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The Global Footprint Network determines an important date each year, but what exactly is Earth Overshoot Day? Based on 15,000 data points collected annually from each country by the United Nations, “Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand…Read More

In the past 20 years, the idea of supplementing one’s healthy diet and lifestyle with vitamins and nutrients has risen to prominence. Take a stroll through any grocery store and you will be confronted with rows of bottles sporting the…Read More

Practically everyone has heard of lung cancer and is familiar to its connection to smoking. While most people know that smoking is the leading cause of lung cancer, responsible for 80% of all cases, there are environmental factors and genetics…Read More

This article was updated on June 8th, 2021. Today, the world celebrates and acknowledges the importance of oceans in the health of the planet. With the ocean’s theme: Life and Livelihoods, this year’s World Oceans Day focuses on the ocean’s role within…Read More

This article was updated on May 21st, 2021. Today is National Endangered Species Day, a day to recognize why wildlife conservation is essential and what can be done to help prevent threatened species from extinction. In 2006, U.S. Congress officially made…Read More

The age-old pastime of sitting in the grass and looking to the sky, picking out the clouds that look like a ship with full sails or an elephant or a dolphin, is a pleasant game of imagination. But when I…Read More

This month the U.S. is celebrating the largest literary celebration in the world, National Poetry Month! Begun by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, this month is to spread awareness about the important role that poets and poetry play…Read More

Today is March 23rd. With many of us in quarantine and almost entirely detached from the rest of the world barring when we remote call into work or classes, it’s easy to forget what day it is, so I am…Read More

This article was updated on March 3rd, 2021. Today we celebrate World Wildlife Day, established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2013. Today not only marks the day the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna…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