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1948 IUCN formed
IUCN is a membership Union between the government and the civil society. By providing public, private and non-governmental association. It links both. -
1952 Great Smog in London kills 4,000, caused by coal burning during cold winter
The smog caused the suffocation and death 12 000. People has tried to move out, but even the ones who moved out, still suffered permanent lung injuries. -
1961 WWF founded
World Wide Fund for Nature, is a fund collecting company that uses those very funds to save nature. It also specialises in conserving eco systems, in order to not only save the planet, but the animals as well. -
1956 Minamata Mercury Pollution
Minamata disease is a mercury poisoning that occurred in humans who consumed fish and shellfish contaminated by this toxic chemical. However, sea life can only become tainted with this deadly chemical when factories dish out their chemicals into the sea. This was the case in 1959, in Minamata Jaban, where a massive outbreak occurred and infect thousands of people, as in Japan, fish is eaten in vast quantities, raw, and untreated. -
Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring
Silent Spring is environmental science book documenting the effects on the environment—particularly on birds—of the abusive use of pesticides. -
1969 Cuyahoga river catches fire due to ignition of oil and chemical pollution
The Cuyahoga River caught fire in Cleveland, drawing national attention and pushing the passage of the Clean Water Act for safer and cleaner waters. -
1970 World's first earth day
First Earth day, with the intent to spread awareness about global warming and the pollution and its problems. Aimed to the younger generations, this is the day to plant trees in the spirit of a better world. -
1972 The Club of Rome get to write book
This book is about how the current growth of the economy and the population cannot be sustained on earth indefinitely. -
1972 UN conference for human environment
Conference about not only enhancing but also sustaining the current environment of the world. Man has the power to maintain or destroy the environment around them. -
CITES started
CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) is an trans-international agreement between governments. Its aim is to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival. -
1977 Greenpeace "Save the Whales"
Greenpeace set up a campaign to save whale killing. This is done not only to dame ht inhumane ways they are killed. -
1978 Love Canal
From 1942 to 1953 a landfill in the Niagara Falls area known was the love canal, was contaminated with toxic waste only to be sold to the city after being covered up by layers of dirt. The city then allowed homes and schools to be built over the landfill and people started to feel the effects of the hazardous waste as they moved in. The people living on top of the landfill fell gravely ill, till this caused the attention of some scientists, who investigated the city. -
1979 James Lovelock's Gaia Hypothesis
The Gaia Hypothesis educates that our planet works as a single 'organism' that maintains conditions necessary for its very own survival. -
1980 World Conservation Strategy; Friends of the Earth begins confrontational protests
A French founded company, works towards making a more sustainable future, and conserving its energy. Not only that, it also works with WWF to preserve whole eco systems. -
1984 Bopal Disaster
A pesticide making factory had a gas considered the worlds worst industrial disaster. Over 500 000 people where exposed lethal gases and chemicals. The toxic substance made its way into and around the 'Shanty' towns, near the plant. -
1986 Chernobyl Disaster
The worst nuclear power plant accident in history, an explosions and fire released large quantities of radioactive particles into the atmosphere which spread over the wester USSR and Europe. -
1987 UN World commission
The mission is to unite countries resources and man power to sustain the global environment. By doing this, all sensible parts of the world can be maintained. -
1991 Crude Oil spill in Kuwait
One of the largest spills in history, this spill resulted in the gulf war, as the lack of resources and income had cause oil-depending-countries, to fight against each other for oil. -
1992 Rio Earth summit
The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, was groundbreaking and is now widely known as the Rio Earth Summit. It was held June 3, 14, 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil. The Rio Summit focused on developing a global organization for taking care of permanent environmental degradation thanks to sustainable development of the city. -
2001 US rejects Kyoto Protocol
The kyoto Protocol s a convention of climate changes that commits state parties to reduce their greenhouse gases, assuming they agree with climate warming exists. -
2005 Hurricane Katrina
5th deadliest hurricane in US history, 1245 people died in the hurricane and from the subsequent flood. Total property damage estimated at 108 billion $ of damage. -
2006 Al Gore releases film An Inconvenient Truth
A film co-directed by Al Gore himself, An Inconvenient Truth is a film about global warming -
2007 Great Pacific Garbage island
This is the study that was directed to look for trash in the ocean. Causing thousand of see life to die, the meeting talked about having the see, and stop putting trash in the sea. -
2010 Deepwater Oil Spill
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010, (also called Gulf of Mexico oil spill of 2010), was the largest oil spill in history. It was caused by an explosion on an oil rig, located in the Gulf of Mexico. -
2015 Paris Climate change Conference
This conference was set up to talk about global warming and its effects on the earth. Furthermore, it talked about plans for the future, to reduce the use, and to sustain, the resources we have.