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A factory released poisinous merucury into Minimata Bay waters. People who ate fish from the bay ended up getting Minimata disease (mercury poisioning) which causes brain damage and even death. (Slides) -
Silent Spring is a book about enviormental science written by Rachel Carson. The book documented how DDP (pesitcide) is causing long term damage and should be prevented from use on plants. (History.com) -
A gas leak occured at a pesticide factory in Bhopal, India. Thousands of people were killed. (Slides) -
Joni Mitchell released the song, "Big Yellow Taxi" to sing about how destroying nature to build parking lots and buildings is slowly killing the enviorment. -
James Lovelock proposed that the Earth operates as a giant organism. The atmosphere is the organ that regulates the biospehere. (Slides) -
Julia Hill (origianlly began in 1977) climbed up into a 1,000 year old redwood tree named Luna to protest logging. She built a house and lived there for 738 days (Slides) -
The Number Four RBMK reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, went out of control, leading to an explosion and fire. (Slides) -
Leaders from almost 180 countries met in Rio de Janerio to discuss what to do in order to protect the enviorment. They focused on pollution, deforestation, climate change (etc.)The Rio Declaration and Convention on Biological Diversity were products of this meeting. (unitednations.org) -
A three year old boy fell into an enclosure at the Cincnatti zoo and was grabbed and dragged by 17 year old gorilla, Harambe. In order to protect the child, Harambe was shot. (Slides) -
An Inconveient Truth was a documentary led by Al Gore, about the future of climate change. (Slides) -
A earthquake followed by a tsunami caused severe damage at the Fukushima nuclear powerplant in Japan. Three of six reactors were damaged and radioactive material was released.
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15 year olf Greta Thunburg began a school strike for climate change. She sat outside Swedish Parliament every School day demanding action of the climate change situation. (Slides) -
Fires widespread in the Amazon due to creating space for farming and cattle, making the land extremely flammable, which ultmately caused air pollution. (Purdue.edu)