Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. Where water conflicts pose the biggest threat in 2026

   Sun, 23 Aug 2026 09:13:23 -0000

   Water-related conflicts have nearly quadrupled since 2020. As World Water Week begins, Al Jazeera unpacks the data. The sharp rise in water-related conflicts in recent years is in focus as the World Water Week conference begins on Sunday in Sweden’s capital, Stockholm, and online. With the theme …

2. Earth’s forests took 100,000 years to recover from the last climate shock — this one is moving 10 times faster

   Sun, 23 Aug 2026 15:17:01 -0000

   Fifty-six million years ago, Earth’s forests reached a tipping point. They had grown dense, lush canopies at the start of one of Earth’s most intense …

3. Diarrhea Summer: Brought to You by Trump, Big Ag, and the Climate Crisis | Common Dreams

   Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:36:06 -0000

   This cyclosporiasis outbreak is a bright red, flashing warning light: Without quick action and systemic changes to our food system, the next outbreak …

4. Firefighters sound alarm as US faces critical staffing shortage: ‘We don’t have enough people’

   Sat, 22 Aug 2026 13:00:00 -0000

   Firefighters describe being pushed to limit by a brutal wildfire season, with key leadership roles going unfilled. This story was originally published …

5. The Ongoing Betrayal of Our Afghan Allies

   Sun, 23 Aug 2026 16:11:22 -0000

   Tens of thousands of Afghans are stuck in legal limbo as the Trump administration makes it more difficult for them to arrive in the United States and …

6. Volcanoes that made history

   Sun, 23 Aug 2026 11:02:54 -0000

   Enormous eruptions altered Earth’s climate and societies all over the globe. The first telegram arrived in Singapore on a Monday, sent from the city …

7. Thousands rally in Sweden to protest climate policies ahead of general election

   Sun, 23 Aug 2026 14:59:12 -0000

   Some 10,000 people rallied in Stockholm on Sunday to demand stronger action on climate change, weeks before Sweden’s general election. Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg joined the rally, as organisers accused the government of weakening emissions policies and urged politicians to act faster to meet …

8. Meet the Florida architect who lost his roof at 12 — and now builds for the next Andrew

   Sat, 22 Aug 2026 14:54:50 -0000

   One day there was a roof. The next morning it was gone. Jeffrey Huber still remembers the day some 34 years ago when Hurricane Andrew blew off the …

9. Major UK-funded climate project in Bangladesh forced to close over aid cuts

   Sun, 23 Aug 2026 07:36:20 -0000

   A UK-funded climate project in Bangladesh is being forced to close two years early after foreign aid cuts, leaving thousands of vulnerable people …

10. How “thunderquakes” could help reveal hidden structures inside the Earth

    Sun, 23 Aug 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    When lightning strikes, it superheats the air around it and creates a shock wave that we hear as thunder. But thunder doesn’t just travel through the …

11. Europe's devastating wildfires unveil deadly new threat - buried bombs from WWI and WWII

    Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:14:17 -0000

    Droughts across Europe have also been churning up military vehicles and weapons from the era, with shrinking rivers revealing German warships, a …

12. Powerful storm hits Baltic countries, killing 2 and leaving hundreds of thousands without power

    Sun, 23 Aug 2026 11:43:25 -0000

    WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Two people died and around half a million people were left without electricity across Latvia and Lithuania after a powerful cyclone, bringing rain and strong winds, hit the region on Saturday and into Sunday morning. “This seems to be the most severe storm in Latvia since 2005 …

13. Federal officials announce water cuts as Colorado River supplies continue to plunge

    Sat, 22 Aug 2026 15:42:37 -0000

    Federal officials announced sharp water cuts for the next two years on Friday for three Western states that rely on the imperiled Colorado …

14. Poor infrastructure and land use worsen India’s monsoon floods

    Sun, 23 Aug 2026 10:45:00 -0000

    Researchers say Assam’s devastating 2026 floods were driven more by urbanisation, deforestation and structural vulnerabilities than by climate …

15. Bigger, Hotter Fires Are Slowly Erasing America’s Great Forests

    Sun, 23 Aug 2026 09:00:22 -0000

    Towering woodlands in the West are being permanently replaced by tracts of spiky shrubs. Conditions “just aren’t normal anymore,” one researcher said. On a gentle slope on the western side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where a towering green canopy of ponderosa pines had stood for centuries, …

16. Trump Hates the Troops. The Troops Are Taking Notice.

    Sat, 22 Aug 2026 04:00:00 -0000

    The administration is desperately trying to spin the hopeless war in Iran as a success, but our service members and their families are telling a …

17. Romania is falling behind the renewables race. Can the EU's biggest solar farm save it?

    Sun, 23 Aug 2026 05:00:26 -0000

    The Dama Solar farm in Romania could produce enough power for almost one million people. The EU’s largest solar farm has taken one step closer to …

18. The World’s Breadbaskets Are Getting Pounded by War, Weather and Trade Spats

    Sun, 23 Aug 2026 16:11:59 -0000

    Bad harvests and attacks on trade passages threaten to drive food prices higher. Instant noodles. Hot chapatis. Sliced bread. Wheat is at the heart of the modern diet, and this year, it is facing an accumulation of modern dangers. The breadbaskets of the world are getting pummeled by drone strikes …

19. European wildfires expose, detonate buried bombs and mines from past wars

    Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:35:04 -0000

    The wildfires burning across Europe this summer have exposed a potentially deadly threat lurking beneath the blackened landscape: rusty bombs and …

20. Trump ordered to release billions in climate grants meant for Black communities

    Sun, 23 Aug 2026 13:00:00 -0000

    From the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, to sewage problems in Alabama, stalled projects could get new life after federal court rulings. This …

21. Burning Questions Confront Wildland Firefighters in Maine and Across New England

    Sun, 23 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0000

    Wildfire officials in the region don’t know what long-term impacts federal personnel reductions and proposed research station closures will have on …

22. Thousands march in Sweden climate demonstration as election looms

    Sun, 23 Aug 2026 14:49:00 -0000

    It comes just weeks ahead of a general election where the issue is among voters’ top concerns.

23. Jesus, Mahdi, Qiyamah and a Few Messiahs

    Sun, 23 Aug 2026 14:37:38 -0000

    UN scientists warn that strong El Nino will add fuel to ‘a planet already on fire’. So climate change’s fingerprints are all over extreme fire …

24. 2026 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #34

    Sun, 23 Aug 2026 05:00:00 -0000

    A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, August 16, 2026 thru Sat, August …

25. This El Niño is shocking. But is it a 'super' event?

    Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:00:38 -0000

    The current El Niño has been casually called a "monster" and a "flamethrower," but officials have given it a less alarming-sounding designation. With sharks on the move, sea surface temperatures skyrocketing and one tropical system after another in the eastern Pacific, signs of a potentially …

26. AI is the Latest and Best-Financed Cult to Emerge from California - 3 Quarks Daily

    Sun, 23 Aug 2026 08:00:26 -0000

    Had the historian of California, Mike Davis, lived long enough to take in the spectacle of the AI boom, he very well may have seen a through line to …

27. USDA wants to revive the cotton industry. Experts aren’t sure that’s possible.

    Sun, 23 Aug 2026 15:33:11 -0000

    A denim-clad rancher poses on horseback, crimson-red shirt against a hazy blue sky. A farmer in a T-shirt stands surrounded by his crop, leaves …

28. Data centres and democratic decline could lead to more water conflict in the future

    Sun, 23 Aug 2026 07:47:53 -0000

    Transboundary waters — rivers, lakes and aquifers residing in more than one country — are facing challenges due to climate change, with conflicts …

29. Setting Wildfires To Stop Wildfires Is Expensive

    Sun, 23 Aug 2026 13:14:00 -0000

    It is what is called a “controlled burn.” Fire experts start wildfires to burn out parts of forests. The theory is that these areas can’t fuel larger …

30. U.S. Forest Service, timber companies spraying record amounts of glyphosate in California

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:10:02 -0000

    An investigation by the Center for Investigative Reporting has revealed that glyphosate is being sprayed in California forests at record levels by …