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Earth Hour is a worldwide movement organized by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The event is held annually, encouraging the individuals, communities, and businesses to give an hour for Earth, and additionally marked by landmarks and businesses switching off non-essential electric lights, for one hour from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m., usually on the last Saturday of March, as a symbol of commitment to the ...
The highest natural ground surface temperature ever recorded may have been an alleged reading of 93.9 °C (201.0 °F) at Furnace Creek, California, United States, on 15 July 1972. [7] In 2011, a ground temperature of 84 °C (183.2 °F) was recorded in Port Sudan, Sudan. [8] The theoretical maximum possible ground surface temperature has been ...
Ecological Debt Day (Earth Overshoot Day) 09-23: September 23 in 2008, but receding World Gorilla Day [140] [141] [142] 09-24: September 24 World Environmental Health Day [143] 09-26: September 26 since 2011 [144] World Cassowary Day [145] [146] 09-26: September 26 International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste [147] 09-29: September 29
Every year for one hour in March, lights are turned off in homes, businesses and world monuments to raise awareness about climate issues facing our planet. Lights go out around the globe to ...
Annual. Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First held on April 22, 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally by EARTHDAY.ORG (formerly Earth Day Network) [1] including 1 billion people in more than 193 countries. [2][1][3] In 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San ...
The following is a list of cities by sunshine duration.Sunshine duration is a climatological indicator, measuring duration of sunshine in given period (usually, a day or a year) for a given location on Earth, typically expressed as an averaged value over several years.
Earth Overshoot Day (EOD) is the calculated illustrative calendar date on which humanity's resource consumption for the year exceeds Earth ’s capacity to regenerate those resources that year. In 2024, it fell on August 1st. [ 2 ] The term " overshoot " represents the level by which human population's demand overshoots the sustainable amount ...
This is a list of countries and sovereign states by temperature. Average yearly temperature is calculated by averaging the minimum and maximum daily temperatures in the country, averaged for the years 1991 – 2020, from World Bank Group , derived from raw gridded climatologies from the Climatic Research Unit .