Modern Environmental Movement

  • Silent Spring

    The book that started the environmental movement
  • Minamata

    Minamata syndrome, or Minamata disease, is a severe form of methylmercury poisoning caused by consuming fish contaminated with mercury, which was discharged from a chemical plant in Japan starting in 1951.
  • epa

    environmental protection agency
  • Bhopal

    more than 40 tons of methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, immediately killing at least 3,800 people
  • chernobyl

    nuclear incident
  • Julia Butterfly

    she lived in the canopy of a 1,000-year-old redwood tree named Luna for 738 days to prevent its destruction by logging.
  • hurricane Katrina

    powerful and destructive Category 3 storm that made landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005
  • inconvenient truth

    the film was the connection between hurricanes and global warming, which at the time was contentious in the scientific community. Gore cited five recent scientific studies to support his view.
  • Greta Thunburg

    spoke about climate change, and how society contrast with it.
  • Fukushima Nuclear Accident

    powerful earthquake and massive tsunami, which disabled the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, causing three nuclear meltdowns and the release of radioactive material. The event led to the evacuation of over 150,000 people, the destruction of infrastructure, and long-term environmental and human health concerns
  • Harambe Incident

    the shooting and killing of a 17-year-old western lowland gorilla named Harambe at the Cincinnati Zoo on May 28, 2016. The gorilla was killed after a three-year-old boy climbed into his enclosure.
  • Coral Reef bleaching

    occurs when corals expel the colorful, life-sustaining algae (zooxanthellae) living in their tissues due to environmental stress, primarily rising ocean temperatures caused by climate change.