Catie Brown

2020 has already been a big year for the world, environmentally-speaking. We have had devastating wildfires in Australia, earthquakes in Puerto Rico, a melting Antarctica, and the relaxing of environmental protections in the United States. But this year has also…Read More

Five years ago today, the world celebrated the first International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Begun by the United Nations in 2015, this day of public awareness aims to address the unequal access women and girls have to STEM-related…Read More

Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching (don’t worry, this serves as a heads up if you had forgotten). The shelves of your favorite stores will be filled with teddy bears, flowers, and chocolates in every size and shape imaginable if they…Read More

The graveyard of electronic devices is filled with the decaying corpses of discarded batteries, ’turtleneck’ charging cables, iDogs, the famous Razor flip-phone, and even the odd iPod nano. But it is also the new home of much more recent devices,…Read More

We’ve all done it. You forgot your water bottle at home, so you buy a plastic water bottle at the supermarket. Or you were too tired to rinse out your plastic salad container, so you throw it in the trash…Read More

This past Wednesday, the European Union set a massive green goal — become the first climate neutral continent by 2050. The EU, which began as a conglomerate of six countries in 1958, has grown to include 28 countries (although this number may change…Read More

In 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) declaring “the inalienable rights which everyone is inherently entitled to as a human being regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, language, political or other opinion,…Read More

Happy World Soil Day from Eco18! Today is a day of celebrating one of the most important pieces in the patchwork of our ecosystems! A healthy planet for humans and all life quite literally starts from the ground up, but…Read More

Microsoft Corporation, the technology giant based in Washington, is a multinational company responsible for everything from personal laptops and phones to software and licenses. Oh – and did I mention underwater datacenters? Those too.  In 2013, a team of five…Read More

Even if you didn’t know it, you’ve probably had an interaction with NASA’s Hubble Telescope. Photos like the ones below are famous worldwide and explain never-before-seen astronomy phenomena. Do you recognize any?  The launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, according…Read More