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The Industrial Revolution caused a lot of air pollution from waste, lots of deforestation, which lead to the destruction of habitats. The demand for fossil fuels and expansion climate change has begun.
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In the 1920’s low crop prices and high machinery cost, Farmers started to abandon soil conservation practices which caused soil erosion causing a large drought
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He said that he started pumping the mercury contaminated effluent in the bay prior to World War II. It was bad because it led to thousands of people getting mercury poisoning from all of the industrial waste.
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A book that was published on September 27, 1962 that showed the damage that man-made pesticides and there impact on the environment
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There is a low oxygen zone off the shelf of the Texas-Louisiana where the Mississippi river flows into the gulf of Mexico and the fish and wildlife need the nutrients which don’t leave enough for smaller weaker organisms which then die off
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The first world conference that was making the environment a major issue within the world. It contained 26 principles, placed around environmental issues at the front of the international concerns.
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It establishes a lot of protection for fish, wildlife, and plants as what there vulnerability or conservation status is in the wild.
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The Love canal became a landfill that became the site of an environmental disaster discovered in 1977. A bunch of dumping toxic chemicals killed residents and harmed the health of hundreds of people the operation took up around over 21 years to clean up.
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On December 3, 1984, around 40 tons of methyl isocyanate gas was leaked from a pesticide plant in India the leak ended up immediately killing at 3,800 people. It also caused significant morbidity and premature deaths for thousands more individuals.
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In April 26, 1986, a Number Four RBMK reactor at the nuclear power plant in Ukraine, when it went out of control during a test at low-power this lead to a explosion as well as a fire that demolished the reactor building and released small amount of radiation into the atmosphere. This explosion ended up in the death of two works.
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Developing and developed countries have both equal but also differentiated responsibilities but most importantly both groups of countries also have binding time targeted and measurable commitments.
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Saddam Hussein (Iraq's leader), ordered the occupation of Kuwait back in August 1990 to gain control of the oil supply and pay off debt accrued from Kuwait, he was forced into retreat by a US coalition which began a bombing campaign but as Iraqi forces pulled out their final was that they set more than 700 oilwells ablaze
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On March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez ran into Bligh Reef. The ship carried 53 million gallons of crude oil and an estimated 11 million spilled into the Gulf of Alaska.
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The great pacific garbage patch is a collection of debris in the North Pacific ocean all of this trash build up in the ocean is from people throwing trash and littering
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The Protocol was based on the principle of the common but different responsibilities it stated that individual countries have different capabilities in combating climate change, also owing to the economic development.
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The attacks 9/11 caused many long-lasting environmental affects, highly toxic mix of dust and harmful chemicals in the atmosphere, and the cleanup process messed with toxic chemicals as well.
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In the film which released in May 2006, the former Vice President Al Gore, who was one of the main figures in the film was looking for the movie to increase public awareness of climate threats as well as raise political support for action.
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The fires caused a lot of environmental damage, including the death of billions of animals, habitat destruction, and greenhouse gas emissions
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Hospitals produced a overwhelming amount of waste, that was infectious. There was a increased plastic waste, which was harmful to sea life. There was a increase in microplastics which released more toxic chemicals.
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Incidents like the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka Dam and attacks on Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant have caused environmental chaos. The fighting has also contributed to global climate change, “releasing an estimated 230 million tons of greenhouse gases.”
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At around 8:55 PM ET on 2/3/2023, a Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, about a quarter mile west of the Ohio-Pennsylvania state line. Twenty of the affected cars contained hazardous materials.
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The ocean gate submersible was a submarine that was designed to go down to explore the titanic wreckage it was a small submersible with a group of 5 people when they went down into the ocean the submersible ended up imploding on its self it happened on June 18, 2023
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In January 2025 fires started in California and they started to break out and destroy forests, homes, businesses many people were effected by this and much of California has been effected and some parts not restored yet