Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. Trump Move to Break Up Atmospheric Research Center Threatens Wildfire, Storm Predictions

   Sat, 27 Dec 2025 18:00:59 -0000

   This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California officials and researchers across the country are sounding …

2. Trump Faces Big Trouble From Green Candidates

   Sat, 27 Dec 2025 14:59:00 -0000

   A new study from Yale shows the extent to which Americans will vote for candidates who support green initiatives. As the Trump Administration …

3. Cyclone Alfred among top ten costliest climate-change-linked disasters of 2025

   Sun, 28 Dec 2025 05:20:58 -0000

   Australia's destructive ex-tropical cyclone Alfred has been ranked among the world's most costly disasters fuelled by climate change in 2025. Economic …

4. How a company in landlocked Nebraska is helping fight plastic pollution in oceans

   Sat, 27 Dec 2025 22:40:39 -0000

   A new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts and its partners predicts that plastic pollution will more than double over the next 15 years — the …

5. Tawhid Messianic Insights In Judaism, Christianity And Islam – OpEd

   Sat, 27 Dec 2025 23:18:18 -0000

   More than 90% of the world’s population is projected to face increased risks from the compound impacts of extreme heat and drought, the widening …

6. Where a Saudi company pumps desert groundwater, Arizona considers imposing limits

   Sat, 27 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

   VICKSBURG, Ariz. — Lush green fields of alfalfa spread across thousands of acres in a desert valley in western Arizona, where a dairy company from Saudi Arabia grows the thirsty crop by pulling up groundwater from dozens of wells. The company, Fondomonte, is the largest water user in the Ranegras …

7. Bound for Antarctica: A Voyage to Earth’s End Is Underway

   Sat, 27 Dec 2025 10:00:30 -0000

   Once, it would have been easy to think of Antarctica as a frozen land of nothingness. A place of interest only to explorers testing their tolerance for misery. A continent covered by ice so thick as to be eternal, changing slowly if at all. Today, we know that pretty much none of that is true. As …

8. Why is Trump killing off clean energy?

   Fri, 26 Dec 2025 17:39:53 -0000

   President Donald Trump has never been a fan of wind farms, delivering a “haymaker” to the clean energy industry this week by ordering a pause on the …

9. Trump Cut Their Lifeline. Months Later, They're Still Fighting Like Hell To Survive.

   Sat, 27 Dec 2025 11:00:18 -0000

   A small organization powered by the people who need it most has found a way to save lives abandoned by the Trump administration. WASHINGTON — Five months after the Trump administration stripped $8 billion in U.S. foreign aid from the world, a Sudanese National Army helicopter bombed a hospital, …

10. High seas hopes meet hard realities with 2026 set to become a pivotal year for world’s oceans

    Sun, 28 Dec 2025 07:08:40 -0000

    A year of reckoning for the world’s oceans: Euronews looks ahead to 2026, from the High Seas Treaty and deep-sea mining to ocean summits and EU …

11. Betting on climate failure, these investors could earn billions

    Fri, 26 Dec 2025 08:39:48 -0000

    Venture capitalist Finn Murphy believes world leaders could soon resort to deflecting sunlight into space if the Earth gets unbearably hot. That’s why he’s invested more than $1 million in Stardust Solutions, a leading solar geoengineering firm that’s developing a system to reduce warming by …

12. Cities Are Banning Artificial Turf. Here's What To Know Before Installing It In Your Yard

    Sat, 27 Dec 2025 15:50:00 -0000

    Your neighbor may have spent thousands on a pristine plastic lawn to escape the endless cycle of mowing and watering, but that investment could soon be a thing of the past. While homeowners once viewed synthetic grass as a good solution for staying green during a drought, city councils across the …

13. Scientists sound alarm after discovering 'tornadoes' in ocean: 'The main thing we need to consider is the effects'

    Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0000

    Every year, millions of tons of plastic are discarded, while a vanishingly small share of this waste is properly recycled. What's happening?To …

14. Majority says climate change hurting affordability: Poll

    Fri, 26 Dec 2025 21:10:06 -0000

    A Yale University poll from earlier this month says most Americans see climate change as playing a role in hurting prices and the cost of …

15. The World Has Laws About Land and Sea, but Not About Ice

    Fri, 26 Dec 2025 13:00:00 -0000

    As the Arctic melts and people spend more time there, defining our relationship to sea ice becomes more necessary. When the Chinese cargo freighter Istanbul Bridge set sail for Europe in late September, it took an unusual route. Instead of heading south for the 40-day voyage through the Suez Canal, …

16. How sewage can be used to heat and cool buildings

    Sun, 28 Dec 2025 09:00:00 -0000

    DENVER — When a massive event center was being developed in Denver, planners had to contend with two existing 6-foot wide sewer pipes that emptied …

17. An electric car mandate crashes into reality

    Fri, 26 Dec 2025 12:15:45 -0000

    Failures by Ford and Europe on EVs are instructive. It only took the European Union two years to start walking back its plan to ban all new gas and diesel automobiles by 2035. It’s an important reminder that government mandates are destined to disappoint in the fight against climate …

18. Earth’s Growing Heat Imbalance Driven More By Clouds Than Air Pollution

    Fri, 26 Dec 2025 23:14:25 -0000

    Earth is taking in more energy than it releases back to space—a growing “energy imbalance” that is fueling global warming. A new study led by …

19. Experts say climate change bigger threat to biodiversity than renewable energy projects

    Sat, 27 Dec 2025 20:26:00 -0000

    As aging coal-fired power stations along Australia's east coast reach the end of their lives, the country is looking to transition to renewable …

20. Before Electric Vehicles Became Political, There Was the Toyota Prius

    Sun, 28 Dec 2025 08:47:14 -0000

    The political polarization of battery-powered cars may have started when Toyota released its first hybrid model 25 years ago. In a different world, an electric vehicle would be just another car. But in today’s hyperpartisan climate, battery-powered cars carry not just passengers but a punishing load …

21. How This Sustainable Jet Fuel Company Is Charting a New Route in the Trump Era

    Fri, 26 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    LanzaJet aims to power planes without petroleum. Its first plant got caught up in politics—forcing a sudden retooling before it can begin producing sustainable aviation fuel. A first-of-its-kind refinery has been in the works for a decade and half. Set to be completed this year, the facility is …

22. A Top Source of Lead Pollution Faced Tighter Rules. Then Trump Intervened.

    Fri, 26 Dec 2025 10:00:12 -0000

    The president exempted a copper smelter in Arizona from air-quality rules. An E.P.A. official guided the company that sought the exemption, emails show. Lee Becquet doesn’t like to leave the house with his 2-year-old son, Eugene. That’s because their home in Miami, Ariz., is downhill from an …

23. Climate change leaves ski fields skimpy across Europe

    Sat, 27 Dec 2025 15:56:00 -0000

    Some forecasters say this winter's snowfall will be like in the “good old days.” Others argue that long-range projections are no longer reliable. …

24. 5 sustainability habits you think are helping the planet – but probably aren’t | BBC Science Focus Magazine

    Sat, 27 Dec 2025 15:00:00 -0000

    Confusing and outdated messaging could be holding you back from being a keen, green, Earth-saving machine… You’ve kicked off your day with a …

25. She Studied the Health Effects of Wildfires

    Sat, 27 Dec 2025 16:19:07 -0000

    Lost Science Lost Science is an ongoing series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding after cuts by the Trump administration. The conversations have been edited for clarity and length. Here’s why we’re doing this. Marina Vance: I’ve been working on air quality since I was an …

26. The unfathomable losses that spurred Texas to create a flood warning system.

    Sun, 28 Dec 2025 07:30:00 -0000

    The July 4 floods killed over 135 people, including the only two children of a Dallas family Loud cracks of thunder and driving rain woke up RJ Harber …

27. More House Republicans are leaving Congress to run for governor than in decades amid frustration over ‘toxic environment’

    Thu, 25 Dec 2025 00:28:20 -0000

    Congressional Republicans have yet to break the record for most retirements in a single year, but some say it’s only a matter of time before widespread frustration with the current state of Washington leads to a tipping point as many in the party head for the exits. The 10 House Republicans seeking …

28. Largest Disease Outbreaks in US History

    Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:16:28 -0000

    The spread of disease is not routinely connected to climate change or the environment. However, ignoring this connection would mean overlooking one …

29. Cyprus fishermen turn venomous species into tavern delicacy

    Sun, 28 Dec 2025 06:49:42 -0000

    Photis Gaitanos’ rough fingers adroitly untangle the venomous spikes of a lionfish from a net, throwing the exotic-looking creature into an …

30. Europe is at a 'fork in the road' between AI competition and climate, fund managers say

    Sat, 27 Dec 2025 07:09:55 -0000

    Europe stands at a crossroads: compete meaningfully in the AI race or stick to its world-leading climate goals. "It's like a fork in the road moment …