Elsevier, a global leader in information analytics specialising in science and health, is releasing an Earth Day special issue collection in honour of Earth Day’s 50th anniversary. Thirty journal articles and 20 book chapters on various related topics will be freely available on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect, starting April 22, 2020 (#EarthDay2020), to commemorate the occasion.
The free content consists of journal articles and book chapters related to the United Nation’s (UN) Sustainable Development Goals and are intended to support new research and raise awareness around sustainability.
The world’s first Earth Day started in 1970. Twenty million Americans, at the time 10 percent of the US population, gathered to protect the environment. Today, the Earth Day Network is now the world’s largest recruiter to the environmental movement, working with over 75,000 partners in more than 190 countries, mobilising more than one billion individuals every year.
This year’s Earth Day theme is on climate action. Climate change still represents the biggest challenge to the future of humanity and the life-support systems that make the world habitable. According to the UN, the human global population is estimated to reach 9.6 billion by 2050, and it would take the equivalent of three planets to produce enough natural resources to sustain our current lifestyle.
The Earth Day Network this year is creating multiple digital activities including a Citizen Science App to download. The app will be the world’s largest ever coordinated citizen science campaign. The initiative integrates existing citizen science projects and builds capacity for new ones — all to grow citizen science worldwide. Using mobile technology and open citizen science data, the app will empower people around the world to monitor and mitigate threats to environmental and human health in their communities.
In an effort to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, Elsevier’s Education, Reference, and Continuity group, along with scientific and technical journals, is devoting a free special issue for Earth Day, covering a range of topics including energy, food science, transportation, health and well-being, water quality, plastic waste, and sustainable cities. The goal in highlighting these 50 curated chapters and articles to illustrate the dependability and care that scientific research offers in various aspects of civilization.
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