Month: March 2022

The Republican National Convention on Tuesday spent more time on the opioid epidemic than the entirety of the Democratic National Convention. In a touching speech, “Trump failed on the opioid crisis — and Democrats are letting him get away with it”

Wildfires continue burning in California, with unhealthy air from smoke still cloaking some parts of the state. Combined with the Covid-19 pandemic, the fires are “What makes California’s current major wildfires so unusual”

The National Hurricane Center warned that Hurricane Laura will cause “life-threatening storm surge” reaching up to 40 miles inland and rising up to 20 feet “Hurricane Laura hits Gulf Coast as an “extremely dangerous” storm”

Hurricane Laura made landfall at 1 am ET Thursday in Cameron, Louisiana, as a fierce Category 4 hurricane with 150 mph winds. It has since “Hurricane Laura: The danger of storm surge, explained”

A couple of months ago, President Donald Trump said he told federal officials to “slow the testing down, please.” Now the Trump administration is taking “Trump asked for fewer Covid-19 tests. Now the CDC is recommending less testing.”

Before Hurricane Laura made landfall in the United States, it had already proved to be a deadly storm in three Caribbean countries, bringing torrential downpours, “Hurricane Laura was already a deadly storm before it reached the US”

To get the US pandemic under control, a growing number of health and medical experts are making a clarion call for an additional testing approach “Rapid $1 Covid-19 tests exist. Why can’t we get them?”

As America, and even his own administration, woke up to the threat of Covid-19, President Donald Trump still didn’t seem to get it. Within weeks “How Trump let Covid-19 win”

Tropical Storm Laura, which has been downgraded from a hurricane, made landfall early Thursday morning in Cameron, Louisiana — just 35 miles east of the “Tropical Storm Laura’s flooding and other impacts on the ground: What we know”

Earth is now in the middle of a mass extinction, the sixth one in the planet’s history, according to scientists. And now a new study ““Extinction breeds extinctions”: How losing one species can wipe out many more”