Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. 'Scientists were dead right': Al Gore says on 20th anniversary of 'An Inconvenient Truth'

   Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:48:20 -0000

   The former vice president still believes climate change is a moral issue. The scientists have been right about climate change all along, says former …

2. Solar-powered fridges are boosting farmers’ incomes by 50% while cutting food waste

   Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:00:52 -0000

   Renewable energy is saving crops from going to waste. When dicing vegetables, few of us pause to think about the challenges farmers had to overcome to …

3. Why the Reflecting Pool Is Full of Algae After Trump's Renovation

   Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:44:23 -0000

   Warm weather has fueled a bloom that US National Park Service workers are trying to kill using everything from hydrogen peroxide to nanobubbles ahead …

4. Did Jared Kushner Inadvertently Touch Off an Albanian Revolution?

   Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:00:00 -0000

   Protesters in the Balkan nation aren’t worried just about the environmental impact of a luxury development connected to Kushner. They’re worried …

5. Trump Plans to Protect Methane-Leaking Stripper Wells. This Billionaire Donor Will Benefit.

   Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:00:16 -0000

   It was before dawn on a Friday in January when a Gulfstream G600 with the burnt-orange Texas Longhorns logo on its tail landed at Dulles airport …

6. ‘Elon Musk Should Have to Pay For This’: Trump Admin Says It Needs $1 Billion to Combat Screwworm

   Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:51:55 -0000

   When Elon Musk's "Department of Government Efficiency" took its chainsaw to the federal bureaucracy last year, it created bottlenecks that may have …

7. Math predicts humans could go extinct in about 17,000 years

   Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:00:00 -0000

   This article is from Proof Positive, our friendly math newsletter that's delivered to your inbox every Tuesday afternoon. Sign up today and read it …

8. El Niño declared by BOM and it could become the strongest on record

   Tue, 16 Jun 2026 05:32:33 -0000

   The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has officially declared El Niño active and modelling tips it could become the strongest event in the modern era. El …

9. Trump admin abandons fight against wind energy as clean energy output surges

   Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:49:09 -0000

   Legal victories have dampened the Trump admin’s efforts to halt wind and solar power. The Trump administration has abandoned its effort to halt wind …

10. Shadow Treasurer Tim Wilson holds undisclosed shares in climate advisory firm through family trust

    Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:52:47 -0000

    Shadow Treasurer Tim Wilson holds undisclosed shares in a climate advisory firm through his family investment trust, ASIC records show. While Mr …

11. Rain along Gulf Coast could become the first named storm of Atlantic hurricane season

    Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:04:27 -0000

    MIAMI — A cluster of storms along the Gulf Coast could become the first named tropical storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, the National …

12. The Nuclear Reactors Coming to a Small Town Near You

    Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    As a disruptive new nuclear power project embeds itself in Parsons, Kansas, residents are divided on whether it’s worth the potential risk. Parsons, …

13. Lee Raymond, who created global oil behemoth Exxon Mobil, dies at 87

    Wed, 17 Jun 2026 03:45:28 -0000

    Lee R. Raymond, who as CEO of Exxon Mobil wrung out costs to make that global oil company the most profitable in its industry while stoutly resisting …

14. Korean Scientists Created an “Artificial Sun” That Ran for 102 Seconds

    Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:15:07 -0000

    Scientists consider fusion energy the “holy grail” of clean power sources. It can provide limitless electricity without the carbon emissions or radioactive waste associated with traditional nuclear reactors. Now, scientists in South Korea have taken a step towards making commercial fusion power a …

15. Climate Change is Unleashing New and Deadly Microbes

    Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:02:22 -0000

    Airdate: Wednesday, June 17 at 10 AM We tend to focus on how climate change affects coral reefs, sea turtles and polar bears on melting ice. But we …

16. Heavy rains slam the Texas coast ahead of Potential Tropical Cyclone One

    Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:18:41 -0000

    As it slogs northeastward, the system may become a tropical depression or tropical storm – but flooding is a real threat regardless. Tropical Storm …

17. The Lawyer Pushing to Protect Future Generations from the Climate Crisis

    Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:01:05 -0000

    As the organization’s co-executive director and chief legal counsel, Olson works with children and their guardians to bring pro-bono cases that have pioneered a new framework for protecting the climate and the rights of young people. In 2015, the nonprofit launched the first youth climate lawsuit …

18. Arnold Schwarzenegger Makes Rare Public Appearance with Girlfriend Heather Milligan at Climate Summit in Vienna

    Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:02:55 -0000

    Arnold Schwarzenegger and his longtime girlfriend, Heather Milligan, stepped out together for a rare public appearance in Vienna on Tuesday, June 16. The actor, former bodybuilder, and climate advocate, 78, was joined by Milligan, 51, as they showed their support for his Schwarzenegger Climate …

19. Paving paradise: Dismantling the US Roadless Rule threatens to disrupt wildlife, water and peace in the last quiet places in America

    Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:44:16 -0000

    Pause for a moment and listen. What do you hear? Chances are, somewhere in the background, is the ever-present hum of a road. More than 4.2 million …

20. Trump Just Lost His War on Wind Energy

    Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:45:11 -0000

    The administration has withdrawn its appeal of a federal court ruling that shot down Trump’s freeze on federal leasing and permitting for wind …

21. Australia warns El Nino weather pattern set to be strongest in decades

    Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:35:32 -0000

    The Bureau of Meteorology says forecasts point towards a ‘very strong El Nino event’. Australia’s weather bureau has warned that an El Nino weather pattern has formed in the tropical Pacific and could intensify in the second half of the year, becoming one of the strongest in seven decades. The Bureau …

22. ‘Bad Day to Be a Duck’: Trump Reflecting Pool Disaster Continues With Hydrogen Peroxide Treatment

    Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:25:42 -0000

    National Park Service employees on Tuesday were seen pouring a bleaching agent into the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, …

23. Risk of nuclear catastrophe is worse than ever. We can change that

    Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:30:52 -0000

    Half a lifetime ago, I had a crappy copyediting job that meant I had to drive for 90 minutes through traffic across the sprawling concrete wasteland of Phoenix. The job itself was boring and soulless, and after spending another 90 minutes getting home in my AC-free beater, I would slam several …

24. Ask 20-year-olds, not Winston Peters, if we can afford to exit the Paris climate agreement - Dr Jen Purdie

    Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:00:00 -0000

    THE FACTS Winston Peters recently declared at Fieldays that the Paris climate agreement is a “fiction” New Zealand “can’t afford”. His stance was …

25. Global map reveals one-third of coral reefs may resist climate shocks

    Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:09:35 -0000

    In the crystalline waters off Kenya's coast, coral reefs are thriving—evidence of a rare good-news story in the battle to protect oceans from the …

26. Lawmakers fight to stop the Trump administration's dismantling of a $386M ocean observatory project

    Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:49:18 -0000

    SEATTLE (AP) — A group of Democratic senators and one Republican, as well as two Democratic House committees, sent letters Monday to the National Science Foundation asking it to reverse course on its plan to dismantle a sprawling ocean monitoring network, with House lawmakers going further and …

27. World nearing tipping point? Why Atlantic 'cold blob' is a worrying sign

    Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:33:56 -0000

    A new study examines the one region on Earth that has cooled, not warmed, in recent years. Researchers say the 'cold blob' is closely tied to the …

28. Court won’t move climate lawsuit to eastern Montana

    Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:01:59 -0000

    A district court judge ruled against an attempt by the state and Montana Speaker of the House Brandon Ler to move a climate-based lawsuit to a …

29. New Mexico is in a historic drought. Oracle and OpenAI designed their newest data center with that in mind

    Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:55:50 -0000

    New Mexico’s forests are dying faster than at any time on record. In 2025, the state mapped 209,000 acres of trees killed by bark beetles and other …

30. This extraordinary forest below the waves is the only one of its kind – and it’s home to one of the fastest-growing organisms on Earth

    Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:06:00 -0000

    Stretching along South Africa’s rugged coastline lies one of the planet’s most extraordinary yet little-known ecosystems: the Great African Sea Forest …