River Cleanup, a global organization dedicated to making rivers plastic free, sponsored 14 events in honor of Call to Earth Day, encouraging volunteers around the world — in Belgium, the Democratic ...

James O'Donoghue receives funding from the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). Earth will complete a rotation 1.33 milliseconds earlier than usual on Tuesday, August 5. That makes it ...

July 9 was unusually short thanks to changes in how fast the Earth is spinning. But two other days this summer are expected to be even shorter. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Our planet whirls around the sun in an ellipse, rather than a circle. On Thursday the planet reached its farthest point from its star, known as aphelion. By Katrina Miller This article was originally ...

Although the Earth completes one full rotation in 86,400 seconds on average, that spin fluctuates by a millisecond or two every day. Before 2020, the Earth never experienced a day shorter than the ...

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...

The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie is set to begin streaming exclusively on HBO Max in the U.S. on June 27. Hailing from Ketchup Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation, the film will ...

After witnessing a massive oil spill in Santa Barbara in 1969, Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson began hatching the idea for what would become known as the world’s first ‘Earth Day.’ The first Earth ...

Google has rolled out its Earth Day Doodle for 2025, and it's giving users a glimpse at the many sides of our world. Each letter that spells "Google" is given a different environment/ecosystem from ...

Marches, protests, phone-banking events, film screenings, and more centered around environmental activism are being organized across the nation for Earth Day, on April 22. Americans are taking to the ...

April 22 is Earth Day, and Google has devoted its iconic Doodle design to displaying aerial images from its Google Earth software. The photos, which range from an alpine landscape in the French Alps ...

SEATTLE — Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell signed an Earth Day executive order on Tuesday aimed at updating Seattle's climate action plan and accelerating emissions reductions. It directs departments to ...