The Ramsar Convention establishes a framework for national action and international cooperation for the conservation of wetlands and their resources.
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The discovery changes the European approach to energy use.
The chemist is one of the pioneers of environmental hygiene.
A dense smog kills up to 60 persons and causes several thousand cases of pulmonary attacks in the Meuse Valley near Liege in Beligium.
The British Solomon Islands Protectorate government, in the 1910s, encouraged logging operations on Vanikolo in order to diversify the economy and extend government control in the easternmost islands…
The flood inundates up to one quarter of the country and causes the deaths of over 1700 people.
The loss of island land mass leads to the migration of populations.
The cyclone is recorded as one of the worst natural catastrophes in Australian history.
A well-recorded instance of medieval conflict over aquatic resources, in this case the rich salmon fisheries of medieval Scotland, highlights the historic importance of this resource and incidentally documents technical and social elements of its exploitation.
The New River was a canal opened in 1613 to supply London’s growing population with fresh water, which was commercially sold by the New River Company. Its construction and use played an instrumental part in the shift from freely available water that had to be fetched to a commercial service that was laid into people’s homes.