Speak Out Now National Newsletter: December 9, 2024
Download .pdf leaflet Download .pdf leaflet (Baltimore) Trump Cabinet Picks: Bad for Our Health Trump’s latest Cabinet appointments reveal an administration even more determined to prioritize the wealthy and powerful at the expense of working people. His selections for key healthcare roles, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) as Secretary of Health and Human Services […]
Drought Conditions in 48 States
All but two of the 50 United States have been experiencing drought conditions in late October and early November. 87% of the nation is experiencing “abnormally dry” conditions. This drought has been occurring despite and during the same weeks as Hurricane Helene dumped enormous amounts of rain over the Appalachian mountains, and despite recent heavy […]
Scorching Heat Continues Worldwide
After just experiencing the hottest year in at least 100,000 years, our earth is now experiencing another brutally hot year. These temperatures are not only showing up as numbers on the Weather Channel or on the weather apps on our smartphones. These heat records are having concrete effects, every day, around the world. In Miami, […]
Deadly Droughts Envelop Southern Africa
Since late 2023, millions of people in southern Africa have been facing an extreme drought, disrupting multiple aspects of their everyday life, including access to food and water. Rainfall levels between late January and February of this year were the lowest in at least 40 years. And for central parts of the region, this February […]
The Deadly Fire in Hawaii – A Profit-Driven Disaster
The death toll continues to rise from the fire that has ravaged the island of Maui in Hawaii. More than 90 deaths have been recorded so far, but the number is almost certain to rise. The fire is the worst so far in modern U.S. history, worse than the 2018 Camp fire in California which […]
Climate Crisis is Threatening Hot Sauce!
The hot sauce that everyone loves, Sriracha, is disappearing off the shelves and at restaurants, and is even being stolen from the few stores that still have some bottles left. What’s goin on? Temperatures have been soaring because of the climate crisis, with each new decade shattering the temperature records of the previous one. This […]
Mexico Water Shortage: A Warning to the World
Mexico is running out of water. Almost half of Mexico’s territory is currently experiencing a drought and there have been water shortages in over half of Mexico’s municipalities. In many cities and neighborhoods the taps have run dry for days at a time. In some parts of the city of Monterrey — which has been […]
A Consequence of the California Drought: Disappearing Fish
Due the extreme drought, across creeks in Northern California lay rotting carcasses of the Chinook salmon, a fish that historically would rest for weeks in these waters after completing their upstream journey.
Shorter Showers Won’t Get Us Out of the California Drought
As of July, 50 out of California’s 58 counties were in a drought state of emergency.