science

The London Zoo becomes the world’s first scientific zoological garden.

The first manual on mining sciences combines the areas of humanism and technology.

Copernicus introduces the idea of a heliocentric universe in which the planets move around the sun.

The Nobel Peace Prize goes to former US Vice President Al Gore and the IPCC for their efforts to communicate the dangers of climate change.

Former World Bank Chief Economist Nicholas Stern predicts the rapid growth of the costs of measures to combat climate change.

The first international conference on global biosphere protection by UNESCO takes place in Paris in 1968.

The first scientific conference on the causes of climate change takes place in Boulder, Colorado, in the US.

German physicist Albert Einstein explains the photoelectric effect.