Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

  1. Hugging Face CEO says asking Anthropic researcher ‘about AI extinction risk is like asking your AC guy about climate change’

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:25:05 -0000

    Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue questioned the focus on a former Anthropic researcher who said AI workers privately fear the technology could kill all humans. "Sorry, but asking Jacob about AI extinction risk is like asking your AC guy about climate change," Delangue wrote on X on Friday. Delangue …

  2. The Accelerating Project to Extend Abortion Bans to All 50 States

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:08:20 -0000

    In a legal challenge to abortion access at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Department of Justice and Louisiana are on opposite sides. But …

  3. Water Shortages Now Hitting Russia Hard Across The Board - Analysis - Eurasia Review

    Sat, 12 Sep 2026 02:07:30 -0000

    Key Takeaways: The author argues Russia is facing spreading water shortages from climate change and heavier use—not only its famous spring floods. …

  4. ‘Recovery becomes self-propelling’: Five positive tipping points that can save the world

    Sat, 12 Sep 2026 05:05:36 -0000

    “For too long a sense has prevailed that solutions to the climate and nature are out of reach. This new research explodes that myth once and for all.” …

  5. A federal judge just told Trump there's no ‘emergency' to justify keeping a Michigan coal plant open

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:41:28 -0000

    It's one of the first successful legal challenges to the administration’s “energy emergency” agenda. The Department of Energy overstepped when it …

  6. EPA to Loosen Methane Rules, Boosting Pollution From Oil and Gas Wells

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0000

    The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing a rule that’ll drastically weaken restrictions on “stripper wells,” which tend to be old, poorly …

  7. The Atlantic Ocean Has a Hidden 'Heat Valve' That Controls Earth's Temperature – And It Could Be Closing

    Sat, 12 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0000

    Our relatively stable global climate is governed by an incredibly complex set of factors, all interacting with each other in dynamic and changeable …

  8. Spring 2027 election now more likely over tax trap, Labour insiders believe

    Sat, 12 Sep 2026 05:00:00 -0000

    Andy Burnham had a front-row seat in the Cabinet in 2007 when Gordon Brown let speculation he would call a snap election run for weeks, only to later …

  9. In 1959, the first nuclear-powered merchant ship set sail before the world was ready

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:54:00 -0000

    The NS 'Savannah' even offered a view into the reactor powering the state-of-the-art ship. By the time naval architecture firm George G. Sharp tasked Jack Heaney with the design of the world’s first nuclear-powered merchant ship, the Glasgow-born designer had already broken many styling norms. In …

  10. Fake EVs Hit The Road

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:15:00 -0000

    Car companies can’t sell EVs. People worry about how far they will go on a charge. They also worry about how many charging stations are available. …

  11. Why Is NY’s Republican Candidate for Governor Embracing 9/11 Truthers?

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Bruce Blakeman has some odd bedfellows. Bruce Blakeman, the Republican vying to be New York’s next governor, has an uphill battle ahead of November: …

  12. ‘Incredible progress’: Inside the €682bn drive to turn the Mediterranean into a renewable powerhouse

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:00:54 -0000

    More than 552 GW of utility-scale solar and wind projects have been announced, or are already under development, across the Mediterranean. The …

  13. Buildings are sinking and cracking in one of Europe’s largest cities

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:09:08 -0000

    As blistering temperatures baked London this summer, people started to notice strange things happening to their houses: zig-zagging cracks suddenly …

  14. So Long, Sausage Rolls: Heat Upends Britain’s High-Street Habits

    Sat, 12 Sep 2026 08:00:04 -0000

    Britain’s obsession with a nice cup of tea is famous around the world. But as the climate changes, that love affair is wilting in the heat. A …

  15. Is AI Really a Threat to Human Survival? Altimeter's Brad Gerstner Dismisses ‘Scare Tactics’ After Former Anthropic Researcher's Warning

    Sat, 12 Sep 2026 06:02:31 -0000

    Altimeter Capital CEO Brad Gerstner dismissed warnings that artificial intelligence (AI) could threaten human survival on Friday, calling the …

  16. Chinese Scientists Propose Turning Abandoned Coal Mines Into Farming Laboratories

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    There are more than 12,000 abandoned coal mines across China, offering vast amounts of underground space and sophisticated infrastructure that could …

  17. Scientists develop a plastic that can be turned into fertilizer

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:00:14 -0000

    Microplastics are a scourge on the environment, accumulating in farm soils and wriggling their way into the food supply—reducing harvests and harming …

  18. One Year After Charlie Kirk’s Death, How Did Everyone Get It So Wrong?

    Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Charlie Kirk was always an extremist. His killing had lasting consequences that we are only just beginning to witness. Charlie Kirk’s …

  19. Thomas Piketty: 'To solve today's contradictions, we must rethink prosperity while respecting planetary boundaries'

    Sat, 12 Sep 2026 03:30:08 -0000

    Adapting the economy to climate change must go hand in hand with economic democracy, self-management, political and territorial equality and a move …

  20. Top AI pioneers reaffirm Anthropic researcher’s human extinction warning

    Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:12:05 -0000

    Top AI pioneers backed an Anthropic researcher’s warning of potential human extinction. Paul Christiano — author of an influential 2016 paper on AI …

  21. Why Elon Musk is threatening to sue

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:59:33 -0000

    A documentary about one of the world’s most powerful men premiered at the Venice Film Festival this week, and the subject of that film had a lot to …

  22. Federal Appellate Court Kills Trump Bid to Keep 'Old, Expensive, and Dirty' Coal Plant Open | Common Dreams

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 21:29:12 -0000

    "Preventing the market-driven retirements of coal plants to advance a coal-friendly agenda is not a proper use of emergency powers," said one …

  23. Atlantic Hurricane Season Could Hit 100-Year Milestone Under El Niño

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:37:14 -0000

    The Atlantic basin could record its first hurricane-free season in more than a century if no hurricanes form before the season ends, according to …

  24. Yes, it’s the economy, stupid. But One Nation is outflanking the government on messaging, too

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 01:36:50 -0000

    Labor is no doubt dreading the likelihood of further interest rate rises, despite Treasurer Jim Chalmers talking up the economy. When One Nation …

  25. How Steelworkers Might Shape the Midterm Elections

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Trump’s “golden share” in U.S. Steel puts him in a bind. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed earlier this month a resolution …

  26. A former Google DeepMind safety researcher explains the frightening difference between AI and other threats like nuclear war and asteroids

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:21:58 -0000

    Climate change can't anticipate our next move. An asteroid can't dodge us. And while humans can be adversaries in a nuclear war, the fallout that follows isn't trying to outsmart anyone. For Business Insider's video series "AI Architects," Ramana Kumar told Business Insider in May 2025 that …

  27. All the Data Center News That’s Fit to Print

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:36:47 -0000

    A developer sues an Arkansas paper, plus more of the week’s biggest development fights. 1. Pulaski County, Arkansas – A major utility sued the biggest …

  28. When Indonesia burns, these women run towards the fire

    Sat, 12 Sep 2026 04:00:08 -0000

    Irma smells the fire before she sees it: a column of thick, yellow-tinged smoke rising above the tree line near her small wooden home. She pulls on …

  29. Infectious diseases will seed new ground as the planet warms — here's where they'll spread

    Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:00:15 -0000

    Climate change will increase our exposure to myriad infections, from tick-borne diseases to drug-resistant bacterial infections. To the untrained eye, …

  30. They cleaned up ground zero. Now many are hiding from ICE

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0000

    NEW YORK — Once a week, in a Queens office building, a group of immigrants in their 50s and 60s gathers. They've all known each other for some 25 years: they met when they were cleaning up ground zero together. They are among the thousands of cleanup crews who rushed to the destruction in lower …