Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. ‘It was a tsunami’: Floods leave death trail in India’s Assam

   Sat, 22 Aug 2026 05:35:50 -0000

   From a father searching for his daughter’s body to a man who drowned trying to save a friend, floods take devastating toll. Assam, India – Debiram Panika, a 37-year-old daily wage labourer from northeastern India’s Assam state, would speak to his wife and two daughters on video calls every day from …

2. Firefighters sound alarm as US faces critical staffing shortage: ‘We don’t have enough people’

   Sat, 22 Aug 2026 13:00:00 -0000

   Firefighters describe being pushed to limit by a brutal wildfire season, with key leadership roles going unfilled. This story was originally published …

3. Drastic water cuts issued for California, Nevada and Arizona from drought-stricken Colorado River

   Sat, 22 Aug 2026 04:01:54 -0000

   Federal officials announced sharp water cuts for the next two years on Friday for three Western states that rely on the imperiled Colorado …

4. Meet the Florida architect who lost his roof at 12 — and now builds for the next Andrew

   Sat, 22 Aug 2026 14:54:50 -0000

   One day there was a roof. The next morning it was gone. Jeffrey Huber still remembers the day some 34 years ago when Hurricane Andrew blew off the …

5. Record numbers of climate crisis insects: what to do if you spot a praying mantis

   Sun, 23 Aug 2026 05:30:41 -0000

   This summer, unusually many praying mantises can be spotted in German gardens. How to distinguish the "Mantid religiosa" from a grasshopper and what …

6. U.S. Forest Service, timber companies spraying record amounts of glyphosate in California

   Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:10:02 -0000

   An investigation by the Center for Investigative Reporting has revealed that glyphosate is being sprayed in California forests at record levels by …

7. Altérra CEO says $250 billion climate investment target is within reach

   Sat, 22 Aug 2026 04:00:01 -0000

   Altérra CEO Majid Al Suwaidi says the UAE-backed climate investor is “extremely confident” it can mobilize $250 billion by 2030.

8. COP17 in Mongolia: Finding solutions to land degradation

   Sat, 22 Aug 2026 15:51:33 -0000

   Delegates of 179 members of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification engage with local communities and business partners to find solutions for …

9. Five Outrageous Things Trump’s New Attorney General Has Already Done

   Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:29:20 -0000

   It didn’t take Todd Blanche long to take a wrecking ball to long-standing Department of Justice principles. In just his first week in office, Todd …

10. Robots could harvest lava from volcanic eruptions to make 'concrete' of the future

    Sun, 23 Aug 2026 02:30:00 -0000

    A Reykjavik-based architect believes a lava flow could contain enough building material for the foundations of a city to rise in a matter of weeks, …

11. Japan battles extreme heat with night shifts and human fridges

    Sat, 22 Aug 2026 02:50:53 -0000

    From flower farms to city warehouses, Japan is adapting to record-breaking heat as climate change fuels dangerous summer temperatures.

12. Sunken World War II-era tugboat emerges as Europe’s drought reveals lost relics

    Sat, 22 Aug 2026 04:36:32 -0000

    The discovery comes as climate change fuels more extreme heat and drought across Europe.

13. World hunger decline is the fruit of growth

    Sat, 22 Aug 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    A United Nations report shows another decline in food insecurity. Here’s a bit of news worth celebrating: Despite multiple violent conflicts around the globe, and stubborn inflation, 2025 was the third year in a row in which global hunger fell. That’s according to a July report from the United …

14. Sudan farms lie barren as El Nino leaves Nile banks dry

    Sat, 22 Aug 2026 06:11:03 -0000

    Along the bone-dry riverbanks of the Nile in Sudan, farmers struggle to pull water to their crops. Others gather to pray for rainfall over cracked …

15. Climate change and infectious disease in Europe: Impact, projection and adaptation

    Sat, 22 Aug 2026 11:22:05 -0000

    Europeans are not only exposed to direct effects from climate change, but also vulnerable to indirect effects from infectious disease, many of which …

16. Trump Hates the Troops. The Troops Are Taking Notice.

    Sat, 22 Aug 2026 04:00:00 -0000

    The administration is desperately trying to spin the hopeless war in Iran as a success, but our service members and their families are telling a …

17. Trump Posts Map Labeling Strait of Hormuz as “New U.S. Territory”

    Sat, 22 Aug 2026 21:14:42 -0000

    WASHINGTON D.C. — Donald J. Trump posted a map graphic on Truth Social that labels the Strait of Hormuz as “NEW U.S. Territory,” framing the …

18. Romania is falling behind the renewables race. Can the EU's biggest solar farm save it?

    Sun, 23 Aug 2026 05:00:26 -0000

    The Dama Solar farm in Romania could produce enough power for almost one million people. The EU’s largest solar farm has taken one step closer to …

19. ‘The Sun was dark and its darkness lasted for 18 months’ – what we can learn from worst volcanic eruptions in history

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:32:45 -0000

    Europe was plunged into darkness and suffered from intense crop failures and famines in the years AD536 and AD1258, after massive volcanic …

20. European wildfires expose, detonate buried bombs and mines from past wars

    Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:35:04 -0000

    The wildfires burning across Europe this summer have exposed a potentially deadly threat lurking beneath the blackened landscape: rusty bombs and …

21. Natalie Harp Should Concern Everyone—I Should Know, I Once Had Her Job

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    When I ran President Obama’s socials, I treated that work as needing checks and restraint at every point of the process. Its absence in the Trump …

22. Climate Changemakers: Saving wild salmon – the group fighting for one of Ireland’s most iconic species

    Sat, 22 Aug 2026 04:30:00 -0000

    Salmon have been revered in Ireland since ancient times. Archaeological evidence suggests that salmon was a crucial food source for the earliest …

23. This El Niño is shocking. But is it a 'super' event?

    Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:00:38 -0000

    The current El Niño has been casually called a "monster" and a "flamethrower," but officials have given it a less alarming-sounding designation. With sharks on the move, sea surface temperatures skyrocketing and one tropical system after another in the eastern Pacific, signs of a potentially …

24. Major UK-funded climate project in Bangladesh forced to close over aid cuts

    Sun, 23 Aug 2026 07:36:20 -0000

    A UK-funded climate project in Bangladesh is being forced to close two years early after foreign aid cuts, leaving thousands of vulnerable people …

25. Mapping America’s Largest ‘Dead Zone’

    Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:00:47 -0000

    In a decades-long crisis, marine life has suffered as oxygen periodically dwindles in waters along the Gulf Coast. On a sweltering night in late July, a team of scientists gathered onboard the R.V. Pelican in Houma, La., a 116-foot blue-and-white vessel resting in a bed of water hyacinths under a …

26. Climate Change Could Triple The Price Of Wheat - Eurasia Review

    Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:14:55 -0000

    Key Takeaways: A new study finds that the global extent of severe water scarcity alone can explain about 74% of year-to-year fluctuations in …

27. MAHA warns Trump against coal-powered data centers

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:33:53 -0000

    Prominent figures in the Make America Healthy Again movement are telling President Trump that "data centers should not become the justification for …

28. Analysis Shows All Those Data Centers Under Construction Will Output As Much CO2 As 24 Million Cars

    Sat, 22 Aug 2026 21:05:00 -0000

    We've known for a while that AI's endless thirst for more power was going to lead to a lot more emissions in the short term. A new analysis puts what …

29. The Black Robin and the Power of Tenacious Tenderness: How a Single Mother Brought an Entire Species Back from the Brink of Extinction

    Sun, 23 Aug 2026 04:16:06 -0000

    This essay is adapted from Traversal. “In the great chain of cause and effect,” Alexander von Humboldt wrote as he was teaching science to read the poetry of nature, “no single fact can be considered in isolation.” When the first European colonists made landfall on New Zealand’s shores in Humboldt’s …