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June 5 is the United Nations World Environment Day.
The next date is June 5, 2027. Dates follow Mountain Time, America/Denver. Stories below are from the archive.
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A short prompt for a teacher to use with children. This page is for adults.
Pick up litter on school grounds for fifteen minutes with gloves and a teacher. Sort what the school can actually recycle.
More stories a teacher can read aloud are in the Kids section.
CommunityThe 20th annual Yellowstone River Cleanup logged 3,277 volunteer hours. Crews pulled 191 tires, three engine blocks, and 16,170 pounds of trash, and recycled 75,328 pounds of metal.
Verified · Billings Gazette
AnimalsGuano mining left the Great Barrier Reef cay nearly bare. After decades of replanting, about 100,000 black noddies nest there each year.
Verified · ABC News
CommunityThe fifth annual planting at the Surrey park added native trees and shrubs along Highway 1, part of a month of volunteer plantings across Metro Vancouver parks.
Verified · CBC
ScienceThe DNR says partners, from private landowners to people planting on their own, helped reach the milestone. New trees also went in at Havenwoods, the state's only urban state forest, in Milwaukee.
Verified · WPR (Wisconsin Public Radio)Five true, uplifting stories in your inbox at 6 a.m. It takes two minutes to read and it sets the tone for the whole day.