Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. ‘Europe is ending its addiction to a toxic, costly drug’: Heat pump sales soar as electricity taxes fall

   Wed, 30 Sep 2026 07:20:58 -0000

   Heat pump sales plummeted in 2024 – but now they’re on the rise again. Here’s why. Heat pump sales in European homes rose by 11 per cent in the first …

2. Trump Isn’t Helping Out the Auto Industry. He’s Helping to Tank It.

   Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:30:55 -0000

   The Trump administration is touting its recent rollback of Biden-era fuel efficiency standards as a win for American car manufacturers. It couldn’t …

3. A little known greenhouse gas is quietly harming half of Europeans. This Italian city is hit hardest

   Wed, 30 Sep 2026 02:02:42 -0000

   People who suffer from asthma are the most at risk. Half of Europeans were exposed to a little-known greenhouse gas during this summer’s record …

4. Climate, Copernicus: “40 per cent of the population will be exposed to dangerous levels of ozone in 2026”

   Wed, 30 Sep 2026 07:58:52 -0000

   Milan, 30 Sept. (LaPresse) – During 2026, 40 per cent of the world’s population was exposed to extremely high levels of ozone pollution. This is …

5. After two landfalls in Mexico, Hurricane Polo’s rainmaking journey has just begun

   Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:37:53 -0000

   Moisture from Polo and ex-hurricane Odalys is helping spawn heavy rain and potential flooding from northwest Mexico into the southwest and central …

6. Earth’s 2 biggest oceans are showing a strange—and unsettling—new pattern

   Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

   The 2026 Super El Niño is reshaping hurricane season in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Here’s what that means for you. This weekend much of the Eastern Seaboard got hit with an unusual September nor’easter, bringing torrential rains, damaging winds, and coastal flooding from northern Maine all the …

7. Jeff Bezos is giving $25 million to protect the Pacific—but his climate fund still has about $7 billion left to spend in four years

   Wed, 30 Sep 2026 07:03:00 -0000

   Back in 2020, billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos pledged $10 billion to fight climate change through 2030. Nearly seven years later, the Bezos …

8. Explainer: What is El Niño?

   Wed, 30 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0000

   In the 1600s, fishers in Peru saw that every few years around Christmastime, the waters there warmed, and they caught fewer anchovies. They called …

9. One year after the end of the EV tax credit, is the future still electric?

   Wed, 30 Sep 2026 05:00:00 -0000

   Stay up to date with our Up First newsletter, sent every weekday morning. One year ago today, the auto industry bid farewell to a hefty federal tax …

10. Transcript: Al Gore on AI, ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ and the Biggest Surprises of the Past 20 Years

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:00:06 -0000

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

11. El Niño Could Create a Kelvin Wave That Affects the Entire Planet

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:02:03 -0000

    El Niño events can be good for surfers. It’s pretty simple: bigger storms make bigger waves. But good waves are just a silver lining to a climate …

12. The super El Niño is cooking coral reefs — can lullabies and probiotics save them?

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:21:25 -0000

    Researchers are trying everything they can to help coral reefs to survive severe heat stress from climate change, including playing sounds underwater. …

13. Six American Cities Facing Billion Dollar Flood Losses

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:58:19 -0000

    A nor’easter moved up the coast and lingered near New York for two days, flooding parts of the coast from New Jersey to Boston. One home was hit by …

14. A startup wants to build a massive nuclear-powered data center on public land in Utah

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:01:00 -0000

    A startup whose founder has vowed to "make nuclear great again" is planning to place hundreds of reactors on federal land in Utah, according to documents reviewed by NPR. Valar Atomics is planning what it calls "Project Beehive" on over 9,000 acres of land held under the Bureau of Land Management …

15. In reversal, Justice Samuel Alito steps aside from major climate case

    Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:10:42 -0000

    Alito will sit out the first case the Supreme Court hears this term after facing calls from the left to do so because he owns stock in oil companies. He had previously pushed back. WASHINGTON — Conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito will no longer participate in a major climate change case …

16. Judges Keep Striking Down Climate Laws. Some States Are Fighting Back.

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:24:45 -0000

    On Wednesday—the fourth day New York’s annual Climate Week—a federal judge handed the Trump administration a major victory by striking down New …

17. The 10 States With the Worst Weather in America, Ranked

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 22:00:02 -0000

    These states experience harsher and more unpredictable weather than the rest of the U.S. Sometimes, the weather can seem, well, unrelenting: rainy …

18. Trump Rolls Back Fuel Economy Standards. Will Cars Really Get Cheaper?

    Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:00:39 -0000

    The Trump Administration released a rule on Monday to roll back Biden-era fuel economy standards, saying that the Biden Administration “previously broke the law by setting standards that went far beyond the requirements mandated by Congress” and arguing that they pushed for electric vehicles that …

19. Drought and tourists reshape Custer area landscape

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:00:56 -0000

    CUSTER STATE PARK, S.D. – While the Custer State Park Buffalo Roundup has grown to draw tens of thousands of visitors and become an emblem of western …

20. Tokyo records historic 35-day rain streak driven by El Niño and stalled fronts

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:17:53 -0000

    Central Tokyo has experienced 35 consecutive days of rainfall, setting the longest continuous rainy streak since records began in 1886, reported …

21. The Aral Sea, Once the World's Fourth-Largest Inland Lake, Was Drained Dry. Now It's a Ticking Carbon Bomb

    Mon, 28 Sep 2026 11:49:08 -0000

    Most of this inland sea is a dry lakebed the size of Ireland, and it has already released 748 million metric tons of CO2. But scientists say there's …

22. The U.S. economy looks strong. Why are Americans still struggling?

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 22:14:43 -0000

23. Scientists deliver ‘starkest warning yet’ of profound changes sweeping the planet’s oceans

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:00:29 -0000

    The oceans are warming at an alarming pace, bringing far-reaching consequences for which the world is unprepared, according to a report by more than 100 international scientists. The tenth Copernicus Ocean State Report, published Wednesday, draws on more than four decades of data from satellites, …

24. What it means for global warming to exceed 1.5°C

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:05:00 -0000

    A sobering new report from the United Nations Environment Programme warns that even if governments deliver on all their existing climate pledges, …

25. Hollywood icon wades into Oregon governor’s race

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:56:02 -0000

    Gov. Tina Kotek on Tuesday announced a slate of new endorsements in her tight contest against Republican state Sen. Christine Drazan. The Democratic …

26. Meet the 20 scholars and artists who've just won MacArthur Fellowships

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:01:00 -0000

    A historian who studies racial wage gaps, a saxophonist whose live performances include a chef cooking meals onstage and a forensic anthropologist who repatriates the remains of migrants who perished along the Texas-Mexico border — they are all among the latest recipients of the MacArthur …

27. Wolves did not save Yellowstone – why were we so desperate to believe they did?

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:12:59 -0000

    You might be among the 46 million people who’ve seen a video showing how wolves changed Yellowstone, or you may have heard some other version of this …

28. Kelvin Wave In Pacific Ocean Heads Toward California

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:02:33 -0000

    The way water moves in the world’s oceans is affected by a number of factors. We know the tides are primarily influenced by the gravitational pull of …

29. The Last Recession Wasn’t Trump’s Fault. The Next One Will Be—Utterly.

    Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Trump is following one of the Republican Party’s long-standing traditions: burning the economy to the ground. About once a month, I go to Google News …

30. Huge 'hybrid storm' will form over the US

    Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:42:39 -0000

    The National Weather Service says tropical moisture will surge over the Southwest into the central U.S. Several days of heavy to excessive rainfall may bring flooding risks. A soggy, potentially dangerous week is ahead for a "huge" section of the central United States, forecasters warned, as the …