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Dust Bowl
It was a period of severe dust storms that damaged ecology and agriculture. It ravaged the soil in the 1930s and they couldn't plant anything to grow. This led to human displacement and the great depression. -
Donora smog
It killed 20 people and left thousands of people with respiratory problems. Thousands of more people would've died if the smog lasted longer. -
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Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring Published
This book was published to tell us what the harm of DDT doing to are environment is a pesticide that soldiers would use during the WW2 so they didn’t get diseases but outside of that it was effective killing insects but because of that when animals would consume plants the animals would die because of DDT. -
US river fires
years of industry and railroads added to the rivers flammability and caused it to catch on fire this led to the first earth day in history. -
Stockholm Conference
it was the first nation to have a conference about how we are affecting the environment in a negative way. -
Endangered Species Act
Endangered Species act is a designed to protect critical imperiled species from going extinction the ESA was signed into law by the president the ESA are to protect animals that are going extinct because of economy growth. -
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The Seveso Disaster
The Seveso disaster was an industrial accident. It resulted in the highest exposure to 2, 3, 7, 8 Tetrachloridibenzodioxin (TCDD) in the residential areas. It gave rise to new scientific studies and new safety regulations. This dioxin would give you cancer if exposed to much to it. -
Three Mile island accident
It was a partial nuclear meltdown of the unit 2 reactor. It released radioactive gases and iodine into the environment. The accident heightened the anti-nuclear industry. -
Bhopal Disaster
The Bhopal Disaster was a gas tragedy from a chemical accident it was a pesticide plant in idea over 500,000 people in a small town was exposed to a highly toxic gas. -
Chernobyl Meltdown
Summary description: they started a test on the steam turbines, but they turned on the reactor with a prohibited control rod configuration and the reactor exploded and released radiation all over the Ussr and Europe. -
Minamata Disaster
Minamata disease is a mercury poisoning that causes the person to have numbness and muscle weakness, and it happened in a city of Minamata Kumamoto, and the cause of this was because of a company dumping it in the water. And it affected the fish so when people went out to catch some fish to consume the person would be affected by it. -
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Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
It was when an Exxon supertanker hit Prince WIlliam Sounds Bligh Reef. It was the 2nd largest oil spill in US waters after the Deepwater Horizon. oil spill. -
Kuwaiti Oil Fires
This happened because the Iraqi military forces set fire to 605-732 oil wells. The wells that were destroyed by the Iraqi would release smoke and start polluting the sky and the Iraqi could use it as a smoke screen. -
Documentary film An Inconvenient Truth released
it was a campaign about global warming and Gore, and he is describing the consequences of how human-generated greenhouse gasses can hurt the world. -
Love Canal
The love Canal is a neighborhood that had decades of toxic chemicals that effected health and killed residents of hundred people it took 21 years to clean all that up. -
Montreal Protocol
it was the movement to phase out gases that got rid of the ozone layer 198 nations ratified the treaty making it the first universally ratified treaties. -
Kyoto Protocol
It was a international treaty to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases going into the atmosphere and then on December 8, 2012, they extended the treaty until 2020. -
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Deepwater horizon oil spill
this disaster spilled over 200,000,000 gallons (about 757,082,000 L) of oil into the Gulf of Mexico the oil spill started with the oil rig exploding and releasing oil BP was the company held reasonable. -
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Zero water
due to the overuse of water in south Africa they almost hit zero water in 2020 that led to water rationings. -
Flint water crisis April
the flint water crisis is a disaster that happened in flint Michigan that poisoned the water supply when they switch the water supply that they get their water. -
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