Happy Earth Day and greetings from the Anthropocene! It's an important moment to take stock of our air, water, land and charismatic megafauna. We've spent a lot of time talking about intractable environmental challenges on The Leonard Lopate Show. Here's a (totally incomplete) roundup of what's happening to our planet:

• Everything is Going Extinct
• Antarctica is Melting
• The Arctic is Melting
• The Frogs are Disappearing
• The Elephants are Disappearing
• The Monarch Butterflies are Disappearing
• The Bees are Disappearing
• The Moose are Disappearing
• The Bats are Disappearing
• The Starfish are “Disemboweling Themselves”
• The Crabs are Being Supersized
• The Jellyfish are Multiplying
• The Bananas are Going Extinct
• The Oranges Have a Mystery Virus
• The Dolphins Have a Mystery Virus
• The Fish are Full of Mercury
• The Songbirds and The Bats are Full of Mercury
• The Fisheries are Collapsing
• The Oceans are Acidifying
• Louisiana is Sinking 
• Fracking is Causing Problems in Texas 
• Fracking is Causing Problems in China 
• Tar Sands Mining 
• There's a Race to Gobble Up The Last Resources
• Palm Oil Farming Is Destroying Forests 
•  Invasive Species are Everywhere  
• Asian Carp Are Invading the Great Lakes 
• The Oceans are Filled with Garbage
• Space is Filled with Garbage
• The Produce is Filled with Pesticides  
• The Water is Filled with Pig Poop
• The Water is Filled with Microplastics 
• The Water is Filled with Lawn Chemicals 
• There is No Water
• Soon There Will Be 10 Billion of Us

Best of luck, everyone!