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Summary description: The river in Cleveland caught fire for the last time because of all the waste poured into it. People began to clean up the water and clean up the smoke stacks.
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Summary description: It was a neurological disease that caused by mercury poising and killed more than 900 people and more than 2 million people (about the population of Nebraska) where affected by it.
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Summary description: it was an environmental book published by Rachel Carson
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Summary description: The Stockholm Conference was a conference to make the environment a major issue. It was 1972 the people involved adopted principles to manage the environment.
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Summary description: Its was a act in 1973 to protect certain species that are endangered that is stopping form being hunted and killed.
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Summary description: This was a chemical disaster in the 70’s dumping toxic chemicals that was hurting hundreds of residents.
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Summary description: It was a chemical disaster on the night of December 3 the (UCIL) plant with a town with 500,000 the plant was exposed to a really high toxic gas called methyl isocyanate
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Summary description: Chernobyl was a flawed reactor design that was run by people that were not trained properly. It was in 1986 and now it is very toxic and radioactive.
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Summary description: The Montreal Protocol is a protocol that regulates the production and consumption of man made chemicals that destroy the ozone layer. It was adopted in 1987 and is still used today but there is not as many chemicals like that made today.
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Summary description: The Rio Earth Summit was a meeting of the UN that helped rewrite the international balance of economy and ecology. They came to a world-wide agreement what they should do to make sure we don’t overuse our resources.
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Summary description: A garbage “Island” was found in-between Hawaii and California, It was 7.7 million Sqr Miles. We have removed 220,000 pounds of trash thus far.
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Summary description: Deforestation reached an all-time high in 2004. We started to slow our deforestation by 83%
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Summary description: United Nations committing industrialized countries to limit and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It was adopted in 1997 and entered into force in 2005.
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Summary description: This documentary was about humans and their effect on global warming and climate change
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Summary description: UN met in to fix climates that were -2degree C. They agreed on trying to get it above 1.5C by 2025