Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. Thousands of Handwritten Records Recovered From Archives Reveal The True Scale of Warming in The Congo

   Sat, 17 Oct 2026 21:00:00 -0000

   For wealthy and politically stable nations, the task of maintaining and digitizing climate records is a high-tech enterprise. But this has not been …

2. You Know That Terrifying Global Warning Threshold They’ve Been Worried About for a Decade? Climate Change Is Speeding Up So Much That Now We’re Due to Cross It In Just Over a Year

   Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:48:00 -0000

   It's "nearly a decade earlier than previous estimates." In December 2015, 195 countries at the UN Climate Change Conference signed the Paris …

3. JD Vance’s Biggest Problem

   Sat, 17 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

   Republican voters want Donald Trump. The vice president’s attempts at mimicking him always fail. What do you do when a stranger says “I love you”? …

4. Hochul’s GOP rival turns energy cost warnings against her

   Sat, 17 Oct 2026 18:00:00 -0000

   New York Republicans including gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman are betting that voters will blame Albany Democrats — and Gov. Kathy Hochul — for rising utility bills. ALBANY, New York — Gov. Kathy Hochul battled members of her own party and environmental groups to weaken the state’s landmark …

5. How a cruise ship navigates Greenland's icebergs and extreme Arctic conditions

   Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:27:02 -0000

   We went aboard a cruise ship navigating some of the world’s most dangerous waters. In the Arctic, drifting icebergs, sea ice, sudden storms and fierce winds make sailing unpredictable. Yet every year, around 100,000 cruise passengers travel to Greenland to explore its remote coastline and experience one of the world’s last great wildernesses.

6. El Niño winter forecast: See a map that shows which U.S. regions will get the most snow and rain

   Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:35:28 -0000

   The latest outlook from NOAA illustrates how the climate phenomenon will shift weather patterns in unexpected ways for much of the country. This year’s Super El Niño “looms large” over the winter forecast for the United States, forecasters from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration …

7. ‘Danger zone’: These 5 US states are about to be hit hardest by El Niño, experts warn

   Sat, 17 Oct 2026 10:38:03 -0000

   The world is entering a “danger zone of extreme weather” as the El Niño weather phenomenon starts to be felt, UN chief António Guterres recently said. …

8. El Niño Is Coming. And The Ocean’s Doing Some Weird Stuff

   Sat, 17 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0000

   Reverse trade winds, historic turtles, big-eyed fish, and Rachael. Don’t say you weren’t warned. Martin Daly and the Indies Trader have worked the …

9. He Covered the Weeds Around His Tree With Clear Plastic: Gardeners Warned Him About the Roots

   Sat, 17 Oct 2026 11:01:46 -0000

   Clear plastic stretched across a patch of weeds can trap enough heat to kill unwanted plants without herbicides. The method, called soil …

10. EU Agrees To Fund Ukraine, But Not Itself - Eurasia Review

    Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:08:57 -0000

    Key Takeaways: At a summit marked by divisions over climate and migration, EU leaders pledged continued financial support for Ukraine into 2027 and …

11. Mapped: The Happiest States in America in 2026

    Sat, 17 Oct 2026 13:58:43 -0000

    Save to Inbox Sign me up for the free Visual Capitalist daily newsletter.Send Which U.S. States Are the Happiest in 2026? Where Americans live can shape …

12. El Niño Could Leave the East Coast Facing Bigger Threat Than Hurricanes

    Sat, 17 Oct 2026 23:29:16 -0000

    As a new nor'easter takes shape in the Atlantic, meteorologists are warning that the widespread impacts associated with such coastal storms could …

13. I'm a real estate agent building a $480,000 backyard home for my mom. I still made these costly mistakes.

    Sat, 17 Oct 2026 11:03:01 -0000

    After her father died in 2024, real estate agent Shalini Karnani Bonjour moved her mother from Michigan to California to be closer to her and her family. "My husband and I didn't feel comfortable having her so far away, especially when it came to her day-to-day needs," Bonjour, 50, told Business …

14. North America’s oldest human footprints tell a tale of ice age chaos

    Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:20:47 -0000

    Pollen shows how present-day New Mexico completely transformed within only a few decades. An extensive new analysis further confirms the oldest known human footprints in North America date back to the last ice age (about 23,500–21,700 years). To pinpoint their origins, researchers at the University …

15. Which countries waste the most food, and how to reduce waste at home

    Fri, 16 Oct 2026 06:31:57 -0000

    This World Food Day, 645 million people are going hungry, yet more than a billion tonnes of food is wasted annually. For every five plates of food served around the world, roughly one ends up in the bin. That adds up to more than a billion tonnes of food a year. Meanwhile, 645 million people, about …

16. 'The Government is Trembling': Protests Erupt in France, Spreading to 140 Cities | Common Dreams

    Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:53:53 -0000

    "For years we've had climate, economy, and equality problems, but the government is not doing anything about it," said one protester. Protests erupted …

17. Trump Just Visited a MAGA Town in Ohio. Its Voters are Turning on Him.

    Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:34:53 -0000

    Democrats think they have a shot at flipping hardscrabble Mahoning County, which Trump turned into a symbol of the rightward blue-collar turn. Yep, …

18. There's a fatal flaw in Congress’ plan to stop Trump

    Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:14:15 -0000

    The clean energy industry has learned the hard way that having the law on your side doesn’t always mean you win. This story was originally published …

19. During El Niño, a perfect storm of weather systems could spell disaster for the Great Barrier Reef

    Sat, 17 Oct 2026 11:00:07 -0000

    The strong El Niño currently under way in the Pacific Ocean raises the specter of marine heat waves and coral bleaching once again threatening …

20. France faces day of cost-of-living protests

    Sat, 17 Oct 2026 11:47:30 -0000

    French authorities detained dozens on Saturday at the start of nationwide protests against the cost of living, in what is likely to be a key indicator of the social climate heading toward elections to replace President Emmanuel Macron. France 24's Antonia Kerrigan tells us more.

21. The Death of Tween Culture: The Catastrophic Effects of a Changing Social Climate on Adolescence

    Sat, 17 Oct 2026 18:41:06 -0000

    Think back to when you were 10. Do loom bands, twilight and nickelodeon ring a bell?They certainly do for me. But now, if we focus on tween girls, …

22. The Climate Story Hiding in Plain Sight in the Global Economy

    Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:36:00 -0000

    The war in Iran, AI, and countries’ growing debt burden all sat at the top of the agenda as leaders of the world’s international financial institutions gathered in Bangkok this week for the fall meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). Even with some bright spots, the …

23. Map Reveals Where Drought To Worsen As El Niño To Shape Winter

    Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:42:54 -0000

    Drought conditions could develop or worsen for parts of the northwestern U.S. in the coming months, as meteorologists expect El Niño to help shape …

24. The El Niño Is About to Wreak Major Havoc

    Sat, 17 Oct 2026 15:00:06 -0000

    “The warning lights are flashing," a climate expert at UCLA said. “We’ve never seen an event this big before in the context of our rapidly warming climate.”

25. Mary Robinson says ‘climate change is a man-made problem that requires a feminist solution’

    Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:30:00 -0000

    The former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, said during a keynote speech: “Women have always worked the land, but their contribution has often …

26. Biggest-ever lake contained 10 times more water than all others on Earth combined

    Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:38:35 -0000

    From dinosaurs to continents (or, rather, continent), things seem to have been so much bigger back in prehistoric times. It should, therefore, come as …

27. New Documents Expose Exxon’s Attempt to Suppress Damning Climate Evidence

    Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:38:35 -0000

    “Do you believe that statement’s misleading?” “All the clauses in there are patently false. And I told them so.” So reads an exchange from the …

28. A 24-year study uncovers a surprising climate benefit beneath forests

    Sat, 17 Oct 2026 11:04:37 -0000

    Forest soils may be quietly helping fight climate change more effectively than scientists expected. Scientists have discovered that some forest soils …

29. Europe’s sponge cities are turning rain from waste into a valuable resource

    Sat, 17 Oct 2026 23:59:13 -0000

    The EU is creating a ‘Sponge Facility’ to help implement nature-based projects that aim to make cities less prone to droughts and floods. Wild weather …

30. Melting DeSantis statue unveiled in Tallahassee to protest climate policy

    Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:05:16 -0000

    A statue of Governor Ron DeSantis began melting in Tallahassee after its unveiling Tuesday, in a protest targeting the state's climate change …