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The Minamata disease was discovered in Minamata City Japan -
Silent Spring is one of the most influential books of the environmental movement -
They took the first photo of space from the moon and is believed that it started the environmental movements -
Earth Day was founded by a US Senator from Wisconsin after seeing the effects of a massive oil spill in California
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Greenpeace was founded in Canada by a small group of concerned individuals, who set sail to Amchitka island off the coast of Alaska to try and stop a US nuclear weapons test. Their old fishing boat was called “The Greenpeace” -
The Club of Rome, a global think tank met for the first time in Rome
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A Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal released 42 tonnes of toxic methyl isocyanate gas, exposing half a million people to the gas -
The sinking of Greenpeace’s flagship Rainbow Warrior raised an international protest -
Reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine exploded, causing one of the biggest nuclear disaster in history -
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Rio Earth Summit, played a leading role in shaping attitudes to sustainability
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targets were set to reduce poverty and increase access to safe drinking water and sanitation -
The film An inconvenient Truth was released, it increased awareness of environmental concerns
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Copenhagen Accord, worked towards finding a successor to the Kyoto Protocol
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the debate about a legally binding global agreement was reopened
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took place to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the Earth Summit -
A meltdown in three of the six reactors of Fukushima power plant was caused by a tsunami