The Lincoln Park Zoo is taking Earth Day to the next level with celebrations all week long. In honor of Earth Day on Tuesday, ...

1970: As the first Earth Day was observed in the United States, Illinois Attorney General William Scott told a rally at the ...

Fifty-five years after the first Earth Day, Environmental Protection Agency employees and advocates call for help as the ...

Earth Day is on Tuesday, but the Chicago Park District is looking for volunteers for its annual parks cleanup event happening ...

Illinois, Chicago and other local governments must step up to advance environmental progress while the federal government ...

On this Earth Day, the City of Chicago is encouraging residents to try composting as a way to care for the planet.

Columnist David Lauderdale revisits a story of environmental activism in 1970 in South Carolina’s Lowcountry ahead of the ...

Tuesday is Earth Day, and the Excel Academy of Roseland is working to keep their neighborhood clean during the second annual ...

Earth Day has its roots in growing concern over pollution in the 1960s, when author Rachel Carson's 1962 book “Silent Spring,” about the pesticide DDT and its damaging effects on the food chain, hit ...

From arboretum tours to animal feeding, Earth Week at the Lincoln Park Zoo offers ways to connect with nature and celebrate ...

The Minnesota Twins are hosting the Chicago White Sox on Earth Day at Target Field, and call themselves the Greenest Ballpark ...

Arborists are hoping to transform vacant land on Detroit’s eastside by planting giant sequoias, the world’s largest trees.