Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules

   Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:04:00 -0000

   The E.P.A.’s killing of the “endangerment finding” caps a year of deregulation that is likely to make cars thirstier for gas and less competitive globally, experts say. The momentous end to the federal government’s legal authority to fight climate change makes it official. The United States will …

2. What Happens When a Neighborhood Is Built Around a Farm?

   Mon, 16 Feb 2026 08:00:49 -0000

   This story was originally published by Grist, an independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. …

3. The GOP Has Become a Single-Issue Party. The Issue Is Elite Impunity.

   Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:00:00 -0000

   From protecting rapists to shielding Monsanto or helping Big Oil avoid climate change lawsuits, Republicans are showing their true agenda. I’ve been …

4. Purple ube takes off globally, leaving Filipino farmers racing to catch up

   Mon, 16 Feb 2026 08:52:01 -0000

   Filipino farmers struggle to meet surging global demand for ube, a purple yam native to the Philippines, as climate change disrupts harvests

5. Presidents’ Day doesn’t exist

   Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:03:28 -0000

   Plus, readers on saving historical art, climate change and the ‘endangerment finding.’ Monday is a federal holiday celebrating George Washington’s birthday. The holiday is confusing, to be sure. He was born on Feb. 11, 1731, when the Julian calendar held sway. But in 1752, the Brits, and thus the …

6. Extreme Heat Undermines Decent Work in North Eastern Kenya

   Mon, 16 Feb 2026 08:49:07 -0000

   GARISSA, Kenya , Feb 16 2026 (IPS) - By 9 a.m. on a Wednesday, Hawa Hussein Farah is already watching the temperature climb. Awake since 6 a.m., she …

7. India and Pakistan's Water Politics Is Starting to Boil

   Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:27:51 -0000

   Climate stress is rewriting the region’s rules of water sharing. CHENAB VALLEY, Jammu and Kashmir—Shama Begum, wearing a traditional shalwar kameez …

8. Thomas Jefferson's weather recordings help create historical weather database

   Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:43:10 -0000

   President Thomas Jefferson was big on recording the weather wherever he was. His notes on temperature, nature and rainfall are becoming a record on climate history.

9. Britain strengthens ties with California as new clean energy and climate agreement signed

   Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:47:26 -0000

   Britain has forged a deeper alliance with California on clean energy and climate action, as Energy Secretary Ed Miliband and Governor Gavin Newsom …

10. Why the world’s water crisis is increasingly an urban challenge

    Mon, 16 Feb 2026 07:19:54 -0000

    As the international community prepares for the 2026 UN Water Conference and the thirteenth session of the World Urban Forum (WUF13), a growing body …

11. The Fruit Tree You Can Grow Indoors Even In Winter And Lower Light Conditions

    Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0000

    Depending on where you live, you might need to take extra steps to protect plants from seasonal frosts and freezes. Some in-ground perennials can be …

12. Built to live for centuries, Greenland sharks are charting uncertain waters

    Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:15:01 -0000

    Greenland sharks can live for hundreds of years, drifting through some of the coldest and darkest waters on Earth. Once dismissed as slow, clumsy and nearly blind, these deep-sea giants are now giving up new secrets – at a time when climate change and commercial fishing are encroaching further on …

13. Geologic Hydrogen Could Become Micahigan’s Next Clean Energy Bet

    Sat, 14 Feb 2026 14:39:57 -0000

    Michigan may be sitting on a surprising clean fuel source that forms naturally underground. According to Vivian La at Interlochen Public Radio, …

14. EPA boss offers forceful defense for scrapping landmark Obama climate policy

    Sat, 14 Feb 2026 11:28:40 -0000

    Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin is just following the law, he said Saturday in Munich, where he defended the Trump administration’s move this week to disengage the United States from decades of efforts to regulate climate change. “There’s only one best reading of the Clean …

15. Climate Change Isn’t Real? Tell That to My Insurer

    Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:00:13 -0000

    This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, the biblical kind of awe of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. On Sundays, we look at the major themes of the week past and how they will define the week ahead. Sign up for the daily newsletter here. This week I am going to attempt the impossible, or at least the highly …

16. The week the EU’s climate foundations started to shake

    Mon, 16 Feb 2026 03:23:23 -0000

    An assault on Europe’s most important climate law, the Emissions Trading System, took the fight against green rules to a whole new level. BRUSSELS — …

17. The Voracious Vine That ‘Ate the South’ Can Also Fuel Wildfires

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

    Brought to the United States as an ornamental porch decoration, the kudzu vine has reshaped itself into ladder fuel for wildfires.Nearly every Monday …

18. These United States: George Washington and climate change

    Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:26:00 -0000

    On the evening of Christmas 1776, Gen. George Washington surprised the King's forces by leading the Continental Army in an unanticipated crossing of …

19. Afraid to go outside? You're not alone

    Sun, 15 Feb 2026 15:51:31 -0000

    Increasingly, we are becoming less comfortable in wild spaces. Scientists tracking the rise of nature anxiety, or biophobia, have some ideas on how …

20. This Week in History: The Soviet ‘seductive bear’, Amazon’s Chernobyl, and the fall of a golfing icon

    Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:38:08 -0000

    Scandal and tension run through the week’s headlines. Margaret Thatcher warns the West against the “seductive” Soviet “bear”, striking a cautious …

21. Transcript: Trump’s Assault on the Clean Air Act and What Happens Next

    Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:00:03 -0000

    This transcript has been automatically generated. Subscribe to “Shift Key” and find this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, or wherever you …

22. Trump Administration Ends Credit for Start-Stop Feature in Vehicles

    Sun, 15 Feb 2026 20:01:41 -0000

    Manufacturers will no longer get a credit toward vehicle emissions standards by installing engines that automatically stop at red lights. The federal Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday that manufacturers would no longer earn a credit for installing engines that automatically turn off …

23. Climate change could expose 1.1 billion people to hunger by 2100 (but there’s good news too) – AI modelling study

    Sun, 15 Feb 2026 05:45:44 -0000

    More than 295 million people globally experienced hunger and starvation in 2025 because of conflict, displacement, climate change and economic …

24. One of the ocean's saltiest regions is freshening: What it means for circulation

    Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:30:01 -0000

    The southern Indian Ocean off the west coast of Australia is becoming less salty at an astonishing rate, largely due to climate change, new research …

25. Welcome to the Voyage of the Damned

    Sat, 14 Feb 2026 12:58:11 -0000

    When President Trump vitiated scientific facts on Thursday, helping fossil fuel fat cats by eliminating the government’s ability to regulate treacherous gases, a reporter asked what he says to people worried about the very real hazards of a hotter planet. “I tell them don’t worry about it,” he shot …

26. Big Issue's 100 Changemakers of 2026: Environment and climate

    Mon, 16 Feb 2026 04:00:00 -0000

    The natural world is under threat like never before. So we applaud those who take a stand against pollution, against cruelty, against environmental …

27. Bill Maher bungles greenhouse gases in attempted dunk against Doug Burgum

    Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:28 -0000

    "Real Time" host Bill Maher appeared to inadvertently mix up carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in an attempt to mock Interior Secretary Doug Burgum over loosening environmental regulations. On his show Friday, Maher commented on the decision by the Trump administration to roll back Obama-era …

28. EPA Rescinds Ruling Allowing Government To Regulate Greenhouse Gases

    Sun, 15 Feb 2026 23:35:02 -0000

    It’s been said before, but I’ll say it again: the Republican Party is a death cult. So many of the moves made by the Trump administration actively …

29. Ancient Mars was warm and wet, not cold and icy

    Sun, 15 Feb 2026 20:14:16 -0000

    Kaolinite pebbles show evidence of alteration under high rainfall conditions. A recent study showed that Mars was warm and wet billions of years ago. …

30. Return of Sardinia’s griffon vultures hailed as one of Italy’s greatest conservation success stories

    Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:02:53 -0000

    In 2014, Sardinia’s Eurasian griffon vulture population had shrunk to around 60. Sardinia's griffon vultures were on the brink of extinction at the …