NASA Marks Earth Day With Online Activities, Programs
NASA and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., are celebrating the 41st anniversary of Earth Day this week with several online activities to engage the public in the agency's mission to use the vantage point of space to explore and protect our home planet. Among the activities are two Web chats. On Thursday, April 21, JPL will host a pre-Earth Day Web video chat with a JPL scientist. Then on Earth Day, Friday, April 22, scientists involved in an airborne campaign in Greenland to monitor Arctic ice cover will participate in a second Web chat. Read more
NASA centres across the nation, including the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., invite journalists and the public to see and hear about the agency's contributions to exploring and protecting our home planet during this year's Earth Day celebrations. A highlight of this year's activities is a weeklong series of exhibits and talks on the National Mall in Washington. Read more
People around the globe will mark the 40th anniversary of Earth Day (April 22) this spring. Countless activities related to Earth Day also will take place before and after April 22.
"Gaylord Nelson and Earth Day: The Making of the Modern Environmental Movement" is a cooperative venture of the University of Wisconsin's Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, the Wisconsin Historical Society, the Center for Culture, History and the Environment (CHE), and the Nelson Family. Our consulting scholar was Adam Rome, Department of History at the Pennsylvania State University. Brian Hamilton, graduate student in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was the principal researcher and creator of the web content. Melanie McCalmont, University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni, was the website designer and content editor. Read more
Media representatives are invited to join NASA, the National Arboretum and American Forests to celebrate Earth Day and the 40th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing with a tree planting ceremony April 22 at the National Arboretum, 3501 New York Avenue N.E., Washington. The planting ceremony begins at 1 p.m. EDT.