Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. The U.S. Still Doesn't Have an Answer to China's EV Dominance

   Fri, 15 May 2026 19:32:35 -0000

   President Donald Trump returns from China today alongside a who’s who in his cabinet and some of the most recognizable faces in American business like Elon Musk and Jensen Huang. While details were thin on any actual dealmaking to emerge from the two-day trip, Trump left with an air of positivity …

2. Giant lake suddenly returns 130 years after vanishing

   Fri, 15 May 2026 09:37:09 -0000

   Tulare Lake, located in California’s San Joaquin Valley, was once one of the largest bodies of freshwater in the whole of the US. But, some 130 years …

3. Justice Alito pushes back on calls to sit out a major Supreme Court climate case

   Fri, 15 May 2026 15:13:47 -0000

   The conservative justice has no financial conflict that would require him to recuse himself from the case, a court spokeswoman told NBC News. WASHINGTON — Facing calls to step aside in a major upcoming case involving climate change, conservative Justice Samuel Alito is pushing back, with a Supreme …

4. The Feds Are Coming After Grand-Staircase Escalante. Scientists Are Furious.

   Sat, 16 May 2026 04:46:23 -0000

   In the remote canyons of Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, a battle over public land protections is quietly unfolding. More than 150 researchers and scientific institutions have called on lawmakers to reject legislation that would strip Grand Staircase-Escalante of federal …

5. Trump’s FEMA Is an Unnatural Disaster

   Fri, 15 May 2026 10:00:00 -0000

   The president has staffed the agency in charge of federal disaster response with a rotating cast of fools—and it’s showing. FEMA is not all right. As …

6. Activists hang Palestinian flag on the Eiffel Tower for Nakba Day

   Fri, 15 May 2026 09:38:54 -0000

   Members of Extinction Rebellion scaled the Eiffel Tower to hang a Palestinian flag for Nakba day. Members of Extinction Rebellion France, an environmental and social activism group, scaled the Eiffel Tower on the 78th anniversary of the Nakba, displaying a Palestinian flag in protest against …

7. How One Young Kenyan’s 23,326 Trees Showed the World What Climate Action Looks Like

   Fri, 15 May 2026 16:23:07 -0000

   There is a particular kind of silence that descends on a forest at dawn when something historic is about to be completed. I felt it on the morning of …

8. Trump sued after ordering coal plant to stay open — that's now releasing mercury into air

   Fri, 15 May 2026 20:46:57 -0000

   The Trump administration forced a Michigan coal plant to stay open, citing an “energy emergency," which has now led to hazardous emissions, according …

9. A closely guarded plan to cool Earth is revealed

   Fri, 15 May 2026 12:21:37 -0000

   A company that aims to make billions of dollars by cooling the Earth has lifted the veil of secrecy that until now has hidden its plans for preventing sunlight from overheating the planet. It hinges on aerosol particles that are 125 times smaller than the tiniest grains of sand. Stardust Solutions …

10. 'The biggest El Niño event since the 1870s': 'Super' El Niño is now the most likely scenario by the end of this year ‪—‬ and the humanitarian cost could be huge

    Fri, 15 May 2026 11:52:29 -0000

    A "super" El Niño is now the most likely scenario from October 2026 to February 2027, according to a new forecast from the National Oceanic and …

11. The Colorado River Is on the Brink of Disaster

    Fri, 15 May 2026 15:45:00 -0000

    The Colorado River is running dangerously low, and the seven Western states that rely on it can’t agree on how to share what’s left. A deal deadline came and went in February, leading the federal government to threaten its own solution—one that would keep the dams generating power, but likely bring …

12. US: Climate protesters block entrance to Con Edison Building in New York, multiple arrested.

    Fri, 15 May 2026 18:06:58 -0000

    SHOTLIST: NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (MAY 15, 2026) 1. VARIOUS OF PROTESTRS DELIVERING SPEECH, HOLDING BANNERS AND CHANTING SLOGANS 2. VARIOUS OF POLICE ARRESTING SOME PROTESTERS NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - MAY 15, 2026: Climate activists block the entrance to the Con Edison building in Manhattan during a “Gas-Free NYC” protest on Friday, May 15. Demonstrators called for New York City to transition away from fossil fuels and expand clean energy policies. They chanted slogans and held signs reading “Mamdani lower our bills,” “Make polluters pay” and “Freeze the rate.” Multiple protesters were arrested by police during the demonstration.

13. What the US Would Lose If It Eliminates the National Center for Atmospheric Research

    Sat, 16 May 2026 08:50:00 -0000

    “I think there's a great loss for the wrong reasons. There's no good reason for dismantling this or tearing it down,” a former NASA chief scientist …

14. Ed Miliband emerges as Britain’s power broker a decade after election rout

    Sat, 16 May 2026 09:13:00 -0000

    As energy secretary, Mr Miliband has enacted policies popular with the Labour left to further Britain’s net zero ambitions.

15. How a growing El Niño will affect 2026 hurricane season in Atlantic and Pacific

    Fri, 15 May 2026 13:55:00 -0000

    As the globe transitions into an El Niño climate pattern, temperatures in the waters in the Pacific Ocean are on the rise. It comes just as the …

16. Trump’s Tax Law Is Slowing Down Projects and Piling Up Legal Work

    Fri, 15 May 2026 21:34:41 -0000

    With construction deadlines approaching, developers still aren’t sure how to comply with the new rules. Certainty, certainty, certainty — three things …

17. Looking for whales—and awe—through Baja California

    Fri, 15 May 2026 13:46:02 -0000

    The Gulf of California was once known as “the aquarium of the world.” But on a recent whale watching trip—and in an era where climate change is making its mark—our writer wonders if it still delivers. When considering a trip to Baja, it’s nearly impossible to dodge the words of two famous men: …

18. Maine’s Wild Blueberry Farmers Are Fighting to Survive a Climate in Crisis

    Fri, 15 May 2026 07:41:13 -0000

    Few foods carry the soul of a place quite like Maine’s wild blueberries. Smaller, more intensely flavored, and deeply rooted in Indigenous and …

19. An alarming weather pattern is emerging. NOAA doesn't know what to make of it yet

    Fri, 15 May 2026 18:30:00 -0000

    Heading into hurricane season, the agency says there’s still ‘substantial uncertainty about El Niño’s peak strength.’ El Niño is “likely to emerge soon” with an 82% chance of it starting as early as this month into July, and with a 96% chance it will continue from December into February 2027, …

20. The Sellout of the Crazies

    Thu, 14 May 2026 15:42:32 -0000

    This story is from Floodlight, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powers stalling climate action, in partnership with High Country News. Sign …

21. New El Niño forecast warns of a powerful shift amid hurricane season

    Thu, 14 May 2026 13:02:05 -0000

    The chaotic climate force is known for boosting hurricane activity some places and reducing it in others. Here's what to know as a new forecast warns that a "very strong" El Niño could be brewing. El Niño is coming "soon" and it could reach "very strong" levels later this year, according to a May …

22. 10 shocking ways Planet Earth has changed since David Attenborough's birth, 100 years ago...

    Sat, 16 May 2026 09:00:00 -0000

    Between 1926 and 2026 the Earth has almost changed beyond recognition... For those people who have been living in a total isolation, cut off from all …

23. Ottawa sacrifices climate goals for a pipeline nobody needs

    Sat, 16 May 2026 01:13:04 -0000

    Thomas Gunton is the director of the resource and environmental planning program at Simon Fraser University. The Friday agreement by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Prime Minister Mark Carney on industrial carbon pricing fulfills one of the key conditions in the Ottawa-Alberta deal signed in …

24. Old Oil and Gas Wells Could Find Second Life Producing Clean Energy

    Sat, 16 May 2026 07:00:00 -0000

    States across the US are looking to take major sources of pollution and use them to generate much-needed power. As states seek out much-needed …

25. The Hantavirus Is Also a Climate Warning

    Fri, 15 May 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Higher temperatures, like this coming summer’s, bring more infectious diseases. The signs now are that the hantavirus is not the next pandemic. But …

26. Trump’s Federal Gas Tax Holiday Isn't Likely to Bring Down Prices

    Fri, 15 May 2026 06:30:00 -0000

    Reducing the fee will have only a marginal impact on prices while depriving the government of revenue to maintain roads. As gas prices stay stubbornly …

27. How coastlines propelled ancient humans across the planet

    Fri, 15 May 2026 13:58:05 -0000

    National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is a man on a mission: Travel across the world in the way the earliest humans out of Africa did. Lately, he’s been hiking and paddling along Alaska’s southern coast. He joins Host Marco Werman to share what he’s learned about how coastal ecosystems helped …

28. State Farm CEO is betting big on AI—and contemplating the company’s future in California

    Fri, 15 May 2026 10:15:51 -0000

    • In today’s CEO Daily: Diane Brady interviews State Farm CEO Jon Farney on the tough economics of insurance.• The big leadership story: What Cerebras’ …

29. The War in Iran is Causing an Energy Crisis Nobody Can Opt Out Of

    Thu, 14 May 2026 17:00:02 -0000

    For years, the case for clean energy has been framed around the future. Lower emissions. Lower costs. Long-term resilience. But markets and policymakers rarely move on future benefits alone. They move when risk becomes immediate. Over the past eight weeks, that risk has come into view. The IEA’s …

30. With a possible referendum looming, Carney and Smith find common ground on carbon pricing

    Sat, 16 May 2026 08:00:00 -0000

    On Friday morning in Calgary, Mark Carney and Danielle Smith shook hands, then signed and posed with official copies of an "implementation agreement …