we hold, 97% are link posts and 2% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/environment?
Across 206 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 14:00 UTC (20.1K avg upvotes), Friday at 11:00 UTC (19.5K avg upvotes), Saturday at 11:00 UTC (16.8K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/environment?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/environment has 22.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/environment, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.