Ecology Timeline

  • Minamata Disaster 1956

    The Minamata Disaster was all about mercury poisoning. This was caused by fish and shellfish consumed out of waste water from a chemical treatment facility. This caused everything from vision loss to tremors to strokes to even death in the worse cases. World Population 3 billion
  • Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring Published 1962

    • Summary description: The book talked about the harm of DDT. DDT is a pesticide used by world war 2. Carsons book was shared country wide and DDTs are now banned. World Population 3 billion
  • Endangered Species Act 1973

    • Summary description: this requires people to follow this conservation and protection to help protect all species that are endangered from becoming extinct. 3 billion
  • Stockholm Conference 1972

    the place where a document of 26 world wide principles
    To help protect the environment
    World Population 3 billion
  • Bhopal Disaster 1984

    • Summary description: in December of 1984 40 tons of methyl isocyanate gas spilts out of a pesticide plant. This kill over 3,800 people instantly and pre maturely killed thousands for.
    World Population 4 billion
  • Chernobyl meltdown 1986

    the Number 4 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded killing 100s instantly. This is 1 of 2 mass casualties nuclear events worldwide
    World Population 4 billion
  • Montreal Protocol 1987

    this helped phase out chemical that harmed the ozone layer. This stop and prevented future problems.
    5 billion years
  • Kyoto protocol 1997

    this protocol sets the binding emission rated for 37 countries that are industrialized. This is helping to control emission rates
    World Population 5 billion
  • Love Canal 1998

    • Summary description: the canal was originally built to help and make more clean energy but instead it failed and left a big ditch that damaged much of the environment in the process.
  • Documentary film An Inconvenient Truth released. 2006

    this documentary is about former VP AL Gore and his campaign that addressed global warming.
    World Population 6 billion