Just in time to celebrate Earth Day, a survey has revealed that approximately 93 percent of the Great Barrier Reef has been hit by coral bleaching, an event of unprecedented severity that scientists say will likely lead to the death of a significant percentage of those reefs.
Scott Walker, the barely sentient potato who’s been elected governor of Wisconsin not once, not twice, but three times, is celebrating Earth Day in his own special way. Throughout the week, nearly 60 employees of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources have received notice that they might soon be laid off.
In honor of Earth Day, sustainable retailer Reformation has launched two very cool planet-friendly initiatives: a tool called Refscale that explains the environmental impact of each item sold on the website, and a “Low Carb Collection,” designed to require a minimal quantity of CO2 for production.
I hope that everyone is enjoying Earth Day while they still can — please take a moment to appreciate the glories of nature before climate change reduces our planet to a desolate Water World littered with the bloated corpses of drowned polar bears. This is an issue about which it's easy to feel despondent, seeing as…
Not sure you want to go through the trouble of planting a tree, eh? Or is that Arbor Day? Whatever, look, the point is you shouldn't overload on caring about the planet so much today that you ignore it the rest of the year. That attitude is strictly for families at Christmas. Instead, celebrate the belated conviction…
The Body Shop would like you to at least give it a shot.
In case you haven't been to Google yet, now is a good time to mention that it's Earth Day. Not into recycling or picking up trash? Celebrate with some Animal Planet. Or Cute Overload. Animals are so big right now.
[From Apollo VIII, December 1968. Image via AP]
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