Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

  1. How Florida quietly removed climate change content from textbooks

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:30:00 -0000

    Publishers acceded to state requests watering down information on climate change’s impact, a WUSF/Hechinger Report investigation finds. Now the state …

  2. Climate change drove extreme July heat in European seas, study finds

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:31:30 -0000

    European coastal waters recorded unprecedented sea surface temperatures in July 2026. A new study has found that human-induced climate change …

  3. How Trump Is Trying to Crush California’s Environmental Policies

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:03:46 -0000

    The Trump administration has taken a series of extraordinary steps to attack California’s position as a national leader in environmental protection, enlisting at least a half-dozen federal agencies to undermine the state’s efforts to pivot away from fossil fuels. The stakes are high. Because of its …

  4. When the climate crisis reaches the supermarket shelf

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:18:24 -0000

    Rising heat and failing harvests reveal a fragile food system. It is time to treat food security as a democratic issue Apocalyptic scenes are becoming …

  5. Heatwaves and energy crunch: Can Europe withstand a double shock?

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:36:52 -0000

    Heatwaves are squeezing growth and productivity while the Iran war drives up Europe’s energy costs. Wildfires are burning, crops are failing and rivers are running dry. Europe is baking under its fifth heatwave of the year. Economists warn extreme heat is becoming an economic risk – hitting output, …

  6. Two Years Ago, They Revered Trump; Now, They Ridicule and Revile Him

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:03:20 -0000

    The manosphere in 2024 not only propelled Trump to victory; it exalted him as a savior. Today? They’re gone—and so are the president’s image and myth. …

  7. Support networks aim to help kids through the polycrisis

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0000

    Today’s world is a mess of troubling trends. Some groups are trying to help kids navigate their anxieties about it all. Sometime in the late 2000s, …

  8. How Climate Change Is Messing With Your Blood

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:39:15 -0000

    Rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere do a lot of damage—heat waves, droughts, wildfires, superstorms. Now it appears there’s another knock-on effect that had never before been measured. According to a new study in the journal Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health, the changing chemistry of …

  9. The next big thing in hydrogen could be underground

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Is this the 21st-century gold rush? EXECUTIVE SUMMARY There’s a hunt for new sources of hydrogen, and the gas (or at least the right conditions to make …

  10. Google and the UK think changing flights paths could cut down on climate change

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 22:17:03 -0000

    Hundreds of commercial flights will be told to change their paths over the northeastern Atlantic Ocean during the next two winters to show how minor …

  11. Champagne growers race to preserve quality in record-early harvest

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 04:05:33 -0000

    HAUTVILLERS, France (AP) — Champagne producers are racing to pick their grapes as the region’s earliest harvest on record gets underway, after extreme heat and drought accelerated ripening, leaving growers a narrow window to preserve the quality of the region’s world-famous sparkling wine. On the …

  12. Trump’s Secret Police Spying on Americans? It’s Darker than We Knew.

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:54:38 -0000

    Court papers reveal that the Department of Homeland Security’s covert surveillance of anti-ICE groups is much darker than it first appeared. Welcome …

  13. How to better protect Europe from wildfires

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:15 -0000

    In another summer of European wildfires that have even seen wetlands burning, scientists say the situation is set to worsen in the future. What's …

  14. Giant whales move into Greenland waters as ice disappears

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 02:05:20 -0000

    Sea ice has been disappearing from East Greenland, allowing giant whales to take advantage and move into previously inaccessible areas. That is the conclusion of a decades-long study that has recorded - and filmed - hundreds of the world's biggest whales including humpbacks, minke and fin whales, …

  15. Our Approach to Drought and Wildfire Is Economically Backwards

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:00:03 -0000

    This year, governments and businesses across Europe,North America and parts of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean have been contending with the impacts of severe drought and wildfires. Every year, drought-induced losses alone cost the global economy an estimated $307 billion. Yet one of …

  16. What We Can Learn from Ancient Societies About Disaster-Proofing Our Cities

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    From ancient Egyptian flood strategies to Mayan agricultural techniques, the ancient world can teach us how to live with environmental extremes. Earthquakes, hurricanes, and wildfires are natural phenomena that can become disastrous, but just how severely they affect us depends on how we prepare for …

  17. This American Wonder: David Muir's Grand Canyon journey and the Colorado River crisis

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:57:20 -0000

    David Muir explores the Grand Canyon's breathtaking scale and the growing concern over the Colorado River – a vital lifeline facing an uncertain …

  18. Trump moves to open 44 million forest acres to roads, logging, citing wildfire risk

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 11:06:28 -0000

    The Trump administration plans to remove longstanding protections on more than 44 million acres of national forest, opening the door to new roads, …

  19. The clean energy transition needs land. Can it help restore it too?

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0000

    What if the infrastructure needed to fight climate change could also help repair the land beneath it? At a UN desertification conference this week in …

  20. How Africa Is Battling Climate Extremes

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 22:05:23 -0000

    The effects of the coming “super” El Niño will reach beyond the continent. Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: African …

  21. Climate change to cost London up to £36 billion a year by 2050s

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:57:56 -0000

    Climate change could cost London as much as £36 billion ($50 billion) a year by the 2050s, the Mayor of London’s office said in a report. Lost working …

  22. Champagne harvest: why picking begins as early as mid-August

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:04:03 -0000

    In Champagne, the grape harvest began as early as mid-August, unprecedented for some growers, after heat and drought sped up ripening and forced them …

  23. The DSA Reckons With a Leader Going Viral for All the Wrong Reasons

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Megan Romer’s interviews with The New Yorker and Fox News have drawn groans even from some supporters of the Democratic Socialists of America. But …

  24. ‘A formidable predator’: Italian scientists relying on octopuses to get blue crab populations in check

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 05:12:21 -0000

    The Italian government has previously been urged to declare a state of emergency over the blue crab explosion, fuelled by climate-warmed …

  25. Rethinking Humanitarianism | Somalia’s plan to break free from aid dependence

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:36:49 -0000

    For Abdihakim Ainte, a senior Somali government official, the international humanitarian system’s sudden contraction has been both a “cataclysmic” …

  26. The Next Front in Trump’s War on Reproductive Health Care

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The administration’s MAHA mavens are targeting Title X funding in their effort to undermine Planned Parenthood and others. But providers are fighting …

  27. California passes toughest wildfire rules in the U.S. for home landscaping

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 23:19:12 -0000

    As severe wildfires burn across the Western U.S., California has adopted the toughest rules in the country to help protect communities from burning. Homeowners in wildfire-prone areas will be required to limit plants within five feet of their house, a protective measure that wildfire experts say …

  28. Filipino Cacao Growers Learn to Live With a Hotter Climate

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:16:00 -0000

    In the Philippines, ideal growing conditions for cacao have fueled an industry with a market value of more than $400 million. In the Davao region, on …

  29. Has Trump Lost His Fear of Markets?

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The madness in the bond market suggests that the death of T(rump) A(lways) C(hickens) O(ut) is nigh. Since January 2025, a reigning principle of …

  30. Why extreme heat is much more dangerous for the elderly than we realised

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:32:28 -0000

    Human heat tolerance limits are lower than previously thought and old age is a major risk, Stanford researchers say. A much higher number of elderly people than previously thought are at high risk of illness or death from extreme heat as temperatures climb under the effects of climate change, …