Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. Energy crises must accelerate the fight against climate change

   Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:55:44 -0000

   As the US-Israeli war against Iran enters its third week, hopes for a short, contained crisis without major consequences for the global energy market …

2. Earth’s ‘Gateway to Hell’ keeps getting bigger

   Sat, 21 Mar 2026 19:33:40 -0000

   In a remote area of the Siberian tundra, there’s a place that locals call “The Gateway to Hell.” In the summer, its peaceful waterfall sounds are interrupted by the booms and crashes of falling earth. The indigenous Yakut people are rightfully wary of the massive, slowly collapsing crater. While …

3. Susan Collins and Climate Change: ‘The Silence is Deafening’

   Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:55:00 -0000

   Seeking a sixth term, the Maine senator’s passivity in the face of executive branch power grabs undermines her greatest electoral strength, as much …

4. You can bet on climate disasters. Business is booming.

   Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:00:00 -0000

   Will Iran’s main oil terminal get bombed this month? Will climate activist Greta Thunberg be arrested before July? Will the U.S. get pummeled by a Category 5 hurricane this year? You can place bets on all of those questions through online prediction markets. The emergence of markets related to the …

5. World Rewilding Day: Hope for species and ecosystems

   Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:37:38 -0000

   World Rewilding Day on March 20 celebrates human efforts to rewild and restore degraded areas. Rewilding can focus on a single species, a city park, …

6. Why Governor Kathy Hochul Wants to Water Down New York’s Climate Law

   Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:00:01 -0000

   New York’s governor has a complicated relationship with the climate. On the one hand, she wants to build more carbon-free nuclear power, and she …

7. After the West's historic snow drought, spring could bring water shortages and wildfires

   Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:37:27 -0000

   At ski resorts across the West this winter, viral images showed chairlifts idling over brown terrain in places normally renowned for their frosty …

8. Renewable Energy Looks Stronger as Europe Rethinks Fossil Fuel Dependence

   Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:30:40 -0000

   Europe did not need another warning about the cost of fossil fuels, but it just got one. After U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran rattled global energy …

9. An answer to America's drought may be hiding in the toilet

   Sat, 21 Mar 2026 09:10:00 -0000

   Americans in the US are willing to fork out extra money each month to drink recycled wastewater. With climate change intensifying drought in the …

10. In a haven for maple syrup, a hidden threat endangers a way of life

    Sun, 22 Mar 2026 09:00:54 -0000

    “Maple syrup completely shapes our county,” said Highland Chamber of Commerce director Chris Swecker. “If we didn’t have it, I don’t know what our identity would be.” HIGHTOWN, Virginia — The woodpecker was the first sign of something strange underway. Ronnie Moyers heard the bird hammering in the …

11. How Often To Water Lavender So You Don’t Overdo It

    Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:10:00 -0000

    Too much water can kill this Mediterranean herb. Grow lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) to enjoy its sweet, herby fragrance around your home as well …

12. The Strait of Hormuz is about more than just oil. It feeds 100 million people

    Sat, 21 Mar 2026 04:00:34 -0000

    Oil and liquefied natural gas tankers moving through the Strait of Hormuz carry around 20% of the world’s supply. But for countries on the Persian Gulf, the waterway is more than just an energy route – it’s a lifeline for more than 100 million people. Now, as the United States and Israel’s war with …

13. 2026 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #12

    Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:37:30 -0000

    A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 15, 2026 thru Sat, March …

14. The weather is getting wilder, and some see a dire signal in the data

    Sun, 22 Mar 2026 05:10:00 -0000

    The effects of climate change are intensifying in ways that have surprised even experts.

15. Trump Is Totally Ignoring the Lessons of the Last Oil Crisis

    Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:00:00 -0000

    This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. During the infamous oil embargo of 1973, when the world’s …

16. The man who bet against humanity — and lost

    Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:51:44 -0000

    Paul Ehrlich predicted hundreds of millions would starve thanks to overpopulation. Here’s what actually happened. On February 9, 1970, Johnny Carson did something that would be unthinkable for a late night host today, or really anyone on TV: He gave a full hour of The Tonight Show to a Stanford …

17. The US broke the all-time heat record for March. Yes, it’s climate change

    Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:22:00 -0000

    An unprecedented heat wave in the West broke the record for the hottest March temperature anywhere in the United States: 108 degrees. It’s an alarming signal of how hot the planet is getting and how fast it’s happening. Yuma, Arizona, hit 109 degrees on Friday afternoon, which broke the national …

18. Long overlooked as crucial to life, fungi start to get their due

    Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:00:00 -0000

    As efforts to study and conserve fungi expand, researchers say a "shroom boom" is underway. This story was originally published by Yale E360 and is …

19. Why ‘decoupling’ energy emissions from economic growth underpins the green transition

    Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:16:59 -0000

    When people talk about tackling climate change, the images are often solar panels, wind turbines and electric cars. But the bigger question is …

20. SoHo Psychos - Emergency Alert: Hot Bisexual In Your Area (Southern Hospitality S4E3) | Sexy Unique Podcast

    Sun, 22 Mar 2026 06:45:24 -0000

    Lara and Carey talk climate change heat woes in Los Angeles, seeking safety in the Blue Zones, Clavicular’s magnum opus streaming clip, needing Clav …

21. Nearly Half of U.S. States Sue Trump EPA Over Endangerment Finding

    Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:19:42 -0000

    On Interior corruption, Uber’s Rivian bet, and Seattle's light rail Current conditions: Phoenix just marked its earliest day of temperatures eclipsing …

22. E.P.A. Chief to Headline Event by Group That Says There’s No Climate Crisis

    Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:48:31 -0000

    Lee Zeldin, the agency administrator, will address a Heartland Institute forum in April. The organization says speakers will challenge the climate crisis “narrative.” Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, will be the opening speaker at a conference next month …

23. Flights, petrol cars and cruise ships: Amsterdam bans fossil fuel ads

    Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:14:39 -0000

    Cities around the world are clearing their billboards of ads for flights, cruise ships and petrol cars in an effort to reduce planet-warming gases. Amsterdam is the latest city to join the movement, becoming the first capital in the world to approve a legal ban on fossil fuel advertising. Dutch …

24. How biotech giant Bayer landed a win that made MAHA furious

    Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:29:07 -0000

    Bayer executives had warned for years that the company was on the brink of pulling its weedkiller Roundup from the U.S. market. But when Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in May released the first Make America Healthy Again report, blaming the chemical for Americans’ health problems in an …

25. Higher yields and lower emissions can go hand in hand

    Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:00:00 -0000

    Alongside agriculture’s growing productivity worldwide, planet-scale farmland emissions have come down. In fact, increasing the yields on farms may …

26. Cities can improve air quality ‘quite rapidly’ with political will

    Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:50:19 -0000

    Air pollution is the leading environmental risk to human health, causing respiratory and cardiovascular disease as well as cancer in millions of people every year. Yet some cities are already managing to cut pollution significantly, new analysis by the environmental network Breathe Cities …

27. After Cosmic Crisp, Scientists Unveil an Apple for the Climate Change Era

    Sat, 21 Mar 2026 09:00:52 -0000

    The United States’ $23 billion apple industry rests on a gamble: that every generation or so, scientists will produce a new variety that convinces Americans to fall in love again with the fruit that keeps the doctor away. That gamble has a new component: The apple, once a purely regional product, …

28. PNG’s New Ireland coastal waters causing fish deaths, human sickness

    Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:58:37 -0000

    For several months, the waters around New Ireland province in Papua New Guinea have been causing illness, skin irritation and the death of sea life, …

29. A 24/7 solar farm-building robot just hit the market

    Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:52:29 -0000

    The US needs a lot more electricity fast, and one company thinks robots can help build it quicker. Berkeley, California-based Terabase Energy says its next-gen Terafab automated solar construction system has finished field testing and is now ready to ship commercially. Terafab V2 brings autonomous …