Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

  1. A judge said the Trump administration can’t dismantle a weather research center. The damage may already be done.

    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:30:00 -0000

    The Trump administration cannot dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a federal judge ruled this week. But the damage may already be done. Staff are fleeing, equipment has been offered for sale and multiple critical projects are paused, possibly never to be started again. The …

  2. Antarctica's 'doomsday glacier' collapse may be worse than we thought

    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:00:25 -0000

    Antarctica is melting and one of its largest glaciers is collapsing from underneath. This is Thwaites glacier, sometimes called the doomsday glacier …

  3. Tomatoflation is the latest extreme price increase to hit grocery bills. The reasons why are alarming

    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:05:00 -0000

    Tomato prices have recently soared to highs not seen in 45 years. It’s thanks to a number of supply-chain disruptions, and it’s not likely to get better soon. Grocery prices keep rising, and one ingredient crucial to BLTs, salads, and fresh salsas has gotten particularly expensive. Tomato prices are …

  4. London's Mayor Sadiq Khan Played the Long Game on Climate. And It Worked

    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:29:32 -0000

    Around the world, particularly in the U.S. and Europe, countries are in the middle of a climate reset. Right-wing politicians want to nix climate policy full stop. Their left and center-left counterparts are backtracking on promises for aggressive new policies under the assumption that climate is …

  5. World Map Shows Where El Niño Will Hit Hard

    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:55:09 -0000

    El Niño conditions are expected to return and influence global temperatures and rainfall patterns, including in the United States, in the coming …

  6. Scientists lose critical ocean research thanks to Trump funding cuts

    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:39:46 -0000

    One of the world's most ambitious ocean monitoring networks is facing a significant shutdown, with scientists preparing to dismantle a crucial …

  7. Trump’s National Park ‘Snitch Signs’ Backfired Spectacularly

    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:59:41 -0000

    Thousands of comments submitted through National Park Service feedback signs criticized the Trump administration, opposed historical revisions, and …

  8. Why one of the cities most dependent on the Colorado River now has water for sale

    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:01:00 -0000

    SAN DIEGO — Even as California is offering to take less water from the drought-shrunken Colorado River, one of the state's biggest cities that's long been the most dependent on it curiously now has excess water to sell. California, Arizona and Nevada have a new plan to share the Colorado River In a …

  9. Energy, water use and pollution of AI and data centers rival most countries

    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:00:12 -0000

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world’s largest countries, according to a United Nations University report, which also predicts their water and energy use and pollution will double in just four years as use of artificial intelligence …

  10. Data Center Operators Are Trying to Fix Their Water Use Problems

    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:00:00 -0000

    Google, Microsoft, and other hyperscalers have come under scrutiny for their impact on water quality and availability. On Monday, SpaceX amended its …

  11. How ‘monoculture’ became a catchall for two opposing anxieties – that we no longer share enough, and that we all share too much

    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:26:55 -0000

    When “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” aired its final episode on May 21, 2026, critics lamented more than the end of a television program. It was …

  12. The Population Bust

    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:51:26 -0000

    A revealing global journey into declining birth rates, ageing societies, and their far-reaching impact. The last 100 years have seen a boom in trade, prosperity and wealth across the world, at unprecedented rates in human history. As a species, we are now more wealthy, healthy, and less likely to be …

  13. ‘Absolutely crazy’: Horror as Trump moves to dismantle crucial ocean monitoring system

    Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:56:38 -0000

    June 02, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license.In what a number of scientists suggested was the Trump …

  14. Trump Plans $700 Million to Build Coal Plants, Export Site

    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:22:58 -0000

    President Donald Trump is preparing to use Cold War-era authorities to dole hundreds of millions of federal dollars to support coal-fired electricity …

  15. BYD tested charging one of its EVs in -22°F extreme cold climate chamber and the results should scare all other automakers

    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:52:07 -0000

    BYD put one of its EVs to the ultimate test by placing it in a -22°F climate chamber before charging it – the results should leave other automakers …

  16. Google wants to release 64 million bacteria-riddled mosquitoes across California and Florida. Here's why scientists are enthusiastic.

    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:40:00 -0000

    Google has applied for an experimental mosquito release permit to deploy millions of non-biting southern house mosquitoes that it has infected with …

  17. Trump administration moves to rip out 900 deep-ocean sensors used to track threats

    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:25:00 -0000

    The Trump administration plans to remove hundreds of deep-ocean sensors used to track marine ecosystems, ocean currents, and coastal threats, …

  18. 'Recycled' plastic is being burned -- and causing widespread pollution

    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:48:03 -0000

    Picture a pile of trash the size of Manhattan and taller than one and a half Empire State Buildings. That's how much plastic waste the world is …

  19. 'Humpty Dumpty' has fallen

    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:59:21 -0000

    Welcome to POLITICO’s West Wing Playbook: Remaking Government, your guide to Donald Trump’s unprecedented overhaul of the federal government — the key decisions, the critical characters and the power dynamics that are upending Washington and beyond. Send tips | Subscribe | Email Sophia | Email …

  20. How virtual power plants could provide energy for data centers

    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:51:38 -0000

    A new deal between Google and Voltus will take advantage of flexibility on the grid. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Would you take a payment to ramp down your …

  21. Why climate scientists have dropped a worst-case scenario

    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:03:49 -0000

    For the past 15 years, scientists have studied a climate doomsday. Under this worst-case scenario, referred to in the scientific world as “RCP 8.5,” …

  22. Arizona is drying up faster than any other state in the U.S.

    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:56:16 -0000

    Talk to anyone about Arizona weather and you can’t avoid the dryness of the climate. Newcomers complain about waking up feeling hungover without …

  23. U.S. to Dismantle System Tracking Atlantic Currents That Are at Risk of Collapse

    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:28:00 -0000

    The Trump administration is moving to dismantle an ocean observation system consisting of more than 900 instruments in the Pacific and Atlantic …

  24. A simple way to lower everyone’s property taxes

    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:30:00 -0000

    Compact neighborhoods cost cities half as much to maintain. So why don’t we build more of them? The housing abundance movement has won more of the intellectual argument than anyone might have predicted a decade ago. Across much of American politics, even in Zohran Mamdani’s New York (listen, I love …

  25. Don't Fall For Its Beauty: The Yellow Flowering Ground Cover You Don't Want In Your Yard

    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:30:00 -0000

    When you're looking for a ground cover to fill an area in your garden, you usually want something that grows relatively quickly and maybe even forms mats so the bare space looks lush and beautiful with little effort on your part. For that reason, it may be tempting to allow Wedelia (Sphagneticola …

  26. An Alternative Nobel Prize For Trump? – OpEd

    Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:29:23 -0000

    Imagine Donald Trump receiving a Nobel Prize—not for championing peace, democracy, or global unity, but for inadvertently reminding the world just …

  27. UN warns world to prepare for El Nino extreme weather

    Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:08:50 -0000

    There is an 80-percent chance of the warming El Nino phenomenon developing between June and August, increasing the risk of extreme weather events, …

  28. As The 2026 Hurricane Season Begins, These Are The Most Vulnerable States

    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:45:00 -0000

    The Atlantic basin is an area that includes the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of America, and each year, between June 1st and …

  29. The Mississippi River Just Started Flowing Backwards – And USGS Says It’s Not Stopping

    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:45:00 -0000

    If you heard that the Mississippi River had started flowing backwards and was not going to stop, your first instinct might be to laugh, then to …

  30. The Ocean’s Longest-Running Mystery Sings With a Voice No Creature Should Have

    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:00:00 -0000

    For decades, a single whale has been calling out at a frequency no known species uses. Scientists still can’t find it. Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: First recorded in 1989, a whale has been vocalizing at 52 hertz—a much higher frequency than is typical for blue or fin whales—for …