A crew led by artist Wyland puts finishing touches on his three-acre mural of planet Earth atop the Long Beach Arena as part of Earth Day celebrations. The exterior wall of the circular building features a mural of whales by Wyland. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
Hillary O’Connor and Maya Fuller, both 12, plant at Archer School for Girls in Los Angeles. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)
Hands working together to plant basil at Archer School for Girls in Los Angeles. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)
Maria Guzman, 9, searches for sand crabs in Hermosa Beach as part of an Earth Day field trip. (Christina House / For The Times)
Mariah Smetana, 10, right, watches as a bat ray is fed during an Earth Day field trip at The SEA Lab in Redondo Beach. (Christina House / For The Times)
Students from Fourth Street Elementary School in L.A. watch a volunteer pick up a crab from a touch tank at The SEA Lab. (Christina House / For The Times)
Bass swim by a viewing window at The SEA Lab. (Christina House / For The Times)
Daisy Gonzalez, 12, kisses a banner that will be sent to Washington requesting that a bill banning lead in lipstick be passed as students at Archer School for Girls in Los Angeles celebrate Earth Day. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)
Eddie Smith rides by a fence bedecked with shoes that children at the Los Angeles Harbor College child development center turned into planters for Earth Day. (Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times)
Mariah Moreno waters one of the 100 shoe planters at Los Angeles Harbor College in Wilmington. (Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times)
An assistant helps created a mural of the globe, by artist Wyland, atop the Long Beach Arena. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
Nature artist Wyland begins painting a three-acre mural of planet Earth atop the Long Beach Arena on Tuesday. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
On the roof ot the Long Beach Arena, above a mural of whales by Wyland, an assistant helps the artist create a mural of the globe. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
