Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

  1. The One Watering Mistake Experienced Gardeners Say Kills More Plants Than Pests, Drought, or Bad Soil Ever Could

    Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:00:00 -0000

    Michael had been gardening for nearly fifteen years, and people in his neighborhood often came to him with questions about vegetables, flowers, and fruit trees. They usually expected him to recommend expensive fertilizers or miracle products whenever plants struggled. Instead, he almost always …

  2. Extreme Heat Isn’t The Only Climate Impact Shocking Scientists

    Tue, 07 Jul 2026 10:30:27 -0000

    Extreme Heat Isn’t The Only Climate Impact Shocking Scientists (Maria)The author writes, “Much of the US just sweltered through the July 4 holiday …

  3. Big Oil Takeover 'Now Complete,' Watchdog Warns as Exxon Lawyer Joins Trump DOJ

    Tue, 07 Jul 2026 10:16:09 -0000

    The executive counsel at the fossil fuel behemoth ExxonMobil is leaving his role to join the Trump Justice Department's newly renamed Energy and …

  4. Collapse of Atlantic Currents May Already Be ‘Locked In’

    Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:53:00 -0000

    A vast system of Atlantic currents that delivers warmth to northern Europe is at risk of collapse, according to a growing body of research. The …

  5. Heat-resistant housing: How we need to adapt our homes

    Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:02:11 -0000

    In Germany, it is time to rethink and rebuild. Many apartments were not designed for heat waves. Fortunately, there are ways to adapt existing …

  6. The plan to make climate science harder to erase

    Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:45:00 -0000

    As climate information disappears from federal websites, scientists are rebuilding it elsewhere. When Rebecca Lindsey was fired from the National …

  7. “mass sleep deprivation” Caused By Heatwave

    Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:39:00 -0000

    A new YouGov poll shows that a large number of people in the UK lost significant amounts of sleep in the June heatwave. For many, it was over three …

  8. Collapse of AMOC ocean current may already be locked in

    Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:49:54 -0000

    A potentially catastrophic collapse of the Atlantic Ocean currents that control Europe’s climate may already be inevitable. Based on model …

  9. ‘A materials breakthrough’: membranes to separate crude oil could slash energy costs

    Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:30:00 -0000

    Three teams have developed membranes that can efficiently separate hydrocarbons in crude oil. These materials are scalable, can work under industrial …

  10. Trump Takes Aim at the California Coastal Commission

    Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:56:38 -0000

    Airdate: Tuesday, July 7 at 10 AM Since 1976, the California Coastal Commission has been regulating activities along the state’s more than 800-mile …

  11. Weather Service Scrambles in Hurricane Season After Trump Purge

    Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:08:00 -0000

    Donald Trump’s mass layoffs have dramatically reduced the number of staffers at the National Weather Service—and thus the amount of data it can …

  12. Electric companies don’t need to black out customers to prevent wildfires – here are 3 relatively fast, affordable solutions

    Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:16:34 -0000

    A severe winter snow drought has left snowpack levels far below normal across the American West in 2026. Without a slow-melting blanket of snow to …

  13. As Ice Melts in the Arctic, Some Deep-Sea Creatures Are Thriving

    Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:38:29 -0000

    A new study suggests that deep-sea life reaps the benefits of icebergs’ castoffs — a rare silver lining as a warming planet destabilizes glacial ice. Scientists aboard the Polarstern research vessel were sailing along in 2021 when they came upon an unusual iceberg floating through the Fram Strait, …

  14. 3.1 billion-year-old rocks in Australia reveal a forgotten chapter of Earth’s water cycle

    Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:01:18 -0000

    In the 45°C heat of the midday April sun, I swing my sledgehammer into the terracotta-varnished lobes of pillow basalt overlooking a sparse, almost …

  15. "Glass half full" on carbon cuts despite IRA losses

    Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:50:08 -0000

    The U.S. is still projected to achieve two-thirds of the emissions cuts from power generation that would have occurred without the rollbacks of the …

  16. Brushwood Center program teaches impacts of environment: ‘We know poor air quality worsens the situation’

    Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:41:18 -0000

    Health — women’s health in particular — is affected by the environment, both by natural climate change and by the remnants of industrial pollution in Lake County and beyond. A heat wave makes it worse. Dr. Regina de Leon Gomez, an OB-GYN physician as well as a professor at Rosalind Franklin …

  17. I Am Watching a Massive Wildfire Burn the Colorado Mountains from My Back Deck

    Mon, 06 Jul 2026 03:19:42 -0000

    In disbelief, I have watched the Gold Mountain Fire burn the iconic Cimarron Range for a week straight from the back deck of my house atop a mesa overlooking Ridgway, a vibrant mountain town in Southwest Colorado. The wind-blown flames spread through the Cimarrons, consuming aspen and spruce-fir …

  18. When shareholder activists attack a company, its rivals may feel the heat too and change their ways

    Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:21:25 -0000

    Shareholder activists are investors who leverage their ownership in a company to push for change. When those activists target a company, they usually …

  19. The Politics of Shrimp

    Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:00:15 -0000

    In Bangladesh, rising water and the promise of fast cash have turned rice farmers onto shrimp.JULY 7, 2026 Shuvash Chandra Mondol, 45, still …

  20. Despite stiff political headwinds, tribe in Colorado brings utility scale solar project online

    Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:01:00 -0000

    The Trump administration has killed tax credits for renewable energy, fought to end wind farms, and called solar panels "ugly." So, it's notable that the small Ute Mountain Ute tribe in Colorado has managed to keep one big solar project on track. Trump's attacks on offshore wind could hurt …

  21. Germany Recorded 5,000 Excess Deaths in Late-June Heat Wave

    Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:21:16 -0000

    Germany recorded more than 5,000 excess deaths during the late-June heat wave, according to preliminary data from the Federal Statistical Office. In …

  22. No, your drinking water isn’t contaminated by abortion pills

    Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:00:46 -0000

    This story was originally reported by Jenae Barnes, Climate Reporter of The 19th. Meet Jenae and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. Anti-abortion advocates, including Republican lawmakers and state officials, want the EPA to review mifepristone as a water contaminant. …

  23. Unusual Heat Warning for Arctic Plains as Alaskans Warned of Illness, Stroke

    Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:14:33 -0000

    A bout of hot temperatures has prompted the National Weather Service (NWS) in Fairbanks, Alaska, to issue heat advisories across northern parts of …

  24. The Fight for Audit-Ready Sustainability Claims Continues

    Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:51:00 -0000

    We’ve all seen it before, a sponsored post on social media that’s too good to be true or some billboard hyping the benefits of a new miracle product. …

  25. Brewing El Niño and roasting oceans push planet into ‘uncharted territory’ for heat

    Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:04:53 -0000

    As extreme heat smothered the eastern United States over the July Fourth weekend and Europe struggled with its own deadly heat wave, experts warned …

  26. Can India, Europe produce solar energy without China?

    Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:02:36 -0000

    With China dominating every step of the solar energy production chain, governments in India and Europe are looking to reduce their overreliance on a …

  27. Inside the United States’ Billion-Dollar Blind Spot

    Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:00:24 -0000

    The whistling starts before the impact. It is a haunting, high-pitched keening — the sound of jagged ice stones, aerodynamically imperfect, hurtling toward the earth at terminal velocity. “It’s fascinatingly terrifying,” Dr. Sean Waugh said. We are barreling down an Oklahoma highway, chasing a …

  28. This Former G.O.P. Politician Wants to Take Politics Out of Climate Change

    Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:24:48 -0000

    Bill Frist, the former Republican Senate majority leader, racked up a slew of notable medical successes during his years as one of the country’s top heart and lung surgeons. He founded one of the country’s busiest transplant centers. One of his patients held the Guinness World Record for being the …

  29. The Chickens Were Doing Just Fine. Then the Heat Wave Killed Millions.

    Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:39:08 -0000

    The birds are particularly vulnerable to high temperatures, and France’s torrid June took a heavy toll. They were meant to die, just not like this. The chickens were 19 days away from a date at the slaughterhouse when temperatures climbed disastrously inside the long shed where they spent their …

  30. ‘A big joke’: Citizens blame corn, data centres and leaky pipes as water restrictions grip France

    Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:02:56 -0000

    Record heat and climate change are creating more frequent and severe droughts. France is bracing for its third heatwave of the year this week, after …