In his 1901 book, American conservationist and nature writer John Muir promoted a transcendentalist idea of national parks as wild places of inspirational beauty.
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Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius’s study On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground is published.
The 1906 earthquake and subsequent fire is one of the deadliest natural disasters in US history.
German geologist Alfred Wegener theorizes continental drift.
The disaster affects Tokyo, Yokohama, and vast parts of the Japanese island of Honshu.
A period of drought in the American Great Plains, combined with unsustainable agricultural practices, turns the region into a “Dust Bowl.”
The outbreak of the Spanish Influenza kills more than twelve million people in India.
United States and Great Britain (on behalf of Canada) sign the Convention for the Protection of Migratory Birds in 1916.
New Zealand’s deadliest earthquake causes the death of 258 people in the Hawke’s Bay region.
This South American cactus moth is used to combat the spread of the prickly pear.