Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

  1. America is hurtling toward a power grid crisis

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Electricity demand is skyrocketing, utility bills are spiking – but it could take years to build the new transmission lines that would address the …

  2. Everyone Hates Private Equity. Trump Is Bailing It Out.

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The industry has become the midterms’ most indelible political symbol for Wall Street’s reckless greed. President Donald Trump picked an odd political …

  3. 'Perfect storm': El Niño goes off the charts

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:02:57 -0000

    A record-high ocean temperature has been measured in a key El Niño region of the Pacific Ocean, and scientists say it likely hasn't reached its peak. Sea surface temperatures just hit a record high in a 2.4-million square mile region of the deep Pacific Ocean known as Niño 3.4, the key area …

  4. Melting glaciers reveal Viking pass hidden for centuries

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:19:45 -0000

    Melting glaciers are revealing thousands of ancient Viking artefacts covered up by ice and snow until recently. Melting glaciers reveal Viking pass hidden for centuries Melting glaciers are revealing thousands of ancient Viking artefacts covered up by ice and snow until recently.

  5. How the Supreme Court Caused a Botched Execution in Tennessee

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    There is a straight line between the high court’s grisly machinations and the horrors that befell Christa Pike in the execution chamber. For the first …

  6. Restoring Watersheds One Dam Removal at a Time

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0000

    Editor’s note: This story was originally published by bioGraphic. Sierra is republishing it with permission. In 1859, a committee of farmers in …

  7. Scientists Once Calculated the Date of Doomsday—and It’s Next Month

    Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:25:36 -0000

    In 1960, the journal Science published an article in which scientists predicted doomsday would arrive on Friday, November 13, 2026. So should you be …

  8. Big Oil Fears the Evidence of Its Climate Lies | Common Dreams

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:34:10 -0000

    Fossil fuel companies are desperate to escape trial in climate deception lawsuits. The Supreme Court should not shield them from accountability. No …

  9. America Has Turned on Trump. But Has It Really Said No to Fascism?

    Thu, 01 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Polling shows the president in free fall. Unfortunately, a number of his most reactionary policies still have disturbing levels of support. Recent …

  10. Nature has rights — it is time the world recognized them

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:31:43 -0000

    Existing legal frameworks have not halted planetary crises. Recognizing the rights of nature could offer a different path. Wildfires, heatwaves and …

  11. Households will pay more for energy because of federal policy changes, think tank says

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 04:01:13 -0000

    Households in the contiguous United States will pay thousands of dollars more for energy through 2040 because of federal policy changes since President Donald Trump returned to office such as canceling new clean energy projects, according to modeling released Friday by a nonpartisan think tank. The …

  12. The Environmental Cost of AI and Its Resource Demands

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:02:41 -0000

    AI can deliver answers in seconds, but powering it requires vast data centres, advanced chips, and huge amounts of electricity and water.

  13. Map Shows US States Facing Coldest Weather This October

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:33:00 -0000

    October is finally here and the Climate Prediction Center of the National Weather Service is already offering a glimpse of what the next two weeks …

  14. Albanese leaves grim domestic scene as he flies to the blue Pacific

    Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:55:58 -0000

    Having a "Pre-COP" meeting in Fiji and Tuvalu is one of those initiatives that seemed a good idea at the time. No doubt it still has resonance as part …

  15. Future of Amazon rainforest policies at stake in Brazilian presidential election

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:53:51 -0000

    By GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s October presidential election could reshape the future of the Amazon, with the winner leading the …

  16. Supreme Court to begin new term with cases on religion, guns and immigration ahead

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 08:45:19 -0000

    The U.S. Supreme Court opens a new term, with test cases on religion, guns, immigration and climate change ahead.

  17. JONATHAN TURLEY: Justice Alito blazes the ethical path the Supreme Court should take

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:00:20 -0000

    On Sept. 28, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito recused himself from one of the term's most important cases: Suncor Energy Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County. As I have previously discussed, the case involving the liability of energy companies for nuisance actions tied to climate change …

  18. Digger Is Tom Cruise’s Climate Hoax

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 03:24:39 -0000

    Media hacks fight fossil foolery and prefer Oscar bait. Alejandro González Iñárritu always makes bad movies (Amores Perros, 21 Grams, Babel, Biutiful, …

  19. This year’s El Niño looks a lot like 1997. What happened then?

    Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:47:38 -0000

    (NEXSTAR) – This year’s El Niño is shaping up to be the strongest in recorded history. That makes it tough to compare to prior years, but if we …

  20. Exclusive: General Motors bids farewell to Lithium Valley

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:03:34 -0000

    Dreams of a lithium boom at California’s Salton Sea keep receding into the dusty desert horizon. Oh wow: I launched Climate-Colored Goggles one year …

  21. How Manchester City Got Away With Historic Fraud

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Yes, the English soccer club got caught—eventually. But the team’s meteoric rise was aided by the willful blindness of the Premier League. Most …

  22. Scientists put tiny greenhouses over Antarctica’s only two flowering plants and left them there for 7 years. Here's why

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 04:30:00 -0000

    A warming climate is forcing Antarctica’s native plants to adapt. Not only have they risen to the challenge, they’ve adapted in two different ways, …

  23. Governor Mikie Sherrill on Electricity Prices, Nuclear Power, and Building in New Jersey

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:10:06 -0000

    Matthew Zeitlin talks with the New Jersey leader at Heatmap House at New York Climate Week. Governor Mikie Sherrill is a former Navy pilot, federal …

  24. Trump Just Pledged to Let AI Companies Do Whatever They Want

    Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:02:03 -0000

    Trump and the tech CEOs have a lot in common—not least their sense of total impunity. Whatever beef Donald Trump had with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei …

  25. Alito’s Recusal From a Key Climate Case May Be Too Little, Too Late

    Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:49:42 -0000

    Justice Samuel Alito decided Monday to sit out one of the most consequential climate change cases to reach the Supreme Court, but legal experts …

  26. Women shoulder the burden of expanding wildfires in rural India

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:40:01 -0000

    In the Indian Western Himalayas, women are the primary first responders to escalating forest fires. They risk their physical safety to protect homes …

  27. World’s first enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months

    Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:35:55 -0000

    Geothermal company Fervo Energy announced Thursday morning that it had started selling electricity from its Cape Station power plant to the grid on September 30, one day ahead of schedule. With it, Fervo becomes the first enhanced geothermal company to reach a key commercial milestone. The power …

  28. States and cities sue over Trump’s EPA eliminating rule that limits emissions from power plants

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:33:31 -0000

    WASHINGTON (AP) — States and cities sued the Trump administration Thursday for repealing rules that limit planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions …

  29. Why diesel prices are an economic time bomb

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:00:00 -0000

    Diesel costs more. Soon, so will everything else. Everyone knows how much gasoline prices matter. The recent spike in gas prices triggered by the war with Iran has fueled deep pessimism about the economy and weighed heavily on President Donald Trump’s approval ratings. But diesel fuel — the lifeblood …

  30. Fifty Billion Seedlings: Can Ethiopia Replant Its Ravaged Forests?

    Thu, 01 Oct 2026 07:41:11 -0000

    A legacy of deforestation has left Ethiopia struggling with more intense flooding and drought. The country is trying to restore its native forests …