Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. Newsom, DeSantis join forces to blast ‘idiotic’ push to allow oil drilling off coasts of California, Florida

   Sun, 23 Nov 2025 15:38:27 -0000

   The Trump administration announced on Thursday new oil drilling off the California and Florida coasts for the first time in decades, advancing a …

2. COP30 deal keeps humanity 'in the fight for a liveable planet': UN chief

   Mon, 24 Nov 2025 01:56:46 -0000

   Listen to Australian and world news, and follow trending topics with SBS News Podcasts. The Amazon is often called the ‘lungs of the world’ – and it’s …

3. Our Almost-Apocalyptic Climate Future

   Sun, 23 Nov 2025 16:15:10 -0000

   By shooting for 3 degrees Celsius of warming, the world could slide toward a more cataclysmic 4 degrees. This year’s Conference of the Parties, the annual United Nations meeting meant to avert catastrophic climate change, was subject to a ham-fisted metaphor. On Thursday, the Brazilian venue hosting …

4. Iranians fear taps running dry as country faces worst drought in 60 years

   Sun, 23 Nov 2025 19:38:19 -0000

   It was early November when the Iranian president was forced to make a startling admission. Faced with a perfect storm of weather woes and decades of …

5. G20 summit ends with commitment to multilateralism, despite US boycott

   Sun, 23 Nov 2025 15:06:02 -0000

   The G20 summit in Johannesburg closed on Sunday with South Africa claiming a diplomatic victory after securing agreement on a wide-ranging declaration – despite a boycott by the United States and warnings from several leaders that the forum is struggling to remain relevant in a fragmenting …

6. Homeowners share surprising, real-world data after installing solar panels

   Mon, 24 Nov 2025 01:23:16 -0000

   Are you wondering what kind of results you’d get if you added a home solar system to your roof? Homeowners are sharing their results online — and the real-world data might surprise you! In a recent post to r/Solar, a Reddit user going by DontBuyBitcoin shared a screenshot indicating that their …

7. G20 summit in South Africa adopts declaration despite U.S. boycott and opposition

   Sat, 22 Nov 2025 13:36:14 -0000

   World leaders from the Group of 20 rich and developing economies broke with tradition and adopted a declaration at the start of their summit in South …

8. 'Screwball,' 'crazy,' 'strange': As hurricane season ends, researchers note its surprises

   Sun, 23 Nov 2025 10:45:00 -0000

   Hurricane season officially ends Nov. 30. In some ways, it fit what researchers expect to see as the climate warms, but in others, it was simply odd. Three Category 5 storms, one of the most powerful hurricanes ever recorded, zero U.S. landfalls and a mystifying lull at the usual peak of activity: …

9. Human Evolution Is Still Happening, And Here's The Evidence

   Sun, 23 Nov 2025 14:00:35 -0000

   Many people believe that we humans have conquered nature through the wonders of civilization and technology. Some also believe that because we are …

10. 'Highest wind ever observed by man'? A new reading challenges history.

    Sun, 23 Nov 2025 11:03:10 -0000

    Results vary based on who's measuring and what's being measured. But a 252 mph reading from Hurricane Melissa is among the highest winds on record. With a gust in Hurricane Melissa setting a record for peak gust measured by a specialized instrument dropped into the eye of a hurricane – 252 mph – you …

11. The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality

    Sat, 22 Nov 2025 09:20:20 -0000

    Ten years ago the world’s leaders placed a historic bet. The 2015 Paris agreement aimed to put humanity on a path to avert dangerous climate change. …

12. Hurricane season is ending without a U.S. landfall. We got lucky

    Sun, 23 Nov 2025 12:20:26 -0000

    The 2025 hurricane season is about to end on Nov. 30 without a single mainland U.S. landfall for the first time in a decade. Why it matters: That's …

13. The Unseen Collapse: What Happens When Aquifers Lose Their Storage Forever

    Sat, 22 Nov 2025 17:14:40 -0000

    Imagine a world where the very ground beneath your feet is slowly disappearing. This is not the plot of a science fiction novel, but a stark reality …

14. ‘On the same side’: India, China align on climate at Cop30 as ties thaw

    Sun, 23 Nov 2025 08:00:24 -0000

    A tentative thaw in India–China ties is rekindling hopes that the two Asian giants could move from strategic rivalry to clean-energy cooperation at a …

15. Newsom Taunts Trump by Taking Credit for Tariff Cuts

    Sat, 22 Nov 2025 20:15:08 -0000

    The California governor joked that his trip to Brazil for a climate summit this week had prompted the president to drop levies on the Latin American …

16. Global inequality is as urgent as climate change: the world needs a panel of experts to steer solutions

    Sun, 23 Nov 2025 10:28:10 -0000

    Given the escalating scale of inequality in the world, shouldn’t countries be banding together to set up an international panel on the issue, along …

17. We knew Ningaloo’s coral bleaching was severe. But what we found 6 months later was still a shock

    Sun, 23 Nov 2025 19:03:23 -0000

    The heatwave in Western Australia last summer broke records. As marine scientists, we were deeply concerned about whether Ningaloo’s corals would …

18. The Ground Truth

    Sun, 23 Nov 2025 22:28:48 -0000

    On a cool spring morning in Santa Barbara County, the trailhead looked exactly the way it did on the official U.S. Forest Service map — a tidy dashed …

19. A Test Drive Through Brazil in Donald Trump’s Worst Nightmare

    Sat, 22 Nov 2025 01:52:33 -0000

    BELÉM, Brazil — Grip the gear switch, twist, then silently glide into the potholed street. This fully electric, Caipirinha-colored car embodies the hope and confidence that large, developing economies like Brazil have zapped into the COP30 U.N. climate conference — and the anxieties and anger this …

20. G20 summit boycotted by US closes in South Africa

    Sun, 23 Nov 2025 17:07:11 -0000

    The G20 summit in South Africa, a gathering of the world's major economies, has ended with a joint declaration committing to "multilateral co-operation". The declaration, which covered climate change mitigation and economic inequality, was adopted despite objections from the US, which boycotted the …

21. Labor’s dominance continues in federal Newspoll, while Victorian Newspoll gives Coalition narrow lead

    Sun, 23 Nov 2025 22:30:11 -0000

    Labor’s two-party lead in the federal Newspoll increases to 58–42, as the Coalition and One Nation remain respectively at record lows and record …

22. Trump's Vendetta Against Wind Is Gutting Jobs and Raising Prices

    Sun, 23 Nov 2025 09:00:31 -0000

    President Donald Trump’s bizarre war on offshore wind is getting worse — and it’s screwing workers and anyone who uses electricity. In the past year, …

23. G20 defies Donald Trump, with leaders jointly signing statement endorsing Paris agreement

    Sat, 22 Nov 2025 19:39:25 -0000

    The leaders of the world's top economies have issued a stunning rebuke of US President Donald Trump, signing a joint statement at the G20 summit …

24. How the EU banished its climate demons and salvaged a weak COP30 deal

    Sun, 23 Nov 2025 09:43:32 -0000

    The Europeans took a stand but struggled to build a coalition to push for more climate action at this year’s U.N. summit. BELÉM, Brazil — The European …

25. Israeli violence in the West Bank is spiralling

    Sat, 22 Nov 2025 12:09:44 -0000

    Violence is out of control in the West Bank – and the few covering it are being assaulted. In the West Bank, record levels of Israeli settler violence against Palestinians are unfolding with little mainstream coverage. The few journalists who try to report on it often face attacks themselves. When …

26. G20 leaders in South Africa adopt declaration despite US opposition

    Sat, 22 Nov 2025 14:37:01 -0000

    World leaders from the Group of 20 rich and developing economies posed for a photo at the summit in South Africa on Saturday. This first G20 gathering …

27. U.N. climate talks end without agreement on phasing out fossil fuels

    Sat, 22 Nov 2025 20:59:57 -0000

    BELÉM, Brazil — This year's United Nations global climate conference in Brazil ended on Saturday with a formal agreement that failed to address phasing out fossil fuels — the main driver of global warming. The United States was conspicuously absent from this year's talks, known as COP30, after the …

28. South Africa says shared goals outweigh differences as G20 ends

    Sun, 23 Nov 2025 12:20:17 -0000

    With a strike of the symbolic gavel, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday closed the first G20 summit to be held on the African …

29. U.S. boycott overshadows G20 as climate summit wraps up in South Africa

    Sun, 23 Nov 2025 15:59:11 -0000

    The Group of 20 summit in South Africa ended Sunday with the glaring absence of the United States – the next country to lead the bloc – after the Trump administration boycotted the two days of talks involving leaders of the world’s richest and top developing economies. South African President Cyril …

30. Hundreds Of Millions Of People Have No Energy At All

    Sun, 23 Nov 2025 14:37:00 -0000

    One thing rarely mentioned at COP30 is that some nations use fossil fuels too much. Others have gone green. However, hundreds of millions of people, …