Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. China tests world's first megawatt-class flying wind turbine — it generated enough energy to power a house for 2 weeks

   Thu, 19 Feb 2026 11:13:54 -0000

   A pioneering energy-generating device utilizes reliable wind speeds at an altitude of 6,500 feet (2,000 meters). A Chinese energy firm has …

2. News From Antarctica: Strange Gravity, Hot Penguins, And More

   Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:30:07 -0000

   Catch up on the latest science from around the South Pole.

3. After Promising to 'Make America Healthy Again,' Trump Mandates Production of Cancer-Causing Glyphosate

   Thu, 19 Feb 2026 11:14:10 -0000

   Less than a decade ago, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. helped win a landmark $289 million verdict against Monsanto, …

4. This City Turned Its Rooftops into a Climate Shield

   Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:19:03 -0000

   From the top of Zürichberg hill, the panorama reveals a city wrapped by lake and forest but insulated in a basin where heat collects. On hot summer …

5. Who holds Trump accountable for Gaza’s future?

   Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:33:46 -0000

   The new Board of Peace, while endorsed by the United Nations, is part of an emerging state-centric world order in which leaders, in theory, must …

6. Ethiopia’s Fossil Fuel Car Ban Is a Vision of the Future

   Thu, 19 Feb 2026 05:00:07 -0000

   In 2024, Ethiopia did something revolutionary. It banned the import of fossil fuel cars and cut tariffs on electric vehicles. This week on Zero, …

7. 130-year Aussie first forces outback town to take extreme action: 'Catastrophic'

   Thu, 19 Feb 2026 04:42:35 -0000

   A popular lake in Broken Hill had dried up, turned putrid and began to stink. It was feared that a heatwave would lead to catastrophe. More than …

8. The Trump Administration Keeps Taking Down NPS Signs. Here Are the Ones Removed or Flagged So Far.

   Thu, 19 Feb 2026 06:14:53 -0000

   A coalition of nonprofit scientists, historians, and advocates has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for removing signs at National Park Service (NPS) sites nationwide. The coalition, represented by the public policy research group Democracy Forward, claims the administration removed …

9. Trump administration sued over reversal of key climate finding

   Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:27:30 -0000

   The Trump administration is facing a lawsuit over its decision to deregulate emissions and repeal a landmark scientific finding that linked …

10. Climate, health groups challenge EPA repeal of major greenhouse gas regulation

    Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:39:34 -0000

    A coalition of public health and environmental groups filed a suit Wednesday challenging the Trump administration’s recent finding that the …

11. SpaceX rocket fireball linked to plume of polluting lithium

    Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:00:42 -0000

    When a SpaceX rocket failure set the skies aflame over western Europe last February, no-one was sure if the debris was also polluting our atmosphere. Now scientists are directly linking the uncontrolled rocket re-entry to a plume of lithium measured less than 100km above Earth. It is the first time …

12. Scientists have found another alarming pattern in wildfires

    Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:47:31 -0000

    Around the world, the conditions that brew massive blazes are...syncing up? The extreme heat, high winds, and severe dry conditions that produce towering, fast-moving flames that advance by the acre are not just becoming more common; new research shows that these factors are increasingly arising in …

13. The world’s rainforests are vanishing. In this one country, they’re growing back.

    Thu, 19 Feb 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    How did Costa Rica beat back deforestation and buck the global trend? For several decades now, the story of the world’s rainforests has been the same tragic one: These iconic, animal-filled ecosystems are getting cut down to make way for farms and ranches, roads and mines. And it doesn’t appear to …

14. How do you rescue a 410-pound manatee from a Florida storm drain?

    Thu, 19 Feb 2026 12:00:00 -0000

    The manatee was discovered by chance when city surveyors were conducting routine work. City surveyors in Melbourne Beach, Florida, heard an unusual chirping under a road on Feb. 9 while doing routine work, and thought it could be coming from rats. Instead, they discovered a 7-foot-long manatee stuck …

15. It’s no time to go quiet on sustainability. Just ask beauty giant L’Oreal

    Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:56:12 -0000

    Few would choose the humble showerhead when asked to name a product vital to the world’s sustainable future. Unless you are a hair salon engaged in …

16. This European company's sleek solar roof just made its US debut

    Wed, 18 Feb 2026 23:20:47 -0000

    European solar roofing company Roofit.Solar has completed its first US project, marking its official entry into the North American market with a residential installation in Michigan. The company, founded in 2016, says it’s now active in more than 30 countries and is pushing to expand its presence in …

17. Most EV batteries outlast their cars, real-world data shows

    Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:47:01 -0000

    A new large‑scale UK dataset suggests EV batteries are holding up far better than many skeptics expected. London‑based EV battery diagnostics company Generational analyzed more than 8,000 battery tests across 36 automakers and found the average EV battery State of Health (SoH) is 95.15% of original …

18. This Weird Effect of Climate Change Is Scaring the Hell Out of Me

    Thu, 19 Feb 2026 12:01:00 -0000

    Yet EPA administrator Lee Zeldin wants to drive “a dagger straight into the heart” of regulations. Awesome. Well, this is moderately terrifying. From Frontiers In Microbiology: Ancient cryospheric environments may preserve overlooked reservoirs of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and bioactive …

19. Bayer proposes $7.25 billion Roundup settlement as Supreme Court case looms

    Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:15:00 -0000

    The proposed agreement comes as the Supreme Court prepares to weigh whether federal pesticide approval blocks state-level failure-to-warn claims. A new $7.25 billion settlement between Bayer and a group of cancer patients could wrap up a huge wave of lawsuits against the company over allegations …

20. The hottest new winter sport is about to get even hotter

    Thu, 19 Feb 2026 12:30:00 -0000

    Skimo enters the winter Olympics at the most tragic time. Over the past few winters, where I live — in one of the country’s winter sport meccas — there have been a whole lot more people packing skins and stepping into the backcountry. Trails once quiet, save for the sinuous whoosh of a lone ski line, …

21. 10 Main Causes of Climate Change

    Thu, 19 Feb 2026 13:00:48 -0000

    The main causes of climate change — particularly the rapid global warming observed since the pre-industrial period — are almost entirely driven by …

22. E.P.A. Faces First Lawsuit Over Its Killing of Major Climate Rule

    Wed, 18 Feb 2026 13:25:03 -0000

    Environmental and health groups sued the E.P.A. over its elimination of the endangerment finding. The matter is likely to end up before the Supreme Court. The first shot has been fired in the legal war over the Environmental Protection Agency’s rollback of its “endangerment finding,” which had been …

23. US: Trump's EPA sued by environmentalist, health groups

    Wed, 18 Feb 2026 18:43:00 -0000

    US President Donald Trump has revoked a 2009 EPA declaration that determined carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases as a threat to public health …

24. Exclusive: Trump voters support solar power expansion, poll finds

    Thu, 19 Feb 2026 12:42:07 -0000

    US voters who supported President Donald Trump in the last election overwhelmingly support greater use of solar power, according to a poll by former …

25. Trump administration is erasing history and science at national parks, lawsuit argues

    Wed, 18 Feb 2026 07:09:39 -0000

    WASHINGTON — Conservation and historical organizations sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over National Park Service policies that the groups say erase history and science from America's national parks. A lawsuit filed in Boston says orders by President Donald Trump and Interior Secretary Doug …

26. Manville Middle School Teacher Headed to Arctic Circle for Two -Week Research Project on Saltwater Intrusion

    Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:12:58 -0000

    MANVILLE, NJ — The Manville School District Middle School teacher Lauren Kurzius has been selected as a Polar STEAM Educator Fellow: Arctic Field …

27. War devastates Sudan's ancient acacia forest, threatening ecosystem

    Thu, 19 Feb 2026 08:56:41 -0000

    Nearly three years of conflict have reduced Sudan's historic Al-Sunut acacia forest south of Khartoum to barren fields of stumps, destroying a vital …

28. The nation's largest public utility is going back to coal — with almost no input from the public

    Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:30:00 -0000

    The Tennessee Valley Authority once prided itself on political independence. Data center demand and political pressure have it changing course from …

29. U.S. renews threat to quit the International Energy Agency over net zero agenda

    Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:17:17 -0000

    U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on Thursday that the U.S. would "pressure" the International Energy Agency to move away from net zero — and …

30. Tired of Dystopian Sci-Fi? You Might Like Solarpunk.

    Thu, 19 Feb 2026 12:30:00 -0000

    I was doomscrolling again. It was a fall evening in 2023, and I found myself sucked into a stream of posts about our collapsing climate: droughts …