Enviromental Sciences - DB

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  • World Population Reaches 1 Billion

  • Yosemite (California) becomes the first state park

  • Yellowstone (Wyoming) becomes first national park

  • U.S. Department of Reclamation established

  • Martha, the last passenger Pigeon, dies in the Cincinnati zoo

  • U.S. National Park Service Established

  • U.S. National Humane Society

  • The First Clean Air Act established

  • Supertanker spills off of coast of England

  • First Earth day

  • EPA (Enviromental Protection Agencey) created

  • Mt. St. Helens blows with the force of over 500 Hiroshima-sized bombs

  • First significant ozone hole observed over Antartica

  • five billion people in the world

  • Ocean Dumpeing ban act is initiated

  • Mexico City, Mexico shits down due to high air pollution levels

  • 5 million square km burnt down because of wild fires

  • 6 billion people in the world

  • War on Terrorisim

  • Gulf Spill - BP