Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

  1. ‘Absolutely crazy’: Horror as Trump moves to dismantle crucial ocean monitoring system

    Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:56:38 -0000

    June 02, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license.In what a number of scientists suggested was the Trump …
  2. Facing a Western water crisis, Trump turns to Democrats’ climate law

    Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:16:45 -0000

    As the drought-stricken Colorado River faces record-low flows that could set off a sprawling water and power crisis across the West, the Trump administration is opening the federal cash spigot. In recent weeks the Interior Department has contacted farm districts, cities, tribes and other water users …
  3. Why one of the cities most dependent on the Colorado River now has water for sale

    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:01:00 -0000

    SAN DIEGO, Calif - Even as California is offering to take less water from the drought-shrunken Colorado River, one of the state's biggest cities that's long been the most dependent on it curiously now has excess water to sell. California, Arizona and Nevada have a new plan to share the Colorado River …
  4. An Alternative Nobel Prize For Trump? – OpEd

    Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:29:23 -0000

    Imagine Donald Trump receiving a Nobel Prize—not for championing peace, democracy, or global unity, but for inadvertently reminding the world just …
  5. Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System

    Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:06:55 -0000

    The $368 million network of instruments collecting data in both the Atlantic and Pacific has been critical to climate and ocean research. The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that was put in place a decade ago to monitor coastal environments, marine …
  6. The mystery of Alaska’s orange rivers is finally solved

    Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:25:00 -0000

    New research clearly links thawing permafrost to toxic shift—and offers a way to predict it. Alaska’s Arctic rivers have a big, orange problem. Previously clear rivers are turning a cloudy orange color due to iron particles, and it’s more than unsightly. The particles can suffocate fish and choke …
  7. Did Trump claim Iranian wind secretly powers US windmills?

    Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:00:07 -0000

    President Donald Trump has criticized wind energy, but we found no evidence he posted about Iran sending wind into the United States. Throughout May …
  8. UN warns world to prepare for El Nino extreme weather

    Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:08:50 -0000

    There is an 80-percent chance of the warming El Nino phenomenon developing between June and August, increasing the risk of extreme weather events, …
  9. Scientists lose critical climate record as ocean observatory will go dark under Trump funding cuts

    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 07:43:06 -0000

    A portion of one of the most ambitious ocean monitoring networks ever built will go dark this month when scientists board a research vessel and motor …
  10. Filipino Indigenous Leader Takes Ancient Wisdom to the Global Stage

    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:16:00 -0000

    SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan, Jun 3 2026 (IPS) - Every year, when dark clouds gather above the dense forests of the Philippines, 56-year-old Mini Baeyens, …
  11. Super El Nino is coming our way and we are in no way prepared for what’s next

    Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:56:44 -0000

    There’s definitely something coming. We’re very confident about that, and it looks like it will be a big event.” Adam Scaife, head of long-range …
  12. UN warns countries to prepare for moderate to strong El Niño amid deadly heatwave in India

    Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:41:02 -0000

    Temperatures have soared well above 45 degrees Celsius in parts of India as the unseasonal heatwave disrupts daily life and claims lives. Afternoon …
  13. UN issues sobering warning about looming El Niño

    Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:17:55 -0000

    World leaders are especially concerned with the prospect of droughts, heavy rainfall events and heat waves, which are expected to happen unevenly across the globe. A new warning was issued on June 2 about the looming El Niño climate pattern. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the United …
  14. Trump administration takes aim at crucial ocean monitoring network

    Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:30:00 -0000

    The Trump administration is targeting one of the world’s most trusted sources of climate and oceanic data—the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). …
  15. Democrats Pledge to Fight Trump’s Removal of Ocean Monitors

    Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:15:53 -0000

    The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that monitors marine ecosystems and the effects of climate change. Democrats said Tuesday they intend to fight the Trump administration’s plan to eradicate a deep-ocean observation system critical to understanding …
  16. El Nino threat grows as Europe prepares for another hot summer

    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:15:04 -0000

    The warming El Nino climate phenomenon is likely to develop by the end of August, the United Nations' weather agency said, raising the risk of extreme weather as Europe faces another summer on the front line of climate change. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the UN weather agency, said …
  17. Trump Tried To Kill EVs, Now His War Is Doing The Opposite

    Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:25:00 -0000

    Whether you think it's a good thing or not, there's no denying that Trump and Republicans love the oil industry and hate any tech that might threaten …
  18. A lot of ‘recycled’ plastic is being burned overseas – and causing widespread pollution linked to health problems

    Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:55:52 -0000

    Picture a pile of trash the size of Manhattan and taller than one and a half Empire State Buildings. That’s how much plastic waste the world is …
  19. How the Bushmeat Trade Is Fueling Deadly Ebola Outbreaks in Congo

    Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:39:37 -0000

    Deep in the heart of Central Africa, a crisis is unfolding that connects the fate of both humans and wildlife to one of the most persistent and …
  20. New York Just Filed the First Major Challenge to Trump’s TotalEnergies Deal

    Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:23:27 -0000

    Attorney General Letitia James leads a group of states suing the administration’s move to buy back two offshore wind leases. A group of Northeast …
  21. Meet the Far-Right Nepo Baby Vying to Deregulate Texas’s Fossil Fuels

    Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Bo French is running a deranged culture-war campaign for a spot on the powerful Texas Railroad Commission. The race says everything about where …
  22. “It’s a genuinely unique instrument – and it always raises a smile”: Nigel Tufnel's “World on Fire” guitar, used during Spinal Tap's Live Earth performance, is headed to auction

    Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:59:28 -0000

    When Guitar World asked Spinal Tap's Nigel Tufnel in an interview last year about his switch to Ernie Ball Music Man guitars, the man with the …
  23. Rising seas: Japan makes pitch to Pacific Island nations caught in US-China rivalry

    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 07:00:05 -0000

    Japan is positioning itself as a partner for Pacific Island nations struggling with rising seas and caught between the US-China rivalry, with Prime …
  24. GOP urges SCOTUS to reject 'war on American energy' they say would hit families' wallets

    Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:17:05 -0000

    FIRST ON FOX: More than 70 lawmakers are lining up against a Colorado county's effort to hold major oil companies financially liable for alleged climate change damages. The group of House Republicans led by House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., is calling on the Supreme Court to side with …
  25. The Most Rat-Infested Cities in the U.S., Ranked

    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:01 -0000

    Did your city top the list of the most rat-infested in America? For as long as people have built cities, rats have found ways to move in right …
  26. Ukraine war: Putin's position is 'weakening'

    Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:38:19 -0000

    Science, Climate & Tech Ents & Arts Watch Live About Us Sky News International Sky News Library Sales Site Map Editorial Guidelines Sky News Board Sky News RSS …
  27. UN says El Niño is likely to develop this year

    Wed, 03 Jun 2026 05:14:00 -0000

    We’ll never be able to harness Bill Nye’s raw passion for meteorological phenomena, but we can try. Is it hot in here or is it just the weakening …
  28. The wasting disease threatening US science and ‘Patient Earth’

    Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:00:43 -0000

    Published June 02, 2026 It’s a concerning time for basic science. Newly proposed changes to federal rule-making threaten to alter the entire …
  29. Long-Threatened Powerful El Niño Could Emerge Any Day Now, UN Warns

    Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:45:16 -0000

    The World Meteorological Organization advised that nations "need to prepare" for the increasing risk of extreme storms, flooding, droughts, and …
  30. Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System Critical to Climate and Ocean Research

    Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:18:10 -0000

    The seas off of Oregon, Washington state, Alaska, North Carolina, and the Irminger Sea, a little patch between Greenland and Iceland, are homes to a …