Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. ‘Recovery becomes self-propelling’: Five positive tipping points that can save the world

   Sat, 12 Sep 2026 05:05:36 -0000

   “For too long a sense has prevailed that solutions to the climate and nature are out of reach. This new research explodes that myth once and for all.” …

2. There could be no Atlantic hurricanes this year – but there’s a catch

   Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:32:37 -0000

   Forecasters say it’s possible that the U.S. may not see any Atlantic hurricanes this season, potentially breaking a century-old record. The last time …

3. El Niño Map Shows Cities Facing Biggest Winter Weather Change

   Sat, 12 Sep 2026 06:19:49 -0000

   Major cities from Los Angeles to Atlanta could face heavier rainfall, flooding and other disruptive weather this winter as El Niño strengthens, …

4. The Atlantic Ocean Has a Hidden 'Heat Valve' That Controls Earth's Temperature – And It Could Be Closing

   Sat, 12 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0000

   Our relatively stable global climate is governed by an incredibly complex set of factors, all interacting with each other in dynamic and changeable …

5. Mosquito-borne illnesses increasing in US. See map of affected states

   Sat, 12 Sep 2026 12:02:59 -0000

   As Western states fight a rise in West Nile virus and the South contends with a surge in dengue fever, mosquito-borne diseases have left some Americans uneasy as this summer season comes to a close. While some mosquito-borne illnesses common in more tropical climates, such as malaria and yellow …

6. Hugging Face CEO says asking Anthropic researcher ‘about AI extinction risk is like asking your AC guy about climate change’

   Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:25:05 -0000

   Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue questioned the focus on a former Anthropic researcher who said AI workers privately fear the technology could kill all humans. "Sorry, but asking Jacob about AI extinction risk is like asking your AC guy about climate change," Delangue wrote on X on Friday. Delangue …

7. The Accelerating Project to Extend Abortion Bans to All 50 States

   Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:08:20 -0000

   In a legal challenge to abortion access at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Department of Justice and Louisiana are on opposite sides. But …

8. Water Shortages Now Hitting Russia Hard Across The Board - Analysis - Eurasia Review

   Sat, 12 Sep 2026 02:07:30 -0000

   Key Takeaways: The author argues Russia is facing spreading water shortages from climate change and heavier use—not only its famous spring floods. …

9. Why can't polar bears live in Antarctica?

   Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:14:53 -0000

   Yes polar bears could live in Antarctica, but the results would be disastrous... Quite often, in a case of ‘polar confusion’, people envision polar …

10. Man tries to power his parents' home with an EV battery to see how viable and realistic it is

    Sat, 12 Sep 2026 07:52:00 -0000

    A man decided to power his parents’ home with an EV battery to see just how viable and realistic the idea really is. Instead of buying a conventional …

11. The U.S. Is Having One of Its Most Active Wildfire Seasons. Here’s How the Costs Are Adding Up

    Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:29:01 -0000

    The United States is on pace to see one of its most active wildfire seasons on record. According to a new AccuWeather report, large fires were active in at least 13 states as of Sept. 9, while more than 8.4 million acres had burned nationwide this year—about 1.3 million acres above the full-year …

12. The Tech Bros’ War on Climate Action

    Sat, 12 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Amy Westervelt’s new book exposes the deep history of today’s “information pollution.” We live in a time, journalist Amy Westervelt laments in her new …

13. How the Yellowstone Supervolcano Could End Life Across Half of America – Dino World

    Sat, 12 Sep 2026 11:11:49 -0000

    Imagine waking up to a sky that stays dark at noon, ash falling like dirty snow, and the quiet hum of everyday life replaced by a heavy, unnatural …

14. They cleaned up ground zero. Now many are hiding from ICE

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0000

    NEW YORK — Once a week, in a Queens office building, a group of immigrants in their 50s and 60s gathers. They've all known each other for some 25 years: they met when they were cleaning up ground zero together. They are among the thousands of cleanup crews who rushed to the destruction in lower …

15. Scientists got diamond's melting point wrong by more than 1,000 degrees, crushing new laser experiment reveals

    Sat, 12 Sep 2026 14:00:00 -0000

    Scientists blasted diamonds with lasers to get the best measurement of the mineral's melting point yet. The new, more accurate numbers could help …

16. A federal judge just told Trump there's no ‘emergency' to justify keeping a Michigan coal plant open

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:41:28 -0000

    It's one of the first successful legal challenges to the administration’s “energy emergency” agenda. The Department of Energy overstepped when it …

17. In 1959, the first nuclear-powered merchant ship set sail before the world was ready

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:54:00 -0000

    The NS 'Savannah' even offered a view into the reactor powering the state-of-the-art ship. By the time naval architecture firm George G. Sharp tasked Jack Heaney with the design of the world’s first nuclear-powered merchant ship, the Glasgow-born designer had already broken many styling norms. In …

18. Trump’s plans for ‘spectacular’ Irish ballroom have run into a 2mm problem

    Sat, 12 Sep 2026 08:31:00 -0000

    Donald Trump's plans to build a ballroom at his golf resort in Ireland have been halted, as environmentalists brand the move 'reprehensible'. It seems …

19. Someone Should Maybe Do Something About the AI Apocalypse, Right?

    Sat, 12 Sep 2026 04:00:00 -0000

    The AI industry say it’s holding a doomsday gun—and warning us it will go off soon. In the theater, there’s an old saying about “Chekhov’s gun” that …

20. Why Is NY’s Republican Candidate for Governor Embracing 9/11 Truthers?

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Bruce Blakeman has some odd bedfellows. Bruce Blakeman, the Republican vying to be New York’s next governor, has an uphill battle ahead of November: …

21. Fake EVs Hit The Road

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:15:00 -0000

    Car companies can’t sell EVs. People worry about how far they will go on a charge. They also worry about how many charging stations are available. …

22. Africa Braces for strongest El Niño since 1950 – heat, drought and floods loom

    Sat, 12 Sep 2026 16:42:30 -0000

    Africa faces a season of extreme heat, drought and flooding as forecasts show an unusually strong El Niño developing in the Pacific Ocean, with …

23. Scientists develop a plastic that can be turned into fertilizer

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:00:14 -0000

    Microplastics are a scourge on the environment, accumulating in farm soils and wriggling their way into the food supply—reducing harvests and harming …

24. Isn’t a 10 percent threat of extinction too high?

    Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:48:49 -0000

    A time for action This morning, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said that the risks now being posed by today’s advanced AI tools were simply too great to …

25. A Major Disappearance: America’s Air Monitors — and Your Power to Expose Polluters

    Sat, 12 Sep 2026 15:06:37 -0000

    Across several states, a quiet chemical industry campaign is making it harder to hold polluters accountable.

26. Buildings are sinking and cracking in one of Europe’s largest cities

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:09:08 -0000

    As blistering temperatures baked London this summer, people started to notice strange things happening to their houses: zig-zagging cracks suddenly …

27. Spring 2027 election now more likely over tax trap, Labour insiders believe

    Sat, 12 Sep 2026 05:00:00 -0000

    Andy Burnham had a front-row seat in the Cabinet in 2007 when Gordon Brown let speculation he would call a snap election run for weeks, only to later …

28. Trump is giving data centers a pass to pollute

    Sat, 12 Sep 2026 14:41:27 -0000

    The Trump administration is sacrificing Americans’ health to build data centers, former EPA officials warn. President Donald Trump is weakening environmental regulations in the name of speeding up the construction of AI data centers, raising health risks for Americans, a cadre of former EPA …

29. How Steelworkers Might Shape the Midterm Elections

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Trump’s “golden share” in U.S. Steel puts him in a bind. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed earlier this month a resolution …

30. ‘Incredible progress’: Inside the €682bn drive to turn the Mediterranean into a renewable powerhouse

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:00:54 -0000

    More than 552 GW of utility-scale solar and wind projects have been announced, or are already under development, across the Mediterranean. The …