Since 1959 the Galápagos National Park has provided protection to the diverse and unique ecosystems of the Galápagos Islands.
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The Centralia mine fire in Centralia, Pennsylvania is a massive underground fire that has been burning for more than 50 years. Beginning in 1962, it has since driven away all but ten (as of 2012) residents.
The UAE has appointed a company named Masdar to create the most environmentally sustainable city in the world that may serve as a model for future generations.
The Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Park has experienced an infestation of emerald ash borer beetles. In October 2010 the National Park Service began for a tree replacement program to revitalize the park.
The United States and Guatemala agree to a debt-for-nature swap worth $24.4 million. The developing Central American country agreed to invest the savings to conservation work over the next 15 years.
Alfred Wegener was the first scientist to theorize the concept of continental drift to explain how land masses are situated today. Modernized technology proved his proposition to be true in the 1960s and many divisions of geologic study today begin with Wegener’s ideas.
Japan ceases whaling following U.N. International Court of Justice ruling that whaling is not allowed through a previous loophole stating nations could hunt whale for research purposes.
The failure of the potato crop in Ireland, aided by harsh British land ownership policies, caused a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration.
President of the Republic of the Maldives, Mohammed Nasheed and 13 government officials hold an underwater cabinet meeting in Girifushi on 17 October 2009, to call attention to the threat of global warming on the island nation.
The refining process of the Canadian tar sands causes dangerous groundwater problems and creates massive amounts of greenhouse gases, toxins, and pollutants that are causing increasing cancer rates and massive destruction to wetlands and forests.