The Sandoz chemical disaster became one of the worst environmental disasters in Europe. It contaminated large parts of the area around Schweizerhalle near Basel and killed millions of plants and animals in the Rhine River.
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The British Alkali Acts are a first systematic attempt to control the increasing pollution from the Alkali industry.
The release of a toxic cloud containing dioxin from a chemical plant near Seveso in Northern Italy becomes one of the worst industrial accidents worldwide.
The Ramsar Convention establishes a framework for national action and international cooperation for the conservation of wetlands and their resources.
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.