Earth Day 22 Apr 2024

Earth Day

Today is Earth Day—a day dedicated to celebrating the planet we call home and raising awareness of environmental problems. The seeds of this day were planted back in 1969 when Gaylord Nelson, the then-senator of Wisconsin, USA, witnessed events like the Cuyahoga River catching fire and the Santa Barbara oil spill and decided that the world needed an environmental initiative. A year later, the first Earth Day event was held. Now, it has grown into an annual event with more than a billion people in over 193 countries taking part.

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Today in History

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22 Apr 2025Earth Day

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This ‘snow’ never melts
Want to hang about?
3 Mar 2026World Wildlife Day
16 Jan 2025Pinnacles National Park, California, United States
Shell-ebrating sea turtles
Beauty by the bay
Teeming with trout
15 May 2025Palace of Westminster, London, England
20 Sep 2024Ocracoke Lighthouse on Ocracoke Island, North Carolina, USA
24 Feb 2024Almond trees in full bloom, California, USA
14 Jan 2026The staircase of the Fortress of Palamidi, Nafplio, Greece
3 May 2024The Sonoran Desert, Arizona, USA
20 Aug 2025The citadel in Bonifacio, Southern Corsica, France
10 Jan 2026The Matterhorn reflected in Lake Stellisee, Zermatt, Switzerland
5 Sep 2025Pacific Park, Santa Monica State Beach, California, United States
27 Jun 2025Splendid leaf frog
Back to the future
In the running
2 Oct 2024Wind River, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, USA
Pier perfect
4 Aug 2024San Gimignano, Siena, Italy
We can all just get along
11 Apr 2025Tulips, Netherlands
12 Sep 2024World Dolphin Day
What are these predators doing?
10 Apr 2026Black grouse males, Estonia
6 Apr 2026Castle Day Japan
23 Sep 2024Sea otter
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