ATCHAFALAYA NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA, LA: Water protectors living high in the canopy of old growth cypress trees brought construction on the Bayou Bridge pipeline to a halt earlier today in the Atchafalaya Basin, the largest swamp in North America.

The Bayou Bridge Pipeline

The Bayou Bridge Pipeline (BBP) would impact numerous communities across Southern Louisiana. The pipeline would lead to more fracking for oil in the shale fields of North Dakota and further the global dependence on climate change-causing fossil fuels.

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"NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is about to embark on one daredevil stunt of a space mission.

Slated to launch August 4, the probe will be the first spacecraft to swoop through the sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, a roiling inferno of plasma heated to several million degrees Celsius.

The solar probe, if all goes well, is set to circle the sun two dozen times during its seven-year mission. It will be orbiting the sun from approximately six million kilometers away and at a speed of around 700,000 kilometers per hour. The Parker Solar Probe will observe the corona and the solar wind created by the sun. Both of which will likely help in learning more about the sun and its atmosphere. The information gathered from this mission will help future space travel.

Along with the probe will be the names of those who filled out a "Send Your Name To The Sun" submission at http://parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu/The-Mission/Name-to-Sun/ before the deadline back in April.

NASA's Parker probe is about to get up close and personal with the sun

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is about to embark on one daredevil stunt of a space mission. Slated to launch August 4, the probe will be the first spacecraft to swoop through the sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, a roiling inferno of plasma heated to several million degrees Celsius.