Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

  1. Solar generates more energy than coal in US for 1st time: Report

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:04:56 -0000

    Solar and storage provided 90% of all new power added in the U.S. The amount of solar power generated in the U.S. is continuing to grow despite …
  2. ‘This is not normal’: Trump leans on MAGA organizer to revive coal

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:55:52 -0000

    A man the Trump administration picked to be a key player at the fore of a U.S. coal renaissance is likely more familiar to QAnon circles than energy ones. TerraSpark’s project carries big promises. The proposed 1.6 gigawatt facility — touted by the Trump administration last week — would be the first …
  3. Climate Denier Lee Raymond Left the World Hotter Than He Found It

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:36:01 -0000

    Here’s how Lee Raymond’s hometown paper, the Houston Chronicle, remembered him Thursday morning. The Texas paper was more direct, and more accurate, …
  4. President Trump is taking aim at forest and wildfire research just as the West is poised to burn

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:01:00 -0000

    SEATTLE — Few public universities get more federal research funding than the University of Washington. So as President Trump has already cancelled or suspended about a quarter of all funding for the National Science Foundation and National Institutes for Health, the atmosphere on this leafy Seattle …
  5. Climate change could make the World Cup dangerous

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:14:36 -0000

    The FIFA World Cup is taking place from June 11 to July 19, 2026, in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. While countries fight for victory on the soccer …
  6. Temperatures Soaring So High That Trump’s UFC Fighters May Just Collapse in the Heat

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:04:24 -0000

    "I don't like the idea of fighting outside at all." Donald Trump has gone all-in on a massive fight night to ring in the semiquincentennial of the …
  7. El Nino is here. It'll be big, bad and costly, scientists fear

    Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:04:01 -0000

    WASHINGTON (AP) — El Nino, Nature's chaotic climate agent, has formed in a warmed-up Pacific Ocean and is expected to grow to historic strength, …
  8. Trump Just Gutted A Major Line of Oceanic Defense

    Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:45:21 -0000

    Just in time for hurricane season, the Trump administration is defunding its global ocean-monitoring system. Buxton, North Carolina IF YOU’VE WATCHED …
  9. The “clean energy” mine that could put one of America’s most pristine wilderness areas at risk

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:15:00 -0000

    The climate transition needs more mining. But does it need this mine? There’s no such a thing as a truly pristine landscape — humans have, over millennia, shaped every environment on Earth — but the Boundary Waters wilderness of northeastern Minnesota comes pretty darn close. Stretching across more …
  10. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Wants Us to Think He’s Building a God

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:58:34 -0000

    He acts like he has special knowledge about how best to regulate his company. But he’s a CEO like any CEO, and he wants what all CEOs want: to write …
  11. It's Official: US Declares El Niño Has Arrived

    Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:25:47 -0000

    There's a good chance this El Niño could become one of the strongest on record. Now is the time to prepare. After months of anticipation, the National …
  12. UK Power Prices Turn Negative as Renewables Set to Flood Grid

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:39:07 -0000

    UK power prices turned negative for the first time since late April as strong wind and solar generation are set to flood the grid. Power prices for …
  13. A Strange 'Cold Blob' in The Atlantic Signals We're Almost at a Tipping Point

    Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:00:38 -0000

    There's a strange anomaly in the North Atlantic, just south of Greenland: A 'cold blob' of ocean and air that's cooling down while the rest of the …
  14. Ecologists Just Discovered Trees Are Sending Distress Signals Through the Air – And Your Houseplants Are Listening

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:15:00 -0000

    Imagine walking through a quiet forest that is, in reality, buzzing with silent alarms, warnings, and whispered updates that you can’t hear. Leaves …
  15. 'Lost City' deep in the Atlantic is like nothing else we've ever seen on Earth

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:05:46 -0000

    The reality of what lies within our oceans has fascinated people since time immemorial, so it’s no wonder we’ve created countless myths about the …
  16. Want to predict wildfires? The key may be underground

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:51:10 -0000

    Western wildfires start and spread because of a whole host of factors—wind, temperature, drought, forest health. But scientists are finding that the …
  17. San Diego’s big bet on salt water

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:45:00 -0000

    Drawing from the ocean will be essential to managing the West's water crisis. While cities across drought-stricken western states struggle to meet their water needs, San Diego has a surplus of the all-important resource. That’s largely thanks to the county’s investment in desalination, which other …
  18. Hungary’s third-largest lake is disappearing. Can experts save it before it’s too late?

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:00:42 -0000

    The dire situation has arisen from prolonged droughts, lack of rainfall and decades of water mismanagement. At Lake Velence, around 40 kilometres west …
  19. 2026 World Cup: A climate disaster in the making

    Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:25:57 -0000

    In 2022, ahead of the Qatar World Cup, which he promoted as the first "carbon neutral" edition, the president FIFA, Gianni Infantino, appeared in a …
  20. How much heat does an AI data centre produce, and where are they located?

    Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:31:27 -0000

    Data centres don’t just use large amounts of water and electricity, they’re heating the environment too, study finds. Tech giants are racing to build the infrastructure that powers artificial intelligence. But a growing body of evidence suggests that AI hyperscalers – large-scale cloud service …
  21. A Student Built a Buoy That Could Fix Seaweed Farming

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:23:36 -0000

    Most of us don’t spend a lot of time thinking about seaweed. It turns up in sushi, drifts around in the ocean, and occasionally ruins a beach day. …
  22. Why the Year 536 May Have Been the Worst Year in History

    Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:27:16 -0000

    Some years are remembered for wars, plagues, fires, invasions, or rulers making decisions that everyone else had to suffer through. Then there’s the …
  23. Trump Administration Killed Criminal Investigation of GOP Senator’s Coal Companies

    Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:00:00 -0000

    This article was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive their biggest stories …
  24. The Gulf Stream suddenly moved north during an ancient cold snap – and it’s a warning for our future

    Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:44:09 -0000

    Around 13,000 years ago, as the world was emerging from the grip of the last ice age, much of the North Atlantic region plunged back into …
  25. El Niño has formed. Forecasters expect a global weather powerhouse.

    Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:01:40 -0000

    Forecasters say this could be one of the largest El Niño events on record amid unprecedented sea temperatures in a key region. Here's what that means for weather in the U.S. and around the globe. A long-anticipated and dramatic global climate shift has arrived, federal forecasters said June 11 as …
  26. NOAA Officially Declares El Niño Is Here and Flashing Danger Signs

    Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:54:25 -0000

    The global weather pattern threatens to worsen floods and heat waves already intensifying due to climate change. But it may also mean fewer hurricanes. Meteorologists said Thursday that an El Niño has formed in the tropical Pacific and will likely intensify in the coming months, setting off more …
  27. The Thomas Piketty doctrine is already here

    Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:01:41 -0000

    Academics need to get out a bit more. That, at least, is the impression one might form from the recently-released report of the Global Justice …
  28. Jet fuel made from captured carbon begins to flow from new plant

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Microsoft and Shopify are among the buyers of credits from Alaska Airlines, one of the first carriers to use the new fuel from startup …
  29. Texas Is the Eye of the Bipartisan Data Center Hurricane

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:46:17 -0000

    And more of this week’s biggest news around project fights. 1. Matagorda County, Texas – The bipartisan data center backlash is now so powerful that a …
  30. World Cup players challenged by dangerously hot weather

    Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:20:45 -0000

    The World Cup kicked off on Thursday as South Africa squared off against Mexico, one of this year's host countries. Several American cities hosting …