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Minamata
The Minamata disease is a widespread epidemic in Japan where a corporations factory leaked its waste water into the bay causing vast environmental damage present to this day. -
Redwoods
The Save the Redwoods foundation is created in order to save redwood trees, of which almost 60% of Redwoods in California benefit from. -
The Dust Bowl
Many dust storms wreaked havoc upon the North American prairie, which heavily damaged ecology and caused a widespread drought. -
Hiroshima Nagasaki
In the final stages of World War 2, The U.S. dropped two nuclear weapons on Hiroshima. This was devastating, and concluded the results of the war. -
The Founding of IUCN
The IUCN was founded in 1948 in order to bring awareness to the conservation of nature. There are many members across the world, even today. -
Nuclear Powerplant
The first nuclear powerplant is built in order to generate electricity, and later on had an extreme accident in Windscale, England. -
WWF
The World Wildlife Fund was created as a charity in Switzerland. It was used to to promote conservation, research, and restoration of the natural environment. -
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring Published
Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is a documentation of environmental damage as result of pesticides and other environmental harming chemicals. -
Rhine river, Europe
An accidental spill of insecticide in the Rhine river in 1969 contaminated more than 600 km of it and killed almost 20 million fish. -
Seveso Disaster
In Italy, a chemical manufacturing plant malfunctioned and resulted in the highest known exposure of TCDD(a cancer-causing herbicide used in the Vietnam War). -
Save the Whales
Founded to protect not only whales but many endangered or 'at risk' species. -
Bhopal
There was a gas leak in which 5,200 citizens died and many were left with injuries. -
Cherynobyl
A surge of power caused a fire which then released mass amounts of radioactive materials into the environment. The area never recovered. -
Kyoto
The Kyoto agreement brought nations to agree on greenhouse gas emissions. -
Deep Water Horizon Spill
The damage of the oil spill was the largest marine oil spill in history, topping off 68,000 square miles. Everything was desecrated, completely covered in oil. -
Mount Pollie Mine Disaster
24 million cubic meters of mine waste leaked into Pollie Lake. -
Red Tide
The Red Tide in the U.S. has killed 300 tons of ocean wildlife, and the government has stated that Florida is under a wide state of emergency.