Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. Soaring summer power bills spark protests -- and even disconnections

   Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:01:00 -0000

   TULSA, Okla. — Raelynn McMurchy was shocked when she opened her most recent electric bill. After some late payments in the past, the utility had tacked on a deposit of nearly $600, pushing the total to $1,373. "Our electric bill is literally more than our rent this month," McMurchy said in a TikTok …

2. A Defunct Nuclear Site Had a Meltdown in 1959. A New Study Shows It's Still Causing Health Problems

   Wed, 26 Aug 2026 04:00:18 -0000

   Researchers found elevated reports of autoimmune and endocrine disorders among people living within 5 miles (8 kilometers) of the Santa Susana field …

3. A Florida Community Aimed to Address a Legacy of Pollution. The Trump Administration Cancelled Its Funding.

   Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:50:00 -0000

   Tampa’s University Area lost millions of dollars when the Trump administration cancelled the Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grant program. …

4. 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. …

5. 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 …

6. Volcanic eruptions and warming climate disrupt long-standing link between Indian and Pacific oceans

   Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:00:02 -0000

   A new study that combines paleoclimate data and climate models suggests that large volcanic eruptions can disrupt the relationship between …

7. 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 …

8. Tornado of ‘rare intensity’ tears through villages in southern France, leaving two people fighting for their lives and hundreds of homes damaged

   Wed, 26 Aug 2026 04:30:00 -0000

   Two people are in a critical condition and dozens more injured after a powerful tornado ripped through south-western France. It struck Aude late ⁠on …

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

   Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:36:42 -0000

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

10. 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 …

11. 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 …

12. 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 …

13. Clean Air Policies Help Kids Breathe and Think Better

    Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0000

    New research finds that reducing air pollution can reverse harms to children’s health.Growing up with dirty air harms kids’ health. But reducing …

14. We’ve got ‘historic flooding’ and tornadoes. Is this climate change?

    Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:00:21 -0000

    Storms and tornadoes ravaged our state this month, killing at least seven people. In Hamilton County, the White River surged to a record 24 feet …

15. 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 …

16. 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 …

17. 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 …

18. 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 …

19. 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 …

20. El Niño Is Still Strengthening. The Ocean Is Already Breaking Records

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:08:54 -0000

    The world’s oceans have reached their highest average surface temperature on record, as El Niño continues to strengthen and could reach historic …

21. 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 …

22. 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 …

23. 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 …

24. Remembering the ‘visionary’ author of Pennsylvania’s environmental rights amendment

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:53:22 -0000

    Franklin Kury, who passed away last week, helped make Pennsylvania one of the first governments in the world to guarantee a healthy environment as a …

25. 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 …

26. 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 …

27. 'We can't water a forest': Switzerland is testing a forestry method to protect against wildfires

    Wed, 26 Aug 2026 03:00:10 -0000

    'Room for Hope' (2/6). While too many European forests have been turned into timber factories through monoculture and clear-cutting, the Swiss …

28. 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 …

29. Vulnerability to wildfire smoke is in our genes, thanks to an evolutionary quirk

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:59:56 -0000

    When the sky becomes orange and hazy from wildfire smoke, modern humans are at greater risk than our earlier ancestors would have been. This is …

30. Wildfires Spread Across Much Of The World

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:52:00 -0000

    Wildfires used to be unusual in Europe. They burn there now, also across a growing part of the US, and in Canada and Russia. Scientists blame global …