Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. Energy crises must accelerate the fight against climate change

   Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:55:44 -0000

   As the US-Israeli war against Iran enters its third week, hopes for a short, contained crisis without major consequences for the global energy market …

2. Susan Collins and Climate Change: ‘The Silence is Deafening’

   Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:55:00 -0000

   Seeking a sixth term, the Maine senator’s passivity in the face of executive branch power grabs undermines her greatest electoral strength, as much …

3. Earth’s ‘Gateway to Hell’ keeps getting bigger

   Sat, 21 Mar 2026 19:33:40 -0000

   In a remote area of the Siberian tundra, there’s a place that locals call “The Gateway to Hell.” In the summer, its peaceful waterfall sounds are interrupted by the booms and crashes of falling earth. The indigenous Yakut people are rightfully wary of the massive, slowly collapsing crater. While …

4. You can bet on climate disasters. Business is booming.

   Sat, 21 Mar 2026 03:18:54 -0000

   Will Iran’s main oil terminal get bombed this month? Will climate activist Greta Thunberg be arrested before July? Will the U.S. get pummeled by a Category 5 hurricane this year? You can place bets on all of those questions through online prediction markets. The emergence of markets related to the …

5. How Often To Water Lavender So You Don’t Overdo It

   Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:10:00 -0000

   Too much water can kill this Mediterranean herb. Grow lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) to enjoy its sweet, herby fragrance around your home as well …

6. World Rewilding Day: Hope for species and ecosystems

   Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:37:38 -0000

   World Rewilding Day on March 20 celebrates human efforts to rewild and restore degraded areas. Rewilding can focus on a single species, a city park, …

7. After the West's historic snow drought, spring could bring water shortages and wildfires

   Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:37:27 -0000

   At ski resorts across the West this winter, viral images showed chairlifts idling over brown terrain in places normally renowned for their frosty …

8. An answer to America's drought may be hiding in the toilet

   Sat, 21 Mar 2026 09:10:00 -0000

   Americans in the US are willing to fork out extra money each month to drink recycled wastewater. With climate change intensifying drought in the …

9. The Strait of Hormuz is about more than just oil. It feeds 100 million people

   Sat, 21 Mar 2026 04:00:34 -0000

   Oil and liquefied natural gas tankers moving through the Strait of Hormuz carry around 20% of the world’s supply. But for countries on the Persian Gulf, the waterway is more than just an energy route – it’s a lifeline for more than 100 million people. Now, as the United States and Israel’s war with …

10. Why the US wants to protect Iran’s oil and gas

    Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:29:07 -0000

    The Mideast energy truce is breaking down. The Trump administration’s rhetoric on the war in Iran tends to be heavy on words like “lethality” and “obliteration,” so it was notable that the president seemed almost apologetic on Wednesday, when discussing an Israeli strike on Iran’s South Pars gas …

11. Renewable Energy Looks Stronger as Europe Rethinks Fossil Fuel Dependence

    Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:30:40 -0000

    Europe did not need another warning about the cost of fossil fuels, but it just got one. After U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran rattled global energy …

12. The man who bet against humanity — and lost

    Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:51:44 -0000

    Paul Ehrlich predicted hundreds of millions would starve thanks to overpopulation. Here’s what actually happened. On February 9, 1970, Johnny Carson did something that would be unthinkable for a late night host today, or really anyone on TV: He gave a full hour of The Tonight Show to a Stanford …

13. Trump Is Totally Ignoring the Lessons of the Last Oil Crisis

    Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:00:00 -0000

    This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. During the infamous oil embargo of 1973, when the world’s …

14. The US broke the all-time heat record for March. Yes, it’s climate change

    Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:22:00 -0000

    An unprecedented heat wave in the West broke the record for the hottest March temperature anywhere in the United States: 108 degrees. It’s an alarming signal of how hot the planet is getting and how fast it’s happening. Yuma, Arizona, hit 109 degrees on Friday afternoon, which broke the national …

15. Long overlooked as crucial to life, fungi start to get their due

    Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:00:00 -0000

    As efforts to study and conserve fungi expand, researchers say a "shroom boom" is underway. This story was originally published by Yale E360 and is …

16. Why ‘decoupling’ energy emissions from economic growth underpins the green transition

    Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:16:59 -0000

    When people talk about tackling climate change, the images are often solar panels, wind turbines and electric cars. But the bigger question is …

17. Nearly Half of U.S. States Sue Trump EPA Over Endangerment Finding

    Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:19:42 -0000

    On Interior corruption, Uber’s Rivian bet, and Seattle's light rail Current conditions: Phoenix just marked its earliest day of temperatures eclipsing …

18. Cities can improve air quality ‘quite rapidly’ with political will

    Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:50:19 -0000

    Air pollution is the leading environmental risk to human health, causing respiratory and cardiovascular disease as well as cancer in millions of people every year. Yet some cities are already managing to cut pollution significantly, new analysis by the environmental network Breathe Cities …

19. How biotech giant Bayer landed a win that made MAHA furious

    Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:29:07 -0000

    Bayer executives had warned for years that the company was on the brink of pulling its weedkiller Roundup from the U.S. market. But when Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in May released the first Make America Healthy Again report, blaming the chemical for Americans’ health problems in an …

20. Flights, petrol cars and cruise ships: Amsterdam bans fossil fuel ads

    Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:14:39 -0000

    Cities around the world are clearing their billboards of ads for flights, cruise ships and petrol cars in an effort to reduce planet-warming gases. Amsterdam is the latest city to join the movement, becoming the first capital in the world to approve a legal ban on fossil fuel advertising. Dutch …

21. Higher yields and lower emissions can go hand in hand

    Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:00:00 -0000

    Alongside agriculture’s growing productivity worldwide, planet-scale farmland emissions have come down. In fact, increasing the yields on farms may …

22. After Cosmic Crisp, Scientists Unveil an Apple for the Climate Change Era

    Sat, 21 Mar 2026 09:00:52 -0000

    The United States’ $23 billion apple industry rests on a gamble: that every generation or so, scientists will produce a new variety that convinces Americans to fall in love again with the fruit that keeps the doctor away. That gamble has a new component: The apple, once a purely regional product, …

23. Scientists close to confirming Port Phillip Bay shark breeding location

    Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:21:12 -0000

    It takes three researchers to haul a two-metre, sevengill shark out of the water onto a boat in Port Phillip Bay. Careful to keep its jaw shut while …

24. A 24/7 solar farm-building robot just hit the market

    Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:52:29 -0000

    The US needs a lot more electricity fast, and one company thinks robots can help build it quicker. Berkeley, California-based Terabase Energy says its next-gen Terafab automated solar construction system has finished field testing and is now ready to ship commercially. Terafab V2 brings autonomous …

25. France: Climate activists block bridge in Paris ahead of local elections

    Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:07:28 -0000

    SHOTLIST: PARIS, FRANCE (MARCH 21, 2026) 1. ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS LINKING THEMSELVES TO BLOCK BRIDGE IN PARIS (TWO SHOTS) 2. POLICE FORCES PREPARING FOR INTERVENTION 3. VARIOUS OF ACTIVISTS BLOCKING BRIDGE, SITTING, PERFORMING INSTRUMENT 4. VARIOUS OF POLICE FORCES INTERVENING ACTIVISTSAND CLEARING BRIDGE PARIS, FRANCE - MARCH 21: Hundreds of environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion blocked a bridge near France’s Finance Ministry in Paris on Saturday, March 21, staging a protest ahead of the second round of local elections to oppose the sidelining of environmental issues and the rise of the far-right, before police intervened and forcibly removed demonstrators from the roadway. Police moved in shortly after the protest began and cleared the bridge, dispersing the activists.

26. New spring 2026 forecasts warn of the dreaded 'heat dome'

    Sat, 21 Mar 2026 10:02:50 -0000

    According to NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, the spring temperature outlook favors above-normal temperatures for much of the United States. Spring officially arrived Friday, March 20, and new forecasts say it's shaping up to be a warm few months for most Americans. The news comes as much of the …

27. Worries grow about a 'violent and destructive' invasive fish

    Sat, 21 Mar 2026 10:03:56 -0000

    The fish, weighing up to 100 pounds and eating 10% of their weight in algae every day, could pose an existential threat to the Great Lakes. The behemoth exotic fish known as Asian carp have marched toward the Great Lakes for more than 25 years, but so far preventive efforts have kept the long-feared …

28. Why natural capital is the next great frontier for climate investing

    Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:10:08 -0000

    Writing in the late eighteenth century, French economist François Quesnay famously put forward his tableau économique, according to which agriculture …