Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. ‘Remember that?’ Trump again asks Americans to recall something that never happened

   Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:26:37 -0000

   President Donald Trump asked Americans on Thursday if they remembered a massive television outage two years ago. That outage didn’t happen. As he has before, the president who is fond of telling imaginary tales was explicitly asking people to recall something he had made up. This time, Trump’s …

2. Americans are choking on Canadian wildfire smoke because our neighbors refuse to do proper forest management

   Sun, 26 Jul 2026 14:00:00 -0000

   For the third time in the past four years, Americans are choking on smoke from Canada’s burning forests. Last week, roughly 900 wildfires turned the …

3. Activists ‘throwing everything' they can against abortion turn to wastewater data

   Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:35:36 -0000

   Anti-abortion activists are hoping to get the attention of an administration that has embraced theories shunned by mainstream science about Tylenol, peptides and vaccines. Anti-abortion activists are launching the next phase of their years-long effort to use environmental protection laws to cut off …

4. American Nero: Why Trump is trying to burn down the National Academy of Sciences

   Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:00:38 -0000

   In a post on Truth Social earlier this month, Trump claimed that the National Academy of Sciences published “fraudulent, biased, and misleading …

5. California Can’t Replant Its Forests Fast Enough to Keep Up With Wildfires

   Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:00:34 -0000

   California’s wildfires are destroying forests faster than the state can replant them, and federal cuts are making the gap worse. This story was …

6. Trump Blames Canada For Smoke From A Climate America Created

   Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:50:39 -0000

   Donald Trump says Canada is poisoning American cities with wildfire smoke. He has told Prime Minister Mark Carney to get the fires under control, …

7. 5 Terracotta Coolers That Look Like Sculptures and Work Without Power

   Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:24:43 -0000

   Traditional cooling methods are gaining fresh attention as homeowners and designers search for environmentally responsible alternatives to …

8. If another advanced civilization lived on Earth before us, would we know?

   Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:13:45 -0000

   Brian Stelter is the chief media analyst for CNN Worldwide and the lead author of the Reliable Sources newsletter. When astrobiologist Adam Frank …

9. Climate change is now threatening a pillar of childhood: summer break

   Sun, 26 Jul 2026 09:00:00 -0000

   On a beautiful summer day in July, seven-year-old Penelope is turning into a mermaid. "I like playing mermaid," she says, with her feet dangling in the swimming pool at Beauvoir Summer Camp in Washington, D.C. "Like, I'm a human, and then I turn into a mermaid and I use one of the pool noodles as a …

10. France fires: 'What burns is not just forests, but a way of inhabiting the land that is no longer possible'

    Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:19:55 -0000

    The philosopher Cynthia Fleury and the Socialist mayor of Saint-Médard-en-Jalles in southwestern France Stéphane Delpeyrat-Vincent argue that, in the …

11. 'Mind-blowing' El Niño stuns scientists. Why are they so concerned?

    Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:34:50 -0000

    A Pacific El Niño is setting daily warm water records. Scientists say the world is in uncharted waters, and they aren't sure what will happen next. The world's most influential climate pattern is baring its teeth in the Pacific. The strengthening El Niño – a natural warming of seawater that …

12. Heat dome to deliver extreme temperatures, high wildfire risk to West

    Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:37:03 -0000

    Dangerous heat will expand across California and the Southwest as a heat dome settles over the West, sending highs well above the historical average …

13. Morocco faces repeated heatwaves and fears water shortages

    Sun, 26 Jul 2026 08:00:08 -0000

    Over the past three months, the country has endured four heatwaves. The resulting lack of water affects not only the population but also agriculture, …

14. Hundreds of Thousands Flee Fires in France and Spain as Help Pours In

    Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:55:02 -0000

    Nearly 300,000 have been told to evacuate or take shelter as major fires edged closer to Madrid and Bordeaux. Fast-moving wildfires devoured fields, forests and homes in France and Spain on Saturday, forcing nearly 300,000 people to evacuate or take shelter as hundreds of firefighters raced to stop …

15. The pictures that show the devastating wildfires ravaging France and Spain

    Sat, 25 Jul 2026 07:15:25 -0000

    Nearly 200,000 people have been forced to flee homes and holiday accommodation in south-west France as wildfires rip through the region. Authorities …

16. Europe battling multiple fire fronts, threatening major cities in unprecedented conditions

    Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:31:00 -0000

    Wildfires burned out of control in France and Spain in what authorities described as "unprecedented conditions." Strong winds stoked multiple fire …

17. Sweltering heat wave grips central and southern US for a second straight day

    Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:07:12 -0000

    At least 40 million people were under extreme heat warnings across central and southern parts of the United States on Sunday as high temperatures and severe humidity gripped large swaths of the country for a second straight day. Heat indexes exceeding 105 degrees Fahrenheit (40.5 Celsius) stretched …

18. Tour de France Boss Talks Doping And How The Race Will Adapt to Climate Change

    Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:15:49 -0000

    At the helm of his 20th Tour de France, race director Christian Prudhomme selects his most beautiful stage and explains why he thinks Quinn Simmons is 'magnificent'. Tadej Pogačar is about to make it five Tour de France wins, but Christian Prudhomme is on a good run too – about to finish his 20th …

19. The Thriving Coral Reef That ‘Defeated Time’ in West Africa

    Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:00:00 -0000

    A 60-year mystery has been solved as researchers discover a coral ecosystem on the Benin-Togo continental shelf that is still teeming with marine …

20. Contagious Cancer Found in North American Catfish

    Sat, 25 Jul 2026 05:00:00 -0000

    Scientists identified the first known cancer transmissible among freshwater fish in a lake that spans the US and Canada. The idea that cancer could …

21. Lessons from South Africa on how parks and community gardens can help cities adapt to climate change

    Sun, 26 Jul 2026 04:14:50 -0000

    Climate change is affecting cities more and more. This creates major challenges, but it also gives fast-growing cities, especially in sub-Saharan …

22. Extreme heat exposes Toronto's uneven tree canopy divide as city plans for hotter future

    Sun, 26 Jul 2026 08:00:00 -0000

    On a scorching summer day, you might notice walking down some Toronto streets feels a lot more comfortable than others. The biggest difference is …

23. The ticks are winning

    Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:14:56 -0000

    It doesn’t have to be that way. Ticks are taking over the United States. Due to climate change, changing land use, and an explosion in the deer population, ticks have been expanding their territory and infecting more people than ever. They carry pathogens that cause everything from Lyme disease to …

24. Toxic Terrain: How Journalism Helped Break Iowa’s Farm Pollution Acquiescence

    Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:31:00 -0000

    Real change occurs in America when civic pressures from outside the centers of influence force insiders to retreat. Arguably the most compelling …

25. 'I can't work in the farce of climate change cruise tourism anymore': Why Antarctic guides quit their dream jobs

    Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:30:04 -0000

    In the words of a former Antarctic tour guide we interviewed: "You'd see massive glacier calvings, and you'd just want to cry. But all the guests …

26. The Slow Decline of the African Lion and What We Can Do

    Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:45:42 -0000

    The African lion, often referred to as the “King of the Jungle,” is not just a charismatic apex predator but also a symbol of wild Africa. Known …

27. Over 300,000 People Flee as France, Spain Battle Wildfires

    Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:57:02 -0000

    More than 300,000 people have fled their homes in towns and villages across France and Spain even as wildfires threaten the major cities of Madrid …

28. Trump administration admits it canceled $7.6 billion in clean energy projects ‘based solely on the political identity of the grant recipient’s state’

    Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:54:33 -0000

    The Trump administration has acknowledged in court documents that it canceled $7.6 billion in grants for hundreds of clean energy projects “based …

29. 'Sea cannibal' spreads across the Baltic, threatening native species

    Sun, 26 Jul 2026 09:27:20 -0000

    Resembling a jellyfish, glowing in the dark, and even eating its own young, the comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi is one of the strangest sea creatures …

30. How Bad Policy Fuels Wildfires

    Sat, 25 Jul 2026 01:44:39 -0000

    The Canadian wildfires are a reminder of how ideology and short-term thinking drive poor forest management. People throughout the Midwest and many …