Earth Day this year, officially on Saturday, follows weeks of extreme weather with temperatures soaring to record highs in Thailand and a punishing heatwave in India
Climate change campaigners gathered outside Britain’s parliament building ahead of Earth Day to urge action on global warming, while volunteers worldwide geared up to plant trees and clear trash to mark the 54th annual celebration of the environment.
Pope Francis, who has championed green causes since his election in 2013, urged people to look after the environment. Hamid said when she now visits her hometown of Delhi, it feels like “putting your head in the oven” and that London’s 2022 heat wave was like “a dystopian film.”Activists led by the Extinction Rebellion group have gathered in London to kick off a four-day action, billed “The Big One,” to coincide with Earth Day.
The ancestral rituals – whose origins lie in the Indigenous cultures of Peru – are done to thank the Earth and build awareness of the planet, said Walter Alarcon, the president of the Healing Shamans of Peru International Organization. Earlier in the week, U.S. President Joe Biden pledged to increase funding to help developing countries fight climate change and curb deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest during a meeting with top world leaders.
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