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

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

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

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

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

Imagine life where you are not protected by regulations and laws that guard our environment and health. Factories spewing ...

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

We can all pitch in and get things looking good," she said. Former Wisconsin Governor and Senator Gaylord Nelson is ...

Earth Day recognizes the environmental movement. Here's how it started and why it’s still celebrated every April 22.

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