This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. The past couple of months have seen record temperatures across the U.S. and the rest of the world. Not only heat waves, but resulting fire and...
Heat waves, floods, and forest fires – what taste of the climate crisis have you had this summer? This year has been another grim example of how the climate situation has become so violent that more and more it is no longer just the threat of the world to come, of...
In recent times, high temperature records have been measured in the Americas, Europe and Asia, and wildfire smoke has blanketed much of North America. At the same time, unheard of rain and flooding has hit areas previously thought of as safe from climate change. If...
As the climate heats up, mosquitoes have more time to live and breed and expand their habitat, especially northward. So, we are beginning to see mosquito-carried diseases, such as malaria, in different parts of the world. Until recently, malaria has been most...
This week a lawsuit against the state of Montana was filed by 16 young people against the state’s support of the fossil fuel industry. The young people are suing the state, claiming that the government must uphold their right to “maintain and improve a clean and...
