Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. Democrats are shying away from climate messaging. One of their own is fighting back.

   Sun, 25 Jan 2026 12:00:00 -0000

   One of Congress’ loudest climate hawks is trying to fend off a push within his party to abandon calls to combat climate change as left-leaning agenda-setters are plotting to reclaim both chambers of Congress in the midterms. “There’s a thing out there called a ‘climate husher,’” Sen. Sheldon …

2. Scientists call for urgent action as dangerous amoebas spread globally

   Sun, 25 Jan 2026 08:07:24 -0000

   Scientists are warning that a little-known group of microbes called free-living amoebae may pose a growing global health threat. Found in soil and …

3. How to protect your EV from this weekend's snow storm

   Sun, 25 Jan 2026 10:00:05 -0000

   Extreme cold is hard on electric vehicles, but EV owners can avoid problems by being prepared — and may even be able to tap their car's battery if …

4. How Davos redeemed itself

   Sat, 24 Jan 2026 20:00:05 -0000

   DAVOS, Switzerland — In an age of populism and growing insularity, the World Economic Forum defied the odds this year by reclaiming its lost …

5. What Trump Doesn’t Understand About Greenland

   Sun, 25 Jan 2026 09:30:00 -0000

   While the president chases 19th-century dreams of land, Greenland’s true power is swimming underwater: a climate-driven fish boom that makes the …

6. Climate change in Greenland: disaster or opportunity?

   Sun, 25 Jan 2026 11:30:00 -0000

   Tourists come for the icebergs, but climate change is melting them. As temperatures rise, Greenland faces disaster, but tourism could also …

7. Nigerian farmers talk about how climate change is affecting staple food crops – and what can help

   Sun, 25 Jan 2026 05:04:50 -0000

   In Nigeria, agriculture contributes about 40% to national gross domestic product and supports the livelihoods of about 60% of the population. Finding …

8. Donald Trump's Health Unveiled

   Sat, 24 Jan 2026 23:30:03 -0000

   In mid-October, reports of a mysterious MRI scan performed on U.S. president Donald Trump circulated news sources, but there was little information regarding the purpose of the test.

9. No One Is Quite Sure Why Ice Is Slippery

   Sun, 25 Jan 2026 07:00:00 -0000

   A thin, watery layer coating the surface of ice is what makes it slick. Despite a great deal of theorizing over the centuries, though, it isn’t …

10. James Cameron on moving to New Zealand: ‘I’m there for the sanity’

    Sat, 24 Jan 2026 02:15:17 -0000

    Oscar-winning director James Cameron was candid during a recent interview about why he chose to leave the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic and …

11. Confused Trump, 79, Makes Bizarre Claim About Looming Ice Storm

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:53:38 -0000

    A monster storm is expected to freeze much of the U.S. this weekend, but Trump is focused on a different enemy. President Donald Trump has completely …

12. How coal mine waste could power America’s next clean energy movement

    Sun, 25 Jan 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Treating acid mine drainage and extracting its valuable rare earth elements offers a way to transform pollution into prosperity. Across Appalachia, rust-colored water seeps from abandoned coal mines, staining rocks orange and coating stream beds with metals. These acidic discharges, known as acid …

13. How the polar vortex and warm ocean are intensifying a major US winter storm

    Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:40:48 -0000

    A severe winter storm sweeping across the central and eastern U.S. in late January 2026 is threatening states from Texas to New England with …

14. Documenting an Alaska Village, Before and After the Storm That Destroyed It

    Sat, 24 Jan 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The story of Typhoon Halong’s destruction in Kipnuk adds an exclamation point to long-simmering fears about the future of Alaska coastal villages …

15. People Are Panic Buying for the Winter Storm. An Expert Explains Why We Do It

    Sat, 24 Jan 2026 18:59:26 -0000

    As a potentially historic winter storm has already knocked out power to 112,000 homes and warnings are in place for some 140 million Americans, many in the storm's path have rushed to stores to stock up on supplies. Images of shelves stripped bare at stores across the country have found their way to …

16. US defense plan focuses on homeland, limits help to allies

    Sat, 24 Jan 2026 11:10:36 -0000

    A new Pentagon strategy paper breaks with much past US defense policy, while ignoring climate change as a growing threat. It also foresees allies …

17. Here's Why 2026 Is The Year to Visit Oulu in Finland

    Sun, 25 Jan 2026 09:19:53 -0000

    In the days of wooden sail ships, Oulu’s tar helped connect the world, and in 2026, Finland’s fifth-largest city is once again establishing …

18. How the National Park Service Is Deleting American History

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 23:04:29 -0000

    Philadelphia sued the Trump administration after it directed the Park Service to rip out a memorial to slavery. Elsewhere, materials about climate change and labor history were being removed. At Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, the Trump administration took down an exhibit on …

19. The Hidden Ocean Cost Of Carbon: Why Climate Damage Is Nearly Twice As High As We Thought

    Sat, 24 Jan 2026 23:38:29 -0000

    The social cost of carbon – the monetary value that climate economists associate with the damage caused by emitting each additional tonne of CO₂ – …

20. The Climate and Energy Implication Hidden in Mark Carney’s Davos Speech

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:23:30 -0000

    For the first few days of the World Economic Forum in Davos, politicians, civil society leaders, and business executives waited in nervous anticipation of President Donald Trump’s address to the conference—and any potential signal that he might try to make good on his promise to annex …

21. Will Trump’s Greenland Deal Come With Any Actual Benefits?

    Sat, 24 Jan 2026 05:00:23 -0000

    President Donald Trump makes it all sound very simple: The U.S. should simply have Greenland, an island three times the size of Texas administered by …

22. How Plug-In Solar Lets Everyone Enjoy Solar Savings

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:56:43 -0000

    Solar energy systems now provide the least expensive electricity in history. Period. Solar energy costs are so low, you can save real money on a rooftop system if you live in a sunny part of the country – but even everyone in not-so-sunny Michigan would save money with solar rather than buying it …

23. The Rio Grande Has Transformed From Environmental Haven to Militarized Border

    Sat, 24 Jan 2026 19:43:09 -0000

    As a child, Michelle Serrano would take trips to Boca Chica with her grandmother. From her home in Brownsville, the drive ran east through Texas …

24. After a horror week of shark attacks, how do we sift facts from fear?

    Sat, 24 Jan 2026 18:00:00 -0000

    As a devoted ocean swimmer, I've learned to accept the risk of exploring an ocean that is not my natural habitat. It's quite eerie, seeing an empty …

25. Is climate change weakening the polar vortex?

    Sun, 25 Jan 2026 10:24:04 -0000

    Rising Arctic temperatures and melting sea ice could be causing cold air to flow into the Northern Hemisphere. But not all scientists agree. The polar vortex is a ribbon of high-altitude, fast-moving air that traps cold air as it circles the planet’s Arctic region in a counterclockwise direction. …

26. Blizzard Makes Climate Change Damage Worse

    Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:29:09 -0000

    The blizzard that is hitting the US is driving cold temperatures as far south as Florida. The primary cause is climate change, altering the polar …

27. Crisis world leaders did not address at Davos: Our planet matters more than AI.

    Sun, 25 Jan 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    This past week, leaders came together at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and focused on three big things: the current state of …

28. "Censorship" And "Erasing History": U.S. City Sues Interior Department After NPS Staff Abruptly Take Down Slavery Signs At President's House

    Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:11:31 -0000

    The city of Philadelphia is suing the Department of the Interior (DOI) after exhibits and signs on slavery were taken down at the President's House …

29. Why Earth's melting glaciers matter more than we think

    Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:00:19 -0000

    Ice in the Arctic and Antarctica plays a critical role in maintaining life on Earth, and it is melting faster than previously thought. This is …

30. Is Greenland really a land of untapped riches? A geologist went looking in the 1990s

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:30:17 -0000

    Is Greenland a land of rare earth riches? The Indicator tells the story of an Australian geologist who learned the great cost of extracting Greenland's minerals. SCOTT DETROW, HOST: President Trump says the alleged new framework for a Greenland deal involves U.S. access to mineral rights, but is it …