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Sand County Almanac is a combination of natural history, scene painting with words, and philosophy.
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Minamata disease is a methylmercury poisoning with neurological symptoms and caused by the daily consump- tion of large quantities of fish and shellfish that were heavily contaminated with the toxic chemical generated in chemical factories and then discharged into the sea.
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A environmental science book by Rachel Carson. It documented the environmental harm that careless use of pesticides caused.
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Twenty million Americans take part in the first Earth Day. A large-scale demonstration of environmental activism, the observance leads to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and legislation including the Clean Air Act.
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A Union carbide pesticide plant that released tons of poisonous gas that was Considered one of the worlds worst industrial disaster.
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The worst nuclear disaster ever occurred.
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Biosphere 2 was a earth system science facility that attempted to create an environment where humans could live without any outside contact.
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The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, also known as the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit, the Rio Summit, the Rio Conference, and the Earth Summit, this was a major United Nations conference held in Rio de Janeiro
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An Inconvenient Truth is a 2006 American concert/documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about former United States Vice President Al Gore's campaign to educate people about global warming.
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Another horrible nuclear accident. An earthquake set of a tsunami which cause damage resulting in the meltdown of 3 reactors in the plant.
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A peaceful protest against the Russian Gazprom oil platform drilling for oil in the arctic
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As part of the Paris Agreement, a landmark international accord to combat climate change, signatory countries agree to limit global temperature rise in the 21st century to 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.