Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

  1. Canada’s Forests Will Burn and Burn

    Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:55:44 -0000

    Once a wildfire starts, it can spread to an area too massive to control. When the boreal forests of Canada catch on fire, no one can do anything about it in many cases. The forests are part of Earth’s largest land biome, a greenbelt of wilderness that encircles the globe, and they’ve been suffering …

  2. Wildfires Are Burning Through the Night. Firefighters Are Running Out of Time.

    Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:08:16 -0000

    As overnight temperatures climb across Canada, fires that once spread more slowly after dark are burning around the clock, straining fire crews. Under cover of night is when firefighters perform some of the most essential work of starving a wildfire. They can lay out sprinklers, directly attack …

  3. Oil companies are making billions. In the U.S., calls to tax their windfall are growing

    Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:01:00 -0000

    Oil prices have surged in recent days amidst renewed fighting between the U.S. and Iran. Higher oil prices have meant U.S. consumers are paying more for gasoline at the pump. And oil and gas companies are profiting. The world's top 100 oil and gas firms made $30 million every hour in excess profits …

  4. This Is How Humanity Will End, Scientists Say—And It Isn’t Pretty

    Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:54:52 -0000

    Stay calm, doomsday preppers. We (probably) won’t be around to see it. Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid 10 to 15 kilometers (6 to 9 miles) wide struck the Earth, ultimately ending the dinosaurs’ reign as the biggest, baddest life-form on the planet. The mass extinction occurred in a time so …

  5. The Deepest Cave on Earth Just Revealed a Species That Hasn’t Seen Sunlight in 5 Million Years – And It’s Still Evolving

    Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:15:00 -0000

    Imagine a creature that has spent millions of years in total darkness, breathing air that has never touched the surface, moving through a world of …

  6. Interactive map predicts agricultural decline from climate change by end of century

    Thu, 16 Jul 2026 04:06:56 -0000

    A CSIC team in Barcelona has developed CADI, a platform that uses a 10-kilometre grid to estimate how much farmland will lose productivity to climate …

  7. After wildfires destroyed 95% of this California tribe’s forests, members uncovered 1,200 ancestral sites

    Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    CONCOW, Calif. — Until recently, when members of the Konkow Valley Band of Maidu pulled up a map of their ancestral land in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, only about two dozen of their historic sites appeared. Disease, violence and forced labor had separated California tribe members from their …

  8. Wait, Could Elon Musk Actually Face Legal Consequences for Interfering in Fair Elections?

    Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:13:32 -0000

    Nothing would bring me more joy than to see him locked up, but I fear he’ll find a way out of it. This Week in the Laboratories of Democracy (Permanent Musical Accompaniment to This Post) Being our semi-regular weekly survey of what’s goin’ down in the several states where, as we know, the real work …

  9. The World Is Running out Of Oil. Really. And, That’s good For Clean Energy

    Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:17:53 -0000

    There was a lot of forecasting that the world would run out of oil because of the Strait of Hormuz. But most large nations, like the US, have …

  10. A Rare Atlantic Niña Is Emerging Amid a Super El Niño. Here's What That Means

    Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:10:51 -0000

    This phenomenon has only occurred five times within the last four decades. All eyes are on the Pacific Ocean as an exceptionally strong El Niño takes …

  11. The First Wrongful Death Suit Against Big Oil Is Not Going Their Way

    Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A judge has ruled that tort claims against the industry can proceed to trial, potentially opening the door for prosecutors to become agents of …

  12. How cities are turning their polluted rivers into swimming havens

    Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Swimmable cities are making a comeback in Europe—just in time for urbanites to escape unprecedented heat waves. For most of Pauline Janbon’s life, the idea of bathing in the Seine River in Paris was unimaginable. “As kids, we were told there were corpses floating in the water,” said Janbon, a …

  13. Canadian wildfires never caused US skies to turn orange in the past. Here’s what changed

    Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:09:06 -0000

    Cities across Canada, the U.S. Midwest and East Coast are currently under thick blankets of wildfire smoke. In Toronto, skies have been an apocalyptic …

  14. Astronomers Have Found a Sugar Molecule in Deep Space for the First Time Ever

    Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:30:00 -0000

    Researchers identified traces of erythrulose, a monosaccharide, thousands of light-years away. For the first time in history, astronomers have …

  15. 5 Things to Keep in Mind When It’s Smoky Outside

    Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:00:26 -0000

    What are the health risks? How can I protect myself? And will my plants be okay? If you live anywhere near the Great Lakes or Mid-Atlantic (or certain …

  16. Yes, breathing wildfire smoke can harm your health – here’s what you can do to protect yourself

    Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:45:15 -0000

    Wildfire smoke has been pouring across the U.S. border from fires in Canada again, turning skies an eerie shade of orange in several states in July …

  17. Better weather is Americans’ top reason for moving out of state

    Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:57:34 -0000

    (NewsNation) — Nice weather is a bigger draw than lower living costs for Americans planning an out-of-state move, according to a new Redfin survey. Of …

  18. Wildfire Smoke Turns Skies Orange Across the U.S., and Democrats Make a Big Shift on Israel

    Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:00:15 -0000

    Your morning listen, all in about 10 minutes Here’s what we’re covering: Smoke Floating Far From Canada’s Wildfires Will Darken Skies Again on Thursday, by Judson Jones Clayton Dodges Question on 2020 Election, and Democrats Call Him on It, by Julian E. Barnes Almost Half of House Democrats Vote to End …

  19. It's only gotten worse. Decades of wildfire data shows drastic increase

    Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:43:28 -0000

    A new heat wave will bring another round of scorching temperatures as several fires in the West continue to grow in what’s already been a deadly fire season. The Babylon fire burning in Utah now covers 100,000 acres and the Aspen Acres fire in Colorado is nearing that size. This follows what had …

  20. This marine biologist warned that coral loss could collapse the oceans. Then 3 men walked into his house and shot him

    Wed, 15 Jul 2026 03:59:19 -0000

    A distinguished American marine biologist has been shot dead by three men who entered his house in the central Philippines, police said on …

  21. Who are the people setting France's forests ablaze?

    Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:30:12 -0000

    Nearly nine out of 10 forest fires in France are started by humans. Some do so deliberately, with the perpetrators often difficult to identify. More …

  22. Who pays the cost when Americans opt out of science?

    Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:08:01 -0000

    I had thought science denial would hit a bottom — that once people began to experience the direct consequences of being wrong, of holding fast to …

  23. How a perfect storm turned northern Minnesota and Canada into an inferno

    Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:15:48 -0000

    Up until the past week, I was asked a question more than once: "Hey, where's that Canadian wildfire smoke this summer?" Each was quickly followed up …

  24. Falling Birthrates and America’s Future

    Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:01:37 -0000

    To the Editor: Re “The Population Forecasts Aren’t Grim Enough,” by Lyman Stone (Opinion guest essay, July 13): Dr. Stone is correct in describing the trend in the United States and the rest of the world of rapidly falling fertility rates. But a key point he misses is that rising productivity can more …

  25. It’s the ABC’s job to be accurate and fair, not to chase the dangerous fallacy of ‘balance’

    Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:39:43 -0000

    One of the oldest tropes in journalism is that it should be balanced; that journalists have a responsibility to present all sides of a given issue …

  26. Californians back Becerra and reject AI data centers by big margins, poll finds

    Thu, 16 Jul 2026 04:00:00 -0000

    Democrat Xavier Becerra holds a commanding lead in the California governor’s race in a new poll, which also shows broad voter support for a ballot proposition to reform the state’s landmark environmental law to speed up housing and infrastructure. The survey by the Public Policy Institute of …

  27. Porous compound pulls 2 liters of water from air, and is factory-ready

    Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:44:38 -0000

    The Mediterranean is getting hotter and drier, pushing scientists to look for water even in the air itself. A German team has now scaled up a porous …

  28. Climate extremes fuel explosive wildfires in Canada and the U.S., experts say

    Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:06:08 -0000

    The United States is burning faster than usual this year, while massive smoke plumes from Canadian wildfires deplete air quality on both sides of the …

  29. Video. Spain battles major Aragon wildfire amid heatwave

    Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:20:36 -0000

    Spain has deployed more than 400 firefighters and 19 aircraft to combat a fast-moving wildfire in the northeastern region of Aragon after flames …

  30. How a potential hurricane 1,200 miles away could affect the California coast

    Thu, 16 Jul 2026 23:13:35 -0000

    More than 1,000 miles south of Los Angeles, Tropical Storm Elida is forecast to strengthen to the first east Pacific hurricane of the season …