Earth Day Started with an Oil Spill
Nautilus • 4/22/2026 – 4/23/2026
Summary
Earth Day began 56 years ago in response to an oil spill. The day has since grown and evolved into a significant event for environmental action and protest.
Advertisement
Breaking Similar stories
The Australian Rocks That House the Oldest Life-Forms on Earth
Nautilus • 1 day ago
Review: Queer Eye Helped Promote LGBTQ Acceptance Without Yelling at People
Reason Magazine • 1 day ago
How the Media Failed American Foreign Policy
Reason Magazine • 2 days ago
"Sotomayor Drops The Ball on Obamacare" And The Shadow Docket
Reason Magazine • 2 days ago
Due to changes in the DSM, it’s now difficult to be diagnosed with hypochondria. And yet the disease persists as a character type
Arts & Letters Daily • 2 days ago
Is a Private-Credit Crisis Imminent?
Project Syndicate • 2 days ago
Europe’s Economic Emergency
Project Syndicate • 2 days ago
New York’s Self-Induced Repeat Offender Problem
City Journal • 2 days ago
Claim Over Firing for Kirk-Assassination-Related Post Can Go Forward, Court Rules
Reason Magazine • 2 days ago
Prosecution for Threats to Kill Muslims (and Blacks, Immigrants, and People from India) Can Go to Jury
Reason Magazine • 2 days ago
Survived Similar stories
Anti-Lindy Similar stories
What’s the Oldest Living Animal on Earth?
Nautilus • 3 weeks ago
A biological conundrum: Why didn’t intelligent life appear on the earth sooner?
Arts & Letters Daily • 4+ months
Counterculture prophet, Whole Earth cataloguer, proto-internet evangelist, Stewart Brand has a new obsession: maintenance
Arts & Letters Daily • 1+ months
NASA won’t bring Mars samples back to Earth: this is the science that will be lost
Nature News • 3+ months
AI’s grandiose paradoxes. It will bring us heaven on earth or kill us all, we’re told; it is the most important invention in history or a scam
Arts & Letters Daily • 2 weeks ago
When Denis Johnson started to make money, he bought a sports car, painted it orange, and had “MANIAC DRIFTER” inscribed on its side
Arts & Letters Daily • 3+ months
Earthquake sensors buried in the quietest spot on Earth
Science Magazine • 2+ months
2025 Wasn’t the Hottest Year on Record. Earth Is Still Barreling to the Climate Brink
Scientific American Ideas • 3+ months
How Flowers Transformed Planet Earth
Nautilus • 1+ months
Ancient ‘snowball’ Earth had frigidly briny seas
Nature News • 3+ months