Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. The Atlantic hurricane season just quietly broke a new weather record

   Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:54:00 -0000

   The Atlantic hurricane season just set a new record. While it’s not unusual for the Atlantic hurricane season to take a while to get going—the …

2. 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 …

3. 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. …

4. 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 …

5. 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 …

6. 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 …

7. 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 …

8. 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. …

9. 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 …

10. 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 …

11. 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 …

12. 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 …

13. 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 …

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. US solar can now power 50M homes – and red states led the boom

    Thu, 10 Sep 2026 04:01:00 -0000

    The US achieved a pretty big solar milestone in Q2 2026: it now has enough installed capacity to generate clean electricity equivalent to that used by more than 50 million homes. That’s more than one-third of all US households. But that doesn’t mean 50 million homes are directly running on solar – …

16. 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 …

17. 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 …

18. The Supreme Court Hits a Limit With Missouri’s Election Map Mess

    Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:09:56 -0000

    No, the high court hasn’t had a change of heart where gerrymandering is concerned. But it does seem to have little stomach for electoral …

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. 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 …

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. 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 …

23. 3 Stocks Supplying Nuclear Reactors With Their Critical Fuel

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:00:33 -0000

    Reactors do not turn on without fuel, and the fuel chain has become the bottleneck. Thirty-three countries signed the COP30 declaration to triple …

24. Maersk is testing a giant spinning cylinder to cut fuel use on cargo ships

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:05:00 -0000

    Each 115-foot-tall rotor sail could help vessels save hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on fuel costs—and significantly reduce emissions. On a cargo ship packed with 8,700 shipping containers, there isn’t much room for anything else. But in a new test aboard one of its vessels, Maersk is …

25. AI Predicts the Next Mass Extinction – And It’s Sooner Than You Think

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:36:03 -0000

    The Earth has witnessed five major mass extinctions in its 4.5-billion-year history, each wiping out 75% or more of all species. Now, artificial …

26. 'There are no easy answers here': New study forecasts a dire dip in food production if key Atlantic currents collapse

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:32:31 -0000

    Researchers have examined how weakening currents in the Atlantic Ocean could impact global agriculture — and the results are concerning. Weakening …

27. We may be facing the strongest El Niño on record. What that could mean for NC

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:46:27 -0000

    An already “super” El Niño is gaining strength with meteorologists and other weather watchers now predicting “a historic event.” “During the …

28. About 75 percent of all the aluminum ever smelted is still in use, because remelting scrap takes 5 percent of the energy needed to get new metal out of the rock it comes from. A can dropped in a recycling bin can be back as another can in less than 60 days.

    Thu, 10 Sep 2026 06:00:00 -0000

    Here is a number that sounds almost too generous to be true: roughly three-quarters of every piece of aluminum ever pulled out of the ground is, …

29. The Final Battle for America’s Democracy

    Thu, 10 Sep 2026 07:18:45 -0000

    Forget November 3. It’s January 3 when Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans might bury our democracy once and for all. Here’s how. Donald Trump …

30. Google Just Signed the Largest Geothermal Power Deal Ever—and You Can Guess Why

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:30:27 -0000

    A landmark power purchase agreement could signal a turning point for enhanced geothermal systems. Power Shift is Ellyn Lapointe’s ongoing Gizmodo …