Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. Heavy rains hamper recovery as death toll from floods in Asia exceeds 1,750

   Sat, 06 Dec 2025 07:24:17 -0000

   Hundreds more people are still missing as intensive rains pose new dangers in Indonesia and Sri Lanka. Rescue teams and volunteers have been struggling to assist millions of people affected by floods and landslides in parts of Asia, as the official death toll from the ongoing climate-fuelled …

2. An influential article that called Monsanto's Roundup safe for humans has been retracted 25 years later

   Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:50:00 -0000

   The paper, which had a major impact on policymaking, appears to have been based on unpublished studies by the controversial agricultural company. In April 2000, Elsevier published an article in the journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, which claimed that the herbicide Roundup (glyphosate) …

3. The world is facing a cancer crisis that’s hitting the most vulnerable hardest

   Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:05:58 -0000

   When I worked on the latest Global Burden of Disease cancer study, a global project that tracks cancer patterns and deaths across countries, I found …

4. Sardine-inspired washing machine filter removes 99% of microplastics

   Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:59:42 -0000

   The home appliance can easily generate as much as 500 grams of microplastics each year. Fish gills may inspire an unexpected solution to one of our biggest sources of microplastics. According to researchers at Germany’s University of Bonn, taking a cue from the animals’ filtration systems might help …

5. Why Steven Guilbeault Left Mark Carney’s Cabinet

   Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:15:19 -0000

   Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is nearly nine months into his tenure. He spent years building his climate bona fides on the global stage. But …

6. Depleted Tennessee Farmland Is Now Teeming With Wildlife

   Fri, 05 Dec 2025 10:35:00 -0000

   In May 2010, extraordinarily heavy rainfall hit Tennessee. In some parts of the state, as much as 20 inches fell over two days. Dams were inundated, …

7. The solar stupidity is blinding

   Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:27:02 -0000

   An aerial view of the Ivanpah solar project in California’s San Bernardino County. (Photo via U.S. Department of Energy)During my dozen years writing …

8. Earth Has Crossed 7 of 9 Limits Keeping It Safe for Humans. “Humanity Is Pushing Beyond the Limits of a Safe Operating Space,” Scientists Say

   Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:56:00 -0000

   A seventh planetary boundary is now breached.

9. What Zillow Won’t Tell You

   Fri, 05 Dec 2025 10:03:36 -0000

   When Zillow, the country’s largest real estate site, added information to property listings last year disclosing flood, wildfire, heat and air-quality risks, it was following its own research: More than 80 percent of home shoppers consider climate risk in their decisions. The data allowed families …

10. 48 Pictures That Prove We Are Already Living In A Strange Dystopia That Lost The Plot (New Pics)

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:28:02 -0000

    Some days, real life feels less like a modern society and more like a glitchy simulation slowly losing its settings. The strange, the soulless, and …

11. New Research Suggests That A Volcanic Eruption May Have Triggered A ‘Butterfly Effect’ That Caused The Black Death

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:00:03 -0000

    The Black Death was the most devastating pandemic to ravage Europe, killing up to half of the continent’s population between 1348 and 1349. It is …

12. African penguins are starving as sardine stocks collapse, study finds

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 10:13:10 -0000

    Severe food shortages have caused thousands of penguins to ‘starve’ to death, a new study has found. Penguins living off the coast of South Africa …

13. AOC silent on whether she will amend doomsday climate prediction as deadline looms

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:55:35 -0000

    As top climate activists like Bill Gates shift their focus away from environmental activism, "Squad" Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is keeping silent on whether she still stands by her ten-year deadline for action laid out in the Green New Deal. Back when Ocasio-Cortez first introduced the …

14. 6 cyclones, 5 weeks: Philippines can’t escape its endless cycle of disaster

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:00:15 -0000

    The tarpaulin barely held against the wind, sagging under days of ceaseless rain. For the earthquake survivors of San Remigio, in the central …

15. In Colorado town built on coal, some families are moving on, even as Trump tries to boost industry

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 14:06:32 -0000

    CRAIG, Colo. (AP) — The Cooper family knows how to work heavy machinery. The kids could run a hay baler by their early teens, and two of the three ran monster-sized drills at the coal mines along with their dad. But learning to maneuver the shiny red drill they use to tap into underground heat feels …

16. Making cities future-proof: How to sustainably build livable urban centres

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:45:00 -0000

    More than half of the world’s population lives in cities today. By 2050, that number will reach two-thirds, according to the United Nations. Such …

17. Mapped: Post-Pandemic Population Change by U.S. County (2021-2024)

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 13:03:45 -0000

    Post-Pandemic Population Change by County (2021-2024) See visuals like this from many other data creators on our Voronoi app. Download it for free on …

18. Our Favorite Science Books to Gift This Year

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 11:00:05 -0000

    The smartest gifts are often the smartest books. Science books provide the ultimate deep dives into our favorite subjects, whether it’s the inner …

19. Climate change doom-and-gloomers are finally bowing out— and showing that common sense prevails

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 01:51:44 -0000

    Finally, thankfully, the global warming craze is dying out. To paraphrase Monty Python, the climate parrot may still be nailed to its perch at the …

20. Exxon’s Misinformation Campaign Uncovered

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 22:16:00 -0000

    Hundreds of previously unpublished documents have just been released, detailing how US oil giant Exxon funded thinktanks across Latin America to …

21. Asia flood death toll exceeds 1,500, deforestation blamed for the disaster

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 13:58:47 -0000

    The death toll from the past month's catastrophic floods and landslides in parts of Asia surged past 1,500 Thursday as rescue teams raced to reach survivors isolated by the disaster with hundreds of people still unaccounted for across the region. The tragedy was compounded by warnings that decades …

22. The Science Shows Glyphosate must be Banned

    Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:51:11 -0000

    The Scientific Evidence Justifies Banning GlyphosateThe primary scientific study pesticide regulators worldwide used to justify the approval of …

23. How a 'weaker' La Niña could impact Australia differently this summer

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 02:09:11 -0000

    Summer is here, but the question hovering over the season is how much of a summer we'll actually get. That's because La Niña — the climate pattern …

24. Sri Lanka floods: Residents ask why the government wasn't better prepared

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:01:50 -0000

    Sri Lankans demand answers after the country’s worst climate disaster in 20 years leaves hundreds dead and thousands displaced.

25. Humans Are Causing The Sixth Mass Extinction; Here’s What Were Losing

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 13:41:58 -0000

    Remember the Dodo? That quirky flightless bird that once thrived in the thousands? It’s been gone for over a century. And what about the buffalo? The …

26. Geothermal company makes big discovery using AI

    Thu, 04 Dec 2025 13:00:04 -0000

    A geothermal energy company announced Thursday that it has discovered — with AI's help — the first commercially viable system of its kind in over 30 …

27. What our missing ocean float revealed about Antartica’s melting glaciers

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:35:21 -0000

    Sometimes, we get lucky in science. In this case, an oceanographic float we deployed to do one job ended up drifting away and doing something else …

28. World's largest amount of lithium worth $1.5TN currently underneath supervolcano

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:00:05 -0000

    Hidden away in Oregon is a lithium deposit that could be gamechanging to the EV industry.

29. Trump Is Right on Gas-Powered Cars

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:19:28 -0000

    The administration’s rollback is another sign that the climate panic is receding. President Trump likes to tout his accomplishments, and saving the …

30. How a cocktail of rogue storms and climate chaos unleashed deadly flooding across Asia

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 01:13:23 -0000

    Looking at the weather map on his computer and seeing three tropical storms forming simultaneously across Asia in late November, climatologist Fredolin Tangang’s first thoughts drifted to the 2004 disaster movie “The Day After Tomorrow.” The film, in which three massive storms plunge the earth into …