Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

  1. No Place on Earth Is Safe if All Hell Breaks Loose, But One Place Is Safer Than The Rest

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:00:00 -0000

    Sometimes it seems like there's no end to the catastrophic dangers we face as a species. Nuclear armageddon. Climate change. Pandemics. AI. …

  2. Evacuations ordered as wind-whipped Ross Fire in Texas explodes to 50,000 acres in just hours

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:36:42 -0000

    Firefighters are battling numerous wildfires threatening homes in the West. A wind-whipped grass fire ignited on Monday near Fort Worth, Texas, …

  3. How Trump’s Crazed Fury at Canada Is Already Backfiring Badly for Him

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The escalating trade war with Canada will hit hard in the Midwest—right where some of the most important contests in the midterms will be …

  4. Phoenix: A canary in the coal mine for a world becoming an ‘Inferno’

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 22:59:49 -0000

    Yes, it’s a dry heat. But it’s a deadly one too. Phoenix keeps breaking heat records right and left. This year we hit 100 degrees in March multiple …

  5. Global ocean temperatures hit record high as El Nino intensifies

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:10:10 -0000

    Copernicus warns of ‘unprecedented strain’ on world’s oceans as El Nino and climate change drive up sea surface temperatures. The average global sea surface temperature has reached its highest level on record, a European Union agency said, warning that a rapidly intensifying El Nino and human-caused …

  6. Border Wall Construction Threatens 6,000 Years of History on Private Lands

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 06:00:00 -0000

    Archeologists are confronting an “unfathomable” loss as the US border wall is set to cut across ranches that are home to unique historical sites in …

  7. In 1973, Icelanders fought a volcano—and won

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:53:00 -0000

    Firefighters, physicists, and volunteers sprayed seawater at the flows, creating 100-foot-tall lava walls. On January 23, 1973, the 5,000 residents of the tiny Icelandic island of Heimaey—located in the Westman archipelago just four miles off Iceland’s southern coast—woke up to the Earth splitting …

  8. US companies are on the cusp of big climate solutions. Thank the government.

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:45:00 -0000

    The Department of Energy’s moonshot funding program is working. President Trump seems inclined to keep it. The United States has never been one of the …

  9. Bomb Fishing Is Wreaking Havoc on Indonesia's Coral Reefs

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:26:00 -0000

    Fishers operating off the coast of Sulawesi, Indonesia, are detonating more than 8,000 underwater explosives each year, researchers estimate. The …

  10. August Ocean Heat Shatters All-Time Record in Season When It Should Be Cooling

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:54:38 -0000

    Ocean temperature record 2026: Copernicus confirmed a new all-time high of 21.1 degrees Celsius on August 22 -- in August, when oceans normally cool. …

  11. The Biggest Carbon Polluters Are to Blame for Half of U.S. Western Water Lost to Climate Change, ‘Groundbreaking’ Paper Says

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:42:27 -0000

    Some of the most impactful changes have come in the stressed Colorado River basin.Some of the largest fossil fuel companies on Earth are …

  12. Did climate change cause this heat wave? Most likely, and here's why

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0000

    More than 80 million people are under an Extreme Heat Warning or Heat Advisory through this week, according to the National Weather Service. Forecasters at the service's Weather Prediction Center called this latest heat dome a "steamy air-mass even by mid-to-late August standards." Dangerous …

  13. Cancer Seems to be the Price We’re Willing to Pay for Dandelion-Free Lawns - ecoRI News

    Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:36:43 -0000

    Watching people spray Roundup on individual dandelions and at unwelcome plants in the cracks and crevices of the asphalt and concrete that surround …

  14. Wildfires Spread Across Much Of The World

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:52:00 -0000

    Wildfires used to be unusual in Europe. They burn there now, also across a growing part of the US, and in Canada and Russia. Scientists blame global …

  15. What the Hell Are Karen Bass, Xavier Becerra, and Gavin Newsom Doing?

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    California’s attorney general is doing his job in asking questions of Paramount. It’s pathetic that other state Democrats are undercutting him. Twelve …

  16. Remembering the ‘visionary’ author of Pennsylvania’s environmental rights amendment

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:53:22 -0000

    Franklin Kury, who passed away last week, helped make Pennsylvania one of the first governments in the world to guarantee a healthy environment as a …

  17. Scientists just unleashed an army of 130,000 baby octopuses to fight off a blue crab invasion

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:30:00 -0000

    Embattled Mediterranean fisheries and ecosystems may soon be saved by an eight-limbed army. Italian scientists have released 130,000 common octopuses …

  18. AI’s land problem is pushing data centers into the ocean

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:34:51 -0000

    The artificial intelligence boom is driving unprecedented demand for data centers, raising concerns about their growing energy consumption, water use …

  19. Hurricane forecasters closely watch system that could turn dangerous

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:25:07 -0000

    A new tropical system appears likely to develop after a strong tropical wave rolled off the African coast, and it's attracting a lot of attention …

  20. How Lake Mead Water Levels Stand as Nevada Sues Over Colorado River Cuts

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:49:52 -0000

    Lake Mead remains near its lowest level on record as the state of Nevada and the Southern Nevada Water Authority launch a legal challenge to a new …

  21. Vulnerability to wildfire smoke is in our genes, thanks to an evolutionary quirk

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:59:56 -0000

    When the sky becomes orange and hazy from wildfire smoke, modern humans are at greater risk than our earlier ancestors would have been. This is …

  22. What Jon Ossoff Gets That Far Too Many Democrats Don’t

    Mon, 24 Aug 2026 06:12:47 -0000

    The Georgia senator is showing his colleagues that in the attention era, conflict is king. There’s a new Democratic presidential front-runner, …

  23. We finally have some encouraging news on Great Barrier Reef water quality

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:16:50 -0000

    Imagine a plume of brown sediment is washed off the land into Queensland rivers and carried out to sea. Here, it can settle on seagrass and inshore …

  24. The world inches toward catastrophic climate events: 'Bigger shocks are on the way'

    Mon, 24 Aug 2026 13:08:48 -0000

    In the opening scene of American writer Kim Stanley Robinson’s “The Ministry for the Future,” a heat wave combined with a breakdown of the electrical …

  25. If America Doesn’t Want Data Centers, Where Will They Go?

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    As voters from both parties turn against data centers, dragging politicians of all stripes with them, Big Tech may look toward Latin America for a …

  26. Climate Collapse Has Plunged UK Food Production Into Crisis

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:27:35 -0000

    Farmers fear they won’t be able to plant crops next year. The UK faces a food production crisis after a summer of extreme heat and drought, farmers …

  27. Photovoltaic Windows Have Been Heating Water in a Bucharest Apartment for Two Years

    Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:23:53 -0000

    A two-year apartment pilot in Bucharest uses semi-transparent photovoltaic windows to heat domestic water directly in DC, turning an ordinary water …

  28. Europe heatwaves: At least 35,000 'excess deaths' recorded as summer toll rises

    Wed, 26 Aug 2026 02:00:00 -0000

    Europe's extreme summer has left a growing human toll, with at least 35,000 excess deaths recorded during four back-to-back heatwaves and the final …

  29. Historic Snow Map Shows Which States El Niño Could Hit Hardest This Winter

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:45:00 -0000

    NOAA put the chance of a very strong El Niño at 81 percent in July. A month later, the Climate Prediction Center raised that above 90 percent for fall and winter 2026-27 and gave October to December a 69 percent chance of exceeding every El Niño in a record that reaches back to 1950. That …

  30. Medicare for All Is Making a Comeback

    Mon, 24 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The health care reform package that’s getting renewed buzz thanks to some Democratic candidates is tailor-made to fix what Trump has broken. The …