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Category: Environment, Space & the Outdoors


Highlighting events, holidays, and awareness days celebrating what happens and exists outside, including nature, outer space, and the environment.

The environment category is about what happens outside of our homes.

Moon-New: April 1

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The New Moon occurs when the Moon and the Sun have the same elliptical longitude. This happens when the moon is at its closest point to the sun in its orbit. From earth we usually cannot see it. The New M...

January

Moon-New: April 30

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The New Moon occurs when the Moon and the Sun have the same elliptical longitude. This happens when the moon is at its closest point to the sun in its orbit. From earth we usually cannot see it. The New M...

January

Parks Week, Ntl: April 16-24

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For one week each April, we join with the National Park Foundation, the official charity of America's national parks, in celebrating America's treasures. National Park Week is a time to explore amazing pl...

January

Peace Rose Day: April 29

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Created by French horticulturist Francis Meilland in the late 1930s, the Peace Rose is hybrid tea rose that is soft yellow with pink tinged outer petals. It earned its name because it was shared with othe...

January

Picnic Day, Ntl.: April 23

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The goal of the National Picnic Day in the United States is to encourage people to get outdoors, get moving and eat together in the splendor of nature. Traditionally, picnic food is home-cooked or bough...

January

Pooper-Scooper Week, Intl.: April 1-7

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January

Qingming Festival (CN/TW): April 5

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The Quingming Festival, Tomb-sweeping Day or the Pure Brightness Festival occurs each year in early April and is a public holiday in most Asian nations historically tied to China. The festival signals t...

January

Richter Scale Day (1900): April 26

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January

Safe Digging Month, Ntl.: April

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National Safe Digging Month began in 2002 and is created by the United States Senate to bring attention to homeowners of the National helpline for homeowners, available by calling (811). This service ale...

January

Shangsi Festival (CN): April 3

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The third day of the third Lunar month in China is the Shangsi Festival. Also known as the Double Third Festival, it's an ancient Chinese celebration during which people picnic, harvest orchids and comm...

January

Skagit Valley Tulip Festival (US-WA): Apri...

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Over 1,000 acres of blooming tulips, daffodils and other spring flowers greet over 350,000 visitors each year in La Conner, Mount Vernon and Burlington, Washington. This is the Skagit Valley Tulip Festiva...

January

Sky Awareness Week: April 24-30

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Sky Awareness Week was conceived by meteorologist H. Michael Mogil and educator Barbara Levine, of How The Weather Works. The event/celebration has been recognized in over 40 states and the District of Co...

January

Solar Eclipse (Partial): April 30

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A solar eclipse is a phenomenon that happens when the moon passes between the sun and the Earth and fully or partially blocks the sun. This can only happen when the Moon is new and the eclipse appears dif...

January

St. Lazarus' Day (BG)(33AD): April 16

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Girls and young women in Bulgaria mark the emergence of spring and the a time for love with Saint Lazarus' Day each year. It commemorates the anniversary of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead, four days...

January

Starlight, World Night in Defense of: Apri...

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World Night in Defense of Starlight, also called 'World Night in Defense of the Night Sky and the Right to Observe the Stars as a cultural, scientific and environmental humankind heritage', exists to help...

January

Stewardship Week, Ntl.: April 24 - May 1

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Created in 1955 to draw attention to America's need to protect its natural resources, National Stewardship Week Conservation insures quality of life and supports the economy. Every year, the National Asso...

January

Sumardagurnn Fyrsti (IS): April 21

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Sumardagurnn Fyrsti, or first day of summer, is a national holiday in the nation of Iceland.

January

Tapir Day, World: April 27

Daily

World Tapir Day raises awareness of the species of tapir that inhabit Central and South America and Southeast Asia. One of its objectives is to raise funds to purchase land to protect the animal's habitat...

January

Tornado Day, Ntl. (2011): April 27

Daily

Between 8am April 27 and 8 AM April 28, 2011, 226 tornados touched down in the United States, killing 334 people. It was the most intensive outbreak of tornados ever recorded in the country. Today is a da...

January

Wildlife Week, Ntl.(US/CA): April 4-8

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The first National Wildlife Week ran March 20-26, 1938. At the time it was referred to as National Wildlife Restoration Week. Later it changed its name to National Wildlife Week. National Wildlife Week...

January
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