Solar eclipse: Family over the moon with daughter born during totalityUSA TODAYPENSACOLA, Fla. — As the moon made its way across the sun during a rare solar eclipse on Monday, Charlotte Roel Easterly said hello to the world. The 7-pound, 11-ounce baby girl was born at Sacred Hospital at 1:36 p.m. CT at the exact…

TIME This Video of Skydivers Plunging Through the Solar Eclipse Is InsaneTIMESix professional wingsuit jumpers experienced the total solar eclipse from midair 14,000 feet above Madras, Ore. on Monday — a stunt they say is the first of its kind. Video captured by OutsideTV shows them jumping at 10:18 a.m. local time — 30 …Sunday:…

Detroit Free Press Solar eclipse 2017: Michigan viewing in jeopardy thanks to cloud coverDetroit Free PressFor those looking forward to viewing Monday afternoon’s solar eclipse in Michigan, especially in the lower part of the state, you’re going to face one more major obstacle: Cloud cover. As of Sunday morning, the Detroit metropolitan area – along…

MIT Technology Review Making Sense of Trump’s Surprising Investment in SolarMIT Technology ReviewThe press release trumpeted that the solar sector has already achieved the stated 2020 goal of the department’s SunShot Initiative, namely lowering the price of power from utility-scale, photovoltaic plants to 6 cents per kilowatt-hour. It added that …Solar is now so cheap…

Los Angeles Times Saying Goodbye to Cassini, the NASA Mission That Transformed Our Understanding of the Solar SystemThe New YorkerSome merely fade away, like Voyagers 1 and 2, which, four decades after their launch, have departed the solar system and are now drifting into the wider cosmos, quite possibly for eternity. Many others, though, end…

Washington Post Some good news about global warming for once — plants are speeding up their use of carbonWashington PostThat means if plants around the world continue to adjust to rising carbon dioxide concentrations, increasing their biomass on a global scale, they could actually help offset some of our human carbon emissions by removing more…

Newsweek Hillary Clinton May Have the Solution to Global Warming in Her BasementNewsweekOn tour for the release of her new book, What Happened, Hillary Clinton has opened up, becoming “cautiously diaristic” about her inner life during and after the 2016 election. She has unequivocally criticized Bernie Sanders, and she has called for … and more »

CNN Trump dismisses climate change question by contradicting himself on hurricanesCNN(CNN) President Donald Trump, pressed on whether back-to-back deadly hurricanes have changed his views on climate change, dodged the question on Thursday by contradicting past comments he made about the size of storms that have rocked Texas and …Trump weighs in on climate change: Hey, there…

Politico Florida governor remains unsure about climate change after Hurricane IrmaPoliticoMIAMI — Gov. Rick Scott is again weathering criticism over global warming in the wake of Hurricane Irma, and won’t say if he believes man-made climate change is real. “Clearly our environment changes all the time, and whether that’s cycles we’re going …Roughly Speaking podcast: After…

The Guardian From Africa to the US to Haiti, climate change is a Black Lives MatterThe GuardianOur aims were to call attention to three things: Britain’s historical responsibility for global temperature changes, while the UK remains among the least vulnerable countries to the direct effects of climate change; second, that black people and poor ……