Wall Street Journal (subscription) Energy Markets Brace for Volatility as Harvey’s Impact Is DeterminedWall Street Journal (subscription)Energy markets are due for considerable volatility this week as investors try to gauge the extent of disruption to fuel production and distribution from the torrential rains and catastrophic flooding in Texas. Analysts said fuel prices could climb ……

Florida Today Bernie Badger: Solar Eclipse SurvivalFlorida TodayI hope all of you had a chance to experience the Great American Solar Eclipse. Here in Brevard, a good number of people came out to the Eastern Florida State College Planetarium and could see the progress of the eclipse on the projection screens …Beiermann: Family takes in…

The Atlantic Did Climate Change Intensify Hurricane Harvey?The AtlanticClimate scientists, who specialize in thinking about the Earth system as a whole, are often reticent to link any one weather event to global climate change. But they say that aspects of the case of Hurricane Harvey—and the recent history of tropical …Messenger: When water recedes in…

Washington Post How farmers convinced scientists to take climate change seriouslyWashington PostThe path of Harvey’s destruction cut through some of the rural communities least likely to believe in human-caused climate change. But not long ago, these very same rural communities contained the most fervent believers of the link between human …

Quartz The biggest divide on climate change is among the most highly educatedQuartzMany people concerned about climate change assume that eventually, the growing weight of facts will persuade those who dismiss humans’ role in the problem to think again. Surely, the theory goes, the plentiful evidence will eventually make any naysayer … and more »

The Independent The countries most likely to survive climate change in one infographicThe IndependentThe leaders of 150 nations, along with thousands of representatives of nearly 200 countries, meet today in Paris for the 20th time to try and come up with a master plan to stave off the global catastrophe ahead. Scientists have known for…

News & Observer The military can fight climate changeNews & ObserverStephen A. Cheney, a retired U.S. Marine Corps brigadier general, hopes to change that. As CEO of the American Security Project, a nonpartisan organization, Cheney is making the case that climate change has a powerful affect on the stability of nations …

Xi faces one of his greatest tests yet – China’s environmentSouth China Morning PostBut the political will to tackle the issue has been sorely lacking, even though the environmental degradation has become a key source of social discontent. To be sure, Xi’s predecessor Hu Jintao first added ecological civilisation as a new goal for the…

The Guardian How to offset Trump’s climate science ignorance – plant 10bn treesThe GuardianJeremy Woods, deputy director of environmental policy at Imperial College London, says the project’s calculations make sense, even if they are at the optimistic end of the scale. He says that trees – especially when they are growing as they use more…

The Guardian How Slovenia is helping its ‘baby dragons’The GuardianIt was the first time olms had been persuaded to breed in a scientifically controlled environment within Postojna Cave. “In the cave, in nature, olms hatch all the time,” said Saso Weldt, another cave biologist, “but nobody has ever seen that happen or …