Today in observance of Earth Day it’s important to have some awareness and appreciation for the Earth’s environment. The 1st Earth Day was held in 1970 as an environmental teach-in and from that day it has been celebrated and observed on April 22. Even to this day many communities celebrate Earth Week, an entire week of activities focused on environmental issues. It’s important to focus on what environmental issues affect us today so our future generations can have it a little better. The Earth is an amazing place and sometimes we don’t get to see what great things it has to offer, so check out some of the most wildest things the Earth has given to us.
This view of Earth, featuring North, Central and South America was taken by the NASA probe called Messenger.
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A humpback whale raises its tail as it prepares for a deep dive in the Santa Barbara Channel off the coast of Oxnard, Calif.
The Llaima volcano spews smoke and lava some 850 km (528 miles) south of Santiago, Chile
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Star nosed mole
Pelochelys cantorii (Cantor’s giant soft-shelled turtle)
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A red-tailed hawk uses its talons to to grab a meal of Brazilian free-tailed bat as a cloud of the bats emerges from Frio Cave near Uvalde, Texas.
Aurora Borealis
Just days before its second eruption in April 2010, lava poured out of two fissures near Eyjafjallajokull.
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The View From Above
The crater at the summit of a volcano in southern Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull glacier spews ash.
Sky Blue
A cloud of volcanic ash moves over a family farm in Fimmvorduhals, Iceland.
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Sprinklers water a field at sunset, north of Buttonwillow, California.
A plant stands in front of piles of waste paper being shipped to mainland China for recycling, at a collection site in Hong Kong
