Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. This 400,000-Year-Old Campfire Could Rewrite Human History

   Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:00:57 -0000

   Humans likely harvested their first flames from wildfire. When they learned to make it themselves, it changed everything. While few of us today know …

2. ‘We look ridiculous’: US government website removes fossil fuels as cause of global warming

   Wed, 10 Dec 2025 10:54:10 -0000

   'It's like pretending cigarettes don’t cause lung cancer,' says one climate expert. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has removed any …

3. The Navajo Nation said no to a hydropower project. Trump officials want to ensure tribes can't do that again.

   Wed, 10 Dec 2025 09:45:00 -0000

   The U.S. Energy Secretary said allowing tribes to weigh in on energy projects on their land creates "unnecessary burdens to the development of …

4. The deep ocean is fixing carbon in ways no one expected

   Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:23:29 -0000

   A new study reveals that unexpected microbes are quietly fixing carbon in the dark depths of the ocean. Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence …

5. This Forgotten Volcano Erupted For The First Time In Over 10 Millennia

   Wed, 10 Dec 2025 22:31:14 -0000

   On Sunday, November 23, 2025, Hayli Gubbi, a volcano in Ethiopia's Afar Region, erupted for the first time in recorded history. Scientists think the …

6. Pope Leo Takes Shocking Swipe at Trump Over Old Friends

   Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:45:28 -0000

   It was not the first time the American-born pope has criticized the administration’s policy positions. Pope Leo has hit out at President Donald …

7. Australia's education system 'highly segregated' says former minister Susan Close

   Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:12:04 -0000

   South Australia's former deputy premier Susan Close has called out what she describes as "extreme" socio-economic segregation in Australian …

8. Mapped: Global Births by Country in 2025

   Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:22:40 -0000

   Ranked: The Number of Births by Country in 2025 See visuals like this from many other data creators on our Voronoi app. Download it for free on iOS or …

9. Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donates $7.1B to nonprofits

   Wed, 10 Dec 2025 02:39:45 -0000

   MacKenzie Scott donated $7.1 billion to nonprofits working on climate change and fighting for equality. She is known for charitable gifts to …

10. The Europe Car Market Is in the Grip of the Osborne Effect

    Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:04:21 -0000

    The European car market and the Osborne effect was the topic of an article I wrote nearly 7 years ago. I made bold predictions for the future, and as …

11. Why the Rest of the World Is Buying Chinese EVs

    Wed, 10 Dec 2025 10:10:02 -0000

    Rob catches up with the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Ilaria Mazzocco. China’s electric vehicle industry, it’s now well understood, …

12. America’s mobile housing affordability crisis reveals a system where income determines exposure to climate disasters

    Wed, 10 Dec 2025 14:10:00 -0000

    Picture this: You’re looking to buy a place to live, and you have two options. Option A is a beautiful home in California near good schools and job …

13. MacKenzie Scott has given $26B to nonprofits since 2019. Here's what she supported in 2025

    Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:27:59 -0000

    The billionaire and author MacKenzie Scott revealed $7.1 billion in donations to nonprofits Tuesday, bringing her overall giving since 2019 to $26.3 billion. Scott first pledged to give away the majority of her wealth in 2019 after her divorce from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Since, she’s distributed …

14. Polar vortex sending 'wrecking ball' of cold air to US

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 20:58:55 -0000

    This cold blast could be relatively short-lived, with a return to more typical wintry temperatures by later in December. Ready for some serious cold? The planet's most extreme cold air will be barreling into the central and eastern United States this coming weekend "like a wrecking ball," said …

15. Firewood Banks Aren’t Inspiring. They’re a Sign of Collapse.

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    Rural communities are banding together to chop firewood so that people in need can heat their homes. This shouldn’t be necessary. Rural America knows …

16. FIFA’s World Cup Sycophancy Is Dirtying the Beautiful Game

    Wed, 10 Dec 2025 04:30:22 -0000

    President Donald Trump finally received his sought-after peace prize on Friday. Except it wasn’t from the Nobel Foundation but from FIFA, an institution charged with overseeing penalty shootouts in soccer rather than geopolitics. I’m not much of a football fan — I prefer rugby — but how can this …

17. Want to fight climate change effectively? Here’s where to donate your money.

    Mon, 02 Dec 2019 20:30:00 -0000

    These are eight of the most high-impact, cost-effective, evidence-based organizations. You may not have heard of them. If you’re reading this, chances are you care a lot about fighting climate change, and that’s great. The climate emergency threatens all of humanity. And although the world has …

18. Planet Earth: Hidden energy reserves could power the world for a millennia

    Wed, 10 Dec 2025 12:32:53 -0000

    Reservoirs of hydrogen gas that form naturally in Earth's crust could help humans decarbonize. The challenge now is finding these accumulations and working out how best to mine them, experts say.

19. Earthquake Science and Fiction Collide in Tilt

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:15:00 -0000

    Climate journalist Emma Pattee has been worried about the so-called big one—an off-the-charts earthquake—hitting her town in Portland, Ore., for some …

20. Cabinet Mountains Wilderness: A maritime climate in Montana

    Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:00:00 -0000

    Streams and waterfalls flow from snow-capped peaks into glacial lakes surrounded by steep valleys in the stunning Cabinet Mountains Wilderness.

21. Southeast Asia embraces offshore wind power, as Trump bashes renewable energy

    Wed, 10 Dec 2025 04:32:46 -0000

    HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Southeast Asia is a bright spot for the embattled offshore wind industry as it reels from U.S. President Donald Trump’s push against renewable energy. The White House’s policy pivot has thrown billions of dollars’ worth of U.S. offshore wind projectsinto turmoil. Industry …

22. The Battery That Will Finally Unlock Massless Energy Storage

    Wed, 10 Dec 2025 12:01:14 -0000

    It could revolutionize electric vehicles and aircraft. Scientists have made a massless structural battery 10 times better than before. • The battery cell performs well in structural and energy tests, with planned further improvements. • Structural batteries reduce weight and could revolutionize electric …

23. UN says world must jointly tackle issues of climate change, pollution, biodiversity and land loss

    Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:44:33 -0000

    The most comprehensive global environment assessment ever undertaken calls for a new approach to jointly tackle the most pressing environmental …

24. US oil industry doesn’t see profit in Trump’s ‘pro-petroleum’ moves

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 13:36:05 -0000

    As the Trump administration makes announcement after announcement about its efforts to promote the U.S. fossil fuel industry, the industry isn’t …

25. What would this scientist tell Trump? Interview with Robert Watson, former chair of the IPCC

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:23:18 -0000

    When U.S. President Donald Trump addressed the United Nations General Assembly in late 2025 and dismissed climate change as a “con job”, the …

26. The hidden health risks of bottled water

    Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:54:15 -0000

    Growing mistrust of tap water has helped turn bottled water into a global staple, even in countries where public supplies are among the most …

27. These Maps Will Completely Change the Way You See the World

    Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:23:37 -0000

    Maps feel simple at first glance, but every now and then one forces you to pause and look again. The maps in this list play with scale, shift vantage points, or pull certain details forward so the familiar suddenly looks different. They don’t shout for attention, yet they quietly remind you that a …

28. E.P.A. Erases Mention of Humans Causing Climate Change From Some Web Pages

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 20:50:54 -0000

    An E.P.A. site listing the causes of climate change no longer includes the main one: human activity. The Environmental Protection Agency has quietly removed the fact that human activity is driving climate change from a handful of pages on its website. The information was deleted from one webpage …

29. How one controversial startup hopes to cool the planet

    Wed, 10 Dec 2025 10:00:00 -0000

    And why many scientists are freaked out about the first serious for-profit company moving into the solar geoengineering field. Stardust Solutions …

30. A Radical Climate Proposal Aims to Channel Seawater Into a Giant Egyptian Desert to Fight Sea Level Rise

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:09:39 -0000

    Flooding Egypt’s vast Qattara Depression with seawater could slightly lower global sea levels and reshape climate adaptation.