Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. EU powerhouses like Germany ‘on track’ to miss 2030 emissions goal while Spain may smash its target

   Thu, 28 May 2026 05:00:26 -0000

   Time is running out for EU powerhouses to change their ways, or risk missing legally-binding commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions. It’s been …

2. UK's rudest chalk figure gets a glow-up to stop it fading in the rain

   Wed, 27 May 2026 23:05:48 -0000

   For centuries, the Cerne Abbas Giant has been hard to miss. The 55-metre chalk figure, cut into a hillside near the village of Cerne Abbas in Dorset, shows a naked, club-wielding man whose outline has made him one of the UK's most instantly recognisable historic landmarks. But the National Trust, …

3. Fund for climate-exposed Pacific nation invests in fossil fuels

   Wed, 27 May 2026 22:10:35 -0000

   A trust fund set up to help a South Pacific nation gravely threatened by climate change has invested in coal mining, gas exploration and the world's …

4. A Shift in What’s Shaping U.S. Landscapes - NASA Science

   Thu, 28 May 2026 04:00:00 -0000

   The land is always changing, sometimes by human hands: cities are built, farms expanded, and forests logged. Other changes lie mostly outside …

5. Heat, Inequality, And The ‘Right To Cool’ – Analysis

   Thu, 28 May 2026 00:31:26 -0000

   By Soma SarkarUrban heat has emerged as one of the most unequal climate risks in cities. India is currently experiencing a severe heatwave, with …

6. Healthy soil can protect land from soaring heat. But our map shows where soil is suffering

   Thu, 28 May 2026 02:26:50 -0000

   Imagine walking into a double-brick house on a scorching 40°C summer day – it feels cool almost straight away. Now imagine stepping into a corrugated …

7. Americans are about to pay even more at the grocery store

   Thu, 28 May 2026 01:05:33 -0000

   As Americans confront a surge in prices at the pump, another inflation wave is headed for the grocery store. A combination of factors including bad …

8. Patagonia Is Suing Pattie Gonia. She Just Fired Back for the First Time.

   Wed, 27 May 2026 12:00:45 -0000

   For the first time since outdoor apparel manufacturer Patagonia filed its lawsuit against drag queen Pattie Gonia, the climate activist is publicly firing back. On May 27, Pattie Gonia released a video and an open letter to Patagonia, asking the company to drop its legal claim that she violated a …

9. The Pentagon Knows the True Threat of Climate Denialism. Too Bad They Can’t Do Anything About It.

   Wed, 27 May 2026 22:07:00 -0000

   Newly uncovered documents reveal that the military very recently identified potentially dire geopolitical consequences of climate change. Then a climate denier moved into the Oval Office. The good people at the National Security Archive generally provide us with the skinny on government malfeasance …

10. Scientists have scrapped the worst-case climate scenario – because action is making a difference

    Wed, 27 May 2026 04:35:11 -0000

    When major new climate change scenarios are released, there’s always strong interest. These scenarios lay out what our future climate will look like, …

11. 42% of homeowners say insurance costs have gone up 'a lot,' survey finds. Here's why

    Wed, 27 May 2026 12:15:01 -0000

    Homeowners insurance costs have been rising fast in the U.S. — and policyholders are taking notice. About 71% of homeowners said the cost of their …

12. The river that supplies 40 million Americans is down to 23% — and about to make a $25 million bet on one fish

    Wed, 27 May 2026 14:18:51 -0000

    As the Colorado River and its once massive reservoirs shrink from overuse and climate change, officials are faced with a decision that pits …

13. A sea of 60 million solar panels is taking over India's vast salt desert

    Thu, 28 May 2026 04:00:00 -0000

    India is building a solar project so massive that it's starting to look like an entirely new kind of landscape — a huge grid of panels stretching …

14. An invisible smoke is spreading across US cities – and making people more violent

    Wed, 27 May 2026 17:00:00 -0000

    Flames tower over the redwoods. A thick blanket of dense, black smoke spirals upwards, leaving behind a pungent, acrid stench. A fierce wind howls, …

15. Human composting turns bodies to soil — and the trend is growing

    Wed, 27 May 2026 09:00:00 -0000

    The process breaks down corpses until they become dirt. Now it's an option in Maryland. From the outside, the grocery-store-size facility that sits off a highway a short drive from Baltimore looks like a Costco store. Inside is the equipment for one of the funeral industry’s fastest-growing trends: …

16. Trump Wants to Give Startups Leftover Weapons-Grade Plutonium

    Wed, 27 May 2026 12:21:43 -0000

    On Chinese nuclear exports, Canadian LNG, and Otovos U.S. push Current conditions: The French government has recorded at least seven deaths linked to …

17. The Human Population Has Already Surpassed the Optimal Size by Nearly 6 Billion People

    Wed, 27 May 2026 20:53:58 -0000

    The ideal number of humans on Earth is around 2.5 billion and a major study explains what that means for our future. The world’s population is still …

18. Super El Nino: If you think it’s hot now, time to brace for what is coming next

    Wed, 27 May 2026 14:22:57 -0000

    There’s definitely something coming. We’re very confident about that, and it looks like it will be a big event.” Adam Scaife, head of long-range …

19. The Golden Gate Bridge Is Moving – And Engineers Say This Is Just the Beginning

    Wed, 27 May 2026 21:15:00 -0000

    If you stand on the Golden Gate Bridge on a windy day, you are literally standing on a moving object. The roadway shifts, the cables hum, and the …

20. 'Shameful': Outrage as New Zealand scraps its standalone environment department

    Wed, 27 May 2026 08:32:44 -0000

    In brief New Zealand is set to scrap its ministry for the environment entirely. • The move has been widely condemned by both the NZ Greens and Labour …

21. These Countries Are Plotting the End of the Fossil Fuel Era

    Thu, 28 May 2026 04:00:09 -0000

    At COP28 in December 2023, the world committed to transitioning away from fossil fuels. Yet in the years since, there’s been little progress. A …

22. Trump Twisted a Climate Debate Beyond Recognition

    Tue, 26 May 2026 07:27:15 -0000

    ​Researchers concluded that one future climate scenario is unlikely to happen. Right-wingers went wild. Over the last few weeks, the United States …

23. Earth is hot and getting hotter: UN warns next 5 years likely to smash records

    Thu, 28 May 2026 04:54:14 -0000

    In the next five years, the Earth is overwhelmingly likely to surge again and again past the international climate threshold set as safe and shatter …

24. The Most Dangerous Volcanic Threat to America Is Coming. And It Doesn’t Need an Eruption to Begin.

    Wed, 27 May 2026 03:19:48 -0000

    These fast-moving mudflows can devastate towns in a matter of minutes. After Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, experts were faced with a precarious question: How can we best prepare for when—not if—the next volcanic eruption in the Cascade Range occurs? Triggered by a 5.1-magnitude earthquake, the …

25. Chile’s Atacama desert is becoming the world’s biggest battery farm

    Wed, 27 May 2026 20:25:52 -0000

    ContourGlobal, the independent power producer backed by KKR, has inaugurated a nearly $500 million solar-and-storage facility in Chile’s Atacama desert that stores daytime solar energy and delivers it after sundown. The Victor Jara hybrid plant combines 231 megawatt-peak of photovoltaic capacity …

26. New York lawmakers pass $268.5B budget. It’s 8 weeks late

    Thu, 28 May 2026 03:29:40 -0000

    New York lawmakers finally finished passing a state budget Wednesday night that softens the state’s climate change goals, limits local police from …

27. Global temperatures set for record highs and could hit 1.9C above pre-industrial levels by 2030

    Thu, 28 May 2026 05:39:00 -0000

    Global temperatures are likely to continue at or near record levels in the next five years, with the annual average potentially reaching as high as …

28. As snow droughts continue to threaten global food security, research calls for climate-resilient agriculture practices

    Wed, 27 May 2026 15:40:02 -0000

    Global climate change is reshaping agricultural ecosystems. As warmer winters become more prevalent, snow droughts caused by insufficient snowfall …

29. Blackout risks are rising – why neighboring power grids can’t just send extra electricity where it’s needed

    Wed, 27 May 2026 12:34:21 -0000

    Extreme weather is posing a growing threat to the power supplies Americans rely on. In 2021, a fierce winter storm left millions of Texans without …

30. Why is Europe heating up faster than the rest of the world?

    Tue, 26 May 2026 18:13:10 -0000

    Europe is in the grip of an early-season heatwave, with record May temperatures driven by a “heat dome” of hot air over the western part of the continent. Scientists point to human-caused emissions, shifting atmospheric patterns and rapid Arctic warming as key factors amplifying extreme heat across …