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The Mental Health Benefits of Spending Time in Nature
NEEF's Health program highlights the connection between climate change and mental health and how the Climate...
Addressing Common Asthma Myths
Over 25 million people in the US have asthma, and it's the leading chronic disease in children. We tackle some...
Asthma Awareness Month: Promoting Asthma-Friendly School Environments
May is Asthma Awareness Month, and May 1st is World Asthma Day. As a leading chronic illness affecting...
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National Public Lands Day (NPLD) is our opportunity to celebrate the beauty in nature and to be inspired to give back to Mother Earth for all that she has
2023 Update: These positions have been filled. Ready to put your environmental education skills to work at a national park? For the 2022-2023 school year, NEEF
Is an Outdoor Career for You? If you have a passion for the environment and want to protect it for the next generation, a job in the outdoors might be for you
Children's Environmental Health Day is an annual event devoted to raising awareness for children's environmental health issues. It gives us a chance to
Fat Bear Week, a popular event celebrating bear survival and Alaska's Bristol Bay ecosystem, teaches environmental education during the annual salmon run
Discover how climate shifts impact residential electricity use, with rising temperatures driving up cooling demands and reshaping energy consumption patterns.
Understanding the earth's water cycle can help us understand how a warming climate will intensify droughts and floods. A main contributor to the intensity of a
Friends of Herring Run Parks shares ten tips to help organizations host a successful National Public Lands Day event.
Biodiversity is important to human health because it supports physical, mental, and spiritual health and social well-being. Learn how NEEF supports biodiversity
Shark Week returns on July 24. This unofficial holiday debuted in 1988 and is now TV's longest-running programming event. The jury is still out on whether Shark