Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

  1. 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 …

  2. 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. …

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

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:56:00 -0000

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

  4. 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 …

  5. California's rolling out a new rule requiring more efficient tires

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:41:25 -0000

    NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Ken Rider of the California Energy Commission about a new rule for more efficient tires, which could cut the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change.

  6. 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 …

  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. 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 …

  9. 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 …

  10. 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 …

  11. Attract Pollinators To Your Yard With A Drought-Tolerant Wildflower They Can't Resist

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:30:00 -0000

    As top predators in many food webs, humans often lose sight of how we affect other players in the food chain. We overfish, overharvest, or introduce …

  12. 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 …

  13. 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 …

  14. 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 …

  15. 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 …

  16. US proposes rescinding Roadless Rule protections for national forests

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:31:00 -0000

    Aug. 25 is a National Day of Action to support U.S. national parks and public lands. One focus of the event is the U.S. government’s intention to …

  17. 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 …

  18. 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 …

  19. Climate Change Is Devastating the ‘Cherry Capital of the World’

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:00:29 -0000

    This year, the town of 15,000, which bills itself as the “Cherry Capital of the World,” hosted its weeklong celebration of the iconic fruit. Visitors …

  20. 10 Ancient Civilizations That Mysteriously Vanished Without a Trace – Dino World

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:59:37 -0000

    Have you ever wondered what it takes for an entire civilization to simply disappear? Not just fade away gradually over time, but seemingly vanish …

  21. 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, …

  22. A lush knee-high jungle grows in the Arctic, but warming is changing Earth's mini-greenhouse

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:04:32 -0000

    TOOLIK LAKE, Alaska (AP) — With no tall trees reaching to the sky, Alaska’s North Slope tundra can look desolate — especially to outsiders from the Lower 48 who are used to in-your-face greenery. But up close, “the tundra’s kind of like the jungle,” said Adam Bloom, a Florida Atlantic University …

  23. 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 …

  24. 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 …

  25. A Stunning Timelapse of a Colossal Iceberg Collapsing and Flipping Over in Ilulissat, Greenland

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:02:29 -0000

    Afar TV captured absolutely stunning, if not heartbreaking, footage of a colossal iceberg collapsing and then flipping over in the waters right …

  26. 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 …

  27. 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 …

  28. Trump EPA Urged to Withdraw Rule to Let Data Centers Obtain Pollution Permits in Secret

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:41:05 -0000

    Critics are warning that President Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency is pushing through a rule that would let artificial intelligence …

  29. 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 …

  30. Around 40 injured after tornado tears through village in the south of France

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:42:20 -0000

    A village in the south of France has been hit by a tornado causing significant damage in the village of Pomas. It injured 41 and affected about 300 homes. The region was under thunderstorm alert.