Fifty-four years ago today, the first Earth Day burst onto the scene. The year was 1970. Lakes and rivers were polluted. The air was toxic in urban and industrial areas. Even the bald eagle, the ...
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Millions of people around the world will pause on Monday, at least for a moment, to mark Earth Day. It's an annual event founded by people who hoped to stir activism to clean up and preserve a planet ...
When dawn broke April 22, 19970, on West Quoddy Head, Maine, few if any "Down Easters" realized they were ushering in the Environmental Age. By day's end more than 20 million souls, mostly young and ...
WASHINGTON — Millions of people around the world will pause on Monday, at least for a moment, to mark Earth Day. It's an annual event founded by people who hoped to stir activism to clean up and ...
Foreword / Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. -- pt. 1. The Earth and Its Day. Ch. 1. Earth Day: When the People Spoke. Ch. 2. Report Card on the Earth -- pt. 2. Imperiled Planet ...
Wisconsin’s Democratic Governor Gaylord Nelson, 46, was out to slay a solon. And he had it all planned out. The intended victim was Alexander Wiley, 78, after 24 years the senior Republican in the U.S ...
WASHINGTON — Millions of people around the world on Tuesday are celebrating Earth Day, an annual event founded by people who hoped to stir activism to clean up and preserve a planet that is now home ...
Airlie Center in Warrenton, Virginia, hosted a meeting in 1969 that sparked the creation of Earth Day.(Courtesy Josh Reichert/Airlie Center) In 1969, a group of law and medical students gathered at a ...