Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

  1. Why Colorado River negotiations stalled and how they could restart

    Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:38:55 -0000

    This article originally appeared on The Conversation. The seven U.S. states that make up the Colorado River basin are struggling to agree on how best …

  2. The effects of the Iran war on environmental and human health, according to an expert

    Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:04:32 -0000

    As the war in Iran enters its fourth week, the costs are adding up. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Doug Weir, with the Conflict and War Observatory, about impacts to human health and the environment. AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: Since the start of the war in Iran three weeks ago, images of destruction have …

  3. Satellite Development Begins For EUMETSAT Polar System – Sterna

    Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:58:26 -0000

    The EPS-Sterna programme will complement EUMETSAT’s existing fleet of geostationary and polar-orbiting satellites and strengthen space-based …

  4. A secret weapon to fight carbon emissions was just discovered: Beavers

    Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:00:00 -0000

    A new study in Switzerland finds that beaver-built wetlands can trap and store large amounts of carbon, offering a low-cost boost for restoration and …

  5. The Heat and the War

    Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:03:21 -0000

    Over the past few days the Southwest has sweltered. A March heat wave is absolutely shattering records — hundreds of the daily sort, dozens of …

  6. The New Metabolic World Order

    Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:02:11 -0000

    Opposing the petrostates will be the Green Entente. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney didn’t come to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, …

  7. Signs of the times: Removing stories of America's past from our national parks

    Sun, 22 Mar 2026 13:31:00 -0000

    Signs educating visitors about the nation's past have been a key element of our national parks and historic sites. But following an executive order …

  8. Can Middle Powers Gel?

    Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:02:38 -0000

    A close reading reveals multiple barriers to such a coalition. Middle powers are having a moment. But that moment has been long arriving. The decline …

  9. Earth's climate more unbalanced than ever, WMO warns

    Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:00:09 -0000

    The world's oceans have broken heat records for nine straight years, glaciers are retreating and extreme weather is killing thousands. The only way …

  10. The Music of Trees: Improvisation, Iteration, and the Science of Immortality

    Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:13:51 -0000

    Hermann Hesse believed that if we could learn to listen to the trees, we would achieve profound perspective on our human lives by grasping the deepest meaning of aliveness. He used listening in the metaphorical sense. But the great existential gift of trees — to us in the metaphors they furnish, …

  11. UN issues new climate warning as El Niño looms

    Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:06:22 -0000

    The Earth's climate is further out of balance than at any time in recorded history, the UN's weather agency has warned. The World Meteorological Organization says that our planet is gaining much more heat energy than it can release, driven by emissions of warming gases such as carbon dioxide. This …

  12. Trump’s energy policy benefits Iran and Russia, not America

    Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:00:00 -0000

    President Trump’s irrational love affair with fossil fuels is doing more than polluting our environment and accelerating climate change. It is …

  13. Adrift Russia tanker risks Mediterranean ecological disaster

    Sun, 22 Mar 2026 11:54:48 -0000

    A Russian oil and gas tanker that was likely targeted by drones is adrift in the Mediterranean with no crew onboard. Experts warn that if the vessel …

  14. World Water Day: Earth’s freshwater reveals new species & faces mounting threats

    Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:48:27 -0000

    Water covers most of our planet, yet less than 3% of it is freshwater and most of it is contained in glaciers, making it not readily usable. …

  15. You can bet on climate disasters. Business is booming.

    Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:00:00 -0000

    Will Iran’s main oil terminal get bombed this month? Will climate activist Greta Thunberg be arrested before July? Will the U.S. get pummeled by a Category 5 hurricane this year? You can place bets on all of those questions through online prediction markets. The emergence of markets related to the …

  16. More Air-Conditioners Crank Up as Heat Wave Wilts Large Part of U.S.

    Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:41:48 -0000

    In recent years, more homes have added air-conditioning, something that may come in handy this week as some areas are expected to see temperatures 40 degrees above normal. San Francisco hit 90 degrees on Friday, the first day of spring. It was even warmer in Livermore and Redwood City, San Rafael …

  17. A hidden threat to maple syrup — and the people who make it

    Sun, 22 Mar 2026 09:00:54 -0000

    Maple syrup has long been the lifeblood of Virginia’s Highland County. This year, a brutal ice storm and recent warmth brought one of the worst syrup seasons in recent memory. HIGHTOWN, Virginia — The woodpecker was the first sign of something strange underway. Ronnie Moyers heard the bird hammering …

  18. In the Fight to Defend the Amazon, This Indigenous Community’s Secret Weapon Is Science

    Sun, 22 Mar 2026 09:00:00 -0000

    In the copper-rich mountains of southeastern Ecuador, Shuar people are combining ancestral knowledge and modern science to protect their forest from …

  19. Why the Great Unraveling Will Be So Hard to Stop

    Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:00:07 -0000

    Global fragmentation appears to be well underway. The astonishing shift in US foreign and economic policy is a primary cause, but the picture is far from simple and implicates many other factors. How to make sense of this teeming disorder? Where will these shifting forces lead the world? For a …

  20. Sea levels around Africa are rising faster than the global average: What's behind this alarming trend

    Sun, 22 Mar 2026 14:30:03 -0000

    For over three decades, satellites orbiting Earth have measured the height of the ocean surface with remarkable precision. These measurements are …

  21. Earth’s ‘Gateway to Hell’ keeps getting bigger

    Sat, 21 Mar 2026 19:33:40 -0000

    In a remote area of the Siberian tundra, there’s a place that locals call “The Gateway to Hell.” In the summer, its peaceful waterfall sounds are interrupted by the booms and crashes of falling earth. The indigenous Yakut people are rightfully wary of the massive, slowly collapsing crater. While …

  22. How Beavers Are Preventing Wildfires and Fighting Drought in North America

    Sun, 22 Mar 2026 14:01:58 -0000

    Imagine a creature that works tirelessly, shaping the landscape in ways that protect entire ecosystems. Enter the beaver, nature’s industrious …

  23. Climate change is already happening in Colorado. Here are 10 signs we can see right now.

    Sun, 22 Mar 2026 10:15:00 -0000

    Illustration by Kevin Jeffers/The Colorado SunHere is just a sampling of things happening right now in Colorado that we can’t attribute solely to …

  24. Groundbreaking study finds a natural way to fight climate change

    Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:00:32 -0000

    This first-of-its-kind study found beavers have a surprisingly efficient method of safely storing carbon dioxide. Forget groundhogs and their weather predictions. Now, fellow critters — beavers — are actually doing their part to combat climate change, one dam at a time, a new study says. The new …

  25. As Northwest Flooding Worsens, Conflicting Interests Stymie Solutions

    Sun, 22 Mar 2026 09:00:16 -0000

    Washington’s floods in December broke records set just four years before, but as farmers, tribes, fishermen and governments search for solutions, a quick fix, dredging, seems to stand in the way. Just over a week after Saul Magallon’s wife gave birth to their first child late last year, a flood …

  26. The West's record-shattering heat wave isn't over as heat dome shifts into the Plains

    Sun, 22 Mar 2026 10:17:05 -0000

    Temperatures that are 20 to 40 degrees above average for this time of year will be common from the Southwest into the Great Plains. An oppressive heat wave across much of the western United States had cities and their residents sweltering through conditions this weekend that are normally more common …

  27. Susan Collins and Climate Change: ‘The Silence is Deafening’

    Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:55:00 -0000

    Seeking a sixth term, the Maine senator’s passivity in the face of executive branch power grabs undermines her greatest electoral strength, as much …

  28. Stubb warns of US-Europe divide in interview with The Telegraph

    Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:46:04 -0000

    Finland’s president Alexander Stubb said relations between Europe and the United States have shifted, warning of a widening divide while urging …

  29. Energy crises must accelerate the fight against climate change

    Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:55:44 -0000

    As the US-Israeli war against Iran enters its third week, hopes for a short, contained crisis without major consequences for the global energy market …