This stunning 360-degree image is the last panorama captured by NASA’s Opportunity rover on Mars. The
view is of Perseverance Valley in Endeavour crater, which would become Oppy’s final resting place. The rover
ran out of juice last June, following an epic 15-year mission exploring the red planet.
Visible are the tracks of the rover that “begin their descent from over the horizon and weave their way down to geologic features that our scientists wanted to examine up close”, says Opportunity project manager John Callas. “And to the far right and left are the bottom of Perseverance Valley and the floor of Endeavour crater, pristine and unexplored, waiting for visits from future explorers.”
Kiwi kids were doing the global thing right at the time of the terrible shooting
A February climate protest by students in London. (Wiktor Szymanowicz/NurPhoto/Getty)
Scientists support school strike for climate
Tens of thousands of scientists have released statements expressing
support for the ongoing climate strikes by schoolchildren. Today is set to be the biggest moment yet for the grassroots movement inspired by Swedish teen Greta Thunberg, in which young people walk out of schools to demand that adults do more to combat climate change. The young protesters “have every right to be angry about the future that we shall bequeath to them, if proportionate and urgent action is not taken”, said the statement from UK academics.
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Thousands of scientists are backing the kids striking for climate change
Students around the world are walking out of school to urge governments to do more about global warming.
President Trump and his team are planning on releasing an insurance plan soon that could change the way people buy property. In an era of increasingly extreme weather, that’s a forward-thinking move.
The administration is looking to make some changes to the National Flood Insurance Program — a federal program that is
billions of dollars in debt. Instead of assessing whether a given home is at risk of flooding based on outdated estimates, the new system will “calculate the real flood threat for each home and set costs based on that data,”
Bloomberg reports.
The new policy could negatively affect folks in communities that are especially susceptible to flooding, a side effect housing officials say they are watching closely, according to Bloomberg. The changes to the program could raise premiums for at-risk homes.
On the upside, the new system will give Americans — millions of whom are covered by the program — a better understanding of just how at-risk their properties are. You don’t need to look much further than Miami to see how foolish it is to buy property on the coast — sea levels are rising there at breathtaking speed. The Trump administration’s new method of assessment will provide some much-needed incentives against people literally ending up underwater on their properties.
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Is the Green New Deal “tantamount to genocide?” Utah Representative Rob Bishop apparently said so. Republicans have had some
extreme reactions to the progressive proposal, but this takes the cake. Here’s what Bishop said when Axios’ Amy Harder pressed him on whether he really thinks the Green New Deal poses a risk to his well-being:
Harder: You think the Green New Deal is going to kill you?
Bishop: If you actually implement everything they want to. Killing would be positive if you implement everything the Green New Deal actually wants to.
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How 12 Communities Are Fighting Climate Change and What’s Standing in Their Way
They’re using renewable energy, urban planning, their voices and the law to try to rein in climate change that’s already in their front yards.
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How 12 Communities Are Fighting Climate Change and What’s Standing in Their Way