Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

  1. Why the US will pay a French company nearly $1 billion to give up wind farm plans

    Sat, 28 Mar 2026 09:00:09 -0000

    This week, the Trump administration announced it had struck an unusual deal. The U.S. government will pay TotalEnergies, a French power generation …

  2. Europe's farms are reeling from the Iran war. Regenerative farmers saw it coming

    Sat, 28 Mar 2026 06:02:01 -0000

    The Iran war has sent fertiliser prices soaring – but these farmers aren’t fazed. A crisis is looming on European farms as the war on Iran threatens …

  3. April weather forecast predicts 'major change' as heat dome moves

    Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:03:10 -0000

    Forecasters say the heat dome that's baked the West for weeks will shift east. Here's what weather to expect as the calendar turns to April. As the calendar soon turns to April, it appears that we can finally shed all talk of the polar vortex until next winter as milder weather takes hold across …

  4. He Helped Write the Clean Air Act. He Fears for Its Future.

    Sat, 28 Mar 2026 09:00:37 -0000

    Thomas Jorling, adviser to Republicans who cosponsored the 1970 law, disputes the Trump administration’s claim that it shouldn’t apply to planet-warming greenhouse gases. When the Trump administration took the extraordinary step this year of killing the government’s authority to regulate greenhouse …

  5. As Western heat wave ends, scientists try to make sense of its length and intensity

    Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:00:00 -0000

    The heat dome set more than 1,500 temperature records across 11 states. Temperatures were 20 to 30 degrees above average in some places. The scorching spring heat dome that baked the West for well over a week has finally moved along, after setting more than 1,500 temperature records across 11 …

  6. Arctic sea ice shrank to tie its lowest winter level as unprecedented heat shatters records globally

    Sat, 28 Mar 2026 19:26:35 -0000

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Vital Arctic sea ice shrank to tie its lowest measured level for the winter, the season when ice grows, as a warming Earth …

  7. How the U.S. fell behind China and Russia in polar icebreakers and its plan to catch up

    Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:55:01 -0000

    Polar icebreakers are in high demand as warming temperatures and melting ice open new Arctic trade routes saving shippers both time and money. They …

  8. Can You Plant A Peace Lily Outdoors? Here's What Gardeners Say

    Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:15:00 -0000

    Peace lilies (Spathiphyllum spp.) are often sold as potted plants, and are popular indoor plants for the home or office. They're also rather easy on the eyes, with large green leaves and white spathes, so it makes sense to want to add one (or several) to your garden. But can you? The answer is yes, …

  9. Australia has to fight back against misinformation about climate change, Senate report says

    Sat, 28 Mar 2026 18:46:18 -0000

    How can Australia tackle the scourge of online bots and trolls, and orchestrated disinformation campaigns, that are trying to prevent action on …

  10. Trump brings farmers to White House to tout relief from the pain he’s unleashed on them — and bash Somalis along the way

    Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:29:05 -0000

    One month into a war that has sent fuel prices through the roof and sparked fears of fertilizer shortages that could wreak havoc on the world’s food …

  11. ‘Looksmaxxer’ streamer shoots at alligator in the Everglades. There’s an inquiry

    Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:52:10 -0000

    Braden Peters, better known as Clavicular online, has streamed his latest controversial act: multiple rounds fired at an alligator. The 20-year-old …

  12. Stop Calling Them Billionaires. Start Calling Them Predators

    Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:53:40 -0000

    The Predator Class. They extract. Corrupt. Bet on catastrophic outcomes—wars, crop failures, housing market collapse, climate chaos—profit from …

  13. New York's governor wants to delay a landmark climate law. That could cost households thousands in energy bills

    Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:55:00 -0000

    A recent analysis by a coalition of climate and community groups says delaying the law could cost New Yorkers $9,000 per household over five years. Kathy Hochul, the governor of New York, has proposed a delay to the state’s landmark 2019 climate law, saying its goals would be too costly and could …

  14. Arctic sea ice at lowest recorded winter level as heat records smashed

    Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:43:49 -0000

    (The Hill) – The North Pole’s sea ice has reached its lowest level for the winter season as increasing temperatures break records across the …

  15. Utah’s historic snow drought is one that trees will likely never forget

    Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:37:22 -0000

    Utah’s towering ponderosa pines are tough customers. They can live for hundreds of years, surviving harsh conditions at high altitudes. But even …

  16. Scientists dive beneath Arctic ice to study threatened ecosystems

    Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:37:33 -0000

    Scientists trained in Finland to dive beneath Arctic ice, studying fragile polar ecosystems threatened by climate change. The course gives rare, hands-on skills to explore underwater habitats robots cannot safely survey, as instructors warn of the urgent need for more research to protect these …

  17. War in the Middle East made the case for renewables – what’s happening in each country tells a harder story

    Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:25:22 -0000

    The oil-dependent world is in crisis. Ship traffic in the Strait of Hormuz – through which more than a quarter of global seaborne oil trade and a …

  18. Balcony Solar Is Spreading Across The US

    Sun, 29 Mar 2026 03:00:06 -0000

    The balcony solar movement has reached the US, as Trump's war in Iraq sends ratepayers scrambling to after clean, local, affordable power.The post …

  19. Scientists achieve major breakthrough in pursuit of nearly limitless energy device

    Sat, 28 Mar 2026 05:00:00 -0000

    A Japanese nuclear fusion startup is one step closer to creating a commercially viable fusion power generation system.According to Interesting …

  20. One of the most radical reinventions in evolutionary history

    Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:30:00 -0000

    Few transformations in the history of life have been as extreme as the embrace of the ocean by seagrass. Like whales and dolphins, modern seagrasses …

  21. Mapped: The World’s Most Water-Stressed Countries

    Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:12:30 -0000

    See visuals like this from many other data creators on our Voronoi app. Download it for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven …

  22. Gardeners Are Adding a Handful of Forest Soil to Their Raised Beds – Here's Why You Should, Too

    Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:15:00 -0000

    Go into a healthy stretch of woods and dig just below the leaves. What's underneath – dark, loose, threaded through with pale fungal strands – is …

  23. Saving the snow for next year: Ski resorts try 'snow farming' as temperatures rise

    Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:49:25 -0000

    The approach involves making snow when conditions are ideal, then piling it high under an insulated mat through the summer. Several ski areas are giving it a go. Amid the West’s worst snow drought in modern history, several ski areas are attempting a novel approach: Storing up artificial snow and …

  24. Man who spent 200 days building a solar-powered explorer yacht that can run forever shares how much solar he’d need to cruise at 6.5 knots

    Sat, 28 Mar 2026 20:47:00 -0000

    The solar-powered Helios 11 superyacht utilizes high-efficiency solar panels to maintain a consistent cruise speed without the need for filling …

  25. Big Oil's Post-Trump About Face Proves Corporations Won't Regulate Themselves | Common Dreams

    Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:45:04 -0000

    The sooner we stop expecting companies like Exxon to be voluntary agents of social change, the sooner we can stop the flow of hypocrisy and …

  26. To keep climate science alive, researchers are speaking in code

    Fri, 27 Mar 2026 08:45:00 -0000

    Words considered "woke" are vanishing from National Science Foundation proposals. We tracked the changes. At the Department of Agriculture’s research …

  27. Gabon’s tiny turtles race against extinction as funding for protection dries up

    Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:55:47 -0000

    On the beaches of Pongara National Park, around 30 minutes by boat from Libreville, conservationists patrol the sand each day to locate nests, move …

  28. Here's some new dirt on an unusual source of antibiotic resistance

    Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:59:30 -0000

    It's one of the highest-stakes battles on earth: bacteria versus antibiotics. And in the human realm, bacteria appear to be gaining ground. Worldwide, many antibiotics are starting to lose their bite. About 1 in 6 human infections tested in labs are resistant to antibiotics, contributing to over 4 …

  29. A South African reserve shows how carbon can catalyze rewilding conservation

    Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:06:59 -0000

    TSWALU KALAHARI RESERVE, South Africa — From high on a promontory in the Korannaberg Mountains, a mountain zebra (Equus zebra hartmannae) peers down …

  30. Huge crowds protest against Trump on 'No Kings' day in the US and abroad

    Sat, 28 Mar 2026 05:35:55 -0000

    Organisers said the protests may add up to one of the largest demonstrations in US history, with more than 3,100 events taking place in major cities, …