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

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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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