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.

© Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

palette

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
Jun 5, 2024World Environment Day
Jun 5, 2025World Environment Day

More Desktop Wallpapers:

Jan 21, 2021The tale of squirrels like Nutkin
Apr 6, 2021On the rebirth of the Olympic Games
Dec 6, 2021Computer Science EDU Week
Sep 17, 2024Mid-Autumn Festival
Sep 7, 2021Whale hello there!
Aug 8, 2021Bridge to infinity
Apr 8, 2019Ready, set, read
Nov 30, 2020A water loch-ed castle
Dec 6, 2024Finnish Independence Day
Jan 15, 2023Aura River in Turku, Finland
Feb 12, 2020Wake up, it s Darwin Day
Apr 28, 2022Fox kits
May 10, 2020Happy Mother s Day
May 7, 2025Dunluce Castle, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Dec 23, 2023Festivus
Mar 3, 2023Killer whales in Spildra, Norway
May 10, 2019Looking back on 150 years of rail travel
Jul 19, 2018Cosplay strongly encouraged
Oct 20, 2025International Sloth Day
Oct 20, 2020Reflecting on fall
Jul 12, 2019The ‘Night of Nights’
Nov 28, 2023Giving Tuesday
May 14, 2019Cannes, France, in the spotlight
Oct 7, 2022Berlin Festival of Lights
Jun 17, 2025Maritime forest in Cumberland Island National Seashore, Georgia
Sep 11, 2018Inside the Oculus
Aug 1, 2023National Mountain Climbing Day
Jul 18, 2023Great hornbill, Thailand
Sep 22, 2020Happy Hobbit Day
Oct 6, 2023Taughannock Falls State Park