Reviews of histories of: the forest landscape of Molise in Italy; Scottish woodland; the Columbia River, and of the Thames Embankment in Victorian London.
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More than three million Bengali perish in a famine that remains one of the worst catastrophes in the history of modern India.
The Sharda Canal is the last major British colonial irrigation project completed in the United Provinces of India.
The Kyoto Protocol is an addition to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that stipulates a reduction of greenhouse gases.
The convention acknowledges that desertification and drought are global problems, and calls for international collaboration to combat its effects.
In 1992, China approves the construction of the Three Gorges dam. It would be completed in 2008.
The Global 2000 Report to US President Jimmy Carter is published.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) publishes its “Red List” of endangered animal and plant species.
UNESCO recognizes the area’s exceptionally diverse flora and fauna and its value to scientific research.
Mining for uranium begins in Australia, which holds 23% of the world’s proven estimated uranium reserves (1.2 million tons).