Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

  1. Lies Al Gore told me

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:00:48 -0000

    It was just another day in school in the sweltering heat of suburban South Florida. Upon our return from afternoon recess, our fifth-grade teacher …

  2. Why Europe is warming twice as fast as the global average

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:55:00 -0000

    The wildfires sweeping France and Spain this week are the largest blazes either country has faced in modern history. This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. An underappreciated surreality of …

  3. He let the weed everyone was fighting take over. It grew into a forest, then died out on its own.

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:48:26 -0000

    “The key was to leave it well alone, take away the things that stopped the regeneration process and let nature do the hard work.” In 1987, a botanist …

  4. Firestorm burns out of control in Europe

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:12:00 -0000

    Wildfires are burning out of control in France and Spain as some residents returned to their communities to find incinerated homes. Ramy Inocencio …

  5. Trump administration targeted California and other blue states for clean energy cuts

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The fate of hundreds of clean energy projects hangs in the balance after court documents revealed that the Trump administration targeted California and other blue states solely for political reasons when it slashed funding for the initiatives last year. Large companies, startups, utilities, …

  6. Roundup’s Surprising Connection to Industrial Meat

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:01:34 -0000

    The one thing glyphosate has in common with the screwworm outbreak, deforestation, climate change and bird flu. For years, Bayer and the biotech giant …

  7. Inside the ‘America First’ makeover of a global hunger program

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:45:00 -0000

    In remaking USAID’s Feed the Future innovation labs, Trump is abandoning an agricultural research effort built to benefit the world. Bassirou Sani …

  8. Trump blames Canada for wildfire smoke in the US. But experts say he’s ignoring the bigger problem

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:14:56 -0000

    United States President Donald Trump has accused Canada of “wilful negligence” over wildfires, blaming its forest management, threatening tariffs and …

  9. It’s so hot in France that a wildfire created a never-before-seen lightning cloud that ignited even more fires

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:43:09 -0000

    PARIS (AP) — A wildfire in southwest France grew so powerful that its smoke column became a thunderstorm, generating lightning that struck the ground …

  10. This Volcano in Antarctica Is Spewing out $6,000 Worth of Gold Dust Per Day — But You Can't Go Get It

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:16:22 -0000

    Even if you could get there, you're not getting that gold. Antarctica’s Mount Erebus has been erupting for more than half a century, churning a …

  11. Sargassum, the smelly nemesis of beach vacations, has become a self-sustaining disaster that will keep coming back

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:07:59 -0000

    You’ve been planning your dream beach vacation for months, only to arrive and find the shoreline covered in large piles of smelly, brown seaweed, …

  12. France's New Floating Wind Farm Just Went Live, And It's Not Just Generating Energy

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:47:00 -0000

    In July 2026, energy company Ocean Winds announced that its Éoliennes Flottantes du Golfe du Lion (EFGL) floating offshore wind farm reached full power-generating capacity. It runs three 10 MW turbines about 10 miles off the coast of Occitanie in France. Offshore wind farms often have unusual …

  13. 'No matter what you do, you can’t put it out': Spanish firefighters describe record blaze

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:33:22 -0000

    BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish firefighter Javier García has never faced anything like the record blaze raging near Madrid in his two decades protecting woodlands and rural communities. “This doesn’t have a precedent,” García told The Associated Press by phone before another long day ahead. The …

  14. The Tesla Diner Is a Runaway Success. But Not for the Reason You’d Think.

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:16:29 -0000

    Strip away the restaurant and the hype, and Tesla Diner is an 80-plug fast-charging station plunked right in the middle of a former charging …

  15. The Concerning Data Center Side Effect That Might Affect Millions

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:25:00 -0000

    There are over 12,000 data centers across the globe today. As artificial intelligence (AI) demand intensifies, more data centers are projected to be …

  16. The Earth is on Fire

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:38:25 -0000

    Wildfires are advancing on cities, emptying towns and sending smoke across borders, as parts of Europe and North America face another summer of …

  17. Photos Show the Destruction in France and Spain From Ferocious European Wildfires

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:16:45 -0000

    Firefighters in France and Spain are battling ferocious wildfires in an effort to control the blazes before the next heat wave arrives later this week. French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday described the "completely unprecedented" crisis as the "toughest since the Second World War." He urged …

  18. 9 Facts About Easter Island That the Official Explanation Was Forced to Abandon After Full Excavation

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:15:00 -0000

    For years, the story of Easter Island sounded almost too neat: an isolated people supposedly chopped down every last tree, built giant stone heads, …

  19. Europe is burning: How bad could this wildfire crisis get?

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:48:16 -0000

    Wildfires are sweeping across Spain and France, leaving a trail of destroyed homes, scorched forests and mass evacuations. With temperatures expected …

  20. The Ecosystems Woven Into Our Clothes

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:00:48 -0000

    High in the Andes mountains, a puma looks down upon the Patagonia plateau, eyeing a large herd of woolly sheep moving in lockstep. The threat of …

  21. 13 Extinct Animals Scientists Now Believe May Still Be Alive

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:17:30 -0000

    Extinction is supposed to be permanent. That’s the whole point of the word. But over a dozen species officially declared gone forever have turned up …

  22. Major news outlets and Democrats are pretending weather isn’t affected by climate

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Along with ongoing coverage of the latest bombings and missile and drone attacks in Iran and the oil-rich Gulf states, extreme weather events are also providing lead segments on evening news programs this summer. What you don’t see in much of the TV coverage, at least not since the beginning of …

  23. Trump’s Isolationism Is Losing the Great E.V. Race

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 06:00:00 -0000

    The United States risks becoming a theme park of internal combustion, as the rest of the world moves on. Australia plays a number of interesting roles in the world, and one of them is as part of what scientists call a “natural experiment,” in which significant forces can be observed at work outside …

  24. Devastating European wildfires in maps - and how they're being tackled

    Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:21:32 -0000

    Wildfires are tearing through France and Spain, forcing more than 300,000 people to evacuate their homes. France has seen its worst fires in two decades, while officials in the Spanish capital Madrid say they are the worst the region has ever experienced. It follows a sweltering summer of heatwaves …

  25. A Silent Wave of Language Extinction Predates Colonialism

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:00:00 -0000

    Around 7,500 spoken and signed languages are used worldwide today. Yet this extraordinary diversity may represent only a fraction of the linguistic …

  26. Wildfires burn nearly 300,000 acres in France and Spain as heat wave looms

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:23:40 -0000

    Wildfires are continuing to rage in parts of France and Spain as concerns grow that the latest heatwave could exacerbate the disaster. The fires, …

  27. Is Your Sunshade Doing The Job?

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:00:02 -0000

    It seems self-evident that a sunshade inside a car's windshield would be pretty effective, for the same reason that blinds or curtains in your home prevent the interior from getting too hot. Even the ancients understood cooling. However, is it truly the right way to prevent the inside of your beloved ride from roasting?

  28. Willie Nelson Urges Americans to Fight the Construction of Data Centers: They ‘Only Destroy the Environment Around Them’

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:17:32 -0000

    Willie Nelson has spoken out against the construction of data centers across America, releasing a statement encouraging citizens to fight the …

  29. Youth climate lawsuit seeks full Ninth Circuit hearing

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:34:03 -0000

    A group of young plaintiffs, who sued the federal government alleging a series of executive orders threaten their constitutional right to life by …

  30. France Had Never Seen a ‘Fire Cloud’ Until This Month’s Record-Smashing Blazes

    Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:57:20 -0000

    Extreme fire conditions on the ground have created unprecedented conditions in the atmosphere. Firefighters in France are confronting a phenomenon …