For World Environment Day today we"re in northeastern Costa Rica, a nature lover"s paradise. The UN established World Environment Day in 1974 to encourage awareness and action for the protection of the environment. It begins with research, which is exactly what happens in this pristine corner of the planet. The misty canopy of forest pictured here is part of La Selva Biological Station, an internationally renowned center for tropical forest research that"s associated with universities and research institutions in the United States, Costa Rica, and Puerto Rico.
Bird s-eye view on World Environment Day
Today in History
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Wildebeest on the move
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‘Ocian in view! O! The joy.’
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Abbey Gardens in Bury St Edmunds, England
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Is that a smile?
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It s Star Wars Day
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Hello, harbinger of spring
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Mod gear
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Salt of the earth
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World Children s Day
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Happy Father s Day
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A species worth defending
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Let’s talk fossils
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In praise of the old…the very old
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A wassailing we go
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Art abounds at the Palais Garnier
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Old Fortress, Corfu, Greece
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Heron lies the Salton Sea
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Gray days ahead in Monterey
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Rethymno, Crete, Greece
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A peek behind the royal curtain
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World Teachers Day
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’Chess on ice’