Cathy Worthington and Merry Elkins of famed Late Boomers Podcast interviews ERA Science Co-Founder Denise Avchen about her activism in education, science and charity.

The world has witnessed the recent extreme weather impact on Texas, not experienced since it's coldest February since 1989. Spokesperson Clare Nullis from the World Meteorological Organization describes the phenomena as the Polar Vortex:

While the planet is plunged into a desperate battle to control the spread of COVID-19, it continues to suffer historic catastrophic changes to our climate.

According to a Columbia University report on daily global carbon emissions, carbon dioxide (CO2) levels of 417.1 parts per million in the atmosphere were chronicled in the month of May 2020, reaching their highest monthly average ever recorded.

United Nations issued a warning of the rising levels of toxic brine in earths oceans.  The UN study concluded that 50 percent of the brine produced by desalination plants were underreported.

Recent study by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (Canada), Wageningen University (Netherlands), and the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (Republic of Korea) analyzed a newly-updated outdated statistics to revise the worlds desalination plants.

On April 4, 2019 team ERAscience was honored to host Dr. Jane Goodall’s 85th birthday celebration in Los Angeles at the home of ERAscience’ founders.

As 2018 winds down our team at ERAscience is looking back at some of the year’s great moments. On October 20th we were beyond honored and happy as ERAscience partnered with Univision & CSUN to present Univision’s Féria de Educacion Science & Technology pavillion! Thirty thousand in attendance! Infinite thanks to the event producers and huge to CNSI for sparking the minds of thousands of kids at the CNSI installation!! Awesome!!

Team ERAscience is once again honored to partner with the brilliant team at UCLA California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI at UCLA) on Nanovation Competition, a three month long Shark Tank like competition for high school students. Teams from 11 Los Angeles-area high schools each developed and pitched their ideas for science-based product concepts presented at the finals. The entries were reviewed by a jury of Los Angeles venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, along with UCLA faculty members and ERAscience.

Our hearts are with our wonderful partners and friends at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics on the great loss of Distinguished Chair and faculty member Stephen Hawking. His work lives on through yours, in PI’s Stephen Hawking Centre research, and certainly through your life changing Education Outreach!
Bottom photo is from last month’s PI/CNSI/ERAscience education outreach collaboration at CNSI UCLA. Top photo is Professor Hawking surrounded by loving colleagues at Perimeter.

The United Nations marks 11 October as the 'International Day of the Girl Child".

Team ERAscience applauds all the great young female science minds whose creativity and potential can not be stopped. Congratulations again to the phenomenal group of middle school girls who tied for 1st place in the UCLA CNSI/ERAscience 2017 Nanovation Competition. They competed against high schools across Los Angeles, winning for their project aimed at saving lives through use of nano materials in PICC line safety.

How did you spend World Environment Day 2017?

World Environment Day (WED) is observed every year on June 5 to raise global awareness to take positive environmental action to protect nature and the planet Earth. It is run by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). "World Environment Day (WED) is the United Nations’ most important day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action for the protection of our environment. Since it began in 1974, it has grown to become a global platform for public outreach that is widely celebrated in over 100 countries.