Activists participate in a demonstration marking World Environment Day to call for community-built renewable energy structures, outside the Asian Development Bank headquarters in Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines.

Sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik creates a 30-ft long fish-shaped sand sculpture with plastic bottles and other plastic materials on the occasion of World Environment Day.

Dancers wear costumes made with plastic waste as they perform at an event to mark Cambodia’s Environment Day and the United Nations’ World Environment Day at Morodok Techo National Stadium in Phnom Penh on June 5, 2025.

Volunteers participate in a beach cleanup drive on the Arabian Sea coast at Mahim Beach on World Environment Day, in Mumbai.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi plants a sapling at his residence on World Environment Day, in New Delhi.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi flags off electric buses under the Delhi Government’s sustainable transport initiative, on the World Environment Day, in New Delhi.

Stark reality: A man unloads plastic and waste material at a garbage site beside a temple on World Environment Day, in Chennai.

Judges, advocates and judicial employees plant saplings at the District Court premises on World Environment Day in Sangareddy, Telangana.

Earth movers at work at the Jawahar Nagar dumping yard in Hyderabad on the eve of World Environment Day on Wednesday (June 4, 2025). The huge dump highlights the scale of the city’s solid waste management challenge.

Sailors practice for the YAI Monsoon Regatta in the polluted waters of Hussain Sagar Lake in Hyderabad on Wednesday (June 04, 2025), amid adverse conditions like foul smell, a day before World Environment Day.