Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. A cold call to Donald Trump revealed what matters in DC

   Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:00:33 -0000

   My family’s morning routine is usually pretty ordinary. We wake up early, drink some coffee and get our 1-year-old ready for daycare. But one Wednesday morning last month, I found myself uttering to my wife a sentence that sounded frankly surreal to both of us: “Just to let you know, I’m about to …

2. Did Trump Surrender to Iran?

   Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:00:00 -0000

   Inside the Trump-Iran negotiations, with Vivian Salama. Plus: Why do people no longer care about climate change? And Bel Canto by Ann Patchett. Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube In this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on why American …

3. Key House Democrat Calls for a National Data Center Moratorium

   Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:26:10 -0000

   New Jersey’s Frank Pallone, ranking member on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, says “this simply cannot continue.” It was just yesterday that …

4. Don’t blame algae for the Reflecting Pool mess

   Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:02:00 -0000

   The Reflecting Pool on the National Mall in Washington has turned pea green with algal growth — as shallow bodies of still water tend to do in summer when temperatures rise. President Trump’s $14-million no-bid “American flag blue” paint job was never going to stop that. It may in fact have …

5. Threat of 'flesh-eating bacteria' spreads along Europe's beaches with climate change

   Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:00:34 -0000

   Summer starts with millions heading to the sea, but climate‑driven Vibrio, a flesh‑eating bacterium, has already shut beaches in Spain and alarmed …

6. Huge heat dome is building over US. Here's your forecast

   Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:59:17 -0000

   Intense heat is on the way for more than half of the country, just in time for the second week of summer. "A multiday heat wave is brewing across the middle of the nation ahead of the Fourth of July weekend, expanding from the Plains to the Midwest and even nosing into the East," said AccuWeather …

7. China Says Iran Crisis Shows Nations Must Speed Up Energy Shift

   Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:01:35 -0000

   Oil and gas shortages triggered by the US war against Iran should be a lesson to countries to accelerate their energy transitions, according to …

8. NASA satellite captures wave of warm water hundreds of miles long that signals a devastatingly strong El Niño

   Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:53:20 -0000

   This year's El Niño is on track to be among the strongest ever recorded. A massive wave of warm water is making its way across the Pacific Ocean as …

9. Europe heatwave: Air conditioning creates political divide as France records hottest day

   Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:51:24 -0000

   With temperatures soaring, France is being forced to re-think its longstanding reservations about one possible answer to climate change: air-con. This week debate about la clim (climatisation) has once again burst out, with Marine Le Pen on the populist right urging a mass subsidised roll-out and …

10. Health warning issued as more than 1 million children in UK living in overheated homes

    Thu, 25 Jun 2026 05:57:12 -0000

    Almost 1.6 million children in England, including more than 70,000 babies, are currently living in homes that regularly overheat, prompting …

11. AI is an energy and water hog, here's what you can do to counter that

    Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:09:12 -0000

    WASHINGTON (AP) — As the world tries to curb human-caused climate change and not run dry of water, every online query is increasing our environmental footprint and exacerbating the problem. Artificial intelligence and the data centers they require use growing amounts of energy and are water hogs — …

12. Australia’s heatwave history offers lessons for sweltering Europe

    Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:00:28 -0000

    Europe has only just begun summer, but is already in the grips of a severe heatwave that has seen records tumble and at least 48 people …

13. Scorching heatwaves, torrential rain – all in a matter of days. It’s not just bad luck

    Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:46:03 -0000

    After a heatwave, we crave relief, not more extreme weather. But increasingly, we have to contend with a succession of extremes – ricocheting from …

14. France Records Hottest Day Ever as Europe Swelters in Extreme Heat

    Wed, 24 Jun 2026 02:57:00 -0000

    Workers sweated in choking heat and pupils stayed home on Tuesday as an early-summer heatwave smothered much of Europe, with France suffering its …

15. Greetings from sweltering Switzerland

    Wed, 24 Jun 2026 11:55:49 -0000

    When I stepped outside, it looked like Switzerland, but it didn't feel like it. In the distance, the white-capped Alps stood, majestic, reflected in the turquoise waters of Lake Lucerne as I strolled along the waterfront. But the air was not the crisp, cool mountain air I was accustomed to whenever …

16. Why Europe Is the Fastest-Warming Continent

    Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:49:27 -0000

    The burning of fossil fuels is raising temperatures worldwide, but local factors, on land and at sea, determine which regions warm most rapidly. Western Europe’s second record-shattering heat wave in a month aligns with a grim trend: For the past three decades, Europe has been warming faster than …

17. The EPA Relied on an Influential Glyphosate Study Even After Learning Monsanto Was a “Ghost Writer”

    Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:46:53 -0000

    The US Environmental Protection Agency has known for nearly a decade that an influential 2013 scientific paper that concluded glyphosate is safe was …

18. Something very strange is now making Earth pulse every 26 seconds – and nobody knows what

    Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:00:00 -0000

    Like the rhythmic beating of your heart, or the regular tick of a clock, every 26 seconds the Earth's crust makes a quiet rumble. These tiny seismic …

19. Europe swelters under an early heat wave as France records 40 drowning deaths

    Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:05:29 -0000

    PARIS (AP) — Millions of people across Europe were exposed to extreme and exceptional high temperatures on Tuesday, with 40 fatalities from drowning …

20. To Escape Record Heat, the French Are Taking to Water. Both Have Been Deadly.

    Thu, 25 Jun 2026 04:01:07 -0000

    Crowds are filling the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris, as temperatures soar above 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Forty people drowned while swimming in other waterways. Perched on the cobblestone bank of the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris, watching his children whoop and shout as they splashed in the murky …

21. California intends to sue Trump administration over deal to end offshore wind project

    Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:26:56 -0000

    California intends to sue the Trump administration over its deal to end an offshore wind project proposed off the state’s central coast. State officials said they are combating the administration’s attacks on their offshore wind industry by sending a notice of their intention to sue to the …

22. What is extreme heat stress? Inside the deadly phenomenon surging across Europe

    Thu, 25 Jun 2026 04:02:34 -0000

    Parts of Europe are witnessing up to 40 additional days with strong heat stress compared with the 1970s, according to a major new study. The world is …

23. Experts Fear Trump Has Turned Reflecting Pool Into a 'Giant Duck Death Trap'

    Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:53:43 -0000

    President Donald Trump's disastrous $14 million renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool may be turning deadly for local wildlife.Shortly …

24. France records hottest day ever as Europe suffers brutal heat wave

    Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:40:56 -0000

    Red alerts were also in place in Britain, Germany, Austria and Switzerland as the extreme early summer heat forced school closures, travel disruption and alarm about climate change. PARIS — France again shattered records for its hottest day ever Wednesday, with more brutal temperatures as a deadly …

25. US Warns That Gas Will Go Outside EU if Bloc Keeps Methane Rules

    Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:20:30 -0000

    US Energy Secretary Chris Wright warned the European Union that US gas supplies will head elsewhere if the bloc refuses to ease regulations to tackle …

26. How a heat dome is formed and why experts blame one for Europe's baking temperatures

    Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:11:21 -0000

    Europe is sizzling under an early heat wave this week, with millions of people experiencing extremely high temperatures, and experts say a phenomenon …

27. In the savage Roman heat, Italians are cooler than tourists

    Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:57:34 -0000

    My local café in Rome, Ristretto, was packed shortly before 7 a.m. Wednesday, as it has been at that time every day during the deadly heat wave that is gripping Italy and much of the rest of Europe. Italians know how to adapt to hot, humid weather. Tourists, especially those from Canada and the …

28. Transcript: How China Saved the World From Trump’s Energy Crisis

    Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:22:00 -0000

    This transcript has been automatically generated. Subscribe to “Shift Key” and find this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, or wherever you …

29. Europe is battling a record-breaking heatwave. What’s making it so severe?

    Thu, 25 Jun 2026 05:56:49 -0000

    Sweltering temperatures are shattering records across Europe, as the continent battles a deadly heatwave. On Tuesday and Wednesday, France endured its …

30. 'Unfortunately in the coming years this will be remembered as a cool period', climate expert says

    Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:26:54 -0000

    France has just broken a new heat record on Wednesday, as sweltering temperatures choke Western Europe. Speaking with FRANCE 24's Yinka Oyetade, Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, Professor of Climatology and Environmental Sciences and Former IPCC Vice Chair, says that "unfortunately in the coming years …