Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. Presidents’ Day doesn’t exist

   Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:03:28 -0000

   Plus, readers on saving historical art, climate change and the ‘endangerment finding.’ Monday is a federal holiday celebrating George Washington’s birthday. The holiday is confusing, to be sure. He was born on Feb. 11, 1731, when the Julian calendar held sway. But in 1752, the Brits, and thus the …

2. Trump Administration Ends Credit for Start-Stop Feature in Vehicles

   Sun, 15 Feb 2026 20:01:41 -0000

   Manufacturers will no longer get a credit toward vehicle emissions standards by installing engines that automatically stop at red lights. The federal Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday that manufacturers would no longer earn a credit for installing engines that automatically turn off …

3. Nature reconsidered: why it's making us anxious

   Sun, 15 Feb 2026 15:51:31 -0000

   As contact with the outdoors declines, discomfort with wild spaces is growing. Scientists tracking the rise of nature anxiety have some ideas on how …

4. Built to live for centuries, Greenland sharks are charting uncertain waters

   Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:15:01 -0000

   Greenland sharks can live for hundreds of years, drifting through some of the coldest and darkest waters on Earth. Once dismissed as slow, clumsy and nearly blind, these deep-sea giants are now giving up new secrets – at a time when climate change and commercial fishing are encroaching further on …

5. EPA boss offers forceful defense for scrapping landmark Obama climate policy

   Sat, 14 Feb 2026 22:28:13 -0000

   Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin is just following the law, he said Saturday in Munich, where he defended the Trump administration’s move this week to disengage the United States from decades of efforts to regulate climate change. “There’s only one best reading of the Clean …

6. Climate Change Isn’t Real? Tell That to My Insurer

   Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:00:13 -0000

   This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, the biblical kind of awe of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. On Sundays, we look at the major themes of the week past and how they will define the week ahead. Sign up for the daily newsletter here. This week I am going to attempt the impossible, or at least the highly …

7. Climate change could expose 1.1 billion people to hunger by 2100 (but there’s good news too) – AI modelling study

   Sun, 15 Feb 2026 05:45:44 -0000

   More than 295 million people globally experienced hunger and starvation in 2025 because of conflict, displacement, climate change and economic …

8. China Is Leaving America in the Dust on Clean Energy

   Sat, 14 Feb 2026 09:50:00 -0000

   There are enormous geopolitical, economic and climate ramifications to the U.S. abandoning leadership on the energy transition. If you live in …

9. These United States: George Washington and climate change

   Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:26:00 -0000

   On the evening of Christmas 1776, Gen. George Washington surprised the King's forces by leading the Continental Army in an unanticipated crossing of …

10. Stop Guessing: Here's How To Pick The Perfect Type Of Hydrangeas For Your Yard

    Sun, 15 Feb 2026 17:15:00 -0000

    One of the most popular flowering shrubs found in homeowners' gardens and yards are hydrangeas with their large, puffy blooms in bursts of pink, …

11. Caspian Sea faces ‘triple planetary crisis’: Can new cross-border rules save it?

    Sun, 15 Feb 2026 06:02:00 -0000

    Azerbaijan has highlighted rising environmental threats to the Caspian Sea as UN introduces cross-border environmental assessments. The Caspian Sea is …

12. Ancient Mars was warm and wet, not cold and icy

    Sun, 15 Feb 2026 20:14:16 -0000

    Kaolinite pebbles show evidence of alteration under high rainfall conditions. A recent study showed that Mars was warm and wet billions of years ago. …

13. One of the ocean's saltiest regions is freshening: What it means for circulation

    Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:30:01 -0000

    The southern Indian Ocean off the west coast of Australia is becoming less salty at an astonishing rate, largely due to climate change, new research …

14. Food Used to Be Democrats’ Territory. What Happened?

    Sun, 15 Feb 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Once a topic associated with Michelle Obama, food reform has now become the province of RFK Jr. But if Dems decide to reclaim it, they could peel …

15. Welcome to the Voyage of the Damned

    Sat, 14 Feb 2026 12:58:11 -0000

    When President Trump vitiated scientific facts on Thursday, helping fossil fuel fat cats by eliminating the government’s ability to regulate treacherous gases, a reporter asked what he says to people worried about the very real hazards of a hotter planet. “I tell them don’t worry about it,” he shot …

16. These Unsinkable Tubes Could Help Harvest Energy From the Ocean

    Sun, 15 Feb 2026 23:25:03 -0000

    Researchers developed aluminum structures that trap air bubbles, making them able to float perpetually in even the harshest environments. Researchers say they have come up with a clever way to make aluminum tubes unsinkable by securely trapping air bubbles inside. The tubes are narrow, about …

17. Rubio says US and Europe 'belong together' despite tensions

    Sat, 14 Feb 2026 14:30:31 -0000

    Marco Rubio has assured European leaders the US does not plan to abandon the transatlantic alliance, saying its destiny "will always be intertwined" with the continent's. The US secretary of state told the Munich Security Conference: "We do not seek to separate, but to revitalise an old friendship …

18. Geologic Hydrogen Could Become Micahigan’s Next Clean Energy Bet

    Sat, 14 Feb 2026 14:39:57 -0000

    Michigan may be sitting on a surprising clean fuel source that forms naturally underground. According to Vivian La at Interlochen Public Radio, …

19. Fossil Evidence Reveals How Grey Wolves Adapt Diets To Climate Change

    Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:15:58 -0000

    Grey wolves adapt their diets as a result of climate change, eating harder foods such as bones to extract nutrition during warmer climates, new …

20. ‘Dying In Front of Our Eyes’: Trump Gasps for Air During Big Announcement, Still Slips In Racist Dog Whistle About Obama — Then Barely Finishes

    Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:00:00 -0000

    A breathless and winded President Donald Trump ironically stammered and wheezed as he tried to justify his decision to roll back a landmark …

21. 'Took the wind out of me': Why this man tested himself for plastics

    Sun, 15 Feb 2026 01:46:13 -0000

    As a healthy, active 25-year-old, Kal Glanznig never imagined a simple urine test for plastic chemicals would have him questioning his future. Not …

22. Why Winter in the U.S. Is Crazy This Year, in Five Charts

    Sun, 15 Feb 2026 12:00:00 -0000

    Extreme temperatures, record snowfall, surging energy use: This isn’t just a tough winter—it’s a historic one If this winter feels strange, it’s not in your head. In the eastern U.S., residents have been suffering through one of the most frigid seasons in recent memory. Yet for much of the West, …

23. The first casualty of Trump’s climate action repeal: The U.S. EV transition

    Sun, 15 Feb 2026 16:00:18 -0000

    This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. …

24. US pressures Vanuatu at UN over ICJ’s landmark climate change ruling

    Sat, 14 Feb 2026 05:54:48 -0000

    Cable seen by Al Jazeera says the US ‘strongly objects’ to the island nation seeking support for ICJ’s landmark climate ruling. The United States is urging governments to pressure Vanuatu to withdraw a United Nations draft resolution supporting a landmark International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling …

25. Earth on Track to Become Uninhabitable, Scientists Say

    Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:15:00 -0000

    Surprise, surprise: all that climate stuff scientists have been warning us about is coming back to bite us. And by us, of course, we mean all of …

26. Madagascar’s ‘people of the forest’ confront life beyond the woods

    Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:52:59 -0000

    The Zafimaniry people of Madagascar are confronting a difficult choice about their future as deforestation and globalisation reshape their way of life. Fewer than 15,000 members of this forest-based community live in the “land of mist” on the southern edge of the country’s central highlands, where …

27. Japan's 'godless' lake warns of creeping climate change

    Sat, 14 Feb 2026 22:28:49 -0000

    The Japanese priest and his parishioners gathered before dawn, hoping that climate change had not robbed them of the chance to experience an …

28. The World’s Plastic Problem Gets Worse

    Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:22:29 -0000

    The oceans have millions of tons of plastics in them. A new problem is that these are moving swiftly from one place to another. Douglas A. McIntyre, …

29. Red eyes and black beaches: How one of the worst environmental disasters left its mark

    Sat, 14 Feb 2026 21:49:18 -0000

    When the oil tanker Sea Empress ran aground 30 years ago, some of south Wales' best-known beaches turned black. Thousands of seabirds were killed off a globally significant stretch of coastline for wildlife in Pembrokeshire, while salvage crews fought for almost a week to lift the stricken tanker …

30. Senate Dems Launch Investigation Into Trump EPA Policy to 'Disregard' Health Impacts of Pollution

    Sun, 15 Feb 2026 20:43:59 -0000

    A group of 31 Democratic senators has launched an investigation into a new Trump administration policy that they say allows the Environmental …