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 1970. Of course, astronauts on their way to the Moon can provide a fresh ...

O n a shelf next to my desk, I keep the books that shaped how I think about our planet—and how I cover it as a journalist focused on nature and the climate. When I sit down to w ...

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.