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Population1 Billion
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population 2 billion
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Love Canal
a dream neighborhood that they wanted built but it ended up being on top of a chemical deposit and became public in. -
Minamata disaster
Minamata was a disease that is from methylmercury poisoning that started when a chemical plant dumped MeHg into the ocean where fish and shellfish got contaminated and infected people who ingested the fish. -
Niger Delta Oil Pollution
Around 9-13 million barrels of oil were spilled into the Niger delta over fifty years since commercial oil production began in the Niger in 1958 -
population 3 billion
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Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring Published
Sparked peoples interest in the effect of pesticides (DDT) on the environment and its effects on animals. It also sparked the modern studies on pesticides. -
Clean air act
Federal law that regulates all sources of air emissions, in 1970 the CAA accepted the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) to establish National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) Which protects public health and the environment -
Peru's Amazon Degradation
Estimated nine billion barrels of oil wastewater was released into the Amazon watersheds causing diseases, tumors, skin ailments, and miscarriages from exposure to the oil. -
Stockholm Conference
It was a conference based on the human Environment under all the United Nations and they spoke about international environmental issues. -
Endangered Species Act
The endangered species act ensures protection over fish, wildlife and plants that are on the threatened or endangered species list to help them repopulate and recover from the loss in the species. -
Population 4 billion
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France's Amoco Cadiz oil spill
Claimed the title as the worst marine oil tanker spill that put a dark spot in the record for shipping and accounting for the largest loss of aquatic life after and oil spill. -
Bhopal disaster
A leak of more than 40 tons of methyl isocyanate gas from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India that immediately killed 3,800 people and had lasting effects that led to the early deaths of many more people. -
Chernobyl meltdown
The Chernobyl accident in 1986 was a result of a flawed reactor design that exploded and left 5% of the radioactive core in the environment in Europe. -
population 5 billion
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Montreal Protocol
An agreement between the nations to have a goal too protect the O-zone layer and stop releasing and making O-zone depleting substances. -
Kyoto protocol
An international meeting that made countries reduce greenhouse gas emissions. -
population 6 billion
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Documentary film An Inconvenient Truth released
a movie about former vice president Al Gores that educated people about global warming. -
Deepwater Horizon
The oil drilling rig Deepwater Horizon that was in the Macondo prospect in the Gulf of Mexico exploded and sank killing 11 workers and the largest oil spill in marine oil drilling -
population 7 billion
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population 8 billion