Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. ‘Nobody Wants to Take Responsibility for the Tragedy That’s Going on Here’

   Fri, 12 Dec 2025 10:00:00 -0000

   To this day, Bill Gates remains a relatively mild-mannered, non-political guy. But he’s also not going to ignore reality. For the first time in 25 years, the number of child deaths is on track to rise from the previous year, to the tune of an additional 200,000 deaths, according to the Gates …

2. Hundreds of Earthquakes Detected at Antarctica's 'Doomsday' Glacier

   Fri, 12 Dec 2025 03:13:03 -0000

   Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake generated in cold, icy regions. First discovered in the northern hemisphere more than 20 years …

3. Federal judge orders FEMA to restore billions in canceled disaster mitigation funding

   Fri, 12 Dec 2025 01:35:02 -0000

   A federal judge in Massachusetts on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to restore billions of dollars in canceled FEMA disaster mitigation funding, siding with 22 states and the District of Columbia that sued over the canceled grants this summer. President Donald Trump’s administration said …

4. Judge rules Trump unlawfully ended FEMA disaster prevention programme

   Thu, 11 Dec 2025 23:33:11 -0000

   Twenty states had challenged the end of the programme, meant to make localities more resilient to natural disasters. A federal judge has said the administration of United States President Donald Trump acted unlawfully in ending a programme aimed at helping communities become more resilient to …

5. The EPA website got the basics of climate science right. Until last week.

   Thu, 11 Dec 2025 09:30:00 -0000

   The Trump administration purged 80 pages of facts about climate change — including that it's caused by humans. If you want to know what’s causing …

6. Volcanic eruptions sparked grim chain of events that brought the Black Death

   Fri, 12 Dec 2025 06:32:00 -0000

   Hidden inside the narrow growth rings of Pyrenees trees lies the strongest evidence yet for what set the Black Death in motion. For the first time, …

7. Cherries Bring Luck in China, Fortune for Chile

   Fri, 12 Dec 2025 12:00:25 -0000

   Welcome to the Business of Food newsletter, covering how the world feeds itself in a changing economy and climate. This week, James Attwood reports …

8. Polar bears are adapting to climate change at a genetic level – and it could help them avoid extinction

   Fri, 12 Dec 2025 07:24:25 -0000

   The Arctic Ocean current is at its warmest in the last 125,000 years, and temperatures continue to rise. Due to these warming temperatures more than …

9. This incredible map shows the world's 2.75 billion buildings

   Fri, 12 Dec 2025 10:30:00 -0000

   Researchers mapped exactly where buildings are in the world and how much space they take up. The result is a mind boggling look at how the world develops. From the latest skyscraper in a Chinese megalopolis to a six‑foot‑tall yurt in Inner Mongolia, researchers at the Technical University of Munich …

10. U.S. Helped to Weaken Report at U.N. Environment Talks, Participants Say

    Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:54:16 -0000

    American officials joined Russia, Saudi Arabia and Iran in objecting to language on fossils fuels, biodiversity and plastics in a report that was three years in the making. The Trump administration sided with officials from Saudi Arabia, Russia and Iran in a successful effort to block part of a …

11. Pacific Northwest faces "catastrophic" flood threats

    Fri, 12 Dec 2025 04:03:11 -0000

    Residents in the Pacific Northwest face "catastrophic" and potentially life-threatening flood threats after days of heavy rains, the National Weather …

12. Students challenge auto industry with modular EV you can fix yourself

    Fri, 12 Dec 2025 06:03:00 -0000

    A team of students from the Netherlands has demonstrated that it is possible to produce an affordable electric vehicle (EV) that owners can maintain …

13. White House Abruptly Cancels Meeting on FEMA’s Future After Leaked Report Revealed Plan to Gut the Agency

    Fri, 12 Dec 2025 01:17:46 -0000

    Council members were expected to vote on proposed cuts that would alter the way the federal government responds to declared emergencies.A meeting …

14. Scientists sound alarm after noticing significant shift in Earth's oceans: 'It has been happening for a long time'

    Fri, 12 Dec 2025 04:00:00 -0000

    A 30-year-old forecast of sea-level rise has proved to be remarkably accurate, according to a Tulane University geologist. What is even more amazing …

15. La Niña is here for the rest of winter, federal forecasters announce

    Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:01:26 -0000

    La Niña has a major influence on winter weather in the U.S., but its effects vary drastically by region. With the polar vortex catching all the buzz in recent weeks, federal forecasters say our old friend La Niña is still a major force shaping winter weather for the United States. Federal …

16. Introduction: Climate Change

    Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:33:59 -0000

    Published December 11, 2025 For over a century, humanity has rampantly burned fossil fuels to power the machinery of modern life, inexorably …

17. We know which Kaiser is the idiot

    Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:38:27 -0000

    PRESENTED BY SUBSCRIBERS LIKE YOUOn a Berlin streetcorner during World War I, a man is arrested for treason and sedition for shouting “the Kaiser is …

18. Nope, Billionaire Tom Steyer Is Not a Bellwether of Climate Politics

    Fri, 12 Dec 2025 04:00:00 -0000

    You may have read lately that voters don’t care about global warming. These stories tend to fall apart under scrutiny. What should we make of …

19. Unlimited Energy Is Closer Than Ever, Expert Says—Thanks to This Nuclear Reactor’s Breakthrough ‘First Heartbeat’

    Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:47:59 -0000

    “America should be thrilled.” Scientists just brought us one step closer to the dream of unlimited power. On November 17 at the Nevada National Security Site, a nuclear energy startup called Valar Atomics achieved zero-power criticality, a crucial step in nuclear energy development. Also known as …

20. How the Next Big Thing in Carbon Removal Sank Without a Trace

    Thu, 11 Dec 2025 02:00:00 -0000

    With support from Microsoft, Stripe, and Shopify, Running Tide billed itself as on the cutting edge of carbon removal. In the end, it resorted to …

21. Washington State Issues Evacuation Orders for 100,000 Amid Floods

    Fri, 12 Dec 2025 12:44:36 -0000

    On Trump’s electricity insecurity, Rivan’s robots, and the European grid Current conditions: A series of clipper storms blowing southeastward from …

22. Even with Trump’s support, coal power remains expensive – and dangerous

    Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:36:17 -0000

    As projections of U.S. electricity demand rise sharply, President Donald Trump is looking to coal – historically a dominant force in the U.S. energy …

23. Lawsuit challenges the approval of an exploratory drilling program in Alaska petroleum reserve

    Thu, 11 Dec 2025 22:28:33 -0000

    JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Conservation groups and an Iñupiat-aligned group sued Thursday to overturn the recent approval of an exploratory drilling program in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, saying it was improperly analyzed by the federal government and could harm caribou and important habitat …

24. 13 Countries at Serious Risk of Disappearing if Sea Levels Rise

    Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:20:32 -0000

    Sea levels are rising faster than many expected, and these 13 countries that could disappear if sea levels rise are especially vulnerable. Even small …

25. Baby dies of exposure in flooded tent as Storm Byron batters Gaza

    Thu, 11 Dec 2025 22:53:23 -0000

    Displaced Palestinians in dire need of tents, blankets, warm clothing in harsh winter climate. A baby girl whose family was displaced by Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinian people in Gaza has died of exposure to the winter cold as Storm Byron lashed the enclave amid Israel’s continued …

26. Dozens rescued as severe flooding devastates Pacific Northwest

    Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:07:00 -0000

    Across western Washington, up to 15 inches of rain slammed neighborhoods, covering cars and surrounding homes after an atmospheric river brought …

27. Europeans are turning up to railway stations in their pyjamas to protest cancelled night trains

    Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:37:48 -0000

    The decline of international night trains across Europe is facing growing scrutiny – as activists opt to protest in comfort. Disruption is expected to …

28. This 400,000-Year-Old Campfire Could Rewrite Human History

    Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:00:57 -0000

    Humans likely harvested their first flames from wildfire. When they learned to make it themselves, it changed everything. While few of us today know …

29. Thousands under evacuation orders as flooding hits Pacific Northwest

    Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:53:15 -0000

    Residents in the Pacific Northwest of the US and western Canada are bracing for potentially life-threatening floods as several days of heavy rain have swollen a number of rivers and tributaries. On Thursday, the National Water Center reported heavy flooding along the Skagit and Snohomish rivers in …

30. Trump Plans To Drive Down Car Prices

    Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:48:00 -0000

    Trump has gone a long way to kill the EV business. Now, he is going to help gas-powered car buyers. There will be an incentive, probably on the car …