The World Conference on Science and Technology for Human Development takes place in Bucharest, Romania.
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Early modern European voyages to the New World led to the globally transformative exchange of people, plants, ideas, and diseases.
The Habitat II UN Conference on Human Settlements takes place in Istanbul in 1996.
Henry David Thoreau’s book Walden is considered one of the most important works of nature writing and became highly influential for the environmental movement.
UN releases “Declaration on Cities and Other Human Settlements in the New Millennium.”
Publication of the first sections of John James Audubon’s Birds of America.
Dedicated under US President Ulysses S. Grant, Yellowstone becomes not just the world’s first national park, but also one of its most famous.
Today’s Royal National Park, which lies south of Sydney, is Australia’s first explicitly designated national park.
The career of the word “ecology” takes off. The term will increasingly be used to describe all aspects of interaction between living creatures and their environment.
“Lothar” and “Martin” are the most destructive storms in recent European history, affecting the European mainland from northwestern France all the way to Switzerland and Southern Germany.