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The green momentum was building long before the first Earth Day in 1970. The activism of people like Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson warned of overpopulation dangers and ecological disaster.

The celebration has had its ups and downs, but Earth Day is still a vitally important symbol for the environmental movement. It’s the annual event that millions of people remember, the milestone in their minds, their marker of environmental progress. April 22 is more than a celebration – it’s a promise to better the lives of ourselves, our nation and our world (with complete Earth Day event listings)

Four years after their daughter’s death, James and Nancy Chuda are funding new research on the link between cancers and the environment.

Cancer is the number two killer of Americans, but scientists are still denying that environmental factors – from car exhaust to carcinogenic chemicals in our food – are largely responsible

Whatever Became of Fixing Things? A Noble Tradition is Dying, But Reuse Is Still Alive and Well

"Factory" farming of cows, pigs and chickens is a big business in America, and the waste from this major industry is a significant health hazard.

Environmentalists and animal rightists are, at least on the surface, natural allies, but in practice they’re most often at each other’s throats. But, particularly in light of important new information about how animals think and what they feel, shouldn’t environmentalists at least be listening to what the animal rights movement has to say? Can these two communities with so much in common at long last form a working relationship?

Global warming is more than just a scientific prediction. Despite a new report from a UN consortium of 2,500 climate experts saying that the greenhouse effect imminent, a small group of naysayers continues to grab headlines.