Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. The landscape beneath Antarctica's icy surface revealed in unprecedented detail

   Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:21 -0000

   A new map has unmasked the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice in unprecedented detail, something scientists say could greatly enhance our understanding of the frozen white continent. Researchers used satellite data and the physics of how Antarctica's glaciers move to work out what the continent …

2. As Victoria’s Great Ocean Road flash floods show, we need to get better at taking warnings seriously

   Fri, 16 Jan 2026 01:48:43 -0000

   The images and stories of flash flooding coming out of Victoria’s Great Ocean Road overnight have been described as “terrifying”. It’s easy to see …

3. From freezer to fork: New thawing method could deliver 'dock-fresh' fish anywhere

   Fri, 16 Jan 2026 03:20:02 -0000

   A small revolution is happening in the fishing industry. Freshly frozen fish can now be thawed in a new way, and that means you will have access to …

4. The West Was Blindsided By Ukraine — And Now The Arctic Is Slipping Out Of Its Grasp – OpEd

   Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:09:16 -0000

   For years, the Arctic has been treated as a remote curiosity — a place of melting ice, scientific expeditions and occasional diplomatic theatre. But …

5. A City Cast in Concrete, Trapped Under Unbearable Heat

   Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:55:00 -0000

   Unchecked development has turned Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo into an unlivable urban nightmare. But solutions exist to lift it out of climate …

6. Global power struggles over the ocean’s finite resources call for creative diplomacy

   Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:40:33 -0000

   Oceans shape everyday life in powerful ways. They cover 70% of the planet, carry 90% of global trade, and support millions of jobs and the diets of …

7. Experts issue warning on looming threat that could wipe out billions in property value: 'The new baseline'

   Fri, 16 Jan 2026 01:26:10 -0000

   Financial experts are warning that increasingly severe weather is putting homes, businesses, and entire communities at risk — with the potential to …

8. How the green transition will affect labour markets around the world

   Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:48:22 -0000

   Addressing the climate crisis and accelerating a green and fair transition is vital to our shared future. Yet there is no single way for countries to …

9. Will Canada Abandon Its EV Mandate?

   Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:08:11 -0000

   Liberal politicians like Mark Carney are slowly waking up to voters’ frustration with the expensive climate policies they imposed. When even Greta …

10. Trump’s EPA is setting the value of human health to $0

    Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:20:00 -0000

    The agency’s new math to favor polluters, explained. The Environmental Protection Agency is taking a major step toward changing its math to favor polluters over people: It’s going to stop tallying up the dollar value of lives saved and hospital visits avoided by air pollution regulations. Instead, …

11. NASA has released its data on rising temperatures. Why is climate change not mentioned at all?

    Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:20:11 -0000

    An expert says NASA’s statement is “consistent” with all of the other “anti-climate actions” the Trump administration has taken in the last year. NASA …

12. $25 Billion. That’s What Trump Cost Detroit.

    Wed, 14 Jan 2026 10:02:10 -0000

    It is a critical part of every chief executive’s job to anticipate the future. Failing to recognize and adapt to change can be the difference between thriving and disappearing. That’s why corporate leaders are continually bracing their companies against a host of possibilities — another pandemic, …

13. World’s first production solid-state battery could be just three months away from changing the world forever

    Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:00:53 -0000

    In a move that will change the electric vehicle industry forever, promising more range and charge than ever before, Donut Lab claims the first …

14. Why Greenland’s natural resources are nearly impossible to mine

    Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:18:38 -0000

    President Donald Trump has renewed his efforts to take over Greenland, and tapping into the Danish territory’s natural resources is a key part of the …

15. It’s Responsible for One of the Worst Oil Disasters Ever. It’s Counting On Trump to Let It Do It Again.

    Wed, 14 Jan 2026 10:45:00 -0000

    Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. In April 2010, a …

16. America Is Missing the Real Problem in the Arctic

    Thu, 15 Jan 2026 04:30:30 -0000

    Donald Trump’s greedy stare at Greenland, with its mineral riches and strategic location, has put the world on high alert about what’s going on in the Arctic. Unfortunately, this obsession with the region’s geopolitics comes as the critical monitoring of its geography and climate is getting harder …

17. Do Americans Think the Country Is Losing or Gaining Ground in Science?

    Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:55:50 -0000

    This Pew Research Center report looks at Americans’ views on scientists and scientific research. Why did we do this? Pew Research Center does research …

18. Conservationist shares never-before-seen footage of uncontacted Amazonian tribe, details his remarkable experience

    Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:53:09 -0000

    Never-before-seen high-definition footage of an uncontacted Amazonian tribe has surfaced in a recent interview between an American conservationist …

19. Scientists say another hot year is a 'warning shot' of a shifting, dangerous climate

    Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:48:25 -0000

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Earth's average temperature last year hovered among one of the three hottest on record, while the past three years indicate that …

20. Venice Isn’t Floating: The City Is Actually Built on Ancient Wooden Piles

    Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:12:41 -0000

    Venice has survived fires, floods, invasions, careless renovations, and a tourist count that would break most cities by lunch. The city is 1,600 years old because its foundations work. The buildings stand because of a deliberate construction system designed for unstable ground, repeated across the …

21. How mountain terraces have helped Indigenous peoples live with climate uncertainty

    Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:38:05 -0000

    Indigenous communities have lived with changes to the climate for centuries. Their adaptations over those many years are based on their close …

22. The Greenland Fever Dreams Of Trump’s Billionaires

    Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:30:04 -0000

    Precious metals, cryptostates, and melting ice sheets: the surreal saga behind Trump’s Greenland gambit. Editor’s note: Why is Trump obsessed with …

23. The Climate Question That Economists Cannot Answer

    Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:51:20 -0000

    Models can predict catastrophic or modest damages from climate change, but not which of these futures is coming. Most Americans now accept the basic physics of climate change—that manmade greenhouse-gas emissions are raising global temperatures. Yet the public discussion of climate change is still …

24. Ocean set ‘alarming’ new temperature record in 2025

    Fri, 16 Jan 2026 01:43:46 -0000

    Every calendar year since 2019, ocean temperatures have reached new record highs. 2025 was no exception, according to a new study. The study, …

25. How Much Human History Did the Ice Age Drown? A Look at Glacial Melting and Displacement

    Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:43:39 -0000

    Imagine walking along a quiet coastline, feeling the sand beneath your feet, and suddenly realizing that just a few miles out, beneath the waves, lie …

26. The No. 1 Thing 1,300 CEOs Fear Most Right Now

    Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:29:00 -0000

    The World Economic Forum’s 2026 Global Risks Report surveyed over 1,300 global leaders and experts to list their top short-term fears. “Geoeconomic confrontation” topped the list as the most pressing risk over the next two years, followed by misinformation and disinformation, then societal …

27. We’ve neglected the power of carbon-sucking fungi. Meet the scientist determined to change that

    Thu, 15 Jan 2026 06:00:10 -0000

    Dr Toby Kiers has won the 2026 Tyler Prize award after shedding light on “overlooked” fungi that can offset huge amounts of CO2. An “invisible” key to …

28. America’s Air Is About to Get Dirtier—And More Dangerous

    Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:11:00 -0000

    For more than five decades, the Clean Air Act has prevented millions of premature deaths, hospitalizations, and lost work and school days. By one …

29. Wyoming Breaks Six Weather Records in Two Days

    Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:07:36 -0000

    Six weather records were broken in Wyoming this week, local forecasters have reported. In a Monday post on social media platform X, the National …

30. Why Greenland Matters for a Warming World

    Wed, 14 Jan 2026 14:04:59 -0000

    What happens in Greenland doesn’t stay in Greenland. Turns out, the fate of the world’s largest island has outsize importance for billions of people on the planet. That’s because of the one thing that Greenland is quickly losing: ice. Most of Greenland’s landmass, which takes up about two million …