As cane-growers in Gordonvale grew concerned about crop damage caused by French cane beetles, Australia’s Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations decided to introduce the cane toad to Australia, where it soon became a plague.
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On July 16, 1979 the United Nuclear Corporation’s Church Rock uranium mill disposal pond ruptured through its dam and contaminated the Puerco River in New Mexico and parts of Navajo Country.
Howie Wolke and Dave Foreman write a memo to “the hardcore,” looking for a core group of people to run the new organization. They attach a draft platform and suggest a newsletter titled Nature More: The Newsletter of EARTH FIRST.
The Spermonde Archipelago is home to one of the world’s largest coral reefs. With the introduction of blast fishing methods during Word War II, the coral reef’s biodiversity has been under threat.
The Sundarbans, one of the largest remaining areas of mangroves in the world with an exceptional level of biodiversity, is inscripted as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Beginning in 1980, economic development and industrialization in Chongqing, China, has caused the energy production and consumption of coal products to rapidly increase. At the same time, pollution was on the rise.
During the Gulf War, Iraqi Military dumped oil from tankers and pipelines into the Persian Gulf to ward off United States military landings and operations.
The Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm signifies the first time that environmental issues were formally recognized on the global stage, and guidelines to address these problems were endorsed by 113 countries.
Times Beach, a former summer resort town for citizens of St. Louis, Missouri, was evacuated due to the EPA’s discovery of large amounts of toxic dioxin in the soil.
Corroded chemical drums from WR Grace and Company were discovered leaking trichloroethylene and perchloroethylene into the town’s water supply, causing childhood leukemia in several cases.