The promise that Earth Day held at its 1970 inception, when climate change was a nascent concept and environmentalism was a ...

The first Earth Day happened shortly thereafter, on April 22, 1970. Of course, astronauts on their way to the Moon can ...

But lately, as I read news about deadly heat waves and disappearing glaciers, those titles are beginning to seem almost naive. They’re full of far-off warnings of what could come if we don’t curb ...

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

Rachel Carson highlighted the environmental consequences of our actions in a way that had never been done before.