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We can't say exactly when it happened but 1 million years ago humans discovered fire, so they started a new era. -
The volcanic winter was caused by an eruption, with several possible locations. Most contemporary accounts of the volcanic winter are from authors in Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, although the impact of the cooler temperatures extended beyond Europe. Modern scholarship has determined that it happened in early 536 CE. -
On this day the Classic Maya civilization ended its existence. -
The English Parliament passes an act forbidding the throwing of filth and garbage into ditches, rivers and waters. -
Industrial Revolution is first of all technological progress and new step into the techno future. However it also caused massive air polution and damage to the nature. -
Severe climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0.4–0.7 °C (0.7–1 °F). Summer temperatures in Europe were the lowest on record between the years of 1766–2000. -
Famous scientist Svante Arrhenius mathematically quantifies the affects of carbon dioxide on climate change related to the Industrial Revolution and the burning of fossil fuels -
Spanish flu kills between 20 and 50 million people worldwide shortly after World War I -
It is the largest private, nonprofit conservation education and advocacy organization in the United States, with over six million members and supporters, and 51 state and territorial affiliated organizations (including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands). -
The United States federal law that allowed the government to pay farmers to reduce production so as to conserve soil and prevent erosion. -
Is an environmental science book by Rachel Carson. This book documented the harm caused by the idiscriminate use of pesticides. -
Occurred in January and February 1969 in the Santa Barbara Channel, near the city of Santa Barbara in Southern California. It was the largest oil spill in United States waters at that time. -
This hypothesis suggests that model of the Earth in which its living and nonliving parts are viewed as a complex interacting system that can be thought of as a single organism. -
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is responsible for coordinating responses to environmental issues within the United Nations system. -
Love Canal is a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, United States, infamous as the location of a 0.28 km2 landfill that became the site of an enormous environmental disaster in the 1970s. Decades of dumping toxic chemicals harmed the health of hundreds of residents; the area was cleaned up over the course of 21 years in a Superfund operation. -
It was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. Later clouds of radiation could be seen in Europe. -
The Paris Agreement, often referred to as the Paris Accords or the Paris Climate Accords. It covers climate change mitigation, adaptation, and finance.