Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. They Wanted Me for My Blackness. Then the Calls Stopped.

   Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

   The year 2020 changed everything—or so we thought. For a little while there, I became very interesting. Not more accomplished, so far as I could tell, …

2. Farmers Are Going Broke Amid Rising Gas Prices, While the Ag Secretary Profits Off Them

   Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0000

   A new report finds that Trump is making millions off of his oil and gas stocks. His administration officials likely are, too.As farmers grapple with …

3. ‘I was assaulted at Reform’s conference – the party celebrates attacks on women’

   Sun, 06 Sep 2026 14:26:25 -0000

   A protestor who was dragged by the hair and bruised at Reform UK’s conference has condemned the party for ‘celebrating violence against women’. Sally …

4. Disaster In Nepal Gets Embroiled In Geopolitics - Analysis - Eurasia Review

   Sun, 06 Sep 2026 01:45:04 -0000

   Key Takeaways: After the 26 August floods, Foreign Minister Shishir Khanal first framed UNGA messaging as “justice and compensation,” naming China, …

5. A record El Niño brews in the Pacific. The world is feeling the first impacts

   Sat, 05 Sep 2026 18:41:28 -0000

   Climate scientists have been closely monitoring what is happening off Australia's east coast over recent months and are increasingly concerned by …

6. How climate change and food insecurity could fuel conflicts

   Sun, 06 Sep 2026 07:47:53 -0000

   Climate change, conflict, and trade tensions are putting pressure on the global food system. New research suggests the biggest risk is not food …

7. Talarico slams Paxton on data centers, defends filing 2021 bill to require large reductions in greenhouse gas emissions

   Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

   Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico blasted Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton on data centers in a wide-ranging interview with CBS News …

8. Scientists make 'huge' $540 billion discovery at the bottom of a giant lake

   Sat, 05 Sep 2026 20:35:59 -0000

   A 'white gold' mine containing $540 billion in treasures has been discovered at the bottom of a giant lake in Southern California. The Salton Sea, …

9. How big is Africa really? Why the UN voted to change the world map

   Sat, 05 Sep 2026 12:49:50 -0000

   The UN has urged countries to adopt a map that makes Africa, Latin America, South Asia and Oceania larger than the traditional Mercator projection. The United Nations General Assembly has voted to back a resolution spearheaded by several African countries to adopt a map that shows the continent as …

10. Samuel Alito is complicit in climate disaster

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:00:56 -0000

    Thanks to his majority opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which destroyed the constitutional right to abortion in the U.S., or his weird flag-waving during the “Stop the Steal” movement, Samuel Alito is notorious. But the Supreme Court justice’s entanglements with the fossil …

11. Climate change is exposing nuclear power’s reliability problem

    Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:00:41 -0000

    Published September 06, 2026 One of nuclear energy’s biggest selling points is its claims of reliability. “Nuclear energy is the only large-scale …

12. Farmed salmon may not be as nutritious as it once was, new research suggests

    Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:00:35 -0000

    The shift in the fish’s diet is having significant downstream impacts on the environment and climate. Eat more fatty fish. That dietary advice has …

13. The Great Barrier Reef refuses to die on schedule

    Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Australia’s marine scientists released their annual audit of the Great Barrier Reef last month, and it contains news you almost certainly haven’t heard: Coral cover held steady or increased across most of the reef. The scientists measure the percentage of living hard coral cover, and in the 40 …

14. UN approves new map showing Africa’s true size

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 04:13:25 -0000

    The UN General Assembly has backed a resolution to change to maps that more accurately show the true size of Africa. The UN General Assembly has backed a resolution to change to maps that more accurately show the true size of Africa. Supporters of the resolution say the widely used, and …

15. Drilling, seismic surveys in Alaska would require no environmental review under new Trump proposal

    Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0000

    Seismic surveys can scar tundra and disturb wildlife, including female polar bears, and drilling has been known to alter caribou behavior and Arctic …

16. China, Nepal race to find thousands still missing 12 days after floods

    Sun, 06 Sep 2026 14:14:07 -0000

    Rescuers race against time to locate thousands missing after a deadly glacial collapse on the China-Nepal border. Rescuers in Nepal are racing to reach thousands of people missing in areas near the China border after catastrophic floods as search operations enter their 12th day. The flooding that …

17. DIY plug-in solar gains momentum in the US

    Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0000

    Europe’s off-the-shelf solution to fight high energy costs is finally coming to the US. This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on e-bikes, power stations, and how to work anywhere, follow Thomas Ricker. The Stepback arrives in our …

18. Why some of France’s most famous cheeses are in peril

    Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:30:30 -0000

    Historic heat waves are putting French dairy cows that normally graze outdoors in summer under heat-related stress. Prolonged periods of drought are scorching French pastures, leeching them of their usual lush green vitality and leaving behind parched, lifeless yellow fields. And French farmers bound …

19. More than 10 million dead trees are standing like tombstones along America’s Atlantic coast — scientists mapped vast “ghost forests” where seawater is creeping inland and turning living woodland into salt marsh

    Sun, 06 Sep 2026 08:36:03 -0000

    Along stretches of the American east coast, whole stands of trees have gone the colour of old bone. Bare branches, no leaves, roots sitting in …

20. How to Answer Yet Another Dumb Question About Hasan Piker

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 04:00:00 -0000

    The media’s fixation on this twitch streamer few voters have heard of should not be that difficult an obstacle to overcome. I confess that the vast …

21. What different world maps get right - and what they get wrong

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:46:02 -0000

    The UN has just called for the predominant world map to be replaced with one that more accurately reflects the true size of continents such as Africa. The "Correct the Map" resolution adopted by the General Assembly aims to fix the discrepancy with the Mercator map, in which the African continent is …

22. Flyers might have to face more disruption with hotter skies

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 23:20:00 -0000

    As the country sweltered through one of the many heatwaves of a baking summer in late June, towering thunderclouds were gathering over the south of England and across much of northern Europe. It was a Saturday, and with the holiday season getting under way, thousands of passengers were heading to …

23. Earth Science Says the Sahara Has Switched Between Desert and Green Grassland Many Times

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 21:00:00 -0000

    Imagine standing in the middle of the Sahara and, instead of endless sand and scorching heat, you’re surrounded by lakes, hippos, tall grasses, and …

24. Global warming is ruining their way of life. These Colorado ranchers demand accountability

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 07:27:45 -0000

    In the Rocky Mountains, years of extreme heat and drought have baked the landscape, drying up streams that feed the Colorado River and desiccating pastures where cattle graze. The unrelenting dryness has brought hardship upon cattle ranchers, who say their livelihoods increasingly are under …

25. Humans will dump 72,000,000 tonnes of plastic waste into nature in 2026

    Sun, 06 Sep 2026 05:00:00 -0000

    Recycling cannot solve the globe’s plastic crisis, campaigners have warned, as today marks the moment this year ‘the world wastes more plastic than …

26. The Norwegian gas plant that could safeguard Europe from Trump

    Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:09:52 -0000

    Europe's newfound focus on energy security has sparked interest in ramping up gas production on the Norwegian continental shelf. STAVANGER, Norway — Europe was supposed to leave gas facilities like Kårstø behind. Instead, the giant processing plant is at the center of a wider continental shift. …

27. Giving into panhandling hurts homeless response in San Antonio

    Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0000

    Panhandling hurts Re: "Data: Need for homeless shelters, assistance exceeds supply," Metro, Aug. 22: I appreciate staff writer Megan Rodriguez’s recent …

28. Scientists discover the North Atlantic ocean is getting even saltier for one terrifying reason

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 07:16:54 -0000

    Scientists have discovered the North Atlantic ocean has been getting saltier over the last 50 years. The Atlantic ocean is saltier than the world’s …

29. The charts that show the havoc El Nino is set to wreak across the world

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 12:01:37 -0000

    This year’s rapidly intensifying, climate change-fuelled “super” El Niño is on course to be the strongest on record – and potentially the most …

30. Nepal’s climate compensation push and the question of who pays

    Sun, 06 Sep 2026 08:09:37 -0000

    On August 26, 2026, a devastating flash flood swept through northern Nepal after an ice-and-rock collapse in the Himalayas unleashed a torrent of …