Image credit: Simon Godfrey via Unsplash. Today marks the 41st annual International Day of Peace, otherwise known as World Peace Day. World Peace Day was established in 1981 to amplify the pursuits of peace by observing 24 hours of nonviolence. This year’s...
Image credit: KAL VISUALS via Unsplash In April, we shared the Executive Order issued on Earth Day 2020, focusing on valuing nature in US policy which addressed: Safeguarding mature and old-growth forests on federal lands in the U.S; Strengthening...
Image Credit: Ales Krivec via Unsplash. On July 11th, 2022, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) released a summary of their new Assessment Report on the Diverse Values and Valuation of Nature. This...
Image credit: Alex Burley via Unsplash Is there any new information? As of July 23rd, 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General declared the current monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern. According to the Center...
Image credit: Eric Stevens via Unsplash As our world is still grappling with the two-and-a-half-year global pandemic caused by the COVID-19 outbreak, we now face a new outbreak of a deadly zoonotic disease. As of June 27th, 66 countries have reported confirmed...
