Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

  1. He Was a Climate Activist. One Day, the F.B.I. Came Knocking.

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:00:06 -0000

    As the Trump administration cracks down on climate change activism, members of environmental groups like Extinction Rebellion fear they are being targeted. On a recent frosty February morning, 200 miles north of New York City, a middle-aged man had just had his tea and toast and opened his laptop. …

  2. This staggering move just made Trump a global supervillain

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:30:02 -0000

    Last week, President Donald Trump cemented his standing as the greatest environmental criminal among world leaders, a mantle of which he couldn’t be …

  3. Why the western US is running out of water, in one chart

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:30:00 -0000

    Cows are draining the Colorado River. More than one in 10 Americans rely on the Colorado River to take showers and drink clean water. But with no end in sight to the decades-long drought in the western US and rapidly decreasing river levels, this essential resource is fueling bitter disputes over …

  4. The Climate Won’t Bend To Trump’s Will To Power | NOEMA

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:38:44 -0000

    The danger of cancelling the “endangerment” finding. Last week, the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency rescinded a long-standing …

  5. Trump’s rollback of this key EPA finding will hit poor and minority Americans the hardest

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:49:08 -0000

    The Environmental Protection Agency recently revoked the ‘endangerment finding,’ which is key in protecting the public from pollutants. In a stretch of Louisiana with about 170 fossil fuel and petrochemical plants, premature death is a fact of life for people living nearby. The air is so polluted …

  6. China tests world's first megawatt-class flying wind turbine — it generated enough energy to power a house for 2 weeks

    Thu, 19 Feb 2026 11:13:54 -0000

    A pioneering energy-generating device utilizes reliable wind speeds at an altitude of 6,500 feet (2,000 meters). A Chinese energy firm has …

  7. ‘Irreversible on any human timescale’: Scientist reveals best and worst-case scenario for Antarctica

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 05:00:54 -0000

    Despite being far away from civilisation, a melting Antarctic’s "disastrous" consequences will ripple across the world, researchers warn. Scientists …

  8. In Thailand, a coral cryobank tries to buy time for dying reefs

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:26:26 -0000

    In a quiet laboratory at Phuket Rajabhat University in southern Thailand, Preeyanuch Thongpoo is attempting to freeze time. As a molecular biologist, …

  9. Scientists worry about lasting damage from Potomac sewage spill

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:16:00 -0000

    In January, part of a decades-old sewer line in Maryland collapsed by the Potomac River. Over the following days, the broken pipe dumped more than 200 million gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac near Washington, D.C. Since then, the utility that manages the line, DC Water, has been setting up a …

  10. US ‘totally’ rejects global AI governance, White House adviser tells India summit

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:14:33 -0000

    The US "totally" rejects global governance of AI, White House technology adviser Michael Kratsios said Friday, noting that "risk-focused obsessions" inhibit a "competitive ecosystem". Kratsios addressed an AI summit in New Delhi a day after French President Emmanuel Macron told the gathering that …

  11. SpaceX rocket fireball linked to plume of polluting lithium

    Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:00:42 -0000

    When a SpaceX rocket failure set the skies aflame over western Europe last February, no-one was sure if the debris was also polluting our atmosphere. Now scientists are directly linking the uncontrolled rocket re-entry to a plume of lithium measured less than 100km above Earth. It is the first time …

  12. How safe is glyphosate chemical backed by Trump? What the science says

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:15:01 -0000

    On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would push for a greater supply of glyphosate-based herbicides, leaving …

  13. Climate Physicists Face the Ghosts in Their Machines: Clouds

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:45:17 -0000

    The planet is getting hotter, but one factor in particular makes it hard to tell just how hot it will get. Physicists and computer scientists are …

  14. China Just Launched a Massive Floating Wind Turbine That Floats 6,000 Feet in the Air

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:14:51 -0000

    A massive helium blimp generates megawatt-scale power from high-altitude winds above the clouds.

  15. Transcipt: The Outdated Economics Driving Trump’s Car Standards Rollback

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:00:03 -0000

    This transcript has been automatically generated. Subscribe to “Shift Key” and find this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, or wherever you …

  16. Microsoft Unveils Glass Storage That Could Preserve Data for 10,000 Years

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:34:09 -0000

    Microsoft’s Project Silica can store 5TB of data on glass for 10,000 years, offering a durable, energy-free solution to prevent data rot. Microsoft …

  17. The Trump Administration Keeps Taking Down NPS Signs. Here Are the Ones Removed or Flagged So Far.

    Thu, 19 Feb 2026 06:14:01 -0000

    A coalition of nonprofit scientists, historians, and advocates has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for removing signs at National Park Service (NPS) sites nationwide. The coalition, represented by the public policy research group Democracy Forward, claims the administration removed …

  18. This City Turned Its Rooftops into a Climate Shield

    Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:19:03 -0000

    From the top of Zürichberg hill, the panorama reveals a city wrapped by lake and forest but insulated in a basin where heat collects. On hot summer …

  19. News From Antarctica: Strange Gravity, Hot Penguins, And More

    Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:30:07 -0000

    Catch up on the latest science from around the South Pole.

  20. Who holds Trump accountable for Gaza’s future?

    Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:33:46 -0000

    The new Board of Peace, while endorsed by the United Nations, is part of an emerging state-centric world order in which leaders, in theory, must …

  21. With foreign backing, Israel’s solar energy boom is powering apartheid

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:21:01 -0000

    Israel’s self-branding as a pioneer in sustainability obscures how its ‘green development’ is fueling the takeover of Palestinian land and resources …

  22. Threatened Florida bird makes a comeback, wildlife officials say

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:07:19 -0000

    Federal wildlife officials are removing protections for a Florida bird no longer considered threatened while agreeing to protect 11 other local …

  23. Tired of Dystopian Sci-Fi? You Might Like Solarpunk.

    Thu, 19 Feb 2026 12:30:00 -0000

    I was doomscrolling again. It was a fall evening in 2023, and I found myself sucked into a stream of posts about our collapsing climate: droughts …

  24. What to know about the ‘endangerment finding’ EPA revoked

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:30:00 -0000

    The Environmental Protection Agency last week revoked its own 2009 “endangerment finding,” a scientific conclusion that for 16 years has been the …

  25. Brazil’s soy giants clear way for deforestation

    Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:18:00 -0000

    For almost two decades, Brazil's largest soy producers guaranteed their products did not come from land cleared in the Amazon rainforest. Now, all …

  26. Ethiopia’s Fossil Fuel Car Ban Is a Vision of the Future

    Thu, 19 Feb 2026 05:00:07 -0000

    In 2024, Ethiopia did something revolutionary. It banned the import of fossil fuel cars and cut tariffs on electric vehicles. This week on Zero, …

  27. A strong El Niño is building. What does it mean for New England weather and our hurricane risk?

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:00:01 -0000

    New Englanders have seen a colder-than-average winter with a much more active storm pattern, a classic result of La Niña during the winter months. But …

  28. Surprise! Earth’s Core Has More Hydrogen Than All Its Oceans Combined

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:00:00 -0000

    With an estimated 6 sextillion kilograms of the stuff—that’s 21 zeroes by the way—the Earth’s core is another example of why hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe. Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Where Earth got most of its water is a subject of debate, but a new …

  29. Winter Olympics Running Out Of Places To Go

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:20:42 -0000

    Global warming is reducing the number of places where the Winter Olympics can be held. And, there is no solution. Douglas A. McIntyre, …

  30. Weaned off Putin's gas, Europe now addicted to US LNG

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:22:42 -0000

    The EU is set to cut off Russian gas supplies in 2027. However, its promise to diversify and transition to renewables is under threat as LNG shipped …