Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. No Place on Earth Is Safe if All Hell Breaks Loose, But One Place Is Safer Than The Rest

   Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:00:00 -0000

   Sometimes it seems like there's no end to the catastrophic dangers we face as a species. Nuclear armageddon. Climate change. Pandemics. AI. …

2. Evacuations ordered as wind-whipped Ross Fire in Texas explodes to 50,000 acres in just hours

   Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:56:00 -0000

   Firefighters are battling numerous wildfires threatening homes in the West. A wind-whipped grass fire ignited on Monday near Fort Worth, Texas, …

3. How Trump’s Crazed Fury at Canada Is Already Backfiring Badly for Him

   Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

   The escalating trade war with Canada will hit hard in the Midwest—right where some of the most important contests in the midterms will be …

4. Global ocean temperatures hit record high as El Nino intensifies

   Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:10:10 -0000

   Copernicus warns of ‘unprecedented strain’ on world’s oceans as El Nino and climate change drive up sea surface temperatures. The average global sea surface temperature has reached its highest level on record, a European Union agency said, warning that a rapidly intensifying El Nino and human-caused …

5. In 1973, Icelanders fought a volcano—and won

   Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:53:00 -0000

   Firefighters, physicists, and volunteers sprayed seawater at the flows, creating 100-foot-tall lava walls. On January 23, 1973, the 5,000 residents of the tiny Icelandic island of Heimaey—located in the Westman archipelago just four miles off Iceland’s southern coast—woke up to the Earth splitting …

6. Border Wall Construction Threatens 6,000 Years of History on Private Lands

   Tue, 25 Aug 2026 06:00:00 -0000

   Archeologists are confronting an “unfathomable” loss as the US border wall is set to cut across ranches that are home to unique historical sites in …

7. Researchers counting sheep under American solar farms as of October 2024 found 113,050 animals already grazing 129,261 acres on 506 sites across 30 states, a pasture the industry had estimated at 15,000 acres only three years earlier

   Tue, 25 Aug 2026 23:15:23 -0000

   Nobody actually knew how many sheep were working America’s solar farms. There were anecdotes, a trade association, a scattering of local news stories …

8. Bomb Fishing Is Wreaking Havoc on Indonesia's Coral Reefs

   Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:26:00 -0000

   Fishers operating off the coast of Sulawesi, Indonesia, are detonating more than 8,000 underwater explosives each year, researchers estimate. The …

9. Wildfires destroy dozens of homes in Nevada and Texas

   Tue, 25 Aug 2026 23:54:29 -0000

   The new Rose Fire in north Texas has exploded in size, going from 25 acres to more than 50,000 in less than a day.

10. The Biggest Carbon Polluters Are to Blame for Half of U.S. Western Water Lost to Climate Change, ‘Groundbreaking’ Paper Says

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:42:27 -0000

    Some of the most impactful changes have come in the stressed Colorado River basin.Some of the largest fossil fuel companies on Earth are …

11. Cancer Seems to be the Price We’re Willing to Pay for Dandelion-Free Lawns - ecoRI News

    Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:36:43 -0000

    Watching people spray Roundup on individual dandelions and at unwelcome plants in the cracks and crevices of the asphalt and concrete that surround …

12. Phoenix: A canary in the coal mine for a world becoming an ‘Inferno’

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 22:59:49 -0000

    Yes, it’s a dry heat. But it’s a deadly one too. Phoenix keeps breaking heat records right and left. This year we hit 100 degrees in March multiple …

13. Did climate change cause this heat wave? Most likely, and here's why

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0000

    More than 80 million people are under an Extreme Heat Warning or Heat Advisory through this week, according to the National Weather Service. Forecasters at the service's Weather Prediction Center called this latest heat dome a "steamy air-mass even by mid-to-late August standards." Dangerous …

14. US companies are on the cusp of big climate solutions. Thank the government.

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:45:00 -0000

    The Department of Energy’s moonshot funding program is working. President Trump seems inclined to keep it. The United States has never been one of the …

15. AI’s land problem is pushing data centers into the ocean

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:34:51 -0000

    The artificial intelligence boom is driving unprecedented demand for data centers, raising concerns about their growing energy consumption, water use …

16. A lush knee-high jungle grows in the Arctic, but warming is changing Earth's mini-greenhouse

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:04:32 -0000

    TOOLIK LAKE, Alaska (AP) — With no tall trees reaching to the sky, Alaska’s North Slope tundra can look desolate — especially to outsiders from the Lower 48 who are used to in-your-face greenery. But up close, “the tundra’s kind of like the jungle,” said Adam Bloom, a Florida Atlantic University …

17. Historic Snow Map Shows Which States El Niño Could Hit Hardest This Winter

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:45:00 -0000

    NOAA put the chance of a very strong El Niño at 81 percent in July. A month later, the Climate Prediction Center raised that above 90 percent for fall and winter 2026-27 and gave October to December a 69 percent chance of exceeding every El Niño in a record that reaches back to 1950. That …

18. Scientists just unleashed an army of 130,000 baby octopuses to fight off a blue crab invasion

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:30:00 -0000

    Embattled Mediterranean fisheries and ecosystems may soon be saved by an eight-limbed army. Italian scientists have released 130,000 common octopuses …

19. Climate Collapse Has Plunged UK Food Production Into Crisis

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:27:35 -0000

    Farmers fear they won’t be able to plant crops next year. The UK faces a food production crisis after a summer of extreme heat and drought, farmers …

20. What Jon Ossoff Gets That Far Too Many Democrats Don’t

    Mon, 24 Aug 2026 06:12:47 -0000

    The Georgia senator is showing his colleagues that in the attention era, conflict is king. There’s a new Democratic presidential front-runner, …

21. If America Doesn’t Want Data Centers, Where Will They Go?

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    As voters from both parties turn against data centers, dragging politicians of all stripes with them, Big Tech may look toward Latin America for a …

22. The world inches toward catastrophic climate events: 'Bigger shocks are on the way'

    Mon, 24 Aug 2026 13:08:48 -0000

    In the opening scene of American writer Kim Stanley Robinson’s “The Ministry for the Future,” a heat wave combined with a breakdown of the electrical …

23. Climate Change Is Devastating the ‘Cherry Capital of the World’

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:00:29 -0000

    This year, the town of 15,000, which bills itself as the “Cherry Capital of the World,” hosted its weeklong celebration of the iconic fruit. Visitors …

24. Big Tobacco. Big Oil. Now, Big Food. This is End-Stage Capitalism.

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 23:47:01 -0000

    Big Tobacco knew all along that cigarettes cause cancer. Yet for decades they concealed their research, denied their research, lied through their …

25. We finally have some encouraging news on Great Barrier Reef water quality

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:16:50 -0000

    Imagine a plume of brown sediment is washed off the land into Queensland rivers and carried out to sea. Here, it can settle on seagrass and inshore …

26. Medicare for All Is Making a Comeback

    Mon, 24 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The health care reform package that’s getting renewed buzz thanks to some Democratic candidates is tailor-made to fix what Trump has broken. The …

27. Around 40 injured after tornado tears through village in the south of France

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:42:20 -0000

    A village in the south of France has been hit by a tornado causing significant damage in the village of Pomas. It injured 41 and affected about 300 homes. The region was under thunderstorm alert.

28. A Rare Brain-Eating Amoeba Could Spread Farther North as Freshwater Warms

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 22:45:00 -0000

    Learn about Naegleria fowleri, a brain-eating amoeba that recently killed a Louisiana child and may become more common due to warming waters. A summer …

29. What the Hell Are Karen Bass, Xavier Becerra, and Gavin Newsom Doing?

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    California’s attorney general is doing his job in asking questions of Paramount. It’s pathetic that other state Democrats are undercutting him. Twelve …

30. Experts caution against complacency after slow start to this year’s hurricane season

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:44:44 -0000

    It’s been a quiet Atlantic hurricane season so far – the season is nearly halfway through, and there hasn’t been a single hurricane. But a slow start …