• Celebrating Earth Day 2020

    Earth Day, an annual holiday celebrating environmental protection, was first celebrated on April 22, 1970. This graphic displays several ways people can help the planet.

  • Earth Day 2020: Time to think about mother Earth

    The idea for a national day to focus on the environment came to Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, after witnessing the ravages of the 1969 massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, Calif. More than 20 million Americans demonstrated for a healthy, sustainable environment in

  • Ramstein Celebrates Earth Day

    A peregrine falcon perches on its handler as part of an Earth Day demonstration on Ramstein Air Base, Germany, April 17, 2018. The demonstration showed the students how the falcons dive to catch their prey and explained how they are used to scare other birds off the flightline to keep them from

  • Conserve today, secure tomorrow

    Kaiserslautern Military Community students, 86th Civil Engineer Group Airmen and federal forest departments celebrate Earth Day on Ramstein Air Base, Germany, April 21, 2017. Ramstein celebrated Earth Day to contribute towards last year’s goal to plant 7.8 billion – one for every person on the

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