Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. Trump Supporters Blame Everything But Climate Change For July 4th Scorcher In Prankster Video

   Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:39:03 -0000

   The Good Liars confronted MAGA followers over the extreme heat that marred Independence Day celebrations in the nation’s capital. President Donald Trump’s Freedom 250 rally was no match for the brutal heat wave that hit the East Coast, as temperatures in Washington, D.C., tied a record high in the …

2. Trump taps global warming critic to reopen nation’s climate change office: ‘Professor in exile’

   Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:50:03 -0000

   The Trump administration has tapped a climate science critic — who describes himself as a “professor in exile” — to lead the nation’s climate change …

3. You should be terrified by the newest super El Niño forecast. Here's what's at stake

   Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:00:00 -0000

   An updated weather report shows an 81% chance of a ‘very strong’ El Niño that could rank among the largest in history, potentially causing losses in the trillions. Brace for a stretch of potentially wet and wild weather. Forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate …

4. El Nino is strengthening: Here's what it means for the US

   Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:31:15 -0000

   El Nino is a natural cycle of warmer-than-average sea surface temperatures. El Nino conditions continue to intensify and are likely to be a strong …

5. Meta’s Bacterial Mystery Could Poison the Data Center Well

   Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:16:58 -0000

   Water pollution in Wyoming has big implications for the future of data center development. Did a Meta data center introduce a rare, dangerous bacteria …

6. Climate change becoming a major driver of child marriage across Asia and the Pacific

   Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:04:18 -0000

   Runa was 15 when she married a man she had never met. Cyclone Remal had ripped through her camp in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar region, killing her …

7. Why Trump wants Greenland

   Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:09:52 -0000

   Location, location, location: Greenland's position above the Arctic Circle makes the world's largest island a key part of security …

8. Invasive Prickly Pear Turned into Food, Clean Energy Source

   Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:50:03 -0000

   NAIROBI, Jul 9 2026 (IPS) - An international academic partnership is helping turn one of Laikipia County’s most destructive and invasive plants, the …

9. 8 Heat-Tolerant Climbing Plants That Will Turn a Bare Fence Into a Lush, Green Private Wall

   Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:33:00 -0000

   No matter its size, material, or style, a bare fence in your backyard is hardly an appealing sight. Planting a vine or a climbing plant at the base …

10. Hawaiʻi committed to 100% clean energy. Now it’s flirting with…

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:30:00 -0000

    This story was reported and published in collaboration with Hawaiʻi Public Radio. On June 8, 2015, Gov. David Ige sat under the great seal of the state …

11. Temperatures forecast to reach up to 117 degrees in western heat wave

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:52:00 -0000

    Sweltering heat continued to permeate the western United States on Thursday, as forecasters warned that some desert communities could see …

12. What Happens When the Public Record Shrinks

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:56:00 -0000

    Since last year, the Trump administration has been dramatically reducing the amount of federal data available to Americans. Twice a day, all across the country, the National Weather Service launches a fleet of latex balloons into the stratosphere to collect what’s known as “upper-air data”—detailed …

13. Tornadoes are breaking records in new Midwest states this year as Tornado Alley moves east

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:30:07 -0000

    The majority of tornadoes this year have blasted through states in the Midwest and Southeast, including Illinois, Missouri, Indiana and Iowa. Tornado …

14. This permit, common for dry cleaners, is now being used to build AI power plants

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:00:50 -0000

    This story is from Floodlight, and published in collaboration with WIRED. Republished by the Texas Tribune. Omaira Garcia didn’t realize life on her …

15. Trump has burned through more than $100 billion on Iran war

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:10:46 -0000

    ALBAWABA - One's mind can only imagine the kinds of human achievements that can be made with $100 billion: curing world hunger, stopping climate …

16. Startup reveals prototype of floating survival pod designed to withstand tsunamis and extreme flooding

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:36:00 -0000

    A French startup company has unveiled a prototype for a survival device that it says can save people from tsunamis and severe flooding. The prototype …

17. Cut the Pentagon, Save the Planet: The $1.5 Trillion Climate Solution We Can’t Ignore | Common Dreams

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:20:03 -0000

    What could we do with that money instead? Last week, millions of people around the world were subjected to record-breaking heatwaves. At least 25 …

18. Pipeline-a-palooza: unpacking the week in Canadian energy politics

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:56:13 -0000

    What a week. Amidst the blur of World Cup shenanigans and Canada Day festivities, politicians dropped not one, not two, but three massive pipeline …

19. Map Shows Where All-Time US Temperature Records Could Be Broken Next Week

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:34:24 -0000

    A new heat dome is forecast to build across parts of the western and northern United States this weekend, bringing the potential for all-time …

20. Oops, Scientists May Have Miscalculated Our Global Warming Timeline

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:58:12 -0000

    Clues have emerged that reveal a much hotter history than we thought. The Paris Climate Accords in 2015 set an ambitious (and necessary) goal of keeping global temperatures at 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temps. But a study says we might’ve blown past that threshold several years …

21. 99% of people on Earth will get sunlight at the same time this Wednesday

    Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:23:58 -0000

    On July 8, at about 11:10 GMT, about 99 percent of the world experiences sunlight at the same time. Because of Earth’s tilt and the timing of the Northern Hemisphere’s summer, about 99 percent of the world’s population – some 8.2 billion people – will experience daylight or twilight simultaneously …

22. Strengthening El Niño has its eyes on history, updated forecast says

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:01:07 -0000

    Federal forecasters announced that the current El Niño could rank among the strongest events in the historical record going back to 1950. Federal forecasters have dramatically increased the chances that a new El Niño will grow into a historically strong event that will influence weather around the …

23. The administration has a new climate change office. It’s headed by a climate critic.

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:00:00 -0000

    The office that produces the National Climate Assessment has been reconstituted, after the administration gutted it last year. The Trump administration has reconstituted a governmentwide program that tracks how climate change is transforming the country, after having gutted it last year as part of a …

24. Opinion | Trump’s climate jibes at China and EU just make him look out of date

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:30:07 -0000

    It’s not Chinese turbines or European rules that look outdated but Trump’s belief that China’s energy transition is not world-leading.

25. Alaska GOP Pushes 800-Mile Gas Terminal & Pipeline That Could Decimate Climate

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:00:09 -0000

    Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy of Alaska has ordered state lawmakers to attend special legislative sessions over the summer and pass lucrative tax …

26. The Iran war has pushed some countries away from oil and toward clean energy

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:00:00 -0000

    A new round of bombing has begun in the Middle East. More than four months after the beginning of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, one thing is clear: Some countries are not going back to fossil fuel imports in the same way they relied on them in the past. Instead, countries across Asia and Africa …

27. You’ll Never Guess Which Country Is Causing the Most Global Warming

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:35:46 -0000

    "Many people assume that if solar and wind are growing quickly, fossil fuels must be shrinking." The United States is in the grips of one of the most …

28. World’s First: Extreme Athletes "Death Dive" From 65-Foot Greenland Glacier (Video)

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:31:30 -0000

    A pair of extreme athletes has executed a “world’s first” – death diving (aka dødsing) off a staggering 65-foot glacier in the freezing wilds of …

29. Odds of El Niño Lasting Until Next Spring Almost Certain, New Forecast Says

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:07:52 -0000

    The recent update from the Climate Prediction Center also pegged the odds of El Niño meeting “very strong” criteria at 81% this fall. Another month, …

30. On The Other Side Of The 4th

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:33:00 -0000

    Legal and ethical issues abound after 250 years. Weather didn’t discriminate this past holiday weekend. Brutal is putting it mildly. Climate change is …