Brent Spar Campaign
Brent Spar becomes one of Greenpeace’s most succesful campaigns to stop the pollution of the seas.
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Robert Gioielli on "Hard Asphalt and Heavy Metals"
Historian Robert Gioielli, Carson fellow from September 2010 to June 2011, speaks about his research project, “Hard Asphalt and Heavy Metals: An Environmental History of the Urban Crisis.”
"The Grey Seal in Britain: A Twentieth Century History of a Nature Conservation Success"
This article examines the complex history of the grey seal problem in Britain since 1914.
"Environment, Ethnicity and History in Chotanagpur, India, 1850–1970"
This paper attempts to show the ways in which the recurring image of an older landscape served as a powerful metaphor in Chotanagpur’s resurgence.
Choropampa, El Precio del Oro [Choropampa, The Price of Gold]
A two-year chronicle documenting the real price of gold in a village in Peru’s Andean mountains, following a mercury spill by one of the world’s largest gold producers.
Protests against agricultural use of the Little Desert
Constant protesting leads to a recall of the Victoria government’s plans.
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Nevada-Semipalatinsk Movement
The first anti-nuclear protest movement in the USSR is founded in 1989.
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Association of Zimbabwean Traditionialist Ecologists (AZTREC)
The Association of Zimbabwe Traditional Environmental Conservationists (AZTREC) is founded in Zimbabwe’s Masvingo Province.
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Three Mile Island nuclear accident
A core meltdown leads to the worst accident in the history of commercial nuclear power in the United States.
"Chipko Movement" in Gopeshwar
Activists use their bodies to prevent the cutting of trees.
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