Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

  1. Scientists reveal what triggered the Black Death plague in Europe

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 12:51:00 -0000

    When the Black Death tore through Europe in 1347, it felt like the end of the world. Entire villages emptied. Bells rang without pause. In some …

  2. An influential article that called Monsanto's Roundup safe for humans has been retracted 25 years later

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:50:00 -0000

    The paper, which had a major impact on policymaking, appears to have been based on unpublished studies by the controversial agricultural company. In April 2000, Elsevier published an article in the journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, which claimed that the herbicide Roundup (glyphosate) …

  3. Why Tehran Is Running Out of Water

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 07:00:00 -0000

    Because of shifting storms and sweltering summers, Iran’s capital faces a future “Day Zero” when the taps run dry. This story originally appeared on …

  4. Sardine-inspired washing machine filter removes 99% of microplastics

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:59:42 -0000

    The home appliance can easily generate as much as 500 grams of microplastics each year. Fish gills may inspire an unexpected solution to one of our biggest sources of microplastics. According to researchers at Germany’s University of Bonn, taking a cue from the animals’ filtration systems might help …

  5. The world is facing a cancer crisis that’s hitting the most vulnerable hardest

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:05:58 -0000

    When I worked on the latest Global Burden of Disease cancer study, a global project that tracks cancer patterns and deaths across countries, I found …

  6. The wealthy profit from public lands, and taxpayers pick up the tab

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 14:00:00 -0000

    Roughly two-thirds of grazing on Bureau of Land Management land is controlled by just 10 percent of permit holders. This story was originally …

  7. Heavy rains hamper recovery as death toll from floods in Asia exceeds 1,750

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 07:24:17 -0000

    Hundreds more people are still missing as intensive rains pose new dangers in Indonesia and Sri Lanka. Rescue teams and volunteers have been struggling to assist millions of people affected by floods and landslides in parts of Asia, as the official death toll from the ongoing climate-fuelled …

  8. Why Steven Guilbeault Left Mark Carney’s Cabinet

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:15:19 -0000

    Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is nearly nine months into his tenure. He spent years building his climate bona fides on the global stage. But …

  9. Pacific Northwest ‘snapshot’ shows how surprisingly tough birds are

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:48:14 -0000

    A 30-year “snapshot study” of birds in the Pacific Northwest is showing their surprising resilience in the face of climate change. The project started …

  10. Depleted Tennessee Farmland Is Now Teeming With Wildlife

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 10:35:00 -0000

    In May 2010, extraordinarily heavy rainfall hit Tennessee. In some parts of the state, as much as 20 inches fell over two days. Dams were inundated, …

  11. America's Two States Growing The Most Christmas Trees Are On Opposite Ends Of The Country

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 11:25:00 -0000

    Some of the best decorated Christmas trees around the world are artificial, and while they might look real, your festive season may not feel complete …

  12. Climate change doom-and-gloomers are finally bowing out— and showing that common sense prevails

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 01:51:44 -0000

    Finally, thankfully, the global warming craze is dying out. To paraphrase Monty Python, the climate parrot may still be nailed to its perch at the …

  13. What Zillow Won’t Tell You

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 10:03:36 -0000

    When Zillow, the country’s largest real estate site, added information to property listings last year disclosing flood, wildfire, heat and air-quality risks, it was following its own research: More than 80 percent of home shoppers consider climate risk in their decisions. The data allowed families …

  14. The solar stupidity is blinding

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:27:02 -0000

    An aerial view of the Ivanpah solar project in California’s San Bernardino County. (Photo via U.S. Department of Energy)During my dozen years writing …

  15. Indigenous And Environmental Defenders Risk Their Lives As The Last Line Protecting The Planet – OpEd

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 23:31:09 -0000

    Indigenous leaders, farmers, and environmental activists worldwide face harassment, violence, and legal threats while defending land, water, and …

  16. AI Will Change Energy Forever

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 14:47:00 -0000

    Johns Hopkins’ Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab has a new model for energy generation. It shows how radically the generation of energy will change, …

  17. Louisiana is shrinking. Some tribes are fighting to protect what's left of their communities

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 14:01:28 -0000

    POINTE-AU-CHIEN, La. (AP) — Cherie Matherne looked out into Bayou Pointe au Chien, wide enough for several boats to pass through. In the distance, a stand of dead trees marked where saltwater comes and goes during storm-driven flooding. It wasn't always this way. The bayou was once shallower and …

  18. This glacier was featured on a postcard in 1900. A satellite captured where it is today.

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:50:12 -0000

    A lot has changed since 1900. One hundred twenty-five years ago, the Pasterze Glacier in Austria's Eastern Alps was postcard perfect: Snowy peaks. …

  19. AOC silent on whether she will amend doomsday climate prediction as deadline looms

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:55:35 -0000

    As top climate activists like Bill Gates shift their focus away from environmental activism, "Squad" Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is keeping silent on whether she still stands by her ten-year deadline for action laid out in the Green New Deal. Back when Ocasio-Cortez first introduced the …

  20. US Tax Payers Are Funding the Industry That Is Destroying Our Earth

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 12:26:01 -0000

    For more than a century, Big Oil lobbying has tyrannized American climate and tax policy, driving climate catastrophe while deepening economic …

  21. EV Sales Are in the Tank. So What Happens Next?

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:00:46 -0000

    This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. …

  22. ‘You have an entire culture, an entire community that is also having that same crisis’: Colorado coal town looks anxiously to the future

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:35:01 -0000

    The Cooper family knows how to work heavy machinery. The kids could run a hay baler by their early teens, and two of the three ran monster-sized …

  23. Using AI To Predict And Prevent Weather Catastrophe Home Insurance Claims

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 19:00:00 -0000

    A revolutionary solution is emerging from the convergence of artificial intelligence machine learning and Big Data. The insurance industry has reached …

  24. Atmospheric blocks can make Louisville forecasts difficult

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 08:00:00 -0000

    Every week WAVE 3 meteorologist Tawana Andrew breaks down what we know and what we don't about the climate and weather here in Louisville. Atmospheric …

  25. Newly released 911 calls from Texas floods reveal chaotic and desperate pleas for rescues

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 23:51:44 -0000

    KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — In an instant, frantic voices overwhelmed the two county emergency dispatchers on duty in the Texas Hill Country as …

  26. Tony Blair ‘planning major intervention’ over Labour’s future

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 14:53:37 -0000

    Sir Tony Blair’s think tank is said to be pulling together a policy plan to “save the Labour party” amid frustrations over Sir Keir Starmer’s …

  27. Our Favorite Science Books to Gift This Year

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 11:00:05 -0000

    The smartest gifts are often the smartest books. Science books provide the ultimate deep dives into our favorite subjects, whether it’s the inner …

  28. What Scientists Found When a Deep Sea Mining Company Invited Them In

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:30:40 -0000

    Industrial mining of the seabed could reduce the abundance and diversity of tiny animals living in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, a new study found. The study, published Friday in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, was funded by The Metals Company, which is vying to become the first company …

  29. Iran Is Running Out of Water – and Time

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 13:33:44 -0000

    Tehran’s slow collapse, and why it should worry us all Picture, if you will, a country that is quite literally lowering itself into the ground. Fields …

  30. How a cocktail of rogue storms and climate chaos unleashed deadly flooding across Asia

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 01:13:23 -0000

    Looking at the weather map on his computer and seeing three tropical storms forming simultaneously across Asia in late November, climatologist Fredolin Tangang’s first thoughts drifted to the 2004 disaster movie “The Day After Tomorrow.” The film, in which three massive storms plunge the earth into …