World Rivers Day Sep. 24, 2023

If you are a nature enthusiast, an environmental advocate, or just simply enjoy listening to the sound of rumbling rivers, you might like to know that today is World Rivers Day. Following the United Nations" "Water for Life Decade" movement between 2005 and 2015, Mark Angelo—a Canadian river conservationist, teacher, author, and speaker—proposed a global event to celebrate rivers. World Rivers Day dedicates the fourth Sunday of September each year to waterways to increase awareness of the many benefits that rivers provide to people and the planet.

© phototropic/Getty Images

palette

Today in History

Starry, starry night
Sep. 24, 2024Skaftafell, Vatnajökull National Park, Iceland
Sep. 24, 2025Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming, United States

More Desktop Wallpapers:

Chilling out on an ice floe
Season of light in the City of Light
Mar. 24, 2025African elephants in Namibia
Jul. 12, 2024Mount Rainier National Park
Oct. 13, 2023Jasper Dark Sky Festival
Small but mighty
Dec. 27, 2023Kirkjufell, Iceland
Mar. 2, 2025Megalong Valley, Blue Mountains National Park, NSW, Australia
An oasis in the desert
Wait, mountain—you shall bear my castle!
Apr. 19, 2025Zion National Park, Utah, United States
Meet for lunch?
Jul. 24, 2024Cousins Day
Stealthy pollinators
One on land, a million in space
May 26, 2025Mount Hamilton, San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
Jan. 10, 2026The Matterhorn reflected in Lake Stellisee at sunrise, Zermatt, Switzerland
On the open ocean road
Feb. 23, 2025Mount Fuji Day
Apr. 27, 2024Leucistic Annas Hummingbird, California, USA
Feb. 4, 2024Devetashka Cave, Devetaki, Bulgaria
Nov. 29, 2024Mont-Saint-Michel, Normandy, France
Feb. 6, 20262026 Winter Olympics
Apr. 16, 2025Anniversary of Natural Bridges National Monument, Utah, United States
Jun. 12, 2025Big Bend National Park, Texas, United States
Bright blue lakes and rugged mountains
This bird is peak beak
Jun. 1, 2025World Reef Awareness Day
Mar. 26, 2024Vinh Hy Bay, Vietnam
The sea that acts like a lake