Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. EPA promised a Make America Healthy Again agenda. It has yet to materialize, frustrating activists

   Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:01:19 -0000

   WASHINGTON (AP) — Last December, after Make America Healthy Again activists drew up a petition to get him fired, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin pledged to release a formal agenda of MAHA priorities that his agency would pursue, including protections against harmful …

2. Why you are seeing bees struggling to survive this summer

   Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:47:14 -0000

   You may be spotting bodies of dead bumblebees lying across pavements near you in the summer months. There are several reasons for this, some to do …

3. You should be terrified by the newest super El Niño forecast. Here's what's at stake

   Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:00:00 -0000

   An updated weather report shows an 81% chance of a ‘very strong’ El Niño that could rank among the largest in history, potentially causing losses in the trillions. Brace for a stretch of potentially wet and wild weather. Forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate …

4. How a College of Marin Professor’s Influence Reshaped Students’ Academic Paths

   Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:00:05 -0000

   When Babette Papineau enrolled at College of Marin in the spring of 2023, she hoped to become a naturalist. The 34-year-old mother of two took an …

5. Sunshine and Saharan Dust Make Miami’s World Cup Quarter-Final a Dangerous Game for England Norway

   Fri, 10 Jul 2026 05:33:45 -0000

   England and Norway players will face off under extreme and dangerous levels of heat stress, scientists say, thanks to a Wet Bulb Index of nearly 90°F. …

6. Worried investors and negative electricity prices: Has Spain’s solar boom really turned ‘bust’?

   Fri, 10 Jul 2026 05:00:30 -0000

   Media headlines warn that Spain has over-delivered on solar. But is that really the full story? Spain’s ambitious expansion of renewables is facing …

7. Sea off Faro warms to 26.1 ºC during two marine heatwaves

   Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:46:35 -0000

   The Portuguese Navy, through the Hydrographic Institute, recorded two marine heatwaves off Faro between 15 June and 9 July, with sea temperature …

8. What Happens When the Public Record Shrinks

   Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:56:00 -0000

   Since last year, the Trump administration has been dramatically reducing the amount of federal data available to Americans. Twice a day, all across the country, the National Weather Service launches a fleet of latex balloons into the stratosphere to collect what’s known as “upper-air data”—detailed …

9. Diversity of corporate climate action revealed by new scoring framework

   Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

   The Climate Contribution Framework goes beyond emissions to include supplier engagement, low-carbon products and other forms of climate efforts. The …

10. El Nino is strengthening: Here's what it means for the US

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:31:15 -0000

    El Nino is a natural cycle of warmer-than-average sea surface temperatures. El Nino conditions continue to intensify and are likely to be a strong …

11. Trump Supporters Blame Everything But Climate Change For July 4th Scorcher In Prankster Video

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:39:03 -0000

    The Good Liars confronted MAGA followers over the extreme heat that marred Independence Day celebrations in the nation’s capital. President Donald Trump’s Freedom 250 rally was no match for the brutal heat wave that hit the East Coast, as temperatures in Washington, D.C., tied a record high in the …

12. At least 11 dead and 19 missing in wildfire in southern Spain

    Fri, 10 Jul 2026 02:44:18 -0000

    At least 11 people have died and 19 others are missing in a wildfire in southern Spain, Andalusia's regional leader Juanma Moreno has said. Another local official said early indications suggested four of the victims are British. Hundreds of people are trying to contain the fire, which Moreno said …

13. A 'War' Between Elephants And Humans Is Brewing in Southern Africa

    Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:00:00 -0000

    Which footprint is bigger? An elephant's or a human's? It depends on how you measure it. As humanity leaves its mark on more of the African savanna, we …

14. California’s largest lake is turning to dust

    Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:31:28 -0000

    The Salton Sea is drying up, worsening air pollution for people living near its shores. Authorities are working to stabilize the lakebed and lock …

15. How the Iran War Worsens the Climate Crisis

    Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    On Wednesday, President Donald Trump told reporters at the NATO summit in Ankara that the initial agreement to end the war between the United States and Iran—which had largely halted the hostilities—was “over.” Washington and Tehran have traded military strikes over the past two days. Fears of a …

16. It's never reached 100 degrees in Naples. Weather expert explains why

    Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:58:14 -0000

    Note to our audience: With the recent severe heat in Southwest Florida, we are republishing this story from July 2025 about why Naples has never …

17. Florida regulators stood by as dozens of sloths died, new records reveal

    Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    The first warning reached the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission before a single sloth had arrived in Orlando.On Dec. 9, 2024, a …

18. Strengthening El Niño has its eyes on history, updated forecast says

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:01:07 -0000

    Federal forecasters announced that the current El Niño could rank among the strongest events in the historical record going back to 1950. Federal forecasters have dramatically increased the chances that a new El Niño will grow into a historically strong event that will influence weather around the …

19. Climate change becoming a major driver of child marriage across Asia and the Pacific

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:04:18 -0000

    Runa was 15 when she married a man she had never met. Cyclone Remal had ripped through her camp in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar region, killing her …

20. Wildfires in southern Spain kill 11, as authorities fear strong winds could spread blaze

    Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:31:56 -0000

    Wildfires have killed at least 11 people on Spain’s southern coast, local officials said Friday, as residents remain displaced amid concerns that strong gusts of wind could help to spread the blaze. Around 150 emergency workers were deployed to battle the forest fire near the town of Los Gallardos …

21. Hawaiʻi committed to 100% clean energy. Now it’s flirting with…

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:30:00 -0000

    This story was reported and published in collaboration with Hawaiʻi Public Radio. On June 8, 2015, Gov. David Ige sat under the great seal of the state …

22. Invasive Prickly Pear Turned into Food, Clean Energy Source

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:50:03 -0000

    NAIROBI, Jul 9 2026 (IPS) - An international academic partnership is helping turn one of Laikipia County’s most destructive and invasive plants, the …

23. Why Trump wants Greenland

    Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:09:52 -0000

    Location, location, location: Greenland's position above the Arctic Circle makes the world's largest island a key part of security …

24. As Europe bakes, Eurostar orders trains that can cope with 131 degree heat

    Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:19:33 -0000

    London — Eurostar has specified that its new fleet of trains must be able to withstand sweltering temperatures of 55 degrees Celsius, or 131 degrees Fahrenheit, as it gears up for a radically altered European climate over the coming decades. The company, which operates high-speed trains connecting a …

25. French scientist Michel Siffre spent two months alone in a cave with no clock, no calendar, and no sunlight — and when his team finally told him the experiment was over, he thought he still had nearly a month left underground

    Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:19:40 -0000

    On 16 July 1962, a 23-year-old French geologist named Michel Siffre climbed down into the Scarasson cavern, a glacial cave in the Ligurian Alps on …

26. Tornadoes are breaking records in new Midwest states this year as Tornado Alley moves east

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:30:07 -0000

    The majority of tornadoes this year have blasted through states in the Midwest and Southeast, including Illinois, Missouri, Indiana and Iowa. Tornado …

27. Trump taps global warming critic to reopen nation’s climate change office: ‘Professor in exile’

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:50:03 -0000

    The Trump administration has tapped a climate science critic — who describes himself as a “professor in exile” — to lead the nation’s climate change …

28. Advanced Recycling Hits a Rough Patch

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:00:09 -0000

    In the past weeks, two sites in the United States have halted operations. One possible solution that’s emerged in recent years is advanced recycling. Advanced recycling, also called chemical recycling, uses heat and chemical reactions to break down plastic waste into its molecular building …

29. The Very Good and Very Bad News on Climate

    Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:05:43 -0000

    This is an edited transcript of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to the episode wherever you get your podcasts. Here’s the good news: Green energy is getting better and cheaper, faster than we had ever dared hope. This next sentence was unimaginable even a few years ago: In April, the energy …

30. 'In trying to avoid accusations of exaggerating, the IPCC has instead underestimated the severity of our summers'

    Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:08:55 -0000

    Long accused of alarmism by the far right, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has, in fact, been too cautious, underestimating the …