In 2026, Earth Day is shaped by accelerating climate impacts, rising global temperatures, and renewed calls for systemic change in how societies

Fifty-six years after the first one rallied 20 million people across America, “we need to do things that make us feel more powerful.”

Far below your feet, nearly 1,800 miles beneath oceans and continents, Earth carries two massive scars from its violent youth. They are so large they rival continents in size, yet no human will ever see them. Scientists call them large low-shear-velocity ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sun shines above the Earth’s horizon. Perihelion, the point when Earth is closest to the Sun, occurs annually in early January. NASA At the start of the year, Earth will quietly ...

Ice in the Arctic and Antarctica plays a critical role in maintaining life on Earth, and it is melting faster than previously thought. This is threatening our planet with potentially massive sea-level rise, weather disruptions and further global warming.

But it was a senator from Wisconsin, Democrat Gaylord Nelson, who had the idea that would become Earth Day. Nelson had long been concerned about the environment when a massive off