Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. You should be terrified by the newest super El Niño forecast. Here's what's at stake

   Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:00:00 -0000

   An updated weather report shows an 81% chance of a ‘very strong’ El Niño that could rank among the largest in history, potentially causing losses in the trillions. Brace for a stretch of potentially wet and wild weather. Forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate …

2. Twelve die in Spain wildfire as heatwave continues in southern Europe

   Fri, 10 Jul 2026 02:44:18 -0000

   At least 12 people have died in a wildfire in Los Gallardos in the southeastern province of Almería, according to the Andalusian regional government, while six have been injured. Some of the victims were found inside vehicles which had been engulfed by the flames. Witnesses say the fire was caused …

3. French scientist Michel Siffre spent two months alone in a cave with no clock, no calendar, and no sunlight — and when his team finally told him the experiment was over, he thought he still had nearly a month left underground

   Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:19:40 -0000

   On 16 July 1962, a 23-year-old French geologist named Michel Siffre climbed down into the Scarasson cavern, a glacial cave in the Ligurian Alps on …

4. What Happens When the Public Record Shrinks

   Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:56:00 -0000

   Since last year, the Trump administration has been dramatically reducing the amount of federal data available to Americans. Twice a day, all across the country, the National Weather Service launches a fleet of latex balloons into the stratosphere to collect what’s known as “upper-air data”—detailed …

5. El Nino is strengthening: Here's what it means for the US

   Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:31:15 -0000

   El Nino is a natural cycle of warmer-than-average sea surface temperatures. El Nino conditions continue to intensify and are likely to be a strong …

6. Trump Supporters Blame Everything But Climate Change For July 4th Scorcher In Prankster Video

   Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:39:03 -0000

   The Good Liars confronted MAGA followers over the extreme heat that marred Independence Day celebrations in the nation’s capital. President Donald Trump’s Freedom 250 rally was no match for the brutal heat wave that hit the East Coast, as temperatures in Washington, D.C., tied a record high in the …

7. Trump taps global warming critic to reopen nation’s climate change office: ‘Professor in exile’

   Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:50:03 -0000

   The Trump administration has tapped a climate science critic — who describes himself as a “professor in exile” — to lead the nation’s climate change …

8. Why Trump wants Greenland

   Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:09:52 -0000

   Location, location, location: Greenland's position above the Arctic Circle makes the world's largest island a key part of security …

9. Invasive Prickly Pear Turned into Food, Clean Energy Source

   Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:50:03 -0000

   NAIROBI, Jul 9 2026 (IPS) - An international academic partnership is helping turn one of Laikipia County’s most destructive and invasive plants, the …

10. Climate change becoming a major driver of child marriage across Asia and the Pacific

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:04:18 -0000

    Runa was 15 when she married a man she had never met. Cyclone Remal had ripped through her camp in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar region, killing her …

11. Meta’s Bacterial Mystery Could Poison the Data Center Well

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:16:58 -0000

    Water pollution in Wyoming has big implications for the future of data center development. Did a Meta data center introduce a rare, dangerous bacteria …

12. Hawaiʻi committed to 100% clean energy. Now it’s flirting with…

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:30:00 -0000

    This story was reported and published in collaboration with Hawaiʻi Public Radio. On June 8, 2015, Gov. David Ige sat under the great seal of the state …

13. Temperatures forecast to reach up to 117 degrees in western heat wave

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:52:00 -0000

    Sweltering heat continued to permeate the western United States on Thursday, as forecasters warned that some desert communities could see …

14. Tornadoes are breaking records in new Midwest states this year as Tornado Alley moves east

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:30:07 -0000

    The majority of tornadoes this year have blasted through states in the Midwest and Southeast, including Illinois, Missouri, Indiana and Iowa. Tornado …

15. 8 Heat-Tolerant Climbing Plants That Will Turn a Bare Fence Into a Lush, Green Private Wall

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:33:00 -0000

    No matter its size, material, or style, a bare fence in your backyard is hardly an appealing sight. Planting a vine or a climbing plant at the base …

16. 'In trying to avoid accusations of exaggerating, the IPCC has instead underestimated the severity of our summers'

    Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:08:55 -0000

    Long accused of alarmism by the far right, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has, in fact, been too cautious, underestimating the …

17. This permit, common for dry cleaners, is now being used to build AI power plants

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:00:50 -0000

    This story is from Floodlight, and published in collaboration with WIRED. Republished by the Texas Tribune. Omaira Garcia didn’t realize life on her …

18. Startup reveals prototype of floating survival pod designed to withstand tsunamis and extreme flooding

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:36:00 -0000

    A French startup company has unveiled a prototype for a survival device that it says can save people from tsunamis and severe flooding. The prototype …

19. Trump has burned through more than $100 billion on Iran war

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:10:46 -0000

    ALBAWABA - One's mind can only imagine the kinds of human achievements that can be made with $100 billion: curing world hunger, stopping climate …

20. What happened to Australia’s snow season? A climate expert explains

    Fri, 10 Jul 2026 01:54:02 -0000

    There’s nothing like gliding down a snow-covered slope. That’s if you ask the thousands of people that make an annual pilgrimage to our alpine resorts …

21. Strengthening El Niño has its eyes on history, updated forecast says

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:01:07 -0000

    Federal forecasters announced that the current El Niño could rank among the strongest events in the historical record going back to 1950. Federal forecasters have dramatically increased the chances that a new El Niño will grow into a historically strong event that will influence weather around the …

22. The Iran war has pushed some countries away from oil and toward clean energy

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:00:00 -0000

    A new round of bombing has begun in the Middle East. More than four months after the beginning of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, one thing is clear: Some countries are not going back to fossil fuel imports in the same way they relied on them in the past. Instead, countries across Asia and Africa …

23. Cut the Pentagon, Save the Planet: The $1.5 Trillion Climate Solution We Can’t Ignore | Common Dreams

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:20:03 -0000

    What could we do with that money instead? Last week, millions of people around the world were subjected to record-breaking heatwaves. At least 25 …

24. Map Shows Where All-Time US Temperature Records Could Be Broken Next Week

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:34:24 -0000

    A new heat dome is forecast to build across parts of the western and northern United States this weekend, bringing the potential for all-time …

25. Squid Are Among the Most Intelligent Ocean Creatures. Climate Change Might Shrink Their Brains

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:59:18 -0000

    Squid are among the scholars of the deep. Distributed across all of the world’s oceans, the 375 squid species can navigate mazes, cooperatively hunt, communicate via color change, recognize individual humans, and learn from past experiences—such as remembering how to escape from an enclosure. …

26. National Weather Service operating with less experienced staff, data gaps amid hurricane season

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:17:00 -0000

    Peak hurricane season is approaching, and the National Weather Service is operating with a less experienced workforce and gaps in some data that …

27. Western Europe records hottest ever June as climate change drives heatwaves

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:06:43 -0000

    Western Europe experienced its warmest June on record, as a heatwave at the end of the month in many countries broke temperature records. The confirmation from the European Union’s climate monitor comes as many countries are facing a third heatwave this week since May. The average temperature in …

28. Alaska GOP Pushes 800-Mile Gas Terminal & Pipeline That Could Decimate Climate

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:00:09 -0000

    Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy of Alaska has ordered state lawmakers to attend special legislative sessions over the summer and pass lucrative tax …

29. The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It’s Almost Incomprehensible

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:51:09 -0000

    The massive surge of fossil fuel-powered data centers cropping up across the country are emitting an enormous amount of pollution, a pulsing …

30. Opinion | Trump’s climate jibes at China and EU just make him look out of date

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:30:07 -0000

    It’s not Chinese turbines or European rules that look outdated but Trump’s belief that China’s energy transition is not world-leading.