From a friend of Speak Out Now in France A feminist movement has gathered momentum across France to protest against clothing discrimination between young men and young women. While young men are allowed to wear shorts and tank tops, in some schools young women are...
The West Coast looks like a doomsday landscape due to wildfires fanned by climate change that have consumed more than 5 million acres of land over the past month. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced, and over 35 have been killed so far. Smoke created by...
Wildfires have scorched more than five million acres, an area the size of Connecticut, as they raged through California, Oregon and Washington this month. At the same time, states in the southeastern U.S. have been battered by powerful hurricanes. The number of human...
Since 1970, the planet’s wildlife populations have decreased by an average of 68 percent, according to the World Wildlife Fund’s 2020 Living Planet Report. Today’s extinction rate is hundreds, maybe even thousands of times higher than the normal baseline rate. The...
Reports of orcas ramming boats near the coasts of Spain and Portugal have been flooding in. In July and August, in numerous separate incidents, sailors reported being rammed repeatedly by orcas (also known as “killer whales,” though they are actually the largest of...
