Jaxon Mercer, Rachel Starr and Alonso Prieto plant a tree as they join with Salt Lake City Department of Public Lands and other community volunteers for a combined Earth Day and Arbor Day celebration ...

Millions of people around the world will pause on Tuesday, at least for a moment, to mark Earth Day. It's an annual event founded by people who hoped to stir activism to clean up and preserve a planet ...

April 22 is Earth Day, the annual salute to the planet and its environment. "On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans...took to streets, college campuses and hundreds of cities to protest environmental ...

Tuesday will be the 55th Earth Day, an event celebrated by more than one billion people in 193 countries worldwide, currently coordinated by the Earth Day Network. Earth Day’s origins start with ...

NORFOLK, Va. — In the 1960s, the negative effects of fossil fuel use concerned late Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson. He tapped a young activist named Denis Hayes to help push a movement to reduce the ...

Today is the 55th Earth Day celebrated in the United States.It’s held every year on April 22 — a date originally chosen to fit college students’ schedules. But many may not know how Earth Day began or ...

On anniversary of first Earth Day, a look at what's happened since. April 22, 2010— -- On April 22, 1970, the very first Earth Day, more than 20 million people joined in demonstrations across the ...

Every year on April 22, people around the world celebrate Earth Day. It marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. More than 1 billion people in over 193 ...

Earth Day, celebrating its 55th anniversary in 2025, raises awareness about environmental protection and the need to preserve natural resources. In 1970, April 22 was chosen for the first Earth Day, ...

Earth Day is observed each April 22. Though not an official holiday, the world began celebrating in 1970 as a response to environmental neglect, according to History. What started as a protest became ...