Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

  1. SCOTUS Justice Received Millions From Oil and Gas Interests

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:38:57 -0000

    The review comes as the Supreme Court prepares to decide how much power states have in holding oil companies accountable for the effects of climate …
  2. Trump Administration Kills a Flagship Annual Report on the Arctic

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:38:20 -0000

    The top of the world is warming faster than any other region. For 20 years, the Arctic Report Card chronicled the extraordinary transformation. The Trump administration has pulled federal funding for an annual report chronicling the changing environment of the Arctic, where rapid warming is upending …
  3. Chinook Salmon Are Returning to This River After Nearly 50 Years

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0000

    The salmon felt powerful in Bill Iyall’s hands as he guided it back into the river earlier this summer. He was releasing fish in the North Fork of …
  4. Some Republicans Are Finally Realizing They Wrecked the Middle Class

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 05:57:15 -0000

    If recent comments from JD Vance and others are any guide, the future of GOP economic policy is going to be strange. The headlines following JD …
  5. How Britain's Mapmakers Track Climate Change

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 06:46:00 -0000

    Once used to defend Britain's shores against Napoleonic France, the Ordnance Survey's detailed maps are now essential for tracking and adapting to …
  6. Trump Is Trapped in His YOLO War in Iran

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:57:16 -0000

    “It always works out,” the president assures us. But Iran is playing hardball because it sees what every American does: The war is jacking up prices …
  7. India’s small steelmakers could save money and cut emissions with switch to renewable power

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 06:43:03 -0000

    Switching to renewable energy can help smaller steel companies reduce electricity costs and cut millions of tons of carbon emissions.
  8. Amazon’s New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:09:03 -0000

    "The world looks different now than when we co-founded the climate pledge." Tech Goliaths are scrambling to build as much AI computing capacity as …
  9. Wildfires, heatwaves pose growing fiscal risk to Greece, PM adviser says

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:59:50 -0000

    Aug 12 - Wildfires and heatwaves pose a growing medium- and long-term fiscal risk for Greece and the wider region, a senior adviser to Prime Minister …
  10. When should you scrap your gasoline car? The answer is almost certainly now.

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:28:15 -0000

    Replacing a gasoline car of any age—even a brand-new one—with an electric vehicle will almost always lower overall carbon emissions, according to a …
  11. ‘Climate whiplash’ is not simply a buzzword, but a symptom of a warming planet

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:06:42 -0000

    What flashes to mind when you hear the word “whiplash”? Perhaps you picture someone’s head rocking back and forth during a car crash – a jarring and …
  12. Italy’s $4.7 billion cheese economy is feeling the heat as climate change threatens its cheese banks that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:08:35 -0000

    In the hills of Emilia-Romagna, a bank vault holds more than half-a-million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, worth well over 300 million euros. The …
  13. Key Amazon cases reach Brazil’s Supreme Court following Lula's defeats in Congress

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:04:25 -0000

    SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s Supreme Court is set to weigh a series of cases in the coming days that could reshape protections for the Amazon rainforest and the Indigenous communities that depend on it. The cases span from Indigenous land rights, recent rollbacks on environmental safeguards and …
  14. Florida Teenager Invents Amazing Bee-Saving Device That Dramatically Increases Honey Production

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:03:32 -0000

    A Florida teenager may have found an unusual way to save honey bees from a destructive parasite. Aakash Manaswi‘s invention uses carbon dioxide to …
  15. These 5 charts show how far rooftop solar and home batteries can take us – and why we still need the grid

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:07:55 -0000

    Australian homes and cities are increasingly producing and storing their own power. After two decades of growth, solar panels are now on the rooftops …
  16. Dozens of Nazi-Era Ships Are Emerging in the Danube. How Did They Get There?

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:24:15 -0000

    The Danube River is now so low that one ship lies almost entirely on dry land, beached in sand—a haunting sign of our climate future. Some ghosts haunt. Others warn. The twenty-odd German World War II shipwrecks that have once again surfaced from Europe's drought-stricken Danube River this summer do …
  17. As the climate breaks down, costs go up: Welcome to ‘climateflation’

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:58:03 -0000

    If you ask an economist why everything is so expensive these days, you will likely get an answer explaining how oil — the lifeblood of the global …
  18. China’s Hunger Games

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:00:00 -0000

    How Beijing turned its food insecurity into geopolitical leverage.
  19. France swelters in new heatwave as water restrictions tighten

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:24:35 -0000

    Seventy-eight departments, including Rhône, Hauts-de-Seine, Calvados and Finistère, are on orange heatwave alert. Weeks of drought have led the …
  20. Land speed record holder shatters hydrogen car record with 406-mph race

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:45:00 -0000

    Andy Green is the only person to ever break the sound barrier on land. And on Tuesday he shattered several more speed records, driving faster than …
  21. Solar Pumps Were Supposed To Help Farmers – Now They're Backfiring In A Big Way

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:47:00 -0000

    Solar energy is making a substantial positive impact on human life. Solar panels are saving lives, changing deserts, and even having an unexpected …
  22. The DSA College Students Who Are Winning Elections—on City Councils

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    These young democratic socialists aren’t waiting until they graduate to win seats in local politics. In the fall of 2024, Jorge DeFendini, a …
  23. The West's wildfire season is already breaking records, and it's not over

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:17:24 -0000

    It's shaping up to be a historic wildfire season in the Western U.S. In Oregon, more acres have already burned than any time in modern history. At least 10 wildland firefighters have also died. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: We start this hour in the tinder-dry northwest United States where tens of thousands …
  24. Map Shows Where ‘Extreme’ Wildfires Spreading Rapidly in Washington, Oregon

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:25:59 -0000

    The Pacific Northwest remains the nation's most active wildfire region, with major blazes in Washington and Oregon exhibiting what fire officials …
  25. Coalition condemns $20m bill for Fiji climate conference which Labor says is ‘critical to our nation’s future’

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:38:55 -0000

    The opposition slammed the spending as an ‘absolute disgrace’ while Australians struggle with cost-of-living pressures.
  26. Memo to Those Who Fear Socialism: Why Don’t You Try Fix Capitalism?

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

    People alarmed about socialism’s poll numbers ought to pay more attention to how capitalism polls. It’s bad—and entirely deserved. Everywhere I look, …
  27. Where have all the mosquitoes gone? Parts of the US are seeing a huge drop — and that has experts worried

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:43:39 -0000

    Pesky mosquitoes seem unavoidable in summer but may not be - in parts of the United States, at least. Mosquito levels are down 50 percent across some …
  28. Here's What A Rainscreen Actually Is (And If Your Home Needs One)

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:40:00 -0000

    As rainfall levels increase in multiple regions across the United States, more homeowners may be considering different strategies to protect their …
  29. Lake Mead Hits Record Low: How Much Worse Will It Get?

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:25:45 -0000

    Lake Mead has fallen to its lowest level since it was filled nearly 90 years ago, a new marker in the worsening crisis on the Colorado River. The …
  30. A new type of levee is taking root in Northern California

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:30:00 -0000

    Combining flood mitigation with wetland habitat restoration, "horizontal levees" could protect coastal cities and wildlife from rising seas. Visitors …