Environment Facts

Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.

Tasmania is said to have the cleanest air in the world.

Between 50-70% of household water used during summer months goes toward watering lawns and gardens.

Scientists estimate that between 24 and 150 species go extinct every single day, a rate 1,000 times higher than the natural background extinction rate.

At 17 years old, an Indian man named Jadav Payeng started planting trees on a barren sandbar. At age 47, he lives in his own 1360 acre forest which now houses rhinos, tigers, deer, apes and elephants.

In 1981, the Chinese government passed a resolution making it a duty for every citizen aged 11 and older to plant at least three trees per year, creating the world's largest reforestation program.

The average American uses eight times as much fuel energy as an average person anywhere else in the world.

The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.

A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate!

By recycling just one glass bottle, the amount of energy that is being saved is enough to light a 100 watt bulb for four hours.

Each 5 m.p.h. you drive over 60 m.p.h. is like paying an additional $.10 a gallon for gas!

About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car!

The Pacific island of Nauru's economy is almost entirely based on bird droppings.

Ecosia is a search engine that plants trees with its profits, having funded over 200 million trees worldwide since 2009.

It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.

Each year 96 billion pounds of food is wasted in the U.S.

Approximately 68 million trees are used each year in the U.S. to produce paper and paper products.

PornHub planted 15,473 trees in honor of their "PornHub Gives America Wood" environmental campaign.

Common pesticides such as roach, termite, and flea insecticide can be found in the bodies of the majority of Americans.

The Sprout pencil is a plantable pencil that contains a seed inside. When it's too short to use, you can plant it and watch it grow herbs and vegetables.

Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.

Yacouba Sawadogo was a farmer in Burkina Faso who fought the desert with holes. He spent four decades digging zaï pits by hand. Each pit was packed with compost to capture rainfall and feed the soil below. Cracked, barren land became a living forest of nearly 40 hectares with more than 60 species. He won the Right Livelihood Award - the Alternative Nobel - in 2018.