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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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California poppies in orange bloom covering the fields and hills

NEEF Conservation Grant Supports Biodiversity in the California Floristic Province

NEEF and Toyota funded $220,000 for biodiversity conservation in California's Floristic Province. Four projects, from grassland health to aspen restoration

Group of students standing in a group outdoors

Visually Impaired Students Gain Access to Nature Through Sound

Visually Impaired Students Gain Access to Nature Through Sound thanks to the Driving Mobility and Accessibility on Public Lands Grant supported by Toyota

NPLD highlighted site volunteers pose for a group picture

NPLD Highlighted Sites Focus on Community and Connection in the Wake of COVID-19

On the fourth Saturday in September each year, NEEF joins forces with its longtime partner Toyota Motor North America for the nation's largest single-day

Mississippi River Park Connection volunteers

Islands in the Stream: How One Minnesota Nonprofit Brought People Together to Restore a Mississippi River Habitat

The Mississippi Park Connection recently completed a massive conservation project to reforest a beneficial barrier island within the Upper Mississippi River.

Crowd at a pier at Sleeping Bear Dunes, Michigan

Reaching the Beach at Sleeping Bear Dunes

With assistance from a NEEF grant, Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes conducted accessibility assessments on four beaches and 20 miles of trails throughout the

Student winners of the Samsung Climate Superstars Challenge!

Michigan Middle School Science Class Wins Environmental Education Challenge

Last month, the National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF) partnered with Samsung and the EPA’s ENERGY STAR® program to present the 2019 Climate

Landscape photo of the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River valley in Washington State

A Seattle-based nonprofit has conserved public lands for three decades. This year, Congress finally took notice.

Seattle in 1990 was a much different place than it is now. Grunge music had yet to go mainstream, Starbucks was still a local gourmet coffee chain, and Amazon

Volunteers with the Mountain Studies Institute at a stewardship event

Local nonprofit helps Colorado community heal from wildfire devastation through environmental stewardship

It was like something out of an old John Ford Western: on the morning of June 1, 2018, a coal-fired locomotive slowly chugged its way through the picturesque

Student showing a science project about air quality during wildfires

Local Wildfire Helps Teach Students About Science and Ecology

Teens in Durango, Colorado, discuss hydrophobic soil with the ease that they discuss reality TV or Minecraft thanks to teachers who used a major wildfire to

Philadelphia Watershed by Bike Program, photo courtesy of Greater Philadelphia YMCA

The YMCA Keeps the Learning Rolling in Summer

Though the summer slide sounds like an exciting new piece of equipment at the local park, it really describes the decline in students' achievement scores over