Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. The Long and Extremely Urgent To-Do List if Democrats Take the House

   Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

   If House Democrats don’t use every tool at their disposal to name names, kick ass, and stop further destruction, there will be hell to pay with the …

2. Beneath the ocean, a giant conveyor belt is slowing down. If it stops, the deadly consequences could be global

   Sun, 04 Oct 2026 11:28:53 -0000

   The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation may be weakening, which could cause huge problems for the planet There’s a huge conveyor belt in the …

3. How the aggressive lone star tick unleashed a hidden meat allergy on millions of Americans

   Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

   WEST TISBURY, Mass. — Like a matador swirling his cape, Patrick Roden-Reynolds pulled a swatch of white flannel this way and that on the grass and leaf litter in my yard. After a minute or so, he plucked 11 tiny ticks from the cloth with tweezers, and stuck them on a lint roller. “It’s like a …

4. Supreme Court to weigh energy companies' bid to end Boulder climate-change lawsuit

   Sun, 04 Oct 2026 11:00:17 -0000

   Washington — When the Supreme Court returns to the bench Monday for the first time since late June, it will kick off its new term with a major case …

5. ‘Dying on the vine’: How a farmer ended up with 1,600 tons of unwanted grapes

   Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:00:01 -0000

   Falling demand for juice has left Lake Erie grape growers with fruit they can’t sell. NORTH EAST, Pa. — Mark Terrell knows when it’s time to harvest because the air starts to smell like a freshly opened jar of grape jelly. That’s usually when Terrell drives his harvesting tractor through his 200-acre …

6. Friends of the Earth chief: Palestine is a climate justice issue

   Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:00:42 -0000

   Asad Rehman, the Chief Executive of the environmental charity Friends of the Earth, has said that “Palestine is and has always been a climate justice …

7. Supreme Court Update: 3 Major Cases Justices to Decide in New Term

   Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

   The U.S. Supreme Court will begin its new term this week, and the justices are going to be deciding cases with critical implications for the Second …

8. Clarence Thomas is in the hot seat for Supreme Court’s biggest climate case in years

   Sat, 03 Oct 2026 10:30:46 -0000

   As one of the Supreme Court’s most stalwart conservative and prolific justices, Clarence Thomas’ views on the biggest cases of the day — from guns to race to religion — are rarely in doubt. Yet when it comes to perhaps the most significant climate change-related case to reach the high court in …

9. Spain floods: 2 dead as heavy rain hits Catalonia

   Sun, 04 Oct 2026 11:36:46 -0000

   Authorities warned of extreme danger around Barcelona and Girona, with rivers at risk of overflowing and residents urged to stay indoors. Two people …

10. NASA backs Stephen Hawking's doomsday predictions and earth could end soon

    Sun, 04 Oct 2026 06:00:00 -0000

    NASA has confirmed that our planet faces grave existential threats, echoing the dire predictions once made by Stephen Hawking. The celebrated …

11. Life-threatening heat wave for Southern California

    Sat, 03 Oct 2026 16:30:28 -0000

    ABC News More than 30 million people are under extreme heat threats this weekend as triple-digit temperatures hit parts of California.

12. ‘Digger’ isn’t the movie you think it is

    Sat, 03 Oct 2026 10:30:46 -0000

    It’s a common complaint against Hollywood that trailers frequently give away too much of the movie they’re trying to get audiences to see. The new Tom Cruise film “Digger” may be suffering from the opposite problem. A “Dr. Strangelove”-esque parable about greed and climate change, “Digger” opened in …

13. How Paris’ stifling summer inspired Vivienne Westwood SS27

    Sun, 04 Oct 2026 14:00:00 -0000

    Serving looks during a heatwave can be difficult. That’s why, for SS27, Vivienne Westwood creative director Andreas Kronthaler set out to question what dressing could look like amid rising temperatures and climate change (a topic we recently explored ourselves through this feature on fashion vs …

14. Where is Europe’s greenest city? Eight finalists announced for 2028 and three are in Spain

    Sun, 04 Oct 2026 04:36:52 -0000

    The finalists were judged in seven areas, including climate change resilience, waste management and how quickly they are cutting emissions. Next week, …

15. Rewilding Solar Farmland: How Agrivoltaics and Agriwilding Restore Biodiversity

    Sat, 03 Oct 2026 20:11:43 -0000

    By standardizing solar infrastructure on working agricultural land, energy developers often face pushback over food security and biodiversity loss. …

16. Wildfire Smoke Reaches Miami

    Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:51:00 -0000

    Wildfire smoke reached Miami yesterday. It was barely visible, which, in some ways, makes it more dangerous. People don’t take steps to mitigate its …

17. Who will stop the draining of San Luis Valley’s water lifeline?

    Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:29:00 -0000

    Amid punitively expensive rescue plans for a dwindling Colorado aquifer, the culture and economy of potato farming hopes to survive

18. Immigration, religion and AR-15s on Supreme Court’s early docket as justices open new term

    Sun, 04 Oct 2026 11:38:13 -0000

    God, guns, global warming and immigration dominate the early cases as the Supreme Court kicks off its new term Monday. The nine justices are poised to …

19. Ready for winter? Polar vortex spins up, spews forecast uncertainty

    Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:02:11 -0000

    A strong polar vortex and a powerful El Niño would be signals that a milder winter may be in store for many Americans. Here's why. The infamous and often misunderstood polar vortex got off to a powerful start in 2026, but don't rush out to buy a parka. First of all, a strong polar vortex signals a …

20. A swordfish was found on Haida Gwaii. Will more follow?

    Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:00:00 -0000

    The discovery of a decaying swordfish off British Columbia's North Coast could be a sign of things to come as ocean temperatures rise, a researcher …

21. America's 'Dead Sea' Was Once a Vast Freshwater Lake 10 Times Its Size

    Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:00:00 -0000

    We can often understand more about the future by looking into the past – and in the case of a new study published in Paleoceanography and …

22. After outcry, monitors the Trump administration tried to scrap return to sea

    Sat, 03 Oct 2026 22:10:37 -0000

    NEWPORT, Ore. — When the Trump administration started dismantling a $368 million ocean monitoring system earlier this year, scientists fought back. …

23. Rural Data Centers Are in for a Big Federal Tax Break

    Sun, 04 Oct 2026 06:00:00 -0000

    Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, data center projects in rural areas could be eligible for major tax benefits starting next year. Some …

24. Europe’s Approach to Climate Is Entering a New Era

    Sat, 03 Oct 2026 04:08:38 -0000

    For decades, the European Union has led the world in implementing policies designed to cut emissions, creating the world’s most important price on carbon and crafting the rules of the road for a wide range of regulatory efforts. Now, as the costs of climate change become increasingly difficult to …

25. The Supreme Court takes up climate change — and much more

    Sun, 04 Oct 2026 09:45:00 -0000

    Colorado cannot be allowed to govern emissions in every other state. The Supreme Court will start a new term Monday by hearing arguments in Suncor Energy v. Boulder County, a case that has the potential to bankrupt every major oil and gas company if the justices don’t close the floodgates. The city …

26. The Indian island that could disappear in 10 years

    Sun, 04 Oct 2026 05:42:00 -0000

    India's Kariyachalli Island has lost more than 80% of its land area and could disappear by 2036. Researchers and residents are fighting erosion and …

27. Whales can’t hear each other in the noisy ocean. This inventor has a solution 200 years in the making.

    Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:01:00 -0000

    A new type of boat propeller could turn down the volume. When most people think of noise pollution, the image conjured up is one of concrete buildings and crowded streets bursting with beeping car horns and screeching industrial tools. But there’s another flavor of noise pollution happening …

28. Trump. Climate. AR-15s. The Supreme Court is about to go back to work

    Sun, 04 Oct 2026 07:00:51 -0000

    WASHINGTON – A new Supreme Court term will get off to a fast start when the justices on Oct. 5 take up a landmark case about climate change that could have broad implications for local governments to tackle national issues. In other politically charged cases that will be debated over the next few …