Earth Day is a global event for environmental awareness. US Senator Gaylord Nelson started it in 1970. Millions participate ...

When the first Earth Day was held on April 22, 1970, the founders — U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-WI) and activist Denis ...

A senator from Wisconsin was so inspired by his love of the Great Lakes region, that he became an advocate for the ...

Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin initiated the first Earth Day. It was reported at the time that over 20 million people took part in local events. The news saturation was total and for the time it ...

Earth Day helped lead to the formation of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act ...

In 1970, the first Earth Day events were "teach-ins" on campuses across the country.

She was there to celebrate the school district’s planting of 434 new trees at nine school district sites, which she said is ...

The promise that Earth Day held at its 1970 inception, when climate change was a nascent concept and environmentalism was a ...

WASHINGTON — Millions of people around the world on Tuesday are celebrating Earth Day, an annual event founded by people who ...

April 22 is traditionally known as Earth Day, the occasion where we pause as temporary travelers on our ' blue marble ' to ...

WASHINGTON — As communities across the DMV commemorate Earth Day, it’s worth remembering how this annual celebration began ...

Now celebrating its 55th anniversary, this year's Earth Day theme, "Our Power, Our Planet," calls for people worldwide to ...