Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

  1. MacKenzie Scott donates $7.1 billion to nonprofits

    Wed, 10 Dec 2025 02:39:45 -0000

    MacKenzie Scott donated $7.1 billion to nonprofits working on climate change and fighting for equality. She is known for charitable gifts to …

  2. A Radical Climate Proposal Aims to Channel Seawater Into a Giant Egyptian Desert to Fight Sea Level Rise

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:09:39 -0000

    Flooding Egypt’s vast Qattara Depression with seawater could slightly lower global sea levels and reshape climate adaptation.

  3. Firewood Banks Aren’t Inspiring. They’re a Sign of Collapse.

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    Rural communities are banding together to chop firewood so that people in need can heat their homes. This shouldn’t be necessary. Rural America knows …

  4. Polar vortex sending 'wrecking ball' of cold air to US

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 20:58:55 -0000

    This cold blast could be relatively short-lived, with a return to more typical wintry temperatures by later in December. Ready for some serious cold? The planet's most extreme cold air will be barreling into the central and eastern United States this coming weekend "like a wrecking ball," said …

  5. E.P.A. Erases Mention of Humans Causing Climate Change From Some Web Pages

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 20:50:54 -0000

    An E.P.A. site listing the causes of climate change no longer includes the main one: human activity. The Environmental Protection Agency has quietly removed the fact that human activity is driving climate change from a handful of pages on its website. The information was deleted from one webpage …

  6. Retracted: The Monsanto-Backed Paper That Told Us Roundup Was Safe

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 06:00:17 -0000

    A controversial scientific paper that claimed the weed killer glyphosate (brand name Roundup) "does not pose a health risk to humans" has been …

  7. Earth's crust hides enough 'gold' hydrogen to power the world for tens of thousands of years, emerging research suggests

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 20:01:33 -0000

    Reservoirs of hydrogen gas that form naturally in Earth's crust could help humans decarbonize. The challenge now is finding these accumulations and …

  8. Who's got smellier farts: men or women? Here's what science reveals

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 22:04:31 -0000

    Uh, what's that smell? Plus, more science finds that will blow you away.

  9. What would this scientist tell Trump? Interview with Robert Watson, former chair of the IPCC

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:23:18 -0000

    When U.S. President Donald Trump addressed the United Nations General Assembly in late 2025 and dismissed climate change as a “con job”, the …

  10. EPA eliminates mention of fossil fuels in website on warming's causes. Scientists call it misleading

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:30:03 -0000

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has removed any mention of fossil fuels — the main driver of global warming — from its popular online page explaining the causes of climate change. Now it only mentions natural phenomena, even though scientists calculate that nearly all of the …

  11. US oil industry doesn’t see profit in Trump’s ‘pro-petroleum’ moves

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 13:36:05 -0000

    As the Trump administration makes announcement after announcement about its efforts to promote the U.S. fossil fuel industry, the industry isn’t …

  12. 5 Big Changes To Be Aware Of Before Booking Your Hawaii Vacation In 2026

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 23:45:00 -0000

    Hawaii has long been one of the most popular vacation destinations in the U.S., attracting over 9 million visitors in 2024. These visitors come from …

  13. 8 Things 'Soylent Green' Got Right (and Wrong) About the Future

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 23:48:34 -0000

    Science fiction has always been a genre where authors can peer into the future—sometimes with alarming prescience. That holds true for Soylent Green, …

  14. Experts stunned after discovering 'luxury effect' in neighborhoods: 'Humans control everything'

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 04:00:00 -0000

    A surprising new finding is reshaping researchers' understanding of city life and exposing structural inequities of urban design.What's …

  15. MacKenzie Scott Announces $7 Billion of Charitable Giving This Year

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 20:16:27 -0000

    The philanthropist known for donating to historically Black colleges and nonprofits working on climate change offered the news by updating an October blog post. The philanthropist MacKenzie Scott announced on Tuesday that she had made donations in the past year totaling nearly $7.2 billion, vaulting …

  16. UN environment report 'hijacked' by US and others over fossil fuels, top scientist says

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 09:00:09 -0000

    A key UN report on the state of the global environment has been "hijacked" by the United States and other countries who were unwilling to go along with the scientific findings, the co-chair has told the BBC. The Global Environment Outlook, the result of six years' work, connects climate change, …

  17. Compute Is the New Oil

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:00:00 -0000

    America and the Gulf must work together on artificial intelligence.

  18. Trump’s Executive Order Banning Wind Ruled Illegal

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 12:57:13 -0000

    On rare earth refining, gas with CCS, and fusion goes to Washington Current conditions: After a two-inch dusting over the weekend, Virginia is bracing …

  19. Southeast Asia embraces offshore wind power, as Trump bashes renewable energy

    Wed, 10 Dec 2025 04:32:46 -0000

    HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Southeast Asia is a bright spot for the embattled offshore wind industry as it reels from U.S. President Donald Trump’s push against renewable energy. The White House’s policy pivot has thrown billions of dollars’ worth of U.S. offshore wind projectsinto turmoil. Industry …

  20. Uncommon Knowledge: Trump Hits Troubled Waters in Mexico Tariff Fight

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    Santa Rosa, Texas, suffered an unfortunate landmark last year: its last sugar mill shut down after half a century, the victim of an ongoing and …

  21. US solar tops 11.7 GW in a huge Q3 despite political roadblocks

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:01:00 -0000

    The US solar industry just delivered another huge quarter, installing 11.7 gigawatts (GW) of new capacity in Q3 2025. That makes it the third-largest quarter on record and pushes total solar additions this year past 30 GW – despite the Trump administration’s efforts to kneecap clean …

  22. Tiny Robot Lost Under Antarctic Ice for 8 Months Comes Back With Rare Data

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:20:59 -0000

    “Against the enormity of such a wild region, this is an amazing story of the little float that could.” A tiny robot explorer traversed the vast, …

  23. Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale

    Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:56:11 -0000

    Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that …

  24. Officials issue stark warning as iconic US islands sink further into the sea: 'It's happening now and its impacts are already being felt'

    Wed, 10 Dec 2025 02:00:00 -0000

    A recent update to an online tool that tracks sea level rise in Hawai'i could help local communities prepare to face growing threats. What's happening? …

  25. What lies beneath Greenland could change what we know about rising seas

    Mon, 08 Dec 2025 21:42:20 -0000

    A new study led by researchers at the University of Ottawa provides a series of highly detailed 3D models of the Earth's temperature beneath …

  26. South and Southeast Asian Countries Are Getting Overwhelmed by Storms

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 22:33:14 -0000

    Scientists say storms will bring more rain and destruction as climate change accelerates.An unusually intense series of storms and major cyclones …

  27. Irksome, Evicted Beavers in Utah Are Getting a Second Chance

    Wed, 10 Dec 2025 01:56:10 -0000

    Their dams cause floods, and that gets them in trouble with humans. But in the right place, more water can be a big help. The beaver who would one day be named June was simply doing what beavers do. But her dams, built around her lodge in Utah’s Bear River Mountains, ran afoul of a rancher. He said …

  28. Japanese Startup Brings Wasabi Farming to Shipping Containers

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:47:45 -0000

    In a shipping container parked next to Macnica’s headquarters in Yokohama, an innovative revolution in Japanese agriculture is taking root. Inside …

  29. Dry Tehran? The Risks Of Iran Moving Its Drought-Stricken Capital

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:08:54 -0000

    Fall marks the start of Iran’s rainy season, but large parts of the country have barely seen a drop as the nation faces one of its worst droughts in …

  30. US backs Bayer–Monsanto with glyphosate decision

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 12:14:00 -0000

    The US solicitor general, who represents the federal government before the US Supreme Court, has weighed in on the side of Bayer subsidiary Monsanto …