Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. This portable battery station can power your home for two weeks - but here's its real best feature

   Sun, 07 Dec 2025 11:00:32 -0000

   The Jackery Explorer 2000 Plus is a high-capacity, solar-ready power station built to keep your home running. Here's how it fared in mine. ZDNET's key …

2. EV Sales Are In The Tank

   Sun, 07 Dec 2025 14:00:01 -0000

   Inside Climate News reports that the end of the EV tax credit may not permanently keep EV sales down. Here’s why. Douglas A. McIntyre, …

3. In the Peruvian Andes, a Blueprint for Sustainable Farming and Cultural Survival

   Sun, 07 Dec 2025 09:00:37 -0000

   Deep in the Peruvian Andes along the western edge of South America, agricultural communities have evolved alongside the environment in excess of …

4. Scientists reveal what triggered the Black Death plague in Europe

   Sat, 06 Dec 2025 12:51:00 -0000

   When the Black Death tore through Europe in 1347, it felt like the end of the world. Entire villages emptied. Bells rang without pause. In some …

5. Coca-Cola quietly makes a massive change to its soda brands

   Sun, 07 Dec 2025 14:47:00 -0000

   The beverage giant is making a change that should make people very happy, but many will want Coca-Cola to go further. While Keurig has faced an …

6. DRC artist's film sheds light on link between colonialism and climate change

   Sun, 07 Dec 2025 13:50:24 -0000

   Congolese artist Sammy Baloji’s first documentary The Tree of Authenticity fuses images and sounds, and features a talking tree as its narrator, to highlight the connection between Democratic Republic of Congo’s colonial past and the present-day climate crisis. RFI asked the artist what inspired him …

7. Earth Has Crossed 7 of 9 Limits Keeping It Safe for Humans. “Humanity Is Pushing Beyond the Limits of a Safe Operating Space,” Scientists Say

   Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:56:00 -0000

   A seventh planetary boundary is now breached.

8. The Big Bet to Fix the Rio Grande Sewage Problem - Inside Climate News

   Sun, 07 Dec 2025 10:00:00 -0000

   For years, raw sewage has flowed into the Rio Grande from a beleaguered wastewater treatment plant in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. Water quality on the Rio …

9. An influential article that called Monsanto's Roundup safe for humans has been retracted 25 years later

   Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:50:00 -0000

   The paper, which had a major impact on policymaking, appears to have been based on unpublished studies by the controversial agricultural company. In April 2000, Elsevier published an article in the journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, which claimed that the herbicide Roundup (glyphosate) …

10. Why Tehran Is Running Out of Water

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 07:00:00 -0000

    Because of shifting storms and sweltering summers, Iran’s capital faces a future “Day Zero” when the taps run dry. This story originally appeared on …

11. The world is facing a cancer crisis that’s hitting the most vulnerable hardest

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:05:58 -0000

    When I worked on the latest Global Burden of Disease cancer study, a global project that tracks cancer patterns and deaths across countries, I found …

12. Scientists make major breakthrough that could revolutionize solar panels: 'A big step forward'

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 13:30:00 -0000

    Splitting photons — not atoms — could unlock a sustainable, clean energy future with a color splash.It's part of illuminating research from the …

13. Fix Our Forests in Name Only

    Sun, 07 Dec 2025 13:00:00 -0000

    A new bill moving through Congress promises a major overhaul in the way federal officials manage public lands in the United States. Lawmakers have …

14. Sardine-inspired washing machine filter removes 99% of microplastics

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:59:42 -0000

    The home appliance can easily generate as much as 500 grams of microplastics each year. Fish gills may inspire an unexpected solution to one of our biggest sources of microplastics. According to researchers at Germany’s University of Bonn, taking a cue from the animals’ filtration systems might help …

15. Report shows that recycling Is largely a 'toxic lie'

    Sun, 07 Dec 2025 12:52:06 -0000

    A report published Wednesday by Greenpeace exposes the plastics industry as “merchants of myth” still peddling the false promise of recycling as a …

16. Hiker stunned after stumbling upon 1,500-year-old device in mountains: 'The most unexpected discovery'

    Sun, 07 Dec 2025 03:00:00 -0000

    Melting ice in Norway's remote mountains revealed a 1,500-year-old reindeer trap that remained hidden for centuries, per The Daily Galaxy. While the …

17. Depleted Tennessee Farmland Is Now Teeming With Wildlife

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 10:35:00 -0000

    In May 2010, extraordinarily heavy rainfall hit Tennessee. In some parts of the state, as much as 20 inches fell over two days. Dams were inundated, …

18. The Trump administration’s data center push could open the door for new forever chemicals

    Sun, 07 Dec 2025 14:00:00 -0000

    The EPA is prioritizing review of new chemicals to be used in data centers. Experts say this could lead to the fast approval of new types of forever …

19. What Zillow Won’t Tell You

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 10:03:36 -0000

    When Zillow, the country’s largest real estate site, added information to property listings last year disclosing flood, wildfire, heat and air-quality risks, it was following its own research: More than 80 percent of home shoppers consider climate risk in their decisions. The data allowed families …

20. Why Steven Guilbeault Left Mark Carney’s Cabinet

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:15:19 -0000

    Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is nearly nine months into his tenure. He spent years building his climate bona fides on the global stage. But …

21. Iran Is Running Out of Water – and Time

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 13:33:44 -0000

    Tehran’s slow collapse, and why it should worry us all Picture, if you will, a country that is quite literally lowering itself into the ground. Fields …

22. To avoid climate catastrophe we must reimagine our relationship with nature – and with each other

    Sun, 07 Dec 2025 04:00:00 -0000

    As I arrived in Belém – the gateway to the Amazon – for COP30, I found myself reflecting on what this moment means, not only for the climate …

23. AOC silent on whether she will amend doomsday climate prediction as deadline looms

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:55:35 -0000

    As top climate activists like Bill Gates shift their focus away from environmental activism, "Squad" Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is keeping silent on whether she still stands by her ten-year deadline for action laid out in the Green New Deal. Back when Ocasio-Cortez first introduced the …

24. US Tax Payers Are Funding the Industry That Is Destroying Our Earth

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 12:26:01 -0000

    For more than a century, Big Oil lobbying has tyrannized American climate and tax policy, driving climate catastrophe while deepening economic …

25. ‘You have an entire culture, an entire community that is also having that same crisis’: Colorado coal town looks anxiously to the future

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:35:01 -0000

    The Cooper family knows how to work heavy machinery. The kids could run a hay baler by their early teens, and two of the three ran monster-sized …

26. CNN Heroes: Looking back at Robert Redford’s legacy and his fight to protect the planet

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 03:34:06 -0000

    Acclaimed actor and director Robert Redford was one of the first celebrities to use his platform to draw attention to environmental issues in the 1970s. For more than four decades, he advocated to preserve the earth’s natural resources and protect the planet from climate change. He is this year’s …

27. How Overfishing in One Country Collapses Ecosystems in Another

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:07:59 -0000

    Imagine a fishing boat leaving the shores of one nation, its nets cast wide, unaware that the ripples of its catch will reach distant seas. It seems …

28. A Transparent Amphibian Was Discovered in American Wetlands

    Sun, 07 Dec 2025 09:43:18 -0000

    In a remarkable scientific discovery that has captivated both researchers and nature enthusiasts alike, a transparent amphibian species has been …

29. Readers’ Forum: Raising local climate awareness for West Nile Virus

    Sun, 07 Dec 2025 16:00:10 -0000

    With the first West Nile virus case already reported in Salt Lake County earlier this year, it’s clear that climate change is reshaping the health …

30. The solar stupidity is blinding

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:27:02 -0000

    An aerial view of the Ivanpah solar project in California’s San Bernardino County. (Photo via U.S. Department of Energy)During my dozen years writing …