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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

In 1992, Canada presented the idea of World Oceans Day to the United Nations at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit. Ten years later, the Ocean Project began global collaboration for the event and almost three decades later from its…Read More

Today is National Endangered Species Day, a day to recognize why wildlife conservation is important and what can be done to help prevent threatened species from extinction. In 2006, U.S. Congress officially made the third Friday in May a day…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

Today is the 7th annual 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 and Flora was signed in 1973, but this year…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