World Ocean Day
June 8 is World Ocean Day. This holiday started in 1992 and gives everyone an opportunity to celebrate our world ocean and our personal connection to the sea. According the the World Ocean Project, reasons to celebrate the world’s oceans include that the ocean:
- Generates most of the oxygen we breathe
- Helps feed us
- Regulates our climate
- Cleans the water we drink
- Offers us a pharmacopoeia of potential medicines
- Provides limitless inspiration
There are events all over the world to commemorate World Ocean Day. To find an event near you, click here.
(logo courtesy of World Ocean Project)
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Jun 9, 2008 at 4:06 am
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