Looking for activities to celebrate #EarthDay this year? Here are some of our favorites from our Nifty 50 list of environmental activities. A 🧵environmentamerica.org/feature/ame/ni… Make a self portrait from leaves, sticks, flowers and other natural materials.

If you love bees as much as us, you probably already know how badly bees need our help to survive. But did you know these facts about bees? Bees don’t just live in hives! Bees can be found in marshes, sand dunes, cliffs, peatlands, wetlands, grasslands, quarries, gravel pits, sea walls and even more amazing places. But across the country, their habitat is being destroyed by human activity.

Today marks the 12th anniversary of the BP #DeepwaterHorizon disaster, which saw millions of gallons of oil gush into the Gulf of Mexico, oiling seabirds, sea turtles and more. 1/ Over a decade later, we’re still seeing the impacts of this spill in our ocean 🐬 and in our communities. 2/ courthousenews.com/damage-from-de…