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Don’t Fall for Political Distractions. Saving Our Planet Must Come First

By Robert Redford

Earth Day Google Doodle Celebrates Nature's Diversity

By Tara Law

Google's Earth Day Doodle Sends an Urgent Message About Climate Change

By Mahita Gajanan

Scientists March

By Alexandra Sifferlin and Justin Worland
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Stop Trying to Control Nature

We should embrace low-tech solutions to climate change

By Erika Marie Bsumek and Betsy Frederick-Rothwell

See Amazing Photos of Earth Taken by a Japanese Satellite

Celebrate Earth Day with these satellite photos, recently released to the public

By Marisa Gertz

We Should Celebrate the World's Oceans This Earth Day

Governments have made impressive steps in protecting them—but there's still much more work to be done

By Joshua Reichert

8 Eco-Conscious Instagram Accounts to Follow on Earth Day

Each year, April 22 marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970

By TIME Photo

Earth Day Quiz: Can You Recognize These Famous Natural Wonders?

From reefs to volcanoes to canyons

By Eliza Berman

New Google Doodle Celebrates Earth Day 2016

Earth Day has been observed on April 22 every year since 1969

By Rishi Iyengar

Save the Planet With More Energy, Not Less

These are today's best ideas

By The Aspen Institute

How Earth Day Began: With Somber Reflection, and a Few Dump-Ins

April 22, 1970: The first Earth Day is observed

By Jennifer Latson

Meet the Organizers of the Very First Earth Day

How a troupe of twenty-somethings mobilized millions of Americans to speak out on the environment

By Eliza Berman

New Google Doodle Celebrates Earth Day 2015

It comes with a nifty little quiz

By Kevin McSpadden

This Is the App You Need to Download for Earth Day

It lets you keep a log of your daily energy consumption and tells you how to reduce it

By David Stout

NASA Takes #GlobalSelfie

It's probably the biggest selfie ever.

By Alex Fitzpatrick

Spending Earth Day at Ground Zero for Climate Change In America

We’ve all seen the iconic Blue Marble photo of the earth from space, the image that launched a thousand nature essays, but Bill Nelson and Piers Sellers are among the few people who have enjoyed...

By Michael Grunwald

The Earth Is Changing Rapidly. Can We Change Too?

On Earth Day, we celebrate a planet that has nurtured human life. But it wasn't always so nice—and as the climate changes, it may get worse

By Bryan Walsh

Want to Heal the Planet? Make Environmental Degrees Free

A climate-themed version of the 1944 G.I. bill would send kids to college and train a generation of environmental thinkers

By Charlotte Alter

Celebrate Earth Day With Today's Animated Google Doodle

It features some of the planet's most beautifully bizarre creatures

By Samantha Grossman
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