Much of Texas has been weathering from days of harsh winter weather, snow, ice, and freezing rain since a major winter storm hit the region beginning on Feb. 15, battering the state’s power grid and leaving millions without power or water. Meanwhile, as Texas recovers from the winter storms, Sen. Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, was spotted on a plane heading to Cancún, Mexico, on Thursday.
Continue reading “Ted Cruz Vacations in Mexico As Texans Suffer”Category: Climate Change & Global Warming
Wildfires and Hurricanes: It’s Time For a Green New Deal
Wildfires are tearing through the West Coast at rates never seen before. The smoke from wildfires is causing places like Seattle, Portland, and the Bay Area to experience some of the worst air qualities in the entire world. Hurricanes are hitting the Gulf Coast and many areas of the East Coast hard in recent years. It’s undeniable that climate change has become a real threat to human life, but hardly anything is being done about it.
Continue reading “Wildfires and Hurricanes: It’s Time For a Green New Deal”The Southwestern United States’s Water Problem
The mighty 1,540-mile-long Colorado River provides water for over 40 million people in the Southwestern U.S. and is a vital lifeline for people in seven states and Mexico. It has a drainage basin of over 246,000 square miles and it provides water to the cities of Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Denver, and many more. However, it has been drying up over the 21st century, threatening millions of Americans’ access to freshwater.
