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The best of this week’s wildlife photographs, including a sleepy sloth, a black-backed jackal and a breaching whale. 

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Let’s Paint Our Animals , Bob and Roberta Smith

The Wild Escape on Earth Day – in pictures

 

Marvin Gaye for Earth Day

 

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Word on the Street

More and more children are experiencing "eco-anxiety": a chronic fear of environmental doom.

 But some are converting their panic into a force for good.

 By Josie Glausiusz

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Ukrainian Refugees Are Thanking Countries for Their Warm Welcomes by Helping Clean Public Spaces

Ukrainian refugees are helping to beautify the places where they have resettled after Russia invaded their country. It's all throughout Europe, in places including Prague and in Turkey.

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“Someday, you’ll understand the role of tradition in providing comfort and continuity. 

But you’re right—it’s funny that we still call it Earth Day.” 

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Brisbane, Australia

 A dummy depicting a small child covered in coal at an Extinction Rebellion protest. 

The group held rallies outside the corporate offices of a number of coal companies in the city.

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Earth Day 2020 could mark the year we stop taking the planet for granted.

Fifty years ago today, the first Earth Day was marked in the United States as a peaceful call for environmental reform, following a massive oil spill off the coast of California.
 Half a century later, this annual day unites millions across the globe, drawing attention to the huge challenges facing our planet. Now more than ever, Earth Day offers an opportunity for us all to reflect upon our relationship with the planet, amid the most powerful possible message that nature can surprise us at any moment, with devastating consequences for pretty much every individual. It is a time when the health of the planet and its people has never been so important. This year held great promise for environmental change on the back of growing pressure for concerted, urgent action and with a suite of international conferences set to refocus global commitment on these key issues.
The nexus between nature, climate and sustainable development was embodied in 2020.
The year offered hope.
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Happy Earth Day 2019!

This year's annual Earth Day Doodle takes us around the planet we call home to discover some of the awe-inspiring organisms which inhabit it.

 

Earth Day

Auroras, glaciers, and gullies feature among the most stunning pictures of Earth from space, chosen by National Geographic photo editors for Earth Day.

 

World Earth Day 2017

World Earth Day is celebrated every year as an annual event by the people all across the world on 22nd of April in order to increase the awareness among people about the environment safety as well as to demonstrate the environmental protection measures. First time, the world earth day was celebrated in the year 1970 and then started celebrating annually on global basis by almost 192 countries.
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Earth's beauty

Nasa is marking Earth Day by releasing some of its best images of our planet taken from space - by its satellites, its research aircraft and astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) - in the past year. Here is a selection of them.