Gaylord Nelson, the late U.S. senator and governor of Wisconsin, is considered the founder of Earth Day, which started in ...

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

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

The first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970, making this year's festivities the 55th annual festival. For the first Earth Day, ...

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

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

Earth Day began after Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin helped organize campus teach-ins and promote events to teach the public about industrial development and its legacy of health impacts.

The first Earth Day is largely credited as one of the key moments that launched the modern environmental movement.

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

The holiday remains one of the largest secular observances in the world, used to spotlight ongoing threats including plastic ...

Earth Day has its roots in growing concern over pollution in the 1960s, when author Rachel Carson's 1962 book “Silent Spring, ...

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