Stephen Bell, Carson Fellow from June to August 2011, talks about his research concerning the the transformation of land use in Brazil.
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The commission provides mechanisms for resolving matters over waters bordering Canada and the USA.
In Donora, Pennsylvania, USA, 20 people die and over 7000 residents suffer respiratory distress as a result of an acrid smog disaster in late October 1948.
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.
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.