There's so much to celebrate in the month of April. The fourth month of the calendar year ushers in warm weather, tulips and Earth Day, the global celebration of our planet and all its splendor. The ...

Ah, Earth. We may not think about our planet on a day-to-day basis, but the world we live in is a pretty interesting place. The third rock from the Sun—and to this day, the only one with known ...

As spring is fully under way, flowers and chirping birds and all, it’s hard not to breathe a pleasurable sigh at the gorgeous sights of a world reawakened — and, perhaps, to dab at a sniffly nose as ...

Earth serves as our fragile and precious home. As far as scientists are aware, it's the only astronomical object known to harbor life. The Earth is at least 4.54 billion years old, and in that time ...

For the entire duration of human existence, we have been trying to make sense of the planet we have been living on, called Earth. Humans have come quite far in understanding the small blue planet we ...

Earth Day is one of the most popular and widespread nonreligious holidays in the world. Although the event was primarily based in the United States, by 2009 the coordinators for Earth Day helped gain ...

PENNSYLVANIA, USA — In the days, years, and decades ahead of the first Earth Day, Americans were consuming large amounts of gasoline and fossil fuels. Businesses were able to emit plumes of smoke into ...

In 1970, Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, inspired by what he had seen following a California oil spill, planned a grassroots demonstration aimed at protecting the environment. In the mode of ...