Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. America is hurtling toward a power grid crisis

   Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:00:00 -0000

   Electricity demand is skyrocketing, utility bills are spiking – but it could take years to build the new transmission lines that would address the …

2. Everyone Hates Private Equity. Trump Is Bailing It Out.

   Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

   The industry has become the midterms’ most indelible political symbol for Wall Street’s reckless greed. President Donald Trump picked an odd political …

3. El Niño's waters are the hottest ever measured. They're getting hotter

   Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:02:57 -0000

   A record-high ocean temperature has been measured in a key El Niño region of the Pacific Ocean, and scientists say it likely hasn't reached its peak. Sea surface temperatures just hit a record high in a 2.4-million square mile region of the deep Pacific Ocean known as Niño 3.4, the key area …

4. How the Supreme Court Caused a Botched Execution in Tennessee

   Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

   There is a straight line between the high court’s grisly machinations and the horrors that befell Christa Pike in the execution chamber. For the first …

5. Scientists Once Calculated the Date of Doomsday—and It’s Next Month

   Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:25:36 -0000

   In 1960, the journal Science published an article in which scientists predicted doomsday would arrive on Friday, November 13, 2026. So should you be …

6. Restoring Watersheds One Dam Removal at a Time

   Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0000

   Editor’s note: This story was originally published by bioGraphic. Sierra is republishing it with permission. In 1859, a committee of farmers in …

7. Alito’s Recusal From a Key Climate Case May Be Too Little, Too Late

   Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:49:42 -0000

   Justice Samuel Alito decided Monday to sit out one of the most consequential climate change cases to reach the Supreme Court, but legal experts …

8. Melting glaciers reveal Viking pass hidden for centuries

   Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:19:45 -0000

   Melting glaciers are revealing thousands of ancient Viking artefacts covered up by ice and snow until recently. Melting glaciers reveal Viking pass hidden for centuries Melting glaciers are revealing thousands of ancient Viking artefacts covered up by ice and snow until recently.

9. America Has Turned on Trump. But Has It Really Said No to Fascism?

   Thu, 01 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

   Polling shows the president in free fall. Unfortunately, a number of his most reactionary policies still have disturbing levels of support. Recent …

10. Big Oil Fears the Evidence of Its Climate Lies | Common Dreams

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:34:10 -0000

    Fossil fuel companies are desperate to escape trial in climate deception lawsuits. The Supreme Court should not shield them from accountability. No …

11. Map Shows US States Facing Coldest Weather This October

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:33:00 -0000

    October is finally here and the Climate Prediction Center of the National Weather Service is already offering a glimpse of what the next two weeks …

12. Albanese leaves grim domestic scene as he flies to the blue Pacific

    Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:55:58 -0000

    Having a "Pre-COP" meeting in Fiji and Tuvalu is one of those initiatives that seemed a good idea at the time. No doubt it still has resonance as part …

13. Fight over toxic gas pollution shifts to courtroom in Fort Myers

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:02:00 -0000

    FORT MYERS — In an uneasy courtroom, six judges listened as lawyers fought — on one side, representing dozens of people with cancer, on the other, a …

14. Exclusive: General Motors bids farewell to Lithium Valley

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:03:34 -0000

    Dreams of a lithium boom at California’s Salton Sea keep receding into the dusty desert horizon. Oh wow: I launched Climate-Colored Goggles one year …

15. The Environmental Cost of AI and Its Resource Demands

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:02:41 -0000

    AI can deliver answers in seconds, but powering it requires vast data centres, advanced chips, and huge amounts of electricity and water.

16. Women shoulder the burden of expanding wildfires in rural India

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:40:01 -0000

    In the Indian Western Himalayas, women are the primary first responders to escalating forest fires. They risk their physical safety to protect homes …

17. Households will pay more for energy because of Trump's policy changes, think tank says

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 04:01:13 -0000

    Households in the contiguous United States will pay thousands of dollars more for energy through 2040 because of federal policy changes since President Donald Trump returned to office, according to modeling released Friday by a nonpartisan think tank. The Energy Innovation analysis found that …

18. JONATHAN TURLEY: Justice Alito blazes the ethical path the Supreme Court should take

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:00:20 -0000

    On Sept. 28, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito recused himself from one of the term's most important cases: Suncor Energy Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County. As I have previously discussed, the case involving the liability of energy companies for nuisance actions tied to climate change …

19. 8 Incredible Creatures on the Brink: US Conservation Efforts

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:27:15 -0000

    Read all the way to the end – we save the one detail most people never think about for last. Across the United States, some of the most remarkable …

20. Governor Mikie Sherrill on Electricity Prices, Nuclear Power, and Building in New Jersey

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:10:06 -0000

    Matthew Zeitlin talks with the New Jersey leader at Heatmap House at New York Climate Week. Governor Mikie Sherrill is a former Navy pilot, federal …

21. Scientists put tiny greenhouses over Antarctica’s only two flowering plants and left them there for 7 years. Here's why

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 04:30:00 -0000

    A warming climate is forcing Antarctica’s native plants to adapt. Not only have they risen to the challenge, they’ve adapted in two different ways, …

22. Digger Is Tom Cruise’s Climate Hoax

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 03:24:39 -0000

    Media hacks fight fossil foolery and prefer Oscar bait. Alejandro González Iñárritu always makes bad movies (Amores Perros, 21 Grams, Babel, Biutiful, …

23. How Manchester City Got Away With Historic Fraud

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Yes, the English soccer club got caught—eventually. But the team’s meteoric rise was aided by the willful blindness of the Premier League. Most …

24. Beef, tomatoes and seaweed are getting pricier as extreme weather hits harvests

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:01:30 -0000

    From seaweed to sirloin and tomatoes to corn, grocery items around the world are getting more expensive as climate change turns temporary weather-related price spikes into a more persistent driver of inflation, a new study shows. Analysts at Zero Carbon Analytics, an international research firm, …

25. This year’s El Niño looks a lot like 1997. What happened then?

    Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:47:38 -0000

    (NEXSTAR) – This year’s El Niño is shaping up to be the strongest in recorded history. That makes it tough to compare to prior years, but if we …

26. Trump Just Pledged to Let AI Companies Do Whatever They Want

    Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:02:03 -0000

    Trump and the tech CEOs have a lot in common—not least their sense of total impunity. Whatever beef Donald Trump had with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei …

27. Trump's 'brain totally fried' in bizarre rant about 'biggest ice cube in the world'

    Thu, 01 Oct 2026 22:52:30 -0000

    President Donald Trump kicked off his tour of deep red states on Thursday by speaking to truckers in Texas. The president visited a manufacturing plant in Denton to discuss his trade and tariff agenda and the Trump administration's efforts to boost domestic production. The visit comes as Trump has …

28. The warming climate is forcing marathons to consider changes to keep runners cool

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:02:42 -0000

    DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Paul Grinvalds has completed 114 marathons in all 50 states, but he still wilts when he races in temperatures beyond 60 …

29. Why diesel prices are an economic time bomb

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:00:00 -0000

    Diesel costs more. Soon, so will everything else. Everyone knows how much gasoline prices matter. The recent spike in gas prices triggered by the war with Iran has fueled deep pessimism about the economy and weighed heavily on President Donald Trump’s approval ratings. But diesel fuel — the lifeblood …

30. Rising seas could cost Australia economic losses of $855 billion, study finds

    Thu, 01 Oct 2026 08:45:07 -0000

    Rising sea levels due to climate change could damage hundreds of thousands of properties and millions of hectares of land along Australia’s coastline …