Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. Elon Musk's No Good, Very Bad, Absolutely Disastrous Election Night

   Wed, 04 Nov 2026 18:23:30 -0000

   Musk spent nearly $500 million to elect Republicans and watched them all lose—and get wiped out in Texas.

2. This Greek ship has collected enough waste from remote shorelines to fill 22 Olympic swimming pools

   Fri, 06 Nov 2026 08:02:22 -0000

   The 20-member cleaning team has created the largest database on marine pollution in the Mediterranean. With the longest coastline of any country on …

3. Voters Just Changed the Trajectory of the Supreme Court

   Thu, 05 Nov 2026 11:01:00 -0000

   The blue wave didn’t just hand Democrats control of the House and Senate. They’ve won back favorable terrain on the future of the federal …

4. The Ozone Hole Is the Largest It's Been in a Decade

   Thu, 05 Nov 2026 17:05:21 -0000

   Scientists at NASA and NOAA found the hole to be nearly three times the size of the United States this year. The ozone hole has made its annual …

5. World First: Underwater Volcano Off US Coast Generates Net-Positive Electricity

   Thu, 05 Nov 2026 23:00:00 -0000

   An engineering team lowered a generator to the ocean floor and ran it using heat from an underwater volcano. They wanted to find out whether it could …

6. The herring that fed medieval Europe never ran out, yet the fishery that caught them collapsed

   Fri, 06 Nov 2026 07:34:00 -0000

   When a fishery dies, the obvious explanation is that people caught all the fish. For the fishery that was once Europe’s main source of salted herring, that isn’t what happened. The herring were still there when the catch collapsed in the late 1500s. A new study finds it took overfishing, a colder …

7. Climate change has stopped the next ice age

   Fri, 06 Nov 2026 07:00:00 -0000

   Earth has had five major ice ages in its geographic history. In fact, we’re supposed to be in one right now. But global carbon emissions have stopped …

8. COP31 host Türkiye is home to one of Europe's largest solar farms. Why can’t it kick coal?

   Fri, 06 Nov 2026 06:02:50 -0000

   As Türkiye prepares to host the UN climate summit, one critic describes the country's climate targets and policies as “critically insufficient”. Row …

9. Ten years of the Paris Agreement: Has the world kept its climate promises?

   Thu, 05 Nov 2026 07:41:25 -0000

   Nearly 200 countries pledged to limit warming to 1.5C. We look at who has delivered and who has fallen short. Ten years ago, the Paris Agreement entered into force, binding nearly every country to a shared goal: to hold global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above …

10. South Korea tests Arctic shipping route amid Russia-West row

    Thu, 05 Nov 2026 09:45:00 -0000

    For South Korean ships, navigating off the north coast of Russia dramatically reduces travel time to Europe, but the pro-Ukraine coalition might see …

11. America’s grid upgrade hinges on a 400-ton machine designed in the 1800s — and just one U.S. mill makes the special steel inside it

    Wed, 04 Nov 2026 19:39:22 -0000

    Americans have a lot of plans for the country’s power grid. Some people want to expand renewable energy by building solar and wind farms. Others want …

12. Inflation is never coming down

    Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:03:47 -0000

    Last week, Donald Trump joked that $5,000 could at most buy you a hamburger and “maybe a small dessert” at Mar-a-Lago. “It’s not a good place if …

13. The polar vortex is about to go haywire

    Wed, 04 Nov 2026 16:59:44 -0000

    Something “unprecedented” is happening in the atmosphere: the Arctic polar vortex, a spinning mass of air high above the North Pole, is collapsing. …

14. JD Vance Is the Trump Administration’s Biggest Weasel

    Thu, 05 Nov 2026 01:49:57 -0000

    The vice president and 2028 hopeful is desperately trying to evade responsibility for the GOP’s bloodbath this week—by laying all the blame on his …

15. As wars reshape priorities, climate cooperation faces a test at the UN Climate Summit

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 06:53:58 -0000

    • As the UN climate summit starts in Türkiye’s Antalya, wars and energy insecurity are pulling governments towards short-term national interests …

16. Plastic pollution is putting an old legal doctrine to a new test

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 09:15:00 -0000

    Public nuisance lawsuits are testing whether companies can be held responsible for pollution after their products are sold. Plastic pollution blights …

17. Modi’s Clean Ganga Project Fails to Tame Toxic Pollution in Holy India River

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 05:00:18 -0000

    Bloomberg analyzed nearly 2,000 kilometers (1,243 miles) of the Ganges using satellite imagery spanning about a decade to 2026. Only about 10% shows …

18. View from The Hill: an over-committed Albanese is scrambling to keep his eyes on the main game

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 06:21:40 -0000

    It’s just a tiny thing, but then, sometimes small things can carry bigger messages. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is delaying by a day his departure …

19. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch May Be Changing The Color of The Ocean

    Thu, 05 Nov 2026 16:00:00 -0000

    There's a monster lurking in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean, neither kraken nor Cthulhu, but a growing behemoth of humanity's creation. The …

20. Montreal breaks temperature records two days in a row

    Thu, 05 Nov 2026 21:42:43 -0000

    It’s not every day that Montreal breaks a record for a daytime high, especially in the fall, but the city did it twice in a row to start …

21. Is next 'Beast from the East' about to hit Britain?

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 02:34:28 -0000

    The Polar Vortex is breaking down due to the earliest "sudden stratospheric warming" event on record, which could bring colder conditions to the UK …

22. Climate resources taken offline under Trump now back online

    Wed, 04 Nov 2026 11:59:00 -0000

    Climate.us provides public access to climate data, tools, and analysis. Climate.gov, a federal website, used to provide a bridge between climate data …

23. The Surreal Has Become Real in Texas

    Thu, 05 Nov 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    The Lone Star State is about to re-embark on a journey it hasn’t thought about for years: Democratic governance. The picture, so perfectly composed, …

24. 3 Areas of the US Facing the Most Snow This Winter

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:31:00 -0000

    The National Weather Service and Fox Weather agree that three parts of the country are bracing for more severe weather this winter amid a historic El …

25. Why Mini Splits Aren't As Popular In The US As The Rest Of The World

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 03:15:00 -0000

    How do you stay cool during the summer? If you live in the US, you probably use an energy-efficient window air conditioner or a different type of A/C …

26. Three-quarters of world's displaced people face severe climate risks, UN says

    Thu, 05 Nov 2026 23:34:08 -0000

    Nearly 90 million forcibly displaced people, or three-quarters of the global total, live in countries highly exposed to climate hazards, the UN Refugee Agency said on Friday, urging action ahead of the COP31 climate summit in Turkey. It said droughts, floods and extreme heat were making lasting …

27. The worse climate change gets, the harder it becomes to stop it

    Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:30:03 -0000

    This year may be seen as a turning point in the climate crisis. The UN has accepted that global warming is going to exceed 1.5°C, while climate …

28. Extreme weather is already a huge threat to homeowners. Which U.S. states are most at risk?

    Wed, 04 Nov 2026 14:12:30 -0000

    Storm clouds are rolling in on the U.S. housing market, with new data projecting a sharp increase in financial losses linked to extreme weather in …

29. Ghana praises Canada for advocating against a ‘rigged global system’ for African countries

    Thu, 05 Nov 2026 12:34:54 -0000

    Ghana’s head of state praised Canada this week for advocating against what he called a “rigged global system” that keeps African countries trapped by debt and mired in climate chaos. His comments come as Canadian officials confirm Ottawa will appoint a new Africa envoy, months after leaving the post …

30. Her Business Flooded. So She Took to the Streets, With a Broom.

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 08:00:05 -0000

    Whenever it rains, Valeen Bhat puts on her waders and her signature hot pink raincoat to clear debris from storm drains in Brooklyn. This time of year, there’s a lot. Fall is for foliage. But foliage falls. And in New York, leaves wreak havoc by clogging storm drains, which can produce devastating …