The German state regulates conservation for the first time 1935.
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The process caused environmental destruction in large areas of Tasmania.
Pakistan’s Kalabagh Dam Project is constructed and becomes highly contested as it develops from an irrigation project into a major effort to generate hydroelectric power.
The first international conference on global biosphere protection by UNESCO takes place in Paris in 1968.
The passage of the first forest regulations in India under British rule leads to the establishment of the Imperial Forest Service.
The Erie Canal was the first transportation system between the eastern seaboard and the western interior of the United States that did not require portage.
German physicist Albert Einstein explains the photoelectric effect.
The Act is the first British legislation to encompass all of India’s forests and waterways.
The agreement between Canada and the United States concerns the quality of the Great Lakes Water Basin.
Scientists at Columbia University find that, as a result of nuclear testing, the radioactive isotope Strontium 90 could likely be detected in every human on earth.