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human population hit 1 billion
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Madagascar deforestation
there was over 16 million hectares of trees covering the land, it lost over 235 thousand hectares of trees equal to 119 metric tons of CO2e. toamasina and fainarantsoa were the main 2 places that were responsible for 55% of every one of the tree loss between 2001 and 2021 -
Griefswald Nuclear Power Plant
an electrical misstep happened and caused a fire in the main trough that heavily damaged the control lines and five main coolants. -
human population hit 2 billion
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dust bowl
The dust bowl was caused by human factors and natural factors helped the main cause was mostly because of the farmers not applying dryland farming methods to stop wind erosion. And caused a drought that lasted for eight years. -
eagles DDT
Bald eagles were poisoned with DDT when they consumed fish, the chemicals made the bird not able to produce strong eggs. Because of this their eggs had very thin shells which caused the eggs to often break during incubation or they didn’t hatch at all. -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing
In 1945 after the bombings there were at least 1450,000 deaths in Hiroshima and 74,000 in Nagasaki, sine this scientist have showed the huge impact the bombings had on humans health and the environment. There was a ton of radiation exposure that caused cancer and altered DNA -
great smog
the great fog was so thick and so polluted that it killed thousands and caused chaos in London in 1952. The pollution that was smokey like was so toxic that it was reported to have choked some cows to death that were in fields -
minamata disaster
a life threating disease that damages the kidneys. It is mainly caused by severe mercury disease. Its originated by the release or methylmercury in a chemical factory -
Kyshtym disaster
the kythtym disaster was a radioactive incident that needed to be contaminated/controlled quickly after a chemical explosion that occured in a storage tank. -
human population hit 3 billion
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Rachel Carson's "silent spring" published
is a science book written and published on September 27,1962 by Rachel Carson. The book documented environmental harm that was due to indiscriminate use of DDT, this was used during world war 2 as a pesticide. -
three mile island
he three mile island incident was something that happened when one of the units (Unit 2) had a nuclear meltdown and the total cost to clean up everything was 1 billion dollars. -
the 1969 Cuyahoga River fire
people describe this fire as a main cause of milestones in the environmental movement, this has became a symbol of water pollution. This was caused railroad bridges near republic steel to trap debris in the river and casing oil to pile up and the oil mixed with the water just added to its flammability. -
Stockholm conference
his is a document that placed environmental issues at the forefront of international concerns that contained over 26 principals. It marked a start of the dialogue between industrialized and developed countries on economic growth, pollution of air, water, and oceans. -
Endangered species act
this is shorted to (ESA) and it is a program to try and help save the lives of endangered plants and animals in their habitats. -
human population hit 4 billion
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saveso disaster
was an industrial tragedy that occurred at a chemical plant in italy. An explosion had happened and toxic chemicals spilt out which caused the surrounding areas to split into different zones. -
Love Canal
love canal was a project that was eventually called off because of a environmental disaster everything happened after years of dumping toxic chemicals which eventually lead to the death of residents and put a lot of peoples health in danger. -
CERCLA
CERCLA is a liability act that creates a tax on chemicals to petroleum factories to help climate change. -
Bhopal disaster
The Bhopal disaster was a gas disaster caused by a leakage of methyl isocyanate. What had happened after the leakage to the human workers caused 8000 deaths. -
Surry Virginia United States 1986
a feedwater pipe broke down and killed 4 workers. At a nuclear power point. -
Chernobyl meltdown
Chernobyl is the worst chemical disaster in history. It had happened because of the explosion of No. 4 reactor in the Nuclear Power Point. -
human population hit 5 billion
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Montreal protocol
The Montreal Protocol was a treaty created to help the ozone layer. Created to reduce the ozone-depletion levels. -
exxon valdez
The Exxon Valdez oil spill was a spill That happened when Exxon Valdez someone who was a oil tanker owned by exxon shipping company, and it was the second biggest spill that happen in the U.S waters. -
Kyoto protocol
is a agreement that required industrialized nations/ countries to cut down the greenhouse gas emissions. Mostly formed after they found out how contaminated the air was. -
human population hit 6 billion
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documentary film "Inconvenient Truth" released
It was a film released to the public bringing more light towards global warming to thousands of audiences. And brought more attention towards the incoming disasters that could come to earth -
deep water oil spill
The deepwater oil spill happened off the coast of the United States inside the Gulf of Mexico considered the largest marine spill. And it had caused 17.2 billion dollars in natural damage. -
human population hit 7 billion
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Fukushima nuclear accident
this accident took place in 2011 and resulted in the release of radioactive material in the environment, this event was dispersed locally, regionally, and even globally, harming the land and sea by the weather. -
clean power act
his act was announced in 2015 and set the first ever limits on carbon pollution from U.S. power plants, and probably the largest source of pollution in the country that is making dangerous climate change. -
human population hit 8 billion