Pipes Feed Preview: Climate Change

  1. Why Fears Are Growing Over the Fate of a Key Atlantic Current

    Thu, 07 May 2026 09:59:00 -0000

    As the world careens past our hoped-for target of 1.5 degrees Celsius warming, scientists are growing increasingly alarmed that we may be nearing a …

  2. California’s Battery Revolution Is Rewriting the Rules of Clean Energy

    Thu, 07 May 2026 07:23:41 -0000

    Something remarkable happened in California one evening in late March. As residents cooked dinner and settled in for the night, the state’s battery …

  3. America Could Run Low On People To Fight Wildfires

    Thu, 07 May 2026 12:26:01 -0000

    Extreme drought and high winds mean America may not have the people to handle a growing number of fires.

  4. Hantavirus on the rise in Argentina, where MV Hondius cruise ship set sail

    Thu, 07 May 2026 08:32:37 -0000

    Experts say that a surge of hantavirus cases in Argentina, where the MV Hondius cruise ship set sail, is in part due to climate change. The World Health Organization ranks the South American country as having the highest incidence of the rodent-borne disease. Officials and experts in Argentina are …

  5. Appalachian Mountains lithium deposit could replace 328 years of imports, USGS says

    Thu, 07 May 2026 04:00:07 -0000

    While the figure is an official USGS estimate, extracting the mineral poses major technical and environmental challenges. A rumor spread in May 2026 …

  6. A 1,578-foot tsunami struck a popular Alaskan cruise destination. Now we know why.

    Wed, 06 May 2026 12:00:00 -0000

    The Tracy Arm fjord tsunami was bigger than the Eiffel Tower. If you’re one of the roughly 1.6 million people who took a cruise in Alaska last year, chances are you sailed through the Tracy Arm fjord. The picturesque, narrow fjord is a popular sightseeing area and is part of the Tongass National …

  7. Alaska mega-tsunami was second largest ever recorded, reaching up to 481-metres high

    Wed, 06 May 2026 15:53:16 -0000

    The mega-tsunami, triggered by a mountainside collapsing into the South Sawyer Glacier last August, has been revealed as the second-largest ever …

  8. Blaming Asia and Mexico for US Pollution Is Absurd

    Thu, 07 May 2026 11:00:18 -0000

    Pollution, like money, is fungible. Once you breathe carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, it’s interchangeable with all the other CO2 on the planet, just like how, when you deposit $20 into your bank account, it’s inseparable from the $40 that’s already there. Fungibility shouldn’t mean immunity from …

  9. Ted Turner, a media mogul who tried to repair the land

    Wed, 06 May 2026 16:13:37 -0000

    Ted Turner, who died on May 6th, liked to present himself as a businessman who had simply applied the same habits to a larger subject. First he …

  10. Portugal has just used up its natural resources for 2026. Is the rest of Europe doing any better?

    Thu, 07 May 2026 11:52:54 -0000

    Humans use as much ecological resources as if we lived on 1.7 Earths, meaning many European nations have already reached 'Overshoot Day'. As of today …

  11. Texas Lawmakers Repeatedly Failed to Pass Legislation That Could Have Protected Residents From Deadly Floods

    Wed, 06 May 2026 09:00:00 -0000

    The sound of construction machinery filled the air as Kylie Nidever walked past properties ravaged months earlier by floodwaters. Nidever’s home was …

  12. U.S. Electricity Prices Keep Rising

    Thu, 07 May 2026 11:57:57 -0000

    On data center cancellations, TVA nuclear, and British fusion Current conditions: Colorado is digging out of its biggest snowstorm of the season, …

  13. Argentina probes link to deadly hantavirus outbreak on Atlantic cruise

    Thu, 07 May 2026 09:38:14 -0000

    Officials and experts in Argentina are scrambling to determine if their country is the source of a deadly hantavirus outbreak that has gripped an Atlantic cruise. The health emergency aboard the ship that's moored across the ocean comes as Argentina sees a surge of hantavirus cases that many local …

  14. Odds increasing for a super-charged El Niño to disrupt our weather this year. Here’s what that means for New England.

    Thu, 07 May 2026 11:43:56 -0000

    The latest models are warning of a rare “monster” El Niño emerging this summer that’s more intense than forecasters had previously predicted, a …

  15. Mexico City Is Sinking. A Powerful NASA Satellite Just Revealed How Fast

    Wed, 06 May 2026 13:35:06 -0000

    A new NASA map shows how the sinking of Mexico City is uneven, with areas registering up to 2 centimeters per month. Mexico City is one of the fastest …

  16. Where Have All the Bees Gone?

    Thu, 07 May 2026 12:00:00 -0000

    As the weather began to cool toward the end of 2024, Bret Adee, a beekeeper in South Dakota, discovered that his typically busy hives were no longer …

  17. NY Democrats Cut Deal on Second-Home Tax, Climate Rollback

    Thu, 07 May 2026 09:35:53 -0000

    New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced a tentative deal on a $268 billion state budget, with legislative leaders agreeing to impose a tax on second …

  18. Climate scientist finds large errors in a global climate pollution database

    Tue, 05 May 2026 23:10:06 -0000

    New research from Northern Arizona University found that a global greenhouse gas emissions database produced by the Climate TRACE consortium, …

  19. A New Enbridge Pipeline Spurs Opposition in Central North Carolina

    Thu, 07 May 2026 09:00:00 -0000

    The 28-mile conduit is part of a huge natural gas infrastructure buildout in the state that Duke Energy says is necessary to keep up with demand, …

  20. Iran’s New Oil Weapon

    Wed, 06 May 2026 04:00:00 -0000

    How America can protect itself—and the global economy.

  21. Gas prices are spiking. So why aren’t U.S. oil companies drilling more?

    Wed, 06 May 2026 15:15:00 -0000

    The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has trapped one fifth of the world’s oil supply in the Persian Gulf, a crisis that the World Bank Group predicts …

  22. Sweeping California law on single-use plastic meets with outrage from all sides as it goes live

    Thu, 07 May 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Within days of California’s long-anticipated single use plastic law going into effect, environmentalists and anti-waste activists announced they plan to sue. They say Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration and CalRecycle inserted exemptions favoring the plastic industry into the law’s regulations that …

  23. Iran conflict disrupts Asia's plastic supply chain

    Thu, 07 May 2026 13:35:56 -0000

    Asia's plastic boom has long relied on cheap oil and petrochemical feedstock from the Middle East to make their products. But now that supply is under pressure and many are searching for alternatives.

  24. The scorched scenes showing how Florida’s wildfire seasons could look in the future

    Wed, 06 May 2026 18:00:00 -0000

    TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Florida could be on track for a record-shattering year of wildfires after nearly 2,000 blazes have scorched the state so far, forcing evacuations and causing millions of dollars in damages. From the Georgia border to the Everglades, wildfires have burned more than 120,000 …

  25. The Iran War May Be the Beginning of the End of Fossil Fuel Dominance

    Wed, 06 May 2026 16:45:53 -0000

    This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. For almost half a century, the vast majority of climate …

  26. Catfish Farmers, Undertakers, Miners Celebrate Major EPA Deregulation

    Thu, 07 May 2026 12:25:23 -0000

    Catfish farmers, funeral home operators and miners — among a host of other industry groups — convinced the Environmental Protection Agency to kill …

  27. 'A Backyard Game Changer' − This 5-Star Solar Wasp Trap Is the Key to Restoring Pleasant Evenings In Your Yard Without Buzzing Pests

    Thu, 07 May 2026 13:00:00 -0000

    During the warm months of spring and summer, there's nothing better than relaxing and hosting al fresco. But, with wasp numbers reaching their peak …

  28. Massive Alaska megatsunami was second largest ever recorded

    Wed, 06 May 2026 12:00:25 -0000

    A massive 'megatsunami' wave created when part of an Alaskan mountain crumbled into the sea is the second tallest ever recorded – and a reminder of the risks posed by melting glaciers, say scientists. Last summer a giant wave swept through a remote fjord in southeast Alaska leaving destruction in …

  29. Louisiana Republicans Seem Content to Let New Orleans Drown

    Thu, 07 May 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    While ​local lawmakers obsess over how to keep Democrats in majority-Black districts from governing, their state is literally shrinking. In the coming …

  30. Sweden generates 99% of electricity from clean sources. So why is wind power under attack?

    Wed, 06 May 2026 05:00:03 -0000

    Thousands of anti-wind social media posts have been analysed, as researchers warn that Europe’s energy security could be threatened. Sweden has been …