World Environment Day Jun 5, 2023

World Environment Day

"To damage the Earth is to damage your children," as the writer and environmentalist Wendell Berry put it. Today is World Environment Day, which marks its 50th year of raising awareness and encouraging action to protect the natural world. This year"s theme is about finding solutions to plastic pollution, which brings us to our homepage image.

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Today in History

Jun 5, 2018Up, up, and away for Hot Air Balloon Day
Jun 5, 2019Happy trees = Clean air
Jun 5, 2020By the light of the fireflies
Jun 5, 2021Bird s-eye view on World Environment Day
Jun 5, 2022World Environment Day
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Aug 14, 2025Cable car station, Graubünden, Switzerland
Jan 23, 2018Lençóis Maranhenses National Park in Brazil
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Dec 30, 2019Sky island views
Jul 12, 2024Mount Rainier National Park
Mar 19, 2019The smoke before the bonfire
Oct 21, 2018Welcome to El Cervantino
Aug 22, 2023Amphitheatre of El Jem, Tunisia
Oct 19, 2024International Archaeology Day
Jul 18, 2020The moth wonderful time of the year
Feb 22, 2019A rest stop for the birds
Jun 2, 2026Highway through Xitai Jinaier Lake, Qinghai Province, China
Jun 29, 2023International Day of the Tropics
Mar 3, 2023Killer whales in Spildra, Norway
Jan 6, 2020Have fun storming the castle
Oct 23, 2025International Day of the Snow Leopard
Jan 10, 2018Weaverbird nests at Kenya’s Samburu National Reserve
Jul 4, 2026The United States 250th anniversary
Jun 24, 2025Delicate Arch, Arches National Park, Utah
Sep 7, 2022200th anniversary of Brazilian independence
Jan 9, 2026Muir Woods National Monument anniversary
Aug 21, 2021Ambassadors of the airwaves
Oct 10, 2024Kochia, Hitachi, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan
Nov 24, 2021Chocolate Hills
Apr 13, 2026International Dark Sky Week
Aug 29, 2019Greetings from Asbury Park