Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

  1. Nation’s Largest Reservoirs Are Drying Up, Threatening Life in the Southwest

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:59:39 -0000

    Levels in Lakes Mead and Powell have not been so low since 1957, underscoring a water crisis that plagues seven states that rely on the Colorado River. Lakes Powell and Mead, the nation’s largest reservoirs, are drying up, sending a Colorado River system that provides water and electricity for …

  2. People over 60 face heat exposure danger at lower temperatures, study suggests

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:42:14 -0000

    As Australians prepare to swelter through a hot El Niño summer, the risk of heat stress also rises. When we age, our bodies are no longer able to cope …

  3. How China Found Its Most Potent Weapon

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:00:00 -0000

    The real history of Beijing’s rare-earth dominance.

  4. Lula calls oil near the Amazon River a passport to Brazil's future after Petrobras strikes new find

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:20:55 -0000

    SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said on Monday that oil drilling in northern and northeastern coastal regions could be “a passport to the country’s future” after visiting a Petrobras offshore drilling vessel following a find announced last week near the mouth of the …

  5. The Amazon's Trees May Be Reaching a Dangerous Tipping Point

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Over the past 40 years, the same Amazon trees growing in Peru have started growing thinner, flimsier leaves. Scientists worry they’re being pushed to the brink. The forest in Peru’s Tambopata Nature Reserve was hot and noisy—filled with the buzz of cicadas and the raspy barks of white-throated …

  6. At Long Last, Americans Are Starting to See the Truth About the GOP

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A businessman can set this country right. Republicans are better for the economy. Republicans love the military. Lie, lie, and lie. It was heartening …

  7. California’s new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:19:53 -0000

    The nation’s first tire efficiency standards target an overlooked drag on fuel economy that can cost drivers more at the pump. California just became …

  8. MAGA Christianity and the Return of Religious Coercion

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The right is increasingly embracing an anti-social version of the Christian faith that embraces restrictive control with none of the underlying moral …

  9. Planes flying over the Atlantic will be re-routed to avoid contrails

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0000

    Planes flying across the North Atlantic Ocean later this year will be re-routed to avoid causing condensation trails, in a first-of-a-kind trial to …

  10. Atomic Wildfires Are Russia’s Looming Compound Disaster

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:28:49 -0000

    It was a cold day in September 1957 when farmers in the Ural Mountains east of Yekaterinburg, in central Russia, noticed the sky had changed. …

  11. World's Largest All Electric Airplane Just Flew for 27 Minutes on About $5 of Power

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:44:20 -0000

    A major test shows both the promise and stubborn limits of battery-powered aviation. A white aircraft with a 106-foot wingspan lifted from a runway in …

  12. Midwest is overwhelmed by rainfall caused by rising temps (which will only get worse)

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:01:38 -0000

    Severe storms in the Midwest have cause widespread flooding. Climate experts say extreme rainfall has already gotten worse in the region and will keep intensifying.

  13. Trump’s New Bank Is His Most Naked Scandal Yet

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The media should not be covering Trump’s new crypto bank as if it were a legitimate business story. If you want to open any kind of national bank in …

  14. 'They don't deserve this beauty and this breathtaking fragility': Former Antarctic tour guides told researchers why they quit the troubling industry

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:30:00 -0000

    Staff writer Sascha Pare spoke with polar tourism researchers Zdenka Sokolickova and Liz Cooper about why a number of Antarctic tour guides have …

  15. Far from home, Hong Kong’s wild cockatoos could save their species from extinction

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:05:00 -0000

    Cockatoos are instinctively destructive. Stand under a tree in which one is perched and you will soon be dodging branches as the bird, mostly for its own amusement, starts ripping up the canopy and dropping it to the floor. The natural habitat of the yellow-crested cockatoo is the jungles of central …

  16. Rafting a River in Flux Through the Grand Canyon

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:00:31 -0000

    They call it the horizon line, the point on a river where the water disappears over the drop of a rapid and you can’t see what’s coming next. Once you pass it, you’re committed to the force of the water. I felt that force above Badger Creek Rapid, the first major white water on the Colorado River in …

  17. ‘A secret had been shared’: The inside story of an emergency climate briefing that made experts cry

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:02:37 -0000

    The People’s Emergency Briefing has been screened nearly 2,000 times around the UK - and Germany is preparing its own. Who else remembers the COVID …

  18. Scientists Confirm: Filling China’s Giant Dam Is Actually Slowing Down Earth’s Rotation

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:00:00 -0000

    What if filling a single dam could make our days just a tiny bit longer? As incredible as it sounds, that's what NASA scientists once reported when …

  19. Seaweeds are not plants – and six other ways plants broke the rules of life on land

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:23:02 -0000

    Hidden beneath the water’s surface is a one of nature’s most innovative creations. Plants conquered the land hundreds of millions of years ago. Then, …

  20. The DNC Did Something Right? Actually, It Was Three Things!

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:11:40 -0000

    The committee and chairman Ken Martin have been on a very hot hot seat lately. But at their weekend meeting, the Democrats actually made some shrewd …

  21. In pictures: What one of the world's greatest rivers kept hidden — until now

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:11:35 -0000

    IN BRIEF Many countries have experienced a succession of record-breaking heatwaves this European summer. • They have caused severe droughts, affecting …

  22. A Weakening Atlantic Ocean Current System Could Accelerate Earth’s Warming - Eurasia Review

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:12:30 -0000

    Key Takeaways New research shows the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) functions as a planetary “heat valve”: when strong, the global …

  23. New creative programme to link local climate impacts in Wexford to global justice challenges

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 03:40:00 -0000

    Young people in Wexford are encouraged to get involved in a new creative programme which explores climate justice through the arts. Organised by Young …

  24. How ancient trees are warning us about the next enormous solar storm

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:00:06 -0000

    Our sun is capable of storms far bigger than we've ever recorded. Studying the world's oldest trees suggests we could soon be due one of these …

  25. Global estimation of bankfull river discharge reveals distinct flood recurrences across climate zones

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:32:02 -0000

    Bankfull discharge, the maximum flow a river can convey before spilling over its banks, is central to modelling flood risk and understanding …

  26. It's official – Earth's spin is slowing down. Here's what it means for the future of our planet

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:28:47 -0000

    If modern life makes you feel as though the days are dragging on, science can offer you a little reassurance – they actually are getting …

  27. It’s a make-or-break year for Hood River’s pear farmers

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0000

    On a clear August morning in Hood River, Oregon, Lesley Tamura walked through her 42-acre pear orchard. The sounds of a Spanish-language radio …

  28. Planned US Data Centers Set to Produce 24M Cars’ Worth Of Carbon Dioxide

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:13:34 -0000

    A new analysis of the 60 largest data centers under construction in the US by Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft estimates the sites could produce a cumulative 101.5 million tons of carbon dioxide annually once they’re fully up and running, Financial Times reports. That’s about 7% of all 2025 US …

  29. One country seems immune to global warming. And nobody knows why

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:09:13 -0000

    It was pre-monsoon season and sweltering when Harvard University’s Prof Dan Schrag arrived in Delhi, India, to give the opening speech at a climate …

  30. Rhine drought, heatwaves and deaths: Is it time for Germany to enshrine climate protection in law?

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:13:32 -0000

    Germany’s coalition government is split over putting climate protection in the constitution. A debate is heating up in Germany over whether to …