Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

  1. Trump Will Order Defense Department to Buy Coal Power

    Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:20:31 -0000

    Climate and security experts say the plan is outdated and could place the U.S. at a competitive disadvantage.President Donald Trump plans to announce …

  2. The World Needs China’s Climate Technology. That’s the Dilemma

    Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:00:00 -0000

    There’s a Chinese expression—zuò shan guan hǔ dòu—which roughly translates to “Sit on the mountain and watch tigers fight.” For attendees at this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, this image was on full display. Inside WEF’s Congress Center, wealthy nations …

  3. Trump Allies Near ‘Total Victory’ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation

    Tue, 10 Feb 2026 03:15:42 -0000

    A small group of conservative activists has worked for 16 years to stop all government efforts to fight climate change. Their efforts seem poised to pay off. In the summer of 2022, Democrats in Congress were racing to pass the biggest climate law in the country’s history and President Joseph R. …

  4. The Fed Is Heading for an F on a $7 Trillion Test

    Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:00:07 -0000

    The people whom President Donald Trump has picked to protect America’s money keep insisting a heating planet won’t set that money on fire. But it’s already burned trillions of dollars and threatens to burn exponentially more. Many of these losses could become permanent. Former Federal Reserve …

  5. Here's When To Start Your Spring Grass Seeding

    Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:47:56 -0000

    Spring planting is a race to get your grass seed germinated and into adulthood before they face off with summer heat and weeds. That means the …

  6. Louisiana is ground zero for an emerging horror: geological landfills

    Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:26:18 -0000

    Real journalists wrote and edited this (not AI)—independent, community-driven journalism survives because you back it. Donate to sustain Prism’s …

  7. Scientists lower camera into ginormous 'Doomsday Glacier'. Their mission doesn't go to plan

    Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:52:18 -0000

    Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey and South Korea wanted to see inside the 40-mile-wide Antarctic glacier to learn more about why it's …

  8. 'I don’t even have gloves on': Olympic town warms up as climate change puts Winter Games on thin ice

    Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:20:19 -0000

    This type of February 'warmth' for Cortina is made at least three times more likely due to climate change, according to meteorologists. Olympic fans …

  9. More people say they'll vote One Nation. What are they voting for?

    Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:03:16 -0000

    Once dismissed as fringe, One Nation is now polling far above the Liberals. Yesterday's Newspoll published in The Australian — described by distraught …

  10. Under GOP Pressure, Federal Agency Pulls Climate Change Chapter From Official Manual for U.S. Judges

    Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:15:00 -0000

    The “Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence” — updated for the first time in 15 years — eliminates some 90 pages about climate science and comes …

  11. Americans are shocked by utility bills as high as $1,000: They’re paying the price for aging grids, fuel-price whiplash, and extreme weather

    Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:35:26 -0000

    Americans are entering another brutal winter paying more for power than ever, and the cold only magnifies a trend that has been building for years: …

  12. 5 States With the Highest Odds of Seeing a Tornado

    Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:50:00 -0000

    Tornadoes are one of the most awe-inspiring and deadly weather phenomena in the world. The United States is home to the most reported tornadoes in the world, averaging more than 1,000 each year since 1990. With the help of meteorologist Tony Merriman, we will do a deep dive into what makes the U.S. …

  13. ‘Little death bombs’: Illegal cannabis farms poison California’s forests. Who’s cleaning them up?

    Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:31:00 -0000

    Law enforcement raided the illegal cannabis operation in Shasta-Trinity National Forest months before, but rotting potatoes still sat on the growers’ …

  14. Trump admin to repeal Obama-era greenhouse gas finding in large-scale deregulation

    Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:15:56 -0000

    President Donald Trump's administration is poised to walk back an Obama-era greenhouse gas finding that serves as a lynchpin for justifying climate regulations across the country on Wednesday. The 2009 "endangerment finding" identifies six greenhouse gases that the Obama administration said pose "a …

  15. 41 U.S. states are getting warmer, each in its own way, report says

    Mon, 09 Feb 2026 22:30:00 -0000

    Researchers at two Spanish universities have found that 84% of the contiguous U.S. states have shown signs of warming over the last 70 or so years, …

  16. The E.P.A. Is Barreling Toward a Supreme Court Climate Showdown

    Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:38:23 -0000

    The agency is racing to repeal a scientific finding that requires it to fight global warming. Experts say the goal is to get the matter before the justices while President Trump is still in office. It is often said in Washington that Donald Trump’s advisers, cabinet members and allies are playing to …

  17. The world’s first sodium-ion battery EV is here — here's how it could change everything

    Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:29:24 -0000

    Chinese carmaker Changan Automotive is set to offer the world's first, mass-produced passenger EV equipped with a sodium-ion battery. According to …

  18. Trump Goes for the Climate Killshot

    Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:57:43 -0000

    On BYD’s lawsuit, Fervo’s hottest well, and China’s geologic hydrogen Current conditions: A midweek clipper storm is poised to bring as much as six …

  19. Trump EPA set to repeal scientific finding that serves as basis for US climate change policy

    Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:18:14 -0000

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday will revoke a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the White House announced. The Environmental Protection Agency will issue a final rule …

  20. Record snow drought in Western US raises concern for a spring of water shortages and wildfires

    Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:02:14 -0000

    A record snow drought with unprecedented heat is hitting most of the American West, depleting future water supplies, making it more vulnerable to wildfires and hurting winter tourism and recreation. Scientists say snow cover and snow depth are both at the lowest levels they’ve seen in decades, while …

  21. Meet the unbearably cute patients at this one-of-a-kind hospital for bats

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

    See inside Tolga Bat Hospital, a place for Australia’s injured and orphaned flying foxes. FAR NORTH QUEENSLAND, Australia — Australia is famously a place with some of the world’s most dangerous and frightening animals. Venomous spiders. Deadly snakes. Jellyfish with fatal stings. But it is also home …

  22. Why bison hunters abandoned a kill site 1,200 years ago

    Tue, 10 Feb 2026 05:00:00 -0000

    The animals didn’t disappear. Water did. Bison are an enduring and iconic symbol of North America’s vast Great Plains. The large mammals have been hunted for thousands of years, and were almost driven into extinction in the late 1800s. Over thousands of years, bison hunters used different sites, but …

  23. There’s now hard evidence guaranteeing a second life for old concrete

    Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:00:02 -0000

    Concrete slabs, beams, columns and other elements from dismantled buildings can be safely reused in new construction, according to a new study. The …

  24. The Deep Ocean’s Silent Cities: Lost Civilizations Beneath the Waves

    Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:10:00 -0000

    Imagine a city the size of Manhattan, perfectly intact, resting in total darkness three miles below the surface. No sound but slow-moving currents, …

  25. Trump EPA to take its biggest swing yet against climate change rules

    Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:41:54 -0000

    The Trump Environmental Protection Agency is set to cut the legs out from under U.S. climate change rules this week, revoking its own authority to regulate carbon dioxide and other pollutants heating the planet. EPA’s plan to repeal the 16-year-old endangerment finding that said greenhouse gases …

  26. US Pulls Support at IMF for Climate Lending Bashed by Bessent

    Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:00:00 -0000

    The US has stopped supporting climate-linked lending at the International Monetary Fund, casting “no” votes or abstentions on financing programs it …

  27. How a historic ‘magical bean’ is helping Indigenous groups in Colombia

    Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:02:17 -0000

    In the La Guajira region of Colombia, a multiyear drought and climate change-fueled natural disasters have disrupted Indigenous traditional agricultural practices. But new programs are helping the Wayuu people reinvigorate their traditional foods, especially the guajiro bean. Natalie Skowlund …

  28. New solar-powered device extracts lithium for batteries while desalinating seawater

    Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:44:09 -0000

    The world needs lithium at higher rates than ever before. But our current methods of getting it are breaking the planet. The answer to the lithium …

  29. Alaska salmon run declines are a crisis. Pointing the finger at trawl is misleading.

    Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:42:30 -0000

    While some Alaska salmon runs remain strong, sharp declines in others are causing a crisis for numerous Western Alaska communities. Chum salmon run …

  30. Former US officials warn of impending 'widespread collapse of American agriculture': 'Our farmers and ranchers … can't compete with the world'

    Mon, 09 Feb 2026 23:45:00 -0000

    Major players in the agricultural industry are sounding an economic alarm in a joint letter, according to The New York Times. What's happening? A …