“Remember, remember the fifth of November,” read nearly every post on my Facebook feed on November fifth. As millions celebrated Guy Fawkes Day on social media, the internet hacktivist group Anonymous took to the streets in their fourth annual Million Mask March. 

For the Yazidi people of Iraq, Thursday marked a particularly horrifying day. On October 8th, ISIS fighters participated in the female sex slave market, where Yazidi girls were the prize item.

The scene was bleak on April 1 as California Governor Jerry Brown attended the annual snow measuring ceremony at the top of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Where the crowd would normally stand atop six feet of snow for the ceremony, they stood upon dry grass. This year the Sierra Nevada mountain range had the lowest ever recorded cover of snow on April 1 since measurements began in 1950. Statewide snow measurements for the rest of the Sierra Nevadas showed 5% of the average snow cover for this time of year, providing a foreboding warning to Californians to reduce their water usage.