Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

  1. Shadow Treasurer Tim Wilson holds undisclosed shares in climate advisory firm through family trust

    Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:52:47 -0000

    Shadow Treasurer Tim Wilson holds undisclosed shares in a climate advisory firm through his family investment trust, ASIC records show. While Mr …

  2. Why the Reflecting Pool Is Full of Algae After Trump's Renovation

    Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:44:23 -0000

    Warm weather has fueled a bloom that US National Park Service workers are trying to kill using everything from hydrogen peroxide to nanobubbles ahead …

  3. Did Jared Kushner Inadvertently Touch Off an Albanian Revolution?

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

    Protesters in the Balkan nation aren’t worried just about the environmental impact of a luxury development connected to Kushner. They’re worried …

  4. Trump Plans to Protect Methane-Leaking Stripper Wells. This Billionaire Donor Will Benefit.

    Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:00:00 -0000

    It was before dawn on a Friday in January when a Gulfstream G600 with the burnt-orange Texas Longhorns logo on its tail landed at Dulles airport …

  5. ‘Bad Day to Be a Duck’: Trump Reflecting Pool Disaster Continues With Hydrogen Peroxide Treatment

    Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:25:42 -0000

    National Park Service employees on Tuesday were seen pouring a bleaching agent into the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, …

  6. No, Rolling Back These Environmental Rules Won’t Lower Your Grocery Bill

    Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Nearly six years ago, during Donald Trump’s first term in the White House, the president signed a piece of bipartisan legislation introduced to phase …

  7. Mapped: Which Countries Produce More Energy Than They Use?

    Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:36:02 -0000

    Which Countries Produce More Energy Than They Use? This map shows which countries produced more energy than they consumed in 2024, and which relied …

  8. Australia warns El Nino weather pattern set to be strongest in decades

    Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:35:32 -0000

    The Bureau of Meteorology says forecasts point towards a ‘very strong El Nino event’. Australia’s weather bureau has warned that an El Nino weather pattern has formed in the tropical Pacific and could intensify in the second half of the year, becoming one of the strongest in seven decades. The Bureau …

  9. World nearing tipping point? Why Atlantic 'cold blob' is a worrying sign

    Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:33:56 -0000

    A new study examines the one region on Earth that has cooled, not warmed, in recent years. Researchers say the 'cold blob' is closely tied to the …

  10. Heavy rains slam the Texas coast ahead of Potential Tropical Cyclone One

    Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:18:41 -0000

    As it slogs northeastward, the system may become a tropical depression or tropical storm – but flooding is a real threat regardless. Tropical Storm …

  11. ‘Elon Musk Should Have to Pay For This’: Trump Admin Says It Needs $1 Billion to Combat Screwworm

    Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:51:55 -0000

    When Elon Musk's "Department of Government Efficiency" took its chainsaw to the federal bureaucracy last year, it created bottlenecks that may have …

  12. Korean Scientists Created an “Artificial Sun” That Ran for 102 Seconds

    Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:15:07 -0000

    Scientists consider fusion energy the “holy grail” of clean power sources. It can provide limitless electricity without the carbon emissions or radioactive waste associated with traditional nuclear reactors. Now, scientists in South Korea have taken a step towards making commercial fusion power a …

  13. The Nuclear Reactors Coming to a Small Town Near You

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

    As a disruptive new nuclear power project embeds itself in Parsons, Kansas, residents are divided on whether it’s worth the potential risk. Parsons, …

  14. The Lawyer Pushing to Protect Future Generations from the Climate Crisis

    Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:01:05 -0000

    As the organization’s co-executive director and chief legal counsel, Olson works with children and their guardians to bring pro-bono cases that have pioneered a new framework for protecting the climate and the rights of young people. In 2015, the nonprofit launched the first youth climate lawsuit …

  15. Math predicts humans could go extinct in about 17,000 years

    Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:00:00 -0000

    This article is from Proof Positive, our friendly math newsletter that's delivered to your inbox every Tuesday afternoon. Sign up today and read it …

  16. Paving paradise: Dismantling the US Roadless Rule threatens to disrupt wildlife, water and peace in the last quiet places in America

    Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:44:16 -0000

    Pause for a moment and listen. What do you hear? Chances are, somewhere in the background, is the ever-present hum of a road. More than 4.2 million …

  17. El Niño declared by BOM and it could become the strongest on record

    Tue, 16 Jun 2026 05:32:33 -0000

    The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has officially declared El Niño active and modelling tips it could become the strongest event in the modern era. El …

  18. Risk of nuclear catastrophe is worse than ever. We can change that

    Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:30:52 -0000

    Half a lifetime ago, I had a crappy copyediting job that meant I had to drive for 90 minutes through traffic across the sprawling concrete wasteland of Phoenix. The job itself was boring and soulless, and after spending another 90 minutes getting home in my AC-free beater, I would slam several …

  19. New Mexico is in a historic drought. Oracle and OpenAI designed their newest data center with that in mind

    Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:55:50 -0000

    New Mexico’s forests are dying faster than at any time on record. In 2025, the state mapped 209,000 acres of trees killed by bark beetles and other …

  20. The Day North America Was Split by an Ancient Inland Sea

    Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:15:00 -0000

    If you could rewind Earth’s clock by tens of millions of years and fly over what is now the heart of North America, you would not see endless …

  21. Lawmakers fight to stop the Trump administration's dismantling of a $386M ocean observatory project

    Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:49:18 -0000

    SEATTLE (AP) — A group of Democratic senators and one Republican, as well as two Democratic House committees, sent letters Monday to the National Science Foundation asking it to reverse course on its plan to dismantle a sprawling ocean monitoring network, with House lawmakers going further and …

  22. Alaska’s Murkowski among Congress members seeking to save ocean science network

    Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:05:30 -0000

    Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, is among several members of Congress trying to prevent the National Science Foundation from dismantling portions of an …

  23. Trump admin abandons fight against wind energy as clean energy output surges

    Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:49:09 -0000

    Legal victories have dampened the Trump admin’s efforts to halt wind and solar power. The Trump administration has abandoned its effort to halt wind …

  24. Trump Just Lost His War on Wind Energy

    Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:45:11 -0000

    The administration has withdrawn its appeal of a federal court ruling that shot down Trump’s freeze on federal leasing and permitting for wind …

  25. Three Teenagers From India Just Won the World’s Largest Youth Environmental Prize

    Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:56:17 -0000

    When young people direct their creativity toward solving the most pressing problems facing our planet, extraordinary things happen. That truth has …

  26. Report warns world is falling behind in race to remove carbon from the air

    Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:32:12 -0000

    "It remains the only option to revert climate change in the long run — although only if greenhouse gas emissions are also reduced to near-zero,” …

  27. Traditional Home Insurance Is Collapsing. Here’s What Could Fill the Gap

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

    A new, AI-assisted model of insurance is quietly exploding in disaster-prone areas—and may be coming for FEMA too. Is it the answer to climate …

  28. Experts probe 'shock' arrival of mosquito virus in Scotland

    Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:00:01 -0000

    It was something infectious disease expert Heather Ferguson never expected to see in her lifetime: a mosquito-borne virus originally from Africa …

  29. El Niño turns crumbling California pier into climate battleground over what to save — and who pays

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

    As a historic El Niño supercharges the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco experiences record high seasonal sea levels, the latest structural casualty of intense wave action is prompting Bay Area politicians to call for help from the state and federal governments. They want to rebuild a concrete pier …

  30. Earth’s Hidden Fungal Superhighways Stretch 110 Quadrillion Kilometers Underground, Far Enough to Leave the Solar System

    Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:52:34 -0000

    This is a monumental biological network. A teaspoon of soil can hold up to 10 meters of living fungal thread. That bit of trivia can lead to some …