Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. The cognitive bias behind bad climate math

   Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:00:35 -0000

   Before people can reduce their carbon footprint, they need to know what actions will most help them do so. Research has shown that this domain of …

2. Trump’s New Bank Is His Most Naked Scandal Yet

   Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

   The media should not be covering Trump’s new crypto bank as if it were a legitimate business story. If you want to open any kind of national bank in …

3. Nation’s Largest Reservoirs Are Drying Up, Threatening Life in the Southwest

   Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:59:39 -0000

   Levels in Lakes Mead and Powell have not been so low since 1957, underscoring a water crisis that plagues seven states that rely on the Colorado River. Lakes Powell and Mead, the nation’s largest reservoirs, are drying up, sending a Colorado River system that provides water and electricity for …

4. People over 60 face heat exposure danger at lower temperatures, study suggests

   Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:42:14 -0000

   As Australians prepare to swelter through a hot El Niño summer, the risk of heat stress also rises. When we age, our bodies are no longer able to cope …

5. Climate doom may discourage climate action, but there’s a way to counter it

   Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:53:33 -0000

   Every summer is getting hotter. Wildfires are blazing, and the worst is yet to come. There’s nothing to be done – we’re doomed! Sound familiar? This …

6. MAGA Christianity and the Return of Religious Coercion

   Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

   The right is increasingly embracing an anti-social version of the Christian faith that favors restrictive control with none of the underlying moral …

7. Lula calls oil near the Amazon River a passport to Brazil's future after Petrobras strikes new find

   Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:20:55 -0000

   SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said on Monday that oil drilling in northern and northeastern coastal regions could be “a passport to the country’s future” after visiting a Petrobras offshore drilling vessel following a find announced last week near the mouth of the …

8. The UK and Google are testing changes to flight paths to tackle aviation's climate impact

   Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:21:25 -0000

   Hundreds of commercial flights will be told to change their paths over the northeastern Atlantic Ocean during the next two winters to show how minor altitude adjustments can reduce aviation’s climate impact. The British government is backing the landmark airspace-scale trial, launched Tuesday, to …

9. The Amazon's Trees May Be Reaching a Dangerous Tipping Point

   Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:00:00 -0000

   Over the past 40 years, the same Amazon trees growing in Peru have started growing thinner, flimsier leaves. Scientists worry they’re being pushed to the brink. The forest in Peru’s Tambopata Nature Reserve was hot and noisy—filled with the buzz of cicadas and the raspy barks of white-throated …

10. At Long Last, Americans Are Starting to See the Truth About the GOP

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A businessman can set this country right. Republicans are better for the economy. Republicans love the military. Lie, lie, and lie. It was heartening …

11. California’s new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:19:53 -0000

    The nation’s first tire efficiency standards target an overlooked drag on fuel economy that can cost drivers more at the pump. California just became …

12. How China Found Its Most Potent Weapon

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:00:00 -0000

    The real history of Beijing’s rare-earth dominance.

13. Far from home, Hong Kong’s wild cockatoos could save their species from extinction

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:05:00 -0000

    Cockatoos are instinctively destructive. Stand under a tree in which one is perched and you will soon be dodging branches as the bird, mostly for its own amusement, starts ripping up the canopy and dropping it to the floor. The natural habitat of the yellow-crested cockatoo is the jungles of central …

14. AI to help planes avoid climate-warming contrails above North Atlantic

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:26:41 -0000

    We've all looked up and seen the white lines trailing behind aircraft in the sky. Known as contrails, these icy clouds contribute to climate change, and scientists have been trying to work out how to stop them. Now, a £5m UK trial will test whether AI can help, by predicting where warming contrails …

15. Midwest is overwhelmed by rainfall caused by rising temps (which will only get worse)

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:01:38 -0000

    Severe storms in the Midwest have cause widespread flooding. Climate experts say extreme rainfall has already gotten worse in the region and will keep intensifying.

16. Planes flying over the Atlantic will be re-routed to avoid contrails

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0000

    Planes flying across the North Atlantic Ocean later this year will be re-routed to avoid causing condensation trails, in a first-of-a-kind trial to …

17. The soil’s early warning system: microbes can predict desertification before plants start to die

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:05:21 -0000

    Microbial ecology (the study of how tiny microbes interact with each other and their environment) underpins the health of every ecosystem on Earth. …

18. South Africa’s top court blocked Shell’s Wild Coast oil search: why it matters for climate justice

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:44:14 -0000

    South Africa’s Constitutional Court – the country’s highest court – handed down a landmark judgment for climate change and environmental justice in …

19. Atomic Wildfires Are Russia’s Looming Compound Disaster

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:28:49 -0000

    It was a cold day in September 1957 when farmers in the Ural Mountains east of Yekaterinburg, in central Russia, noticed the sky had changed. …

20. America’s Rural Lands Are Burning

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:22:16 -0000

    This summer has been a terrible fire season in the U.S.—just not in the most populated places. The summer of 2026 has been one of extraordinary fires. In Europe, they have burned hundreds of thousands of acres in France and Spain and destroyed homes across England; they killed 13 people in Spain …

21. Why climate scientists are struggling to explain Europe’s extreme summer

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:34:35 -0000

    Europe’s relentless summer heat has raised fresh questions about what is driving repeated extremes across the continent and whether exceptional summers could become the norm. A succession of heatwaves, record-breaking temperatures and unusually warm nights has swept Europe during the summer of 2026, …

22. 'Lost City' deep in the Atlantic is like nothing else we've ever seen on Earth

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:52:22 -0000

    The reality of what lies within our oceans has fascinated people since time immemorial, so it’s no wonder we’ve created countless myths about the …

23. Data center gas plants to boost U.S. power emissions by 20%

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:25:53 -0000

    Data center developers are turning to bespoke natural-gas power plants, a development that promises to dramatically increase carbon emissions and …

24. Extreme weather is changing how Americans see the world

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0000

    A Gallup survey finds that disaster victims are more likely to feel that the future is out of their hands. We tend to imagine that experiencing the …

25. The DNC Did Something Right? Actually, It Was Three Things!

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:11:40 -0000

    The committee and chairman Ken Martin have been on a very hot hot seat lately. But at their weekend meeting, the Democrats actually made some shrewd …

26. A Minnesota Mega-Dairy’s Rapid Expansion Is Prompting Lawsuits Over its Climate and Water Impacts

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0000

    Riverview LLP’s operations are meeting with pushback across Minnesota, North and South Dakota. This article originally appeared on Inside Climate …

27. How this Georgia factory is surviving America's solar policy whiplash

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:30:00 -0000

    Biden’s incentives gave Qcells a leg up. Now Trump’s tariffs may help it thrive. This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist …

28. Indigenous Peoples Call for Meaningful Influence in Climate Discussions — Nia Tero

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:29:35 -0000

    UNITED NATIONS, Aug 18 2026 (IPS) - Indigenous communities have long advocated for the environment through the lens of their traditional knowledge …

29. Black homeownership is staying strong despite affordability challenges

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:11:07 -0000

    High home prices and bias in mortgage funding haven’t stopped the dream of Black homeownership, which a reverse migration back to the South and …

30. As temperatures get hotter, pesticides are more dangerous to farmworkers

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:07:49 -0000

    Research shows heat amplifies the dangers of pesticides. For the nation’s 2.4 million farmworkers, climate change is poised to exacerbate the harms of …