{"id":10054,"date":"2025-04-21T10:40:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10054"},"modified":"2025-05-28T13:07:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T07:37:27","slug":"what-is-world-earth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-world-earth-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Earth Day 2025 Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Earth Day takes place every year on 22 April and is one of the biggest environmental protest movements on the planet.<\/p>\n<h2>About Earth Day<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is observed annually on\u00a0<strong>April 22.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The official\u00a0<strong>theme for Earth Day 2025 is \u201cOUR POWER, OUR PLANET\u201d.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This year&#8217;s message focuses on the need to shift rapidly to renewable energy, urging individuals, businesses, and governments to triple clean energy production by 2030.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>History of Earth Day<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>first Earth Day<\/strong>\u00a0was celebrated on<strong>\u00a0April 22, 1970, initiated by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson as a national teach-in on environmental issues.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The event witnessed more than 20 million Americans\u201410% of the U.S. population\u2014taking to the streets, parks, and auditoriums to demand a healthy, sustainable environment.<\/li>\n<li>Earth Day\u00a0<strong>went global in 1990,\u00a0<\/strong>mobilizing over 200 million people across 141 countries.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Since then, it has become one of the largest civic observances in the world, promoting climate action and eco-conscious living.<\/li>\n<li>Earth Day serves as a powerful reminder of our collective responsibility to protect the environment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/stories\/2025\/04\/earth-day-2025-climate-change-global-action-protest-movement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WEF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrate Earth Day 2025 on April 22! Join millions worldwide in promoting environmental awareness, sustainability, and action for a healthier planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":45855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[203,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-10054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-earth-day-2025","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}