Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. The Accelerating Project to Extend Abortion Bans to All 50 States

   Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:08:20 -0000

   In a legal challenge to abortion access at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Department of Justice and Louisiana are on opposite sides. But …

2. A federal judge just told Trump there's no ‘emergency' to justify keeping a Michigan coal plant open

   Fri, 11 Sep 2026 21:20:55 -0000

   It's one of the first successful legal challenges to the administration’s “energy emergency” agenda. The Department of Energy overstepped when it …

3. Hugging Face CEO says asking Anthropic researcher ‘about AI extinction risk is like asking your AC guy about climate change’

   Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:25:05 -0000

   Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue questioned the focus on a former Anthropic researcher who said AI workers privately fear the technology could kill all humans. "Sorry, but asking Jacob about AI extinction risk is like asking your AC guy about climate change," Delangue wrote on X on Friday. Delangue …

4. Buildings are sinking and cracking in one of Europe’s largest cities

   Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:09:08 -0000

   As blistering temperatures baked London this summer, people started to notice strange things happening to their houses: zig-zagging cracks suddenly …

5. In 1959, the first nuclear-powered merchant ship set sail before the world was ready

   Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:54:00 -0000

   The NS 'Savannah' even offered a view into the reactor powering the state-of-the-art ship. By the time naval architecture firm George G. Sharp tasked Jack Heaney with the design of the world’s first nuclear-powered merchant ship, the Glasgow-born designer had already broken many styling norms. In …

6. Fake EVs Hit The Road

   Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:15:00 -0000

   Car companies can’t sell EVs. People worry about how far they will go on a charge. They also worry about how many charging stations are available. …

7. A ‘super El Niño’ is on the way. What that means for fall and winter weather in the central U.S.

   Fri, 11 Sep 2026 05:00:00 -0000

   Warmer-than-normal-temperatures in the Pacific Ocean are driving what could be the strongest El Niño on record. Here’s how that’s likely to impact …

8. Chinese Scientists Propose Turning Abandoned Coal Mines Into Farming Laboratories

   Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

   There are more than 12,000 abandoned coal mines across China, offering vast amounts of underground space and sophisticated infrastructure that could …

9. Scientists develop a plastic that can be turned into fertilizer

   Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:00:14 -0000

   Microplastics are a scourge on the environment, accumulating in farm soils and wriggling their way into the food supply—reducing harvests and harming …

10. Federal Appellate Court Kills Trump Bid to Keep 'Old, Expensive, and Dirty' Coal Plant Open

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 21:29:03 -0000

    Climate defenders celebrated on Friday after a federal appellate court rejected the US Department of Energy's abuse of emergency powers to keep a …

11. A former Google DeepMind safety researcher explains the frightening difference between AI and other threats like nuclear war and asteroids

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:21:58 -0000

    Climate change can't anticipate our next move. An asteroid can't dodge us. And while humans can be adversaries in a nuclear war, the fallout that follows isn't trying to outsmart anyone. For Business Insider's video series "AI Architects," Ramana Kumar told Business Insider in May 2025 that …

12. Top AI pioneers reaffirm Anthropic researcher’s human extinction warning

    Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:12:05 -0000

    Top AI pioneers backed an Anthropic researcher’s warning of potential human extinction. Paul Christiano — author of an influential 2016 paper on AI …

13. Yes, it’s the economy, stupid. But One Nation is outflanking the government on messaging, too

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 01:36:50 -0000

    Labor is no doubt dreading the likelihood of further interest rate rises, despite Treasurer Jim Chalmers talking up the economy. When One Nation …

14. EPA to Loosen Methane Rules, Boosting Pollution From Oil and Gas Wells

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0000

    The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing a rule that’ll drastically weaken restrictions on “stripper wells,” which tend to be old, poorly …

15. Why Barbara Kingsolver's 2012 Novel Feels More Timely Than Ever

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:00:27 -0000

    More than a decade before climate change became a fixture of everyday conversation, Barbara Kingsolver, bestselling author of Demon Copperhead, was …

16. They cleaned up ground zero. Now many are hiding from ICE

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0000

    NEW YORK — Once a week, in a Queens office building, a group of immigrants in their 50s and 60s gathers. They've all known each other for some 25 years: they met when they were cleaning up ground zero together. They are among the thousands of cleanup crews who rushed to the destruction in lower …

17. Canada and Iran Have Found Trump’s Achilles’ Heel

    Thu, 10 Sep 2026 04:31:29 -0000

    The president has repeatedly tried to interfere in foreign elections. Now Canada and Iran are making life very difficult for Republicans ahead of the …

18. One Year After Charlie Kirk’s Death, How Did Everyone Get It So Wrong?

    Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Charlie Kirk was always an extremist. His killing had lasting consequences that we are only just beginning to witness. Charlie Kirk’s …

19. Why Is NY’s Republican Candidate for Governor Embracing 9/11 Truthers?

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Bruce Blakeman has some odd bedfellows. Bruce Blakeman, the Republican vying to be New York’s next governor, has an uphill battle ahead of November: …

20. Judge halts Trump-backed data center on public land

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    A federal judge sided with the Sierra Club and other groups Sept. 1 to halt a controversial data center project outside Boulder City, Nevada, southeast of Las Vegas. Backed by the Trump administration, the project had come from Townsite Solar 2 LLC, a Houston-based company that had previously …

21. Infectious diseases will seed new ground as the planet warms — here's where they'll spread

    Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:00:15 -0000

    Climate change will increase our exposure to myriad infections, from tick-borne diseases to drug-resistant bacterial infections. To the untrained eye, …

22. New hurricane season record as 'historic' El Niño leaves Atlantic eerily quiet

    Thu, 10 Sep 2026 23:22:33 -0000

    A new hurricane season record will be set this week as a historic and still strengthening El Niño stifles tropical development in the Atlantic. To date, no hurricanes have formed in the basin, despite this week marking the peak of the season on average - and there's no sign of development in the …

23. Why on Earth are so many data centers being built?

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:23:01 -0000

    Many very legitimate concerns have been raised about the rush to construct these huge AI data centers. The topic of new ‘data centers’ is emerging as a major issue in the current election cycle, including most recently in the U.S. Senate campaign in Michigan. Many very legitimate concerns have been …

24. Trump’s Attacks on the Environment Are Out of Touch With America

    Thu, 10 Sep 2026 05:00:07 -0000

    The most pro-American stance a leader can take is to defend our best ideas. America's national parks and our nation’s beautiful environment are part of our heritage, identity, and are ultimately our greatest strength. From President Theodore Roosevelt dramatically expanding public lands protections …

25. Farmers’ Almanac Map Shows When the First Frost Hits Your State as Cold Air Moves In

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:55:00 -0000

    The Climate Prediction Center expects a cold air mass to bring the season’s first frosts and freezes to the northern tier between September 18 and 24. …

26. Court Strikes Down Trump Order to Keep an Aging Coal-Burning Plant Running

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:48:59 -0000

    The 64-year-old Michigan power plant was set to retire. Then the Trump administration intervened in a way that overstepped its authority, a court ruled. A federal appeals court on Friday struck down an order from the Trump administration that forced a coal plant in Michigan to stay open past its …

27. Up in smoke: how Southeast Asia bungled its haze response

    Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:11 -0000

    Dr Asma Zafirah doesn’t need satellite images to know when Kalimantan is burning. She sees it in the watery eyes and laboured breaths of the patients …

28. Why Elon Musk is threatening to sue

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:59:33 -0000

    A documentary about one of the world’s most powerful men premiered at the Venice Film Festival this week, and the subject of that film had a lot to …

29. Global bond sell-off continues, and other finance news to know

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 22:22:20 -0000

    1. Bond sell-off keeps global markets and borrowers on edge A broad sell-off in government bonds this month has pushed borrowing costs to multi-year …

30. All the Data Center News That’s Fit to Print

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:36:47 -0000

    A developer sues an Arkansas paper, plus more of the week’s biggest development fights. 1. Pulaski County, Arkansas – A major utility sued the biggest …