Dr. Jane Goodall, the legendary scientist and conservationist, hosted a global leadership meeting for Roots and Shoots, the conservation organization she created in 1991 to empower young people to help protect the environment. The leadership meeting took place in St…
Jul 24 2019
Panic attacks and other anxiety disorders linked to vitamin deficiency in new study from Japan
Anxiety attacks affect 40 million people a year, including yours truly. It’s been a less than unpleasant experience where you get to feel tightness in your chest and a whole bunch of fast thoughts zipping through your brain. There's been…
Jul 19 2019
"Tsundoku" is the lovely Japanese word every bibliophile should know
July 19, 2019
Hey book lovers! Do you love building your own library? Does that mean you have dozens and dozens of books you just haven't gotten around to yet? Are they piled…
Jul 19 2019
You Can Now Buy Jack Skellington And Sally LEGO Minifigures From 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'
Collectors, LEGO has unveiled a series of new must have mini-toys which includes Elsa, Jasmine, Hades, Jafar, and many more!
By Apeksha Nichrelay
June 21, 2019
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Jul 19 2019
Indian Government Passes Unprecedented Legislation
Tuesday, May 3, 2016, the Lok Sabha, one of the two houses of Indian Congress, unanimously passed a bill to unlock over $6 billion dollars in accumulated funds that would go toward increasing the forest coverage in India. The bill…
Jul 18 2019
Studies show that living in cities produce a higher risk of mental health issues
According to an abstract published by the US National Library of Medicine
National Institutes of Health, the stress of living in cities (which half the population does) results in a higher risk of paranoia, schizophrenia, anxiety, and depression.
It’s…
Jul 17 2019
Wanna save the world? Scientists share where to plant trees and how many are needed
Here’s some solid numbers for you; if we plant trees on 2.2 billion acres on different places around the world in areas marked for reforestation, we can capture two-thirds of man-made emissions.
The scientists at the Crowther Lab of ETH…
Jul 17 2019
Conservationists Purchased Temperate Rain Forest in Canada and Protects 40 At Risk Species
The Nature Conservancy of Canada is a large non-profit that focuses on environmental protection efforts within Canada. They have recently achieved success in one of their biggest initiatives: they have secured the safety of a rare temperate rainforest.
The national…
Jul 12 2019
EPA Puts Bee-Killing Pesticide Back On The Market
President Donald Trump and the Republican administration has effectively gutted the EPA over perceived concerns about over-regulating industries that have an environmental impact. In practice, that means a lot of the EPA’s work defending the environment has been severely damaged.
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Jul 11 2019
New York Takes Big Steps to Limit Financing for Private Prisons Across the Country
Private prisons are horrifying. Substandard care, overcrowding, and all the typical cost cutting measures associated with normal business practices have created an environment that underserves the prison population and creates a space that is more dangerous to prisoner and guard…
Jul 8 2019
We lost a record number of honey bee colonies this winter
The Bee Informed Partnership, a nonprofit group associated with the University of Maryland has made a troubling announcement: this past winter recorded colony losses of 37.7 percent, which is the highest ever recorded. It’s especially disturbing because winter bees…
Jul 5 2019
In a breakthrough for HIV researchers, scientists have eliminated the virus from genomes of living animals
29 lab mice were given modified versions of anti-retroviral drugs - the kind similar to the prescriptions that HIV + patients use to restrict their viral levels to near-zero - and were also subjected to new gene-editing techniques that cut…