Plus, Broadway's Earth Day Celebration salutes the planet with songs and activities. Read on for all our top picks for celebrating Earth Day with kids in NYC and find more good-for-the-planet tips ...

To mark Earth Day (April 22nd), the celebrated BBC documentary series Planet Earth III has collaborated with BBC Children in Need to premiere a special episode, uniquely narrated by schoolchildren.

“I remember writing Earth Song when I was in Austria, in a hotel,” Jackson once said of this song. “And I was feeling so much pain and so much suffering of the plight of the Planet Earth.