Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. Trump Isn’t Helping Out the Auto Industry. He’s Helping to Tank It.

   Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:30:55 -0000

   The Trump administration is touting its recent rollback of Biden-era fuel efficiency standards as a win for American car manufacturers. It couldn’t …

2. Earth’s 2 biggest oceans are showing a strange—and unsettling—new pattern

   Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

   The 2026 Super El Niño is reshaping hurricane season in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Here’s what that means for you. This weekend much of the Eastern Seaboard got hit with an unusual September nor’easter, bringing torrential rains, damaging winds, and coastal flooding from northern Maine all the …

3. In reversal, Justice Samuel Alito steps aside from major climate case

   Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:10:42 -0000

   Alito will sit out the first case the Supreme Court hears this term after facing calls from the left to do so because he owns stock in oil companies. He had previously pushed back. WASHINGTON — Conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito will no longer participate in a major climate change case …

4. Lebanon’s Environmental Defenders Say Israel Is Deliberately Targeting Them

   Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:23:35 -0000

   In late April 2025, after 41-year-old farmer Oussama Farhat was discharged from the hospital, two pieces of shrapnel still lodged in his body, he …

5. Wolves did not save Yellowstone – why were we so desperate to believe they did?

   Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:12:59 -0000

   You might be among the 46 million people who’ve seen a video showing how wolves changed Yellowstone, or you may have heard some other version of this …

6. A hard-hitting ad campaign throws shade at Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg to highlight the real tech innovators

   Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0000

   A better future won’t just be built by billionaires, the Mozilla Foundation says. Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos might be the among the …

7. ‘Digger’ Review: As a Texas Oil Tycoon, Tom Cruise Goes Over the Top in Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Bombastically Self-Important Satire

   Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:00:02 -0000

   “Digger,” starring Tom Cruise as a Texas oil tycoon who unleashes forces even more powerful than himself, is a movie that thinks it’s delivering …

8. Six American Cities Facing Billion Dollar Flood Losses

   Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:58:19 -0000

   A nor’easter moved up the coast and lingered near New York for two days, flooding parts of the coast from New Jersey to Boston. One home was hit by …

9. Hurricane Nolo takes another turn, Polo to bring deep tropical moisture to Southwest desert

   Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:41:08 -0000

   Polo aims for Baja California, Nolo flirts with Category 5 strength, and Rachel intensifies as the Pacific’s relentless late-September storm train …

10. The Aral Sea, Once the World's Fourth-Largest Inland Lake, Was Drained Dry. Now It's a Ticking Carbon Bomb

    Mon, 28 Sep 2026 11:49:08 -0000

    Most of this inland sea is a dry lakebed the size of Ireland, and it has already released 748 million metric tons of CO2. But scientists say there's …

11. UNGA 81: Five key takeaways from general debate

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:30:40 -0000

    UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warns the future will be shaped by four tests: AI, climate change, war and inequality. The 81st United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) concluded on Monday with artificial intelligence (AI), the Israel-Palestine conflict and the US-Israel war on Iran dominating …

12. Storms are intensifying as temperatures rise. Which countries are most at risk?

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:55:44 -0000

    From colour-blindness to women’s clothing, early warning systems must ensure no one is left behind. “Climate change is making storms more intense, …

13. The Edge of California Is Falling Into the Ocean

    Mon, 28 Sep 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Storms driven by El Niño are pulling chunks of coast away. This season, El Niño is offering a glimpse of what the future has in store for California. Engorged with warm water, its waves powered by a frenzy of hurricanes, the Pacific Ocean has been clawing away huge chunks of the coast. Waves …

14. The World’s Biggest Emitters Could Stop Burning Fossil Fuels Tomorrow and Their Warming Would Still Last Until 2500

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:39:13 -0000

    Past pollution from 178 major producers may shape the climate for centuries. The smokestacks can stop. The oil wells can close. But the warming will …

15. CA sues Trump administration after cancellation of SLO County offshore wind lease

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:23:47 -0000

    California filed a lawsuit last week over the termination of an offshore wind lease off the coast of San Luis Obispo County. In June, Invenergy, which …

16. The invasive species that may run rampant as sea levels rise

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 07:50:47 -0000

    More than a hundred invasive species may colonise coastal waters worldwide by mid-century as sea levels rise due to climate change, a new study warns. …

17. Huge 'hybrid storm' will form over the US

    Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:42:39 -0000

    The National Weather Service says tropical moisture will surge over the Southwest into the central U.S. Several days of heavy to excessive rainfall may bring flooding risks. A soggy, potentially dangerous week is ahead for a "huge" section of the central United States, forecasters warned, as the …

18. What it means for global warming to exceed 1.5°C

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:05:00 -0000

    A sobering new report from the United Nations Environment Programme warns that even if governments deliver on all their existing climate pledges, …

19. Meet the 20 scholars and artists who've just won MacArthur Fellowships

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:01:00 -0000

    A historian who studies racial wage gaps, a saxophonist whose live performances include a chef cooking meals onstage and a forensic anthropologist who repatriates the remains of migrants who perished along the Texas-Mexico border — they are all among the latest recipients of the MacArthur …

20. The Last Recession Wasn’t Trump’s Fault. The Next One Will Be—Utterly.

    Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Trump is following one of the Republican Party’s long-standing traditions: burning the economy to the ground. About once a month, I go to Google News …

21. This grain could be an answer to drought-prone fields – if more Americans eat it

    Mon, 28 Sep 2026 05:00:00 -0000

    More farmers are showing interest in sorghum, a drought-tolerant grain. The crop is poised to expand in the U.S. – especially if Americans start …

22. ‘The tree against hunger’ could feed millions. So why is it only cultivated in one place?

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:20:12 -0000

    Nicknames for crops can be highly complimentary. Cotton, for example, has basked in its “White Gold” reputation since the 19th century, while wheat rules across many regions as the “King of Cereals.” As monikers go, though, few can match the level of flattery bestowed upon “the tree against hunger,” …

23. I’m Terrified of What Will Happen to This Country When We Run Out of Water

    Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:50:42 -0000

    How will Americans react when they turn on the taps and nothing comes out? This is the kind of journalism that used to be a lot more common than it is now. Texas Monthly has produced a magisterial exercise in reporting on the subject of the dying Rio Grande river. The piece, to which I can’t do …

24. Incoming El Niño Is so Extreme It Doesn’t Have a Scientific Name

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:55:00 -0000

    As a record breaking El Niño continues to grow in the Eastern Pacific, climate scientist Daniel Swain explains what may be in store for the next year …

25. Trump administration lowers fuel economy standards, critics say at a significant environmental cost

    Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:01:55 -0000

    DETROIT (AP) — The Trump administration on Monday released new fuel economy standards that relax regulatory requirements for automakers to control pollution from gasoline-powered cars and light trucks. The new rules were released shortly after President Donald Trump rejected an Iranian proposal to …

26. The Pacific Ocean Is Doing Something Weird as It Warms: Young Water Gets Older, And Old Water Gets Younger

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:00:00 -0000

    You might not notice it gazing out from the shore, but water ages. As it gets older, it loses the oxygen dissolved in it, used up by marine life, …

27. The Stream, September 29, 2026: A Hormone-Disrupting Herbicide Is Contaminating One-Fourth of Continental U.S. Rivers, Analysis Finds

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    • The herbicide atrazine has been found in concentrations exceeding safe levels in 25 percent of rivers in the continental United States. • More than 100 …

28. I Wanted to Love Digger, But It's a Total Mess

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:53:34 -0000

    In Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s tired climate change satire, Tom Cruise puts one of his best performances into one of his worst films. Tom Cruise does not perform all that many stunts in Digger. There’s little here that feels like a “Tom Cruise production.” (Outside of Cruise reportedly torturing his …

29. New 3D-Printed Cubes Can Cool Your Home Without Any Air Conditioning

    Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:17:00 -0000

    Air conditioning (AC) can cost a lot of money to run, especially in places like Florida, where I live. But not everywhere has it. Only 20% of …

30. Trump abruptly rolls back major tech initiative —and hands a huge advantage to China

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:45:53 -0000

    It’s long been so that whatever Joe Biden did as president needs to be reversed by the Donald Trump administration – particularly about issues that …