Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. The Amount of New Solar Power Production Capacity China Is Manufacturing Is Legitimately Mind-Blowing

   Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:15:00 -0000

   Last year, a viral drone video from China’s Guizhou province revealed an entire mountain range blanketed in solar panels stretching to the horizon. …

2. The ‘Doomsday Glacier’ Could Flood the Earth. Can a 50-Mile Wall Stop It?

   Sat, 31 Jan 2026 09:18:56 -0000

   Scientists have long opposed polar geoengineering. Some now believe it will be necessary. This month, an international team of scientists has been trying to set up sensors on and around Thwaites Glacier, one of the most unstable in the world. It’s often called Antarctica’s “doomsday glacier” …

3. Australian summers to experience more 50C days as heatwaves intensify, experts say

   Sat, 31 Jan 2026 20:05:34 -0000

   After two heatwaves in January alone, the prospect of seeing 50 degrees Celsius forecast on weather maps across south-eastern Australia is becoming …

4. For Western forces in the Arctic, the cold itself is one of their toughest enemies

   Sat, 31 Jan 2026 12:57:01 -0000

   SODANKYLÄ, Finland — Deep snow. Fleeting daylight. Wet clothes. Frozen weapons. Sub-zero temperatures. NATO soldiers training in Arctic warfare are learning that in a future conflict, fighting the enemy may be only half the battle. The other would be surviving the region's harsh winters. "The …

5. A Secret Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, Judge Rules

   Fri, 30 Jan 2026 19:57:05 -0000

   The researchers produced a report that was central in a Trump administration effort to stop regulating climate pollution. A federal judge on Friday ruled the Energy Department violated the law when Secretary Chris Wright handpicked five researchers who reject the scientific consensus on climate …

6. The West’s water war arrives in Washington

   Sat, 31 Jan 2026 15:00:00 -0000

   Interior Secretary Doug Burgum stepped into the seven-state brawl over the Colorado River on Friday — a high-stakes battle over water supplies that poses significant political danger in Western swing states for the Trump administration. Burgum convened most of the region’s governors and their lead …

7. Thousands applied for this world-first visa. Now the first have arrived in Australia

   Sat, 31 Jan 2026 08:12:19 -0000

   The Manuellas are one of the first families to arrive in Australia under a new treaty with Tuvalu, as rising sea levels threaten their …

8. New study reveals surprising side effects linked to driving electric vehicles: 'It … has an immediate impact'

   Sat, 31 Jan 2026 23:00:00 -0000

   A new study confirms that electrifying vehicles significantly reduces air pollution. Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC found that …

9. Climate Advocates Want Help But Won’t Get It

   Sat, 31 Jan 2026 14:46:32 -0000

   Climate scientists say that as the environmental disaster worsens, they need more help from governments, companies, and international organizations. …

10. Cloud Seeding Programs Are Spreading Across the Western US

    Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:32:01 -0000

    While parts of the East Coast gear up for another snowstorm, the weather is different in the western US. There, snow has been in short supply and ski …

11. Arctic Air Headed Out

    Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:32:13 -0000

    KOCO Meteorologist Michael Armstrong says Arctic air is moving out after tonight with lows near 17° and then highs warming into the 50s. The warming trend continues into Monday with highs in the 60s.

12. 'Bomb Cyclone' Threatens Freezing Temperatures and Snow

    Sun, 01 Feb 2026 01:04:07 -0000

    A bundled up Lucia Amato, of Argentina, sits on the shore while waiting for a friend in Miami Beach, Fla., Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026.A bundled up Credit - Marta Lavandier—Associated Press A winter storm traveling across the southern United States is threatening to drop snow on parts of Florida’s Gulf …

13. The Chernobyl Disaster: How a failed nuclear test led to the worst catastrophe

    Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:00:58 -0000

    On April 26, 1986, a failure during a reactor systems test led to the meltdown of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Pripyat, Ukraine. It would become the worst nuclear disaster in history. More disasters that changed history.

14. Scientists resist Trump's war on climate data

    Fri, 30 Jan 2026 11:30:44 -0000

    Earlier this month, President Donald Trump mentioned the brutal winter storm hitting the U.S. and asked, in all caps, “Whatever happened to global warming?” The ignorance of this statement is one thing, but easily explained: rising temperatures are linked to more extreme weather, including colder …

15. The Lithium Mine Next Door

    Sat, 31 Jan 2026 13:00:00 -0000

    The pavilion overlooking the small canyon before me made me think of a less imposing version of Black Canyon in Colorado’s Gunnison National Park. …

16. Polar bears fatten up with new diets amid ice loss

    Fri, 30 Jan 2026 11:18:10 -0000

    Polar bears in Svalbard are getting fatter, even as sea ice disappears. The Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean is warming rapidly; winter sea …

17. A former Sierra Club Foundation director sues over internal racism that he says hinders its mission

    Sat, 31 Jan 2026 15:42:45 -0000

    NEW YORK (AP) — It seemed like a high-profile opportunity to lead an influential environmental group’s ambitious new push for green energy financing. And so, in May 2023, Pedro da Silva joined the Sierra Club Foundation, the charitable arm for the nonprofit started by naturalist John Muir. A former …

18. What Would It Take to Actually Freeze the Hudson River?

    Sat, 31 Jan 2026 23:05:22 -0000

    NEW YORK -- Any New Yorker who has spent time this past week gazing at the Hudson River, its wide expanse growing ever more packed with angular …

19. Trump’s Pick to Lead the Federal Reserve Could Steer Bank Away From Climate Change

    Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:59:19 -0000

    Kevin Warsh has criticized central banks’ forays into climate change. Some activists and Democrats say the Fed hasn’t done enough.The fight over …

20. Dems don’t care about rapid decline of NY, Calif. — as long as THEIR piece of the pie stays fat

    Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:56:05 -0000

    Perhaps the sickest thing about the rapid decline of blue states like New York and California, each rapidly shrinking in comparison to the rest of …

21. Pollution of a sacred river is leaving Delhi without water

    Sat, 31 Jan 2026 03:50:24 -0000

    The Yamuna River, a holy site for millions and a source of about 40% of Delhi’s water supply, is now so polluted that it is often covered in toxic foam and cannot be treated, triggering widespread shortages.

22. The Long-Predicted Climate Crisis is Here: No One is Apparently Going to Report That Truth

    Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:12:48 -0000

    Everything the “climate scientists” predicted — wildfires, droughts, outbreaks of disease, massive hurricanes, coastal erosion, and more — is here. …

23. 10 Most Promising Renewable Energy Technologies of the Future

    Sat, 31 Jan 2026 14:10:25 -0000

    The world is on the brink of an energy revolution, with renewable technologies taking center stage. As we strive to combat climate change and reduce …

24. Things Even Scientists Can't Quite Believe

    Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:30:06 -0000

    Around 1871, a farmer from the French island of Réunion off the coast of Madagascar took his family and his cows to far-flung Amsterdam Island — which is roughly equidistant between Africa, Australia, and Antarctica — to try and eke out a living.

25. 15 Cities That Could Be Underwater by 2050

    Sat, 31 Jan 2026 18:14:22 -0000

    Picture waking up tomorrow to headlines announcing that your favorite coastal city is now permanently flooded. It sounds like science fiction, …

26. ‘America out’: the global bodies Trump quit and the price the world pays

    Sat, 31 Jan 2026 11:13:37 -0000

    The United States’ final withdrawal from the World Health Organization last week was not just another chapter in an internal political dispute over …

27. ‘No one power’ can solve global problems, says UN chief as Trump veers away

    Fri, 30 Jan 2026 07:23:09 -0000

    United Nations chief Antonio Guterres appears to point at Trump as critics say his ‘Board of Peace’ aims to replace UN. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that international “cooperation is eroding” in the world, during a media briefing where he took aim at one – maybe two …

28. Farm waste could lock away carbon for decades

    Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:30:01 -0000

    Agricultural waste that is usually burned or left to rot could play a far bigger role in tackling climate change if it were instead used in …

29. EVs are already making your air cleaner

    Fri, 30 Jan 2026 09:30:00 -0000

    A study in California finds that even small increases in EV adoption lead to measurable drops in neighborhood-level air pollution. The logic behind …

30. We asked leaders at Davos 2026, how can we build prosperity within planetary boundaries? Here's what they said

    Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:12:03 -0000

    Davos in 2026 will be remembered as a week when geopolitics owned the stage – yet the climate and nature crisis persisted in the wings. Business …