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The combination of aggressive/poor farming techniques, drought conditions, and high winds, created massive dust storms that drove thousands from their homes
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After rain started pouring in the Great Plains erasing the heavy drought , the dust down finally ended
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Pretty self explanatory, Peak distract was the first area designed as a national park (1951). The rest followed in that decade.
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A disease that came from consuming fish and selfish with MeHg caused by the water waste of a chemical plant.
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Global agreement between governments to protect species that are under threat from international trade (worldwildlife.org)
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Governments are put under pressure with new green parties showing up in politics
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45 tons of gas methyl isocyanate escaped and turned the city of Bhopal into a gas chamber, it was India’s first industrial disaster
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A failed experiment lead an explosion and fire in the No.4 reactor, causing mass amounts of radiation into the atmosphere.
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Treaty designed to protect the ozone layer
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IPCC is responsible for sharing scientific information with all governments that they can use to develop climate policies
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After the mine is opened in 1972, about one billion tons of mining waste containing sulfur, arsenic, copper, zinc, cadmium, and mercury is dumped into the local river system caused a decade long revolt against the government. In 2000 island residents sue Rio Tinto in U.S. federal court
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killing at least 1,836 people and causing $81 billion in property damage after levees break In New Orleans
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174 countries signed and are expected to reduce carbon admissions by 15% by 2012