Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. Fact check: Trump’s false claims to the United Nations

   Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:23:47 -0000

   President Donald Trump made multiple false claims in his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, though he largely stuck to a prepared text. Here is a fact check of some of his assertions. Trump and wars Trump, repeating a frequent false claim, said, “Since I took office, it has …

2. Currents in an Arctic sea accelerate the sinking of carbon-carrying phytoplankton

   Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:00:07 -0000

   Tiny plantlike organisms called phytoplankton that form the base of marine food webs topped by orcas, whales and sharks usually get eaten or slowly …

3. El Niño goes wild: Pacific Ocean under siege from tropical cyclones

   Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:14:06 -0000

   The wild and woolly Pacific basin – fueled by a powerful El Niño – continues to spew forth tropical cyclones of all shapes and sizes. As of the afternoon of Sept. 22, a dangerous Category 5 180-mph hurricane (Hurricane Polo) was threatening the west coast of Mexico and pushing a swath of moisture …

4. Wild animals stranded on island in Kenya. Scientists visited 5 years later – and found something worrying

   Wed, 23 Sep 2026 03:55:00 -0000

   In 2020, zebras, giraffes, impalas and waterbucks were all marooned on Crescent Island in Lake Naivasha – and they've remained there ever since. For …

5. California Declares State of Emergency as State Braces for El Niño Snow

   Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:46:02 -0000

   Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a statewide state of emergency on Monday to prepare California for a strengthening El Niño that …

6. We’re the world’s largest satellite operator tracking greenhouse gases and we see the climate tech sector chasing the wrong breakthrough

   Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0000

   Venture capital has a soft spot for the moonshot story: the single, transformative breakthrough innovation that solves a previously entrenched, …

7. How Scientists Contained a Threat That Could Have Destroyed Humanity

   Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:55:14 -0000

   A half-century ago, scientists and lawyers agreed to strict self-regulation in DNA research to avoid catastrophe. But it took enforcement to really stop them. We have been here before. Scientists warn that a promising technology might instead wipe out humanity. Its creators sound the alarm; others …

8. El Nino could cause half a million deaths in next six months, report finds

   Wed, 23 Sep 2026 10:01:16 -0000

   Almost half a million people could die in the next six months as a result of excessive heat caused by El Nino, researchers have warned in a new …

9. This Sicilian community has endured for centuries. Can it survive a changing climate?

   Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:45:00 -0000

   Giorgia Caruso always imagined her children one day inheriting the farm her family has tended for three generations. Her daughters would do more than …

10. Supreme Court can restore sanity and stop the left’s radical climate agenda

    Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:00:51 -0000

    When the U.S. Supreme Court opens its new term on Oct. 5, the justices will face the critical question of whether Congress or Boulder, Colo., controls American energy policy. Cities such as Boulder, Honolulu and Baltimore have pursued frivolous lawsuits against energy companies on the claim that …

11. El Niño transforms Atacama desert as thousands of hectares burst into bloom

    Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:14:29 -0000

    Exceptionally heavy El Niño rains have awakened millions of seeds lying dormant underground, carpeting vast swathes of one of the planet's driest …

12. Why AI has trouble predicting the fury of hurricane intensity

    Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:44:25 -0000

    Artificial intelligence has revolutionized weather forecasting in just a few years, with global AI weather models now able to produce forecasts that …

13. El Niño heat could kill half a million people by February

    Wed, 23 Sep 2026 04:00:00 -0000

    Around 450,000 people worldwide could die by February as a result of hotter weather caused by the record-breaking El Niño, climate scientists are …

14. We Mapped All 11,000 Factory Farms in Iowa. Here Are Five Things We Learned.

    Tue, 22 Sep 2026 07:12:33 -0000

    Here’s what the data reveal about the country’s factory farm hotbed. Iowa is the U.S. state with the most factory farms: 10,830 of them, to be exact. …

15. Extreme Heat Caused by 'Super El Niño' Could Kill Over 450,000 People in Coming Months: Report

    Wed, 23 Sep 2026 10:01:02 -0000

    A report published Wednesday by researchers at the University of Chicago's Climate Impact Lab estimates that extreme heat fueled by this year's …

16. Europe's most important inland trading waterway, the Rhine River, dries up

    Wed, 23 Sep 2026 05:30:01 -0000

    While the eyes of the world remain fixed on geopolitically charged blockades in the Strait of Hormuz, a bottleneck has been choking another of the …

17. The Supreme Court Digital-Privacy Case That Could Go Either Way

    Wed, 23 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Did Paramount violate customers’ privacy rights by sharing their info with Facebook for targeted advertising? Or is the lawsuit against the company …

18. 9/22: CBS Evening News

    Wed, 23 Sep 2026 02:43:41 -0000

    Monster Category 5 hurricane threatens the Pacific Coast; President Trump threatens to "annihilate" Iran. Monster Category 5 hurricane threatens the …

19. U.N. Leader Uses Final Speech to Issue Stark Warning

    Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:03:10 -0000

    António Guterres, the departing secretary general, said a divided world will struggle in the face of wars, inequality, climate change and the rise of A.I. António Guterres, the secretary general of the United Nations, delivered his final address to the General Assembly in New York on Tuesday …

20. Hurricane Polo downgraded but remains 'very powerful' off coast of Mexico

    Wed, 23 Sep 2026 02:54:56 -0000

    Hurricane Polo, a large storm off the coast of Mexico, has been downgraded to category 4 but remains "very powerful", the US National Hurricane Center said. The Pacific hurricane, one of the strongest of the season, was projected to head towards the coast of south-western Mexico, bringing intense …

21. Namibia: Underwater seaweed farms for the climate

    Wed, 23 Sep 2026 06:35:00 -0000

    Off Namibia's desert coast, a company is growing giant kelp in a large underwater farm. The project claims wider benefits for marine life, carbon storage and local jobs.

22. The White House Press Corps Must Stand With CNN, MS NOW, and Politico

    Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:05:20 -0000

    First of all, this judge should rule with the media outlets immediately. And if he doesn’t—the non-banned outlets must walk. CNN, MS NOW, and Politico …

23. Is Nepal's flood a harbinger of what's to come in the Himalayas?

    Wed, 23 Sep 2026 07:48:00 -0000

    KATHMANDU, Nepal — On a recent September day, Sumana Shrestha Amatya stood alongside other protesters in the Nepali capital, urging the government to …

24. Is it 'killer robots' or 'super intelligence'? At the UN, leaders see both

    Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:58:35 -0000

    UNITED NATIONS (AP) — It’s killer robots versus super intelligence. Visions of the future straight out of comic books are playing out at the United Nations as world leaders talk about the threat — or promise — of artificial intelligence. Once again it was Donald Trump against the U.N, chief and other …

25. Why California Just Declared a State of Emergency Due to El Niño

    Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:21:35 -0000

    California’s governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency ahead of a potentially historic El Niño. In a statement released Sept. 22, Newsom said the declaration is meant to ensure communities have the resources they need to handle the impacts expected this winter. “California is strongest …

26. WATCH: Trump addresses 2026 United Nations General Assembly

    Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:26:55 -0000

    Editor's Note: This feed of the president's speech comes from the United Nations, which is an independent source separate from the White House or the …

27. Some fifth-generation Iowa farmers have stopped raising corn, soybeans and cattle since wind turbines went up on their land — they lease the fields to other people to farm while collecting $7,000 to $10,000 per tower a year, and a few now call themselves wind farmers

    Wed, 23 Sep 2026 01:57:26 -0000

    When wind turbines dot the fields, some Iowa farmers stop farming altogether, discovering their most profitable crop grows invisibly in the air above …

28. MSCI CEO: why markets must catch up with physical climate risk

    Wed, 23 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    All across the world, all across different kinds of extreme weather, the records keep falling. This summer alone, we saw the hottest July ever …

29. Fact-checking Trump's speech to the 2026 United Nations General Assembly

    Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:37:21 -0000

    This article originally appeared on PolitiFact. In his address to the United Nations General Assembly, President Donald Trump defended the United …

30. Climate scientists fired by Trump step in to fill U.S. report gap

    Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:00:00 -0000

    The future of national climate assessments remains murky after the Trump administration dismissed hundreds of scientists. More than a year after the Trump administration dismissed hundreds of scientists working on the National Climate Assessment, clouding the landmark publication’s future, many of …