Environment

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

With the global virus claiming headlines across the world, other crises have been sidelined, including the massive bushfires that threatened Australia starting in September 2019. In honor of Hug an Aussie Day yesterday, we’re taking a look at the latest…Read More

This coming Sunday for many in the world is Easter Sunday! Easter has a long history, both as a religious day and as an ancient seasonal holiday. Many Christians celebrate Easter as the day that Jesus resurrected from the dead;…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

Our world has made a bumpy transition to online. Classes, jobs, and wine nights with friends are all through the medium of our screens. Even climate activism is learning to adapt and continue their mission through social media! The youth…Read More

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

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

In honor of Eco18’s eight-year anniversary, we are taking a look back at the eighteen resolutions we adopted during our first year to see how far we have come (and where we need to make more progress) to become an…Read More

Over the past decade, many educational institutions around the United States have implemented programs encouraging young girls to become involved in STEM fields—like the National Girls Collaborative Project, National Math and Science Initiative, and Women in Engineering Proactive Network, to…Read More

Fatbergs are the perfect name to convey the huge collections of waste which congeal into destructive globs that wreak havoc on our sewer systems. We are talking about massive levels of destruction here. In the UK in 2017, a 143-ton…Read More