Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. European wildfires expose, detonate buried bombs and mines from past wars

   Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:35:04 -0000

   The wildfires burning across Europe this summer have exposed a potentially deadly threat lurking beneath the blackened landscape: rusty bombs and …

2. In a drier world, some infectious diseases are unexpectedly thriving

   Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:30:00 -0000

   Researchers are beginning to untangle how the “drought-disease paradox” works. The world has become hotter and, in many places, drier than ever before …

3. Will the Supreme Court Reject Police Militarization?

   Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

   The LAPD wrecked a business owner’s shop while chasing a fugitive, and the city is refusing to compensate him. The next stop could be the Roberts …

4. World hunger decline is the fruit of growth

   Sat, 22 Aug 2026 11:00:00 -0000

   A United Nations report shows another decline in food insecurity. Here’s a bit of news worth celebrating: Despite multiple violent conflicts around the globe, and stubborn inflation, 2025 was the third year in a row in which global hunger fell. That’s according to a July report from the United …

5. Sudan farms lie barren as El Nino leaves Nile banks dry

   Sat, 22 Aug 2026 06:11:03 -0000

   Along the bone-dry riverbanks of the Nile in Sudan, farmers struggle to pull water to their crops. Others gather to pray for rainfall over cracked …

6. Firefighters sound alarm as US faces critical staffing shortage: ‘We don’t have enough people’

   Sat, 22 Aug 2026 13:00:00 -0000

   Firefighters describe being pushed to limit by a brutal wildfire season, with key leadership roles going unfilled. This story was originally published …

7. Solar buoyed Europe's grid amid record-breaking heat and drought this summer

   Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:45:00 -0000

   The season of extreme weather holds lessons for how the continent can climate-proof its energy systems. Repeated record-breaking heat waves cooked the …

8. Why Nuclear Energy Is Making a Global Comeback

   Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0000

   Energy security concerns augmented by recent years of war in Ukraine and the Middle East have fueled a global resurgence of nuclear energy. In Asia, …

9. ‘It was a tsunami’: Floods leave death trail in India’s Assam

   Sat, 22 Aug 2026 05:35:50 -0000

   From a father searching for his daughter’s body to a man who drowned trying to save a friend, floods take devastating toll. Assam, India – Debiram Panika, a 37-year-old daily wage labourer from northeastern India’s Assam state, would speak to his wife and two daughters on video calls every day from …

10. Trump Hates the Troops. The Troops Are Taking Notice.

    Sat, 22 Aug 2026 04:00:00 -0000

    The administration is desperately trying to spin the hopeless war in Iran as a success, but our service members and their families are telling a …

11. Rare South American Diseases Offer Clues on the Next Pandemic

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:00:29 -0000

    Ebola virus, hantavirus and the pathogen that causes Covid-19 likely jumped from animals to humans. So do these viruses — and scientists say climate change is speeding their spread. By the time colleagues called Dr. Matías Lahitte, an Argentine infectious disease specialist, it was too late. The …

12. Residents in Conwy remove Greenpeace Andy Burnham mountain mural

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:02:24 -0000

    Residents affected by wildfires say they were left "angry and upset" after a mural of Prime Minister Andy Burnham was painted on a blackened mountainside above their homes. Dubbing it an "intrusion into grief" two walkers removed Greenpeace's work with rakes. The campaign group's 1,120-sq-m anti-oil …

13. Video. Mongolia hosts UN desertification summit as drought crisis deepens

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:40:51 -0000

    Mongolia is hosting the UN Convention to Combat Desertification’s COP17 in Ulaanbaatar from 17 to 28 August, bringing together representatives from …

14. Natalie Harp Should Concern Everyone—I Should Know, I Once Had Her Job

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    When I ran President Obama’s socials, I treated that work as needing checks and restraint at every point of the process. Its absence in the Trump …

15. COP17 in Mongolia: Finding solutions to land degradation

    Sat, 22 Aug 2026 15:51:33 -0000

    Delegates of 179 members of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification engage with local communities and business partners to find solutions for …

16. Climate Breakdown is here: Why won’t governments act?

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:12:04 -0000

    Adapting to an over-heated planet means very little unless it is accompanied by addressing the root causes of climate breakdown. Will the succession …

17. ‘The Sun was dark and its darkness lasted for 18 months’ – what we can learn from worst volcanic eruptions in history

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:32:45 -0000

    Europe was plunged into darkness and suffered from intense crop failures and famines in the years AD536 and AD1258, after massive volcanic …

18. The Strait of Hormuz Isn’t the Only Major Shipping Route in Crisis

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Two other vital maritime waterways are snarled—due not to war, but the climate. This is the new normal. Policymakers and economists have long treated …

19. Altérra CEO says $250 billion climate investment target is within reach

    Sat, 22 Aug 2026 04:00:01 -0000

    Altérra CEO Majid Al Suwaidi says the UAE-backed climate investor is “extremely confident” it can mobilize $250 billion by 2030.

20. Florida shows how to adapt as coastal cities face growing threats from sea level rise and storms

    Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:02:53 -0000

    One day there was a roof. The next morning it was gone. Jeffrey Huber still remembers the day some 34 years ago when Hurricane Andrew blew off the roof of his childhood home, one of tens of thousands damaged and destroyed across southern Florida. For days, first responders couldn’t get to them. For …

21. This year's El Nino set to be strongest in more than a century, UK forecasters say

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:28:32 -0000

    Britain's Met Office has predicted sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific will reach an "unheard-of" level of potentially more than three degrees above average, triggering severe droughts across South America and the West Pacific. Such an event would have serious knock-on effects for …

22. Albania's tourism paradox

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:03:00 -0000

    Albania wants to turn its natural beauty into an economic engine. But environmentalists warn that this development may destroy the very thing tourists came to see.

23. Greenland meltwater is intensifying European heatwaves

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:00:00 -0000

    The melting of the Greenland ice sheet is causing more extreme heat in Europe, contributing to the major heatwaves experienced there so far this year. …

24. This El Niño is shocking. But is it a 'super' event?

    Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:00:38 -0000

    The current El Niño has been casually called a "monster" and a "flamethrower," but officials have given it a less alarming-sounding designation. With sharks on the move, sea surface temperatures skyrocketing and one tropical system after another in the eastern Pacific, signs of a potentially …

25. Climate change and infectious disease in Europe: Impact, projection and adaptation

    Sat, 22 Aug 2026 11:22:05 -0000

    Europeans are not only exposed to direct effects from climate change, but also vulnerable to indirect effects from infectious disease, many of which …

26. One ship paid $4 million to skip the Panama Canal line. Here’s why that matters for your wallet

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:00:29 -0000

    In early August, dozens of vessels were waiting for their turn in the Panama Canal. Some had been stuck for more than a week. One chemical tanker has been there over a month. Then on August 10, a large container ship paid a staggering $4 million to fast-track its trip — leaving others, either …

27. How to See Pacific Salmon Make Their Epic Annual Migration

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    SalmonCam livestreams and national parks offer a front row seat to watch as millions of salmon leap upstream—avoiding the bears hoping to catch them midair. Every year, millions of salmon return from the Pacific Ocean to their natal rivers and streams in one of North America's most remarkable …

28. Ancient Toba eruption reveals a supervolcano can stay dangerous for thousands of years

    Sat, 22 Aug 2026 11:51:00 -0000

    • Indonesia’s Toba supervolcano remained active for thousands of years after its massive eruption about 74,000 years ago. • Some later eruptions pushed …

29. Video. Hungary’s lakes and rivers hit record lows as severe drought deepens

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:54:43 -0000

    Hungary is facing a severe water crisis, with prolonged heat and drought driving water levels sharply lower. Around 99% of the country is under …

30. Anti-tobacco groups push for smoking ban in national parks

    Sat, 22 Aug 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Anti-tobacco advocacy groups are calling on the federal government to ban smoking in national parks to reduce the risk of wildfires and prevent litter from cigarette butts. The Canadian chapter of Action on Smoking and Health is among seven organizations that signed a letter to Environment, Climate …