Every year, Earth Day offers people around the world an opportunity to focus on our planet, its wellbeing and the many challenges facing it. From industrial pollution and carbon emissions to the ...

Earth Day returns next week for its 55th anniversary — a timely reminder that environmental and climate action is more urgent than ever. The global initiative has been held annually since 1970, when ...

WASHINGTON — Millions of people around the world will pause on Monday, 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 ...

Earth Day is one of the most popular and widespread non-religious holidays in the world, recognized in over 100 nations across continents. Although the event was primarily based in the United States, ...

This Saturday is Earth Day, and communities across the country are mobilizing to clean up their shared green spaces and waterways, plant air-cleaning trees and bring more attention to climate change.

As the climate crisis becomes ever more serious, each Earth Day that comes along takes on extra significance. Established in 1970 in the US, the annual event—which is celebrating its 55th anniversary ...