Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

  1. Hugging Face CEO says asking Anthropic researcher ‘about AI extinction risk is like asking your AC guy about climate change’

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:25:05 -0000

    Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue questioned the focus on a former Anthropic researcher who said AI workers privately fear the technology could kill all humans. "Sorry, but asking Jacob about AI extinction risk is like asking your AC guy about climate change," Delangue wrote on X on Friday. Delangue …

  2. The Accelerating Project to Extend Abortion Bans to All 50 States

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:08:20 -0000

    In a legal challenge to abortion access at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Department of Justice and Louisiana are on opposite sides. But …

  3. A federal judge just told Trump there's no ‘emergency' to justify keeping a Michigan coal plant open

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 21:20:55 -0000

    It's one of the first successful legal challenges to the administration’s “energy emergency” agenda. The Department of Energy overstepped when it …

  4. The Atlantic hurricane season just quietly broke a new weather record

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:54:00 -0000

    The Atlantic hurricane season just set a new record. While it’s not unusual for the Atlantic hurricane season to take a while to get going—the …

  5. Buildings are sinking and cracking in one of Europe’s largest cities

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:09:08 -0000

    As blistering temperatures baked London this summer, people started to notice strange things happening to their houses: zig-zagging cracks suddenly …

  6. In 1959, the first nuclear-powered merchant ship set sail before the world was ready

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:54:00 -0000

    The NS 'Savannah' even offered a view into the reactor powering the state-of-the-art ship. By the time naval architecture firm George G. Sharp tasked Jack Heaney with the design of the world’s first nuclear-powered merchant ship, the Glasgow-born designer had already broken many styling norms. In …

  7. Fake EVs Hit The Road

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:15:00 -0000

    Car companies can’t sell EVs. People worry about how far they will go on a charge. They also worry about how many charging stations are available. …

  8. A ‘super El Niño’ is on the way. What that means for fall and winter weather in the central U.S.

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 05:00:00 -0000

    Warmer-than-normal-temperatures in the Pacific Ocean are driving what could be the strongest El Niño on record. Here’s how that’s likely to impact …

  9. Chinese Scientists Propose Turning Abandoned Coal Mines Into Farming Laboratories

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    There are more than 12,000 abandoned coal mines across China, offering vast amounts of underground space and sophisticated infrastructure that could …

  10. Federal Appellate Court Kills Trump Bid to Keep 'Old, Expensive, and Dirty' Coal Plant Open

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 21:29:03 -0000

    Climate defenders celebrated on Friday after a federal appellate court rejected the US Department of Energy's abuse of emergency powers to keep a …

  11. Top AI pioneers reaffirm Anthropic researcher’s human extinction warning

    Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:12:05 -0000

    Top AI pioneers backed an Anthropic researcher’s warning of potential human extinction. Paul Christiano — author of an influential 2016 paper on AI …

  12. Atlantic Hurricane Season Could Hit 100-Year Milestone Under El Niño

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:37:14 -0000

    The Atlantic basin could record its first hurricane-free season in more than a century if no hurricanes form before the season ends, according to …

  13. Judge halts Trump-backed data center on public land

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    A federal judge sided with the Sierra Club and other groups Sept. 1 to halt a controversial data center project outside Boulder City, Nevada, southeast of Las Vegas. Backed by the Trump administration, the project had come from Townsite Solar 2 LLC, a Houston-based company that had previously …

  14. EPA to Loosen Methane Rules, Boosting Pollution From Oil and Gas Wells

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0000

    The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing a rule that’ll drastically weaken restrictions on “stripper wells,” which tend to be old, poorly …

  15. One Year After Charlie Kirk’s Death, How Did Everyone Get It So Wrong?

    Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Charlie Kirk was always an extremist. His killing had lasting consequences that we are only just beginning to witness. Charlie Kirk’s …

  16. Why Is NY’s Republican Candidate for Governor Embracing 9/11 Truthers?

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Bruce Blakeman has some odd bedfellows. Bruce Blakeman, the Republican vying to be New York’s next governor, has an uphill battle ahead of November: …

  17. Canada and Iran Have Found Trump’s Achilles’ Heel

    Thu, 10 Sep 2026 04:31:29 -0000

    The president has repeatedly tried to interfere in foreign elections. Now Canada and Iran are making life very difficult for Republicans ahead of the …

  18. Yes, it’s the economy, stupid. But One Nation is outflanking the government on messaging, too

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 01:36:50 -0000

    Labor is no doubt dreading the likelihood of further interest rate rises, despite Treasurer Jim Chalmers talking up the economy. When One Nation …

  19. Why Barbara Kingsolver's 2012 Novel Feels More Timely Than Ever

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:00:27 -0000

    More than a decade before climate change became a fixture of everyday conversation, Barbara Kingsolver, bestselling author of Demon Copperhead, was …

  20. Infectious diseases will seed new ground as the planet warms — here's where they'll spread

    Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:00:15 -0000

    Climate change will increase our exposure to myriad infections, from tick-borne diseases to drug-resistant bacterial infections. To the untrained eye, …

  21. Trump’s Attacks on the Environment Are Out of Touch With America

    Thu, 10 Sep 2026 05:00:07 -0000

    The most pro-American stance a leader can take is to defend our best ideas. America's national parks and our nation’s beautiful environment are part of our heritage, identity, and are ultimately our greatest strength. From President Theodore Roosevelt dramatically expanding public lands protections …

  22. A former Google DeepMind safety researcher explains the frightening difference between AI and other threats like nuclear war and asteroids

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:21:58 -0000

    Climate change can't anticipate our next move. An asteroid can't dodge us. And while humans can be adversaries in a nuclear war, the fallout that follows isn't trying to outsmart anyone. For Business Insider's video series "AI Architects," Ramana Kumar told Business Insider in May 2025 that …

  23. Farmers’ Almanac Map Shows When the First Frost Hits Your State as Cold Air Moves In

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:55:00 -0000

    The Climate Prediction Center expects a cold air mass to bring the season’s first frosts and freezes to the northern tier between September 18 and 24. …

  24. Scientists develop a plastic that can be turned into fertilizer

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:00:14 -0000

    Microplastics are a scourge on the environment, accumulating in farm soils and wriggling their way into the food supply—reducing harvests and harming …

  25. US solar can now power 50M homes – and red states led the boom

    Thu, 10 Sep 2026 04:01:00 -0000

    The US achieved a pretty big solar milestone in Q2 2026: it now has enough installed capacity to generate clean electricity equivalent to that used by more than 50 million homes. That’s more than one-third of all US households. But that doesn’t mean 50 million homes are directly running on solar – …

  26. Court Strikes Down Trump Order to Keep an Aging Coal-Burning Plant Running

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:48:59 -0000

    The 64-year-old Michigan power plant was set to retire. Then the Trump administration intervened in a way that overstepped its authority, a court ruled. A federal appeals court on Friday struck down an order from the Trump administration that forced a coal plant in Michigan to stay open past its …

  27. Maersk is testing a giant spinning cylinder to cut fuel use on cargo ships

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:05:00 -0000

    Each 115-foot-tall rotor sail could help vessels save hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on fuel costs—and significantly reduce emissions. On a cargo ship packed with 8,700 shipping containers, there isn’t much room for anything else. But in a new test aboard one of its vessels, Maersk is …

  28. They cleaned up ground zero. Now many are hiding from ICE

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0000

    NEW YORK — Once a week, in a Queens office building, a group of immigrants in their 50s and 60s gathers. They've all known each other for some 25 years: they met when they were cleaning up ground zero together. They are among the thousands of cleanup crews who rushed to the destruction in lower …

  29. Sargassum Superbloom: Seaweed Scourge or Ecological Boon?

    Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:31:42 -0000

    Stretching from West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico, a massive bloom of sargassum seaweed is swamping beaches and killing coastal wildlife. But …

  30. This climate problem isn’t on the UN agenda — data centers

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:00:00 -0000

    The slow moving climate talks are struggling to address one of the world’s biggest drivers of rising energy demand. The disruptive technology that’s plunging the world into an energy race won’t be part of the debate when nearly every country meets in November to discuss climate change. The artificial …