Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. How big is Africa really? Why the UN voted to change the world map

   Sat, 05 Sep 2026 12:49:50 -0000

   The UN has urged countries to adopt a map that makes Africa, Latin America, South Asia and Oceania larger than the traditional Mercator projection. The United Nations General Assembly has voted to back a resolution spearheaded by several African countries to adopt a map that shows the continent as …

2. Scientists discover the North Atlantic ocean is getting even saltier for one terrifying reason

   Sat, 05 Sep 2026 07:16:54 -0000

   Scientists have discovered the North Atlantic ocean has been getting saltier over the last 50 years. The Atlantic ocean is saltier than the world’s …

3. Samuel Alito is complicit in climate disaster

   Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:00:56 -0000

   Thanks to his majority opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which destroyed the constitutional right to abortion in the U.S., or his weird flag-waving during the “Stop the Steal” movement, Samuel Alito is notorious. But the Supreme Court justice’s entanglements with the fossil …

4. Global warming is ruining their way of life. These Colorado ranchers demand accountability

   Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

   In the Rocky Mountains, years of extreme heat and drought have baked the landscape, drying up streams that feed the Colorado River and desiccating pastures where cattle graze. The unrelenting dryness has brought hardship upon cattle ranchers, who say their livelihoods increasingly are under …

5. Earth Will Become One Big Supercontinent Again—And It Will Probably Kill Us, Scientists Say

   Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:00:00 -0000

   In 200 million years, there will be no borders–and possibly no humans. Geoscientists say Earth will be home to one massive supercontinent about 200 million years from now; there are four prominent versions of this mega-continent. • The climate might be surprisingly balmy in one of the most popular …

6. MAGA Dimwit James Comer Blurts Out Bombshell: Trump Badly Screwing GOP

   Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

   The president has MAGA supporters giving lots of money to his super PAC—and not to GOP candidates. Meanwhile, new polling by Democrats shows he’s …

7. Used coffee grounds were charred at 350 degrees Celsius until they became a charcoal-like biochar. That material replaced 15 percent of the sand by volume in a concrete mix, and the resulting concrete had 29.3 percent greater compressive strength than the control mix.

   Sat, 05 Sep 2026 07:00:39 -0000

   Coffee waste made concrete stronger. Not weaker, not merely good enough as a filler, but measurably stronger. That is the finding from a team at RMIT …

8. Ex-Air Force Secretary Reveals ‘Very Tough’ Reality Inside Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon

   Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:33:25 -0000

   Frank Kendall III summed up Pete Hegseth’s department with one damning word. Biden-era Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall III on Wednesday offered a bleak assessment of the Defense Department under Secretary Pete Hegseth. “In a word, it’s dysfunctional,” Kendall, who wrote an opinion piece for The New …

9. The charts that show the havoc El Nino is set to wreak across the world

   Sat, 05 Sep 2026 12:01:37 -0000

   This year’s rapidly intensifying, climate change-fuelled “super” El Niño is on course to be the strongest on record – and potentially the most …

10. UN approves new map showing Africa’s true size

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 04:13:25 -0000

    The UN General Assembly has backed a resolution to change to maps that more accurately show the true size of Africa. The UN General Assembly has backed a resolution to change to maps that more accurately show the true size of Africa. Supporters of the resolution say the widely used, and …

11. A record-shattering El Niño is almost here. Here’s what that means for the world’s weather

    Fri, 04 Sep 2026 06:21:45 -0000

    The world is bracing for the strongest El Niño in history. The United Nations has made the grim prediction that our planet now sits in the “danger …

12. Glacier Collapse in Nepal Reveals New Scale of Climate Perils

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:00:01 -0000

    Once considered outliers, these types of catastrophic incidents are now happening more regularly. The scale of the Himalayan glacier collapse that …

13. Human extinction is 'inevitable' and it's 'when not if', expert warns

    Fri, 04 Sep 2026 06:00:00 -0000

    Despite humanity's distinct self-perception when compared to every other form of life on the planet, we remain subject to nature's fundamental rules. One specialist has said all living things on Earth will eventually die out, and humans are no different. Nick Longrich, a senior lecturer at the …

14. What different world maps get right - and what they get wrong

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:46:02 -0000

    The UN has just called for the predominant world map to be replaced with one that more accurately reflects the true size of continents like Africa. The "Correct the Map" resolution adopted by the General Assembly aims to fix the discrepancy on the Mercator map, in which the African continent is …

15. Homeowner Says Her Neighbors Destroyed Fifteen Years of Her Tropical Garden, Then Became Terrified When She Hung Ten Tiny Figures Along the Fence

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0000

    For seventeen years, a 60-year-old woman lived in a tiny tourist and fishing village surrounded by tropical jungle in South America. While the village had its share of friendly people, a small group of neighbors had never accepted her decision to live alone and often treated her as though she were …

16. Nepal bet nearly everything on hydropower - the floods show why that's a problem

    Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:02:52 -0000

    Almost 100% of Nepal's electricity comes from hydropower, and it produces so much it earns nearly $200m (£147m) each year exporting hydroelectricity to India and Bangladesh. But the very glaciers and mountains giving Nepal this massive natural advantage are succumbing to global warming - and last …

17. Trump administration stalled a survey of PFAS in wastewater, former EPA officials say

    Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:45:31 -0000

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has stalled a study that would help regulators understand which industries dump harmful forever chemicals …

18. Trump’s War on Mail-In Ballots Could Hurt This Overlooked Voting Bloc

    Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:22:00 -0000

    This is what Republican voter disenfranchisement looks like. You’re reading The TNR Blue Book. Get daily scoops, strategy, and developments inside the …

19. How Do You Turn Plastic Waste Into an Edible Cookie? Scientists Found a Way

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:01:00 -0000

    Researchers at Southern Illinois University are working to make food derived from PET and plant waste taste better, look better, and ultimately win over consumers. The average person consumes about 5 grams of plastic per week through what they eat and drink. That’s the equivalent of swallowing a …

20. As family farms decline and the climate heats up, farmers weigh what to do with their land

    Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:30:00 -0000

    In Michigan and around the country, farmers are facing decisions about how to best keep land in production as values rise, climate change threatens …

21. How Did Trump Do on His Labor Day Report Card?

    Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Spoiler alert: He flunked. But will the working class take note? Happy Labor Day! (Well, almost.) There’s no better time to assess President Donald …

22. 3 hurricanes in the Pacific show the power of El Niño

    Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:14:20 -0000

    The intense storm activity is what climate scientists expect for El Niño, especially because this year’s event is likely to become the strongest on record. Three hurricanes — Karina, Lowell and Marie — are churning in the Pacific Ocean, a high level of activity that climate scientists say is on …

23. Climbers are melting Everest’s glacier with their urine, study warns

    Fri, 04 Sep 2026 04:30:00 -0000

    Heat from fuel burned at the Everest Base Camp and urine discharged directly on to the glacier was enough to melt 2,500 tonnes of ice and snow every …

24. This 'Super' El Niño Has Whipped Up a Never-Before-Seen Cyclone Trio in the Pacific

    Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:45:51 -0000

    In another freaky El Niño milestone, a NASA satellite hovering nearly one million miles above Earth just captured rare proof of category 4 and 5 …

25. How to Answer Yet Another Dumb Question About Hasan Piker

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 04:00:00 -0000

    The media’s fixation on this twitch streamer few voters have heard of should not be that difficult an obstacle to overcome. I confess that the vast …

26. Farmers turn to perennial grains as one solution to extreme weather

    Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:01:57 -0000

    BELOIT, Kan. (AP) — Bryce Black kneels in a wheat field battered by intense drought. He holds two strands, remarking on how small the seed head is compared with what’s normal. After a late October rain last year, the fourth-generation farmer was optimistic about his 1,800 acres (728 hectares) of …

27. US Republicans Announce Probe Into Environment Groups

    Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:44:00 -0000

    Republicans in Congress on Friday announced they were investigating nonprofit environmental groups over what they called their "radical lawfare …

28. Why the 'great Aussie summer' may become a thing of the past

    Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:34:39 -0000

    Last summer, Paris Brooke watched in horror as a bushfire blazed through the national park across the lake from her township of Mallacoota in …

29. New report: El Niño 2026 is now the strongest in 1,000 years. Here's what that means for your winter forecast

    Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:15:00 -0000

    The projected super El Niño could bring more extreme weather to the U.S. during the hurricane season. El Niño is now the strongest it has been in 1,000 years, according to new research from the University of Michigan, which reconstructed ocean surface temperatures over the last millennium by looking …