Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

1. A record El Niño brews in the Pacific. The world is feeling the first impacts

   Sat, 05 Sep 2026 18:41:28 -0000

   Climate scientists have been closely monitoring what is happening off Australia's east coast over recent months and are increasingly concerned by …

2. Disaster In Nepal Gets Embroiled In Geopolitics - Analysis - Eurasia Review

   Sun, 06 Sep 2026 01:45:04 -0000

   Key Takeaways: After the 26 August floods, Foreign Minister Shishir Khanal first framed UNGA messaging as “justice and compensation,” naming China, …

3. How big is Africa really? Why the UN voted to change the world map

   Sat, 05 Sep 2026 12:49:50 -0000

   The UN has urged countries to adopt a map that makes Africa, Latin America, South Asia and Oceania larger than the traditional Mercator projection. The United Nations General Assembly has voted to back a resolution spearheaded by several African countries to adopt a map that shows the continent as …

4. Samuel Alito is complicit in climate disaster

   Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:00:56 -0000

   Thanks to his majority opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which destroyed the constitutional right to abortion in the U.S., or his weird flag-waving during the “Stop the Steal” movement, Samuel Alito is notorious. But the Supreme Court justice’s entanglements with the fossil …

5. Scientists discover the North Atlantic ocean is getting even saltier for one terrifying reason

   Sat, 05 Sep 2026 07:16:54 -0000

   Scientists have discovered the North Atlantic ocean has been getting saltier over the last 50 years. The Atlantic ocean is saltier than the world’s …

6. What different world maps get right - and what they get wrong

   Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:46:02 -0000

   The UN has just called for the predominant world map to be replaced with one that more accurately reflects the true size of continents such as Africa. The "Correct the Map" resolution adopted by the General Assembly aims to fix the discrepancy on the Mercator map, in which the African continent is …

7. Global warming is ruining their way of life. These Colorado ranchers demand accountability

   Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

   In the Rocky Mountains, years of extreme heat and drought have baked the landscape, drying up streams that feed the Colorado River and desiccating pastures where cattle graze. The unrelenting dryness has brought hardship upon cattle ranchers, who say their livelihoods increasingly are under …

8. MAGA Dimwit James Comer Blurts Out Bombshell: Trump Badly Screwing GOP

   Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

   The president has MAGA supporters giving lots of money to his super PAC—and not to GOP candidates. Meanwhile, new polling by Democrats shows he’s …

9. Squid Are Taking Over The Ocean – And Not For The Reason You Might Think

   Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0000

   We've made some drastic changes to ocean ecosystems in the past century. One of the stranger patterns to appear in this is a global proliferation of …

10. Countries by Children Population

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 18:11:29 -0000

    Mapped: The Share of Each Country’s Population Under 18 This graphic, created by Iswardi Ishak, maps the share of each country’s population under age …

11. This enhanced geothermal project aims to unlock gigawatts of power to fuel the data center boom

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 12:20:42 -0000

    MILFORD, Utah — Deep in the Utah desert, down miles of gravel roads and hours from a major city, Fervo Energy bets it can economically harness heat …

12. The Norwegian gas plant that could safeguard Europe from Trump

    Sun, 06 Sep 2026 02:58:59 -0000

    Europe's newfound focus on energy security has sparked interest in ramping up gas production on the Norwegian continental shelf. STAVANGER, Norway — Europe was supposed to leave gas facilities like Kårstø behind. Instead, the giant processing plant is at the center of a wider continental shift. …

13. Scientists Detect Mysterious Lights Beneath Alaska’s Ice

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 18:02:50 -0000

    Deep beneath Alaska’s frozen surface, something extraordinary is happening. While most of us are familiar with the dancing aurora that illuminates …

14. Ex-Air Force Secretary Reveals ‘Very Tough’ Reality Inside Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon

    Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:33:25 -0000

    Frank Kendall III summed up Pete Hegseth’s department with one damning word. Biden-era Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall III on Wednesday offered a bleak assessment of the Defense Department under Secretary Pete Hegseth. “In a word, it’s dysfunctional,” Kendall, who wrote an opinion piece for The New …

15. The charts that show the havoc El Nino is set to wreak across the world

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 12:01:37 -0000

    This year’s rapidly intensifying, climate change-fuelled “super” El Niño is on course to be the strongest on record – and potentially the most …

16. Global warming set to cross threshold sooner than expected, U.N. report finds

    Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:35:00 -0000

    In a new report, officials with the United Nations say the world is close to crossing the global warming temperature threshold sooner than expected. …

17. Earth Will Become One Big Supercontinent Again—And It Will Probably Kill Us, Scientists Say

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:00:00 -0000

    In 200 million years, there will be no borders–and possibly no humans. Geoscientists say Earth will be home to one massive supercontinent about 200 million years from now; there are four prominent versions of this mega-continent. • The climate might be surprisingly balmy in one of the most popular …

18. UN approves new map showing Africa’s true size

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 04:13:25 -0000

    The UN General Assembly has backed a resolution to change to maps that more accurately show the true size of Africa. The UN General Assembly has backed a resolution to change to maps that more accurately show the true size of Africa. Supporters of the resolution say the widely used, and …

19. Trump’s War on Mail-In Ballots Could Hurt This Overlooked Voting Bloc

    Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:22:00 -0000

    This is what Republican voter disenfranchisement looks like. You’re reading The TNR Blue Book. Get daily scoops, strategy, and developments inside the …

20. Used coffee grounds were charred at 350 degrees Celsius until they became a charcoal-like biochar. That material replaced 15 percent of the sand by volume in a concrete mix, and the resulting concrete had 29.3 percent greater compressive strength than the control mix.

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 07:00:39 -0000

    Coffee waste made concrete stronger. Not weaker, not merely good enough as a filler, but measurably stronger. That is the finding from a team at RMIT …

21. This Is One of the Most Ambitious Nature-Based Solutions to Sea Level Rise

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0000

    Dave Halsing stood beneath shifting clouds and flocks of shorebirds next to California’s San Francisco Bay, looking out at the gray waters below. …

22. Nepal demands greater climate justice amid staggering flood costs

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:04:35 -0000

    The tsunami of mud, debris and ice that devastated the country on August 26 has hit several pillars of its growth, including tourism and hydropower. …

23. A record-shattering El Niño is almost here. Here’s what that means for the world’s weather

    Fri, 04 Sep 2026 06:21:45 -0000

    The world is bracing for the strongest El Niño in history. The United Nations has made the grim prediction that our planet now sits in the “danger …

24. Nepal bet nearly everything on hydropower - the floods show why that's a problem

    Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:02:52 -0000

    Almost 100% of Nepal's electricity comes from hydropower, and it produces so much it earns nearly $200m (£147m) each year exporting hydroelectricity to India and Bangladesh. But the very glaciers and mountains giving Nepal this massive natural advantage are succumbing to global warming - and last …

25. Trump administration stalled a survey of PFAS in wastewater, former EPA officials say

    Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:45:31 -0000

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has stalled a study that would help regulators understand which industries dump harmful forever chemicals …

26. Aid workers try to combat ‘catastrophic hunger’ in Southern Madagascar: Part 2

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:50:45 -0000

    The region, on the brink of starvation, is in need of new infrastructure to deliver water and new crops that can withstand the changing climate, …

27. How Did Trump Do on His Labor Day Report Card?

    Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Spoiler alert: He flunked. But will the working class take note? Happy Labor Day! (Well, almost.) There’s no better time to assess President Donald …

28. EPA seeks more public comments as it struggles to devise water rule that limits scope on wetlands

    Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:56:17 -0000

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is seeking additional public comments as it tries to redefine the scope of the nation's bedrock …

29. Flyers might have to face more disruption with hotter skies

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 23:20:00 -0000

    As the country sweltered through one of the many heatwaves of a baking summer in late June, towering thunderclouds were gathering over the south of England and across much of northern Europe. It was a Saturday, and with the holiday season getting under way, thousands of passengers were heading to …

30. How to Answer Yet Another Dumb Question About Hasan Piker

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 04:00:00 -0000

    The media’s fixation on this twitch streamer few voters have heard of should not be that difficult an obstacle to overcome. I confess that the vast …