Earth Day was started to raise awareness about environmental protection and inspire action to address climate change, and pollution.

Tuesday is Earth Day, and there are multiple events planned to celebrate the holiday. Earth Day began after Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin helped organize campus teach-ins and promote events to ...

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 ...

Advocates for environmental protection — including Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist — gathered for a rally, march and "Earth Fair" in downtown Royal Oak. The event was both a celebration and a rally for more ...

The South Bay Parkland Conservancy celebrated Earth Day a few days early with an event at Hopkins Wilderness Park in Redondo Beach over the weekend. Earth Day is on Tuesday, April 22. But on Saturday, ...