Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. SCOTUS Justice Received Millions From Oil and Gas Interests

   Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:38:57 -0000

   The review comes as the Supreme Court prepares to decide how much power states have in holding oil companies accountable for the effects of climate …

2. Trump Administration Kills a Flagship Annual Report on the Arctic

   Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:38:20 -0000

   The top of the world is warming faster than any other region. For 20 years, the Arctic Report Card chronicled the extraordinary transformation. The Trump administration has pulled federal funding for an annual report chronicling the changing environment of the Arctic, where rapid warming is upending …

3. Some Republicans Are Finally Realizing They Wrecked the Middle Class

   Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:44:01 -0000

   If recent comments from JD Vance and others are any guide, the future of GOP economic policy is going to be strange. The headlines following JD …

4. Florida Teenager Invents Amazing Bee-Saving Device That Dramatically Increases Honey Production

   Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:03:32 -0000

   A Florida teenager may have found an unusual way to save honey bees from a destructive parasite. Aakash Manaswi‘s invention uses carbon dioxide to …

5. Amazon’s New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States

   Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:09:03 -0000

   "The world looks different now than when we co-founded the climate pledge." Tech Goliaths are scrambling to build as much AI computing capacity as …

6. Map Shows Where ‘Extreme’ Wildfires Spreading Rapidly in Washington, Oregon

   Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:25:59 -0000

   The Pacific Northwest remains the nation's most active wildfire region, with major blazes in Washington and Oregon exhibiting what fire officials …

7. Chinook Salmon Are Returning to This River After Nearly 50 Years

   Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0000

   The salmon felt powerful in Bill Iyall’s hands as he guided it back into the river earlier this summer. He was releasing fish in the North Fork of …

8. ‘I don’t even know what things are going to look like in the next five years’: young Australians on growing up in a world in crisis

   Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:11:56 -0000

   Affordable housing options, jobs for young people and climate change are the top three issues young people say need immediate action, according to …

9. Key Amazon cases reach Brazil’s Supreme Court following Lula's defeats in Congress

   Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:04:25 -0000

   SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s Supreme Court is set to weigh a series of cases in the coming days that could reshape protections for the Amazon rainforest and the Indigenous communities that depend on it. The cases span from Indigenous land rights, recent rollbacks on environmental safeguards and …

10. When should you scrap your gasoline car? The answer is almost certainly now.

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:28:15 -0000

    Replacing a gasoline car of any age—even a brand-new one—with an electric vehicle will almost always lower overall carbon emissions, according to a …

11. Italy’s $4.7 billion cheese economy is feeling the heat as climate change threatens its cheese banks that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:08:35 -0000

    In the hills of Emilia-Romagna, a bank vault holds more than half-a-million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, worth well over 300 million euros. The …

12. China’s Hunger Games

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:00:00 -0000

    How Beijing turned its food insecurity into geopolitical leverage.

13. Trump Is Trapped in His YOLO War in Iran

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:57:16 -0000

    “It always works out,” the president assures us. But Iran is playing hardball because it sees what every American does: The war is jacking up prices …

14. Coalition condemns $20m bill for Fiji climate conference which Labor says is ‘critical to our nation’s future’

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:38:55 -0000

    The opposition slammed the spending as an ‘absolute disgrace’ while Australians struggle with cost-of-living pressures.

15. Dozens of Nazi-Era Ships Are Emerging in the Danube. How Did They Get There?

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:24:15 -0000

    The Danube River is now so low that one ship lies almost entirely on dry land, beached in sand—a haunting sign of our climate future. Some ghosts haunt. Others warn. The twenty-odd German World War II shipwrecks that have once again surfaced from Europe's drought-stricken Danube River this summer do …

16. As the climate breaks down, costs go up: Welcome to ‘climateflation’

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:58:03 -0000

    If you ask an economist why everything is so expensive these days, you will likely get an answer explaining how oil — the lifeblood of the global …

17. Land speed record holder shatters hydrogen car record with 406-mph race

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:45:00 -0000

    Andy Green is the only person to ever break the sound barrier on land. And on Tuesday he shattered several more speed records, driving faster than …

18. Trump’s Reflecting Pool Fiasco Is About to Get Even Worse for Him

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:13:29 -0000

    The David Hearn affair isn’t over. Far from it. Jamie Raskin is launching an investigation, and Hearn’s legal team will pursue remedies. You’d be …

19. These 5 charts show how far rooftop solar and home batteries can take us – and why we still need the grid

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:07:55 -0000

    Australian homes and cities are increasingly producing and storing their own power. After two decades of growth, solar panels are now on the rooftops …

20. Lake Mead Hits Record Low: How Much Worse Will It Get?

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:25:45 -0000

    Lake Mead has fallen to its lowest level since it was filled nearly 90 years ago, a new marker in the worsening crisis on the Colorado River. The …

21. Where have all the mosquitoes gone? Parts of the US are seeing a huge drop — and that has experts worried

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:43:39 -0000

    Pesky mosquitoes seem unavoidable in summer but may not be - in parts of the United States, at least. Mosquito levels are down 50 percent across some …

22. A new type of levee is taking root in Northern California

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:30:00 -0000

    Combining flood mitigation with wetland habitat restoration, "horizontal levees" could protect coastal cities and wildlife from rising seas. Visitors …

23. Here's What A Rainscreen Actually Is (And If Your Home Needs One)

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:40:00 -0000

    As rainfall levels increase in multiple regions across the United States, more homeowners may be considering different strategies to protect their …

24. 18 Hummingbird Behaviors Experienced Gardeners Say Almost Nobody Notices Happening in Their Own Garden

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:18:58 -0000

    Most people think a hummingbird’s entire life story is “hover, sip, zip away.” That belief is almost embarrassingly wrong. Field biologists who’ve …

25. Solar Pumps Were Supposed To Help Farmers – Now They're Backfiring In A Big Way

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:47:00 -0000

    Solar energy is making a substantial positive impact on human life. Solar panels are saving lives, changing deserts, and even having an unexpected …

26. ‘Finally’: New weather warning changes welcome, says Alberta storm chaser

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:54:47 -0000

    Calgary-based storm chaser Kyle Hetherington breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Environment and Climate Change Canada’s new changes to tornado …

27. ‘Climate whiplash’ is not simply a buzzword, but a symptom of a warming planet

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:06:42 -0000

    What flashes to mind when you hear the word “whiplash”? Perhaps you picture someone’s head rocking back and forth during a car crash – a jarring and …

28. Insane Eyewitness Footage Captures Devastating Wildfires Ravaging Canadian Landscapes

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:05:28 -0000

    Wildfires raged across Canada's British Columbia, where about 20,000 people have been ordered to leave their homes.

29. Memo to Those Who Fear Socialism: Why Don’t You Try Fix Capitalism?

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    People alarmed about socialism’s poll numbers ought to pay more attention to how capitalism polls. It’s bad—and entirely deserved. Everywhere I look, …

30. Western Europe sets new temperature record as heat waves pummel the region

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:49:52 -0000

    The heat waves roiling Western Europe this summer toppled an average temperature record for the June-July period set in 2022, according to the European climate agency Copernicus. The extreme heat began in May and has contributed to major wildfires, prolonged drought and new national temperature …