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Washington Post Tesla starts production of solar cells in BuffaloWashington PostDETROIT — Tesla Inc. is starting production of the cells for its solar roof tiles at its factory in Buffalo, New York. The company has already begun installing its solar roofs, which look like regular roofs but are made of glass tiles. But until now…

Newsweek Incredible NASA Video Shows What the Total Solar Eclipse Looked Like From SpaceNewsweekThe excitement around the recent total solar eclipse—which passed through 14 states from Oregon to South Carolina on August 21—built and built in the weeks before the event. Now that it has passed, American eclipse enthusiasts will have to wait until …See…

Yale Environment 360 Utilities Grapple with Rooftop Solar and the New Energy LandscapeYale Environment 360In the prevailing narrative of the rooftop solar industry, the dominant theme is combat. The good guys are the innovative, climate-positive, customer-pleasing solar companies, which must be nimble to avoid being crushed by the plodding, influence …PUC issues net metering draft…

The Seattle Times The Climate Post: Harvey Shines Light on Issue of Climate ChangeHuffPost“The hurricane is a naturally occurring hazard that is exacerbated by climate change, but the actual risk to Houston is a combination of the hazard—rainfall, storm surge and wind, the vulnerability, and the exposure,” said Hayhoe of Houston’s …What do we know…

CNN Now we have a moral duty to talk about climate changeCNNNo, of course climate change did not “cause” Harvey in any singular sense. Nor does smoking definitively “cause” any individual case of lung cancer. Smoking increases the risk of cancer, just as increased global warming increases the risk of extreme …The Strange Future Hurricane…

New York Times Hot Spots in a Freezing Ocean Offer Lessons in Climate ChangeNew York TimesClimate change will dramatically alter life in the oceans, scientists say, but there’s so much still to learn about marine ecosystems that it’s hard to know exactly how. On Thursday, researchers with the British Antarctic Survey offered a glimpse of…

Albany Times Union Report: NY school board members support teaching climate changeAlbany Times UnionResults of a NYSSBA survey released Thursday show that 16 percent of school board members oppose climate change being taught in public schools, while 14 percent were unsure. Of those who support such teaching or were unsure, 86 percent were in …Report: Climate…

Irish Times Climate change is happening right here, right nowIrish TimesThe US National Weather Service is not noted for alarmist pronouncements. So when it tweeted that Hurricane Harvey was unprecedented and that “all impacts are unknown and beyond anything experienced”, it became clear that we are fast moving into a … and more »

The Guardian Global warming doubles growth rates of Antarctic seabed’s marine fauna – studyThe GuardianMarine life on the Antarctic seabed is likely to be far more affected by global warming than previously thought, say scientists who have conducted the most sophisticated study to date of heating impacts in the species-rich environment. Growth rates of ……

TIME Hurricane Harvey’s Environmental Toll Will Only Get WorseTIMEThe explosion is not expected to have any long-term environmental impact, officials said, but the episode is just a taste of the environmental toll Harvey could leave on the region. Any mass flooding event brings with it public health concerns about … and more »