Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

  1. Amy Westervelt: It’s Time We Stopped Treating Corporations As People

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 09:00:58 -0000

    Today, the same law firm that argued and won the landmark Citizens United case, which opened up the floodgates to dark money in politics, is arguing …

  2. The Trump Administration Wants to Gut The Clean Water Act

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 13:15:00 -0000

    A new regulation would dramatically limit which waters are protected from pollution. Earlier this month, the Trump administration moved to narrow the …

  3. When the world’s largest battery power plant caught fire, toxic metals rained down – wetlands captured the fallout

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 13:13:00 -0000

    When fire broke out at the world’s largest battery energy storage facility in January 2025, its thick smoke blanketed surrounding wetlands, farms and …

  4. Ranked: G20 Greenhouse Gas Emissions per Capita (1990-2024)

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:28:08 -0000

    Ranked: G20 Greenhouse Gas Emissions per Capita (1990–2024) See visuals like this from many other data creators on our Voronoi app. Download it for …

  5. Northeast set to be blasted by ‘most extreme cold on Earth’ before Christmas

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 18:07:14 -0000

    The northeastern US is set to be blasted with the most extreme cold on Earth later this month, according to shocking new forecasts. “My thinking is …

  6. Why no hurricanes made landfall in the US in 2025

    Sun, 30 Nov 2025 13:41:06 -0000

    It was the first time since 2015 that no hurricanes directly impacted the U.S. The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season proved to be consequential, even …

  7. Energy Department Renames Renewable Energy Lab to Reflect Trump’s Fossil Fuel Focus

    Tue, 02 Dec 2025 02:03:00 -0000

    The Trump administration has sought to stall a clean-energy boom The Energy Department is renaming its National Renewable Energy Laboratory to the National Laboratory of the Rockies, a symbolic rebranding of the storied institution to align it with the Trump administration’s focus on fossil …

  8. Peeling Back the Curtain on Big Plastic’s False Solutions

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 09:50:00 -0000

    Environmental policy expert and environmental justice champion Judith Enck says in a new book that it’s possible to move beyond society’s dependence …

  9. Architect’s Guide to Shenzhen: 30 Must-See Buildings and Designs

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 22:01:01 -0000

    From adaptive reuse campuses to climate-shaped coastlines, this guide reveals why Shenzhen should be viewed as a testbed for future cities. Once a small fishing village on the Pearl River Delta, Shenzhen has transformed into one of the world’s most innovative urban laboratories — a city where …

  10. The Earth’s Magnetic Field Is Shifting, and Scientists Are Closely Watching

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:45:00 -0000

    Have you ever stopped to think about what keeps us safe from the relentless bombardment of cosmic radiation? The answer lies in something you can’t …

  11. How smart tech can be used as a tool for abuse and coercive control

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 09:16:04 -0000

    The devastating impact of climate change on Himalayan villages Department of Defence gets major overhaul Olympia farms millions of maggots in Aussie …

  12. Recycling Can’t Solve Our Plastic Crisis

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 11:15:00 -0000

    Throwing your plastic bottles in the recycling bin may make you feel good about yourself, or ease your guilt about your climate impact. But recycling plastic will not address the plastic pollution crisis—and it is time we stop pretending as such. Less than 6% of plastic waste in the United States is …

  13. Snow in Miami? Nearly 5 decades since a shocking weather anomaly

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 11:04:36 -0000

    It was so shockingly cold that there were short-lived fears of a new ice age. Scientists think human activity contributed to the historic weather. Fifty years ago a fascinating weather anomaly blanketed the United States in arctic, snowy weather and temporarily spawned fears of a new ice age. Call …

  14. Scientists stunned after uncovering 'remarkable' discovery under Arctic ice: 'We were wrong'

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 23:40:00 -0000

    As rising global temperatures continue to melt more Arctic sea ice, nitrogen is expected to play a bigger role in supporting organisms in regions …

  15. Kai Erikson, Sociologist Who Probed Invisible Scars of Disasters, Dies at 94

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 18:29:54 -0000

    A professor at Yale, he immersed himself in communities after catastrophic events like Three Mile Island, the Exxon Valdez oil spill and Hurricane Katrina. Kai T. Erikson, a sociologist who examined the aftermaths of floods, nuclear accidents, hurricanes and chemical spills to illustrate how …

  16. ‘A personal embarrassment’: Why fire agencies keep failing to put out blazes that later turn disastrous

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:26:33 -0000

    Firefighters knew the charred skeleton of a tractor was still smoking when they left the valley floor in Ventura County last year, but didn’t think it posed any danger. A week after crews declared the 1.8-acre Balcom fire out, powerful Santa Ana winds arrived, picked up some bits of hot rubber from …

  17. I tried a sleek new window heat pump that can be installed in less than an hour

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 10:00:00 -0000

    Midea’s quick-install heat pump was designed for New York public housing. Now it’s available for anyone. It looks a little like a sleek window AC, but a new device from Chinese appliance giant Midea is actually a reversible heat pump that can both cool and heat a home—and it’s designed to heat …

  18. Hurricane season is over. Here's why the US never got hit.

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 09:45:00 -0000

    For the first time in a decade, the country avoided landfall, thanks to an atmospheric anomaly. But this hurricane season was exceptional in other …

  19. California has a huge solar power problem. A fix is coming.

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:00:00 -0000

    For years, California lawmakers were stymied. But now, at a crucial juncture for electricity in America, the state is embracing an ambitious and long-awaited plan: to buy and sell far, far more power across Western state lines. This coming year, a new energy trading market with its first …

  20. Inside Wyoming’s fight against cheatgrass, the ‘most existential, sweeping threat’ to western ecosystems

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 11:30:00 -0000

    An all-hands-on-deck effort, tens of millions in funding and a breakthrough herbicide are slowing but not halting a destructive force steadily …

  21. Coal Must Go

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 16:43:31 -0000

    In 2024, global demand for coal, often called “the world’s dirtiest fossil fuel”, reached a record high, consumption hitting approximately 8.8 …

  22. Fixing quantum theory’s fatal flaw

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 14:53:39 -0000

    Quantum theory famously describes a strange world in which the properties of particles exist in a cloud of possibilities until we measure them. One of the deepest challenges in physics is to explain how the solid, certain reality we experience emerges from this quantum fog. Now it seems a new understanding of quantum cause and effect might provide an answer.

  23. Expansion Of Antarctic Bottom Water Contributed To The End Of Last Ice Age

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 23:03:56 -0000

    Around 12,000 years ago, the last Ice Age ended, global temperatures rose and the early Holocene began, during which time human societies became …

  24. Joe Rogan Called 'Shell Of His Former Self' After Latest Remarks On Climate Change

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 18:43:43 -0000

    Increased carbon dioxide equates to a green society. These are not our words, but the illustrious podcaster Joe Rogan‘s. Often known for his …

  25. The most climate-friendly foods to buy right now

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:20:08 -0000

    Now that I've gorged through a weekend of Thanksgiving eating, I'm trying to get back on track with healthier foods for me and the Earth. Driving the …

  26. River heat pump to supply hot water in Germany

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 11:21:41 -0000

    A model neighborhood is being built on one of Europe's largest construction sites: a river heat pump will supply hot water to Bremen’s Überseeinsel.

  27. The ‘Game Changing’ Cat Bond Incentivizing Adaptation

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 11:43:47 -0000

    Insurers are struggling as climate change-fueled damage intensifies. So are homeowners. Clearly something has to change. Enter a novel program run by …

  28. 27 Things Trump Has Done Since Becoming President That Have Basically Helped No One

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:31:02 -0000

    We're about 10 months into Donald Trump's second term, and it's no exaggeration to say that many of his actions, policies, and general behavior have …

  29. Hawaiʻi’s green fee is the latest climate effort challenged by Trump

    Sun, 30 Nov 2025 14:00:00 -0000

    The Department of Justice wants to join the cruise ship industry’s lawsuit against the state over a new tax on passengers visiting the islands. This …

  30. Researchers stunned after finding 1,500-year-old device: 'These are items we would never find in ordinary excavations'

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 03:05:00 -0000

    In Norway, ice melt high up in the mountains has uncovered remarkable archaeological discoveries. While the recent findings in these digs are …