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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Earth Day was founded in 1970 by Senator Gaylord Nelson, with the purpose to inform people about environmental problems that ...

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

Today is Earth Day! Wisconsin senator Gaylord Nelson started Earth Day in 1970! Tuesday Forecast: We are off to a partly ...

Today’s edition of Daily on Energy kicks off with a little history lesson about Earth Day, before quickly diving into the ...

Former Daily editor-in-chief Jim Wascher '75 writes about the history of Earth Day at Stanford and argues why activism for ...