environmental crisis
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| Ecology | The study of the relationships between living things and there environments..
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| Pesticides | The chemicals used to kill insects on plants.
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| Earth day | Following the publication of silent spring senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin proposed the idea of and earth day.
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| Multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) | Nations began negotiating Multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) , or pacts among nations to protect the environment.
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| Kyoto accord | One of the most talked about MEAs in recent years grew out of a conference held in Kyoto , Japan in December 1997.
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| Keeping the planet alive | The environmental movement alerted people to many challenges facing our planet.
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| Blood diseases | Nerve damage , birth defects , cancer , and so on.
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| Love canal | In the 1970s, people living in a New York housing development named love canal noticed that their communities had a high rate of serious health problems.
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| Three mile island | On march 28, one of the reactors at the three mile island nuclear facility outside Harrisburg , Pennsylvania , over heated when its cooling system failed.
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| Bhopal | A major ecological disasters occurred at a chemical plant in Bhopal, India.
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| Chernobyl (1986) | In the mid 19800's , the Soviet Union was the site of the worst nuclear accidents thus far.
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| Valdez oil spill (1989) | On march 24, shortly after midnight, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez struck the blight Reef in prince William sound, Alaska.
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| Government | Such ecological disasters led people to pressure their government into dealing with environmental problems.
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| Pollution | (Is the chemical waste such as chemical or harmful gases in to the air , water , and , soil)
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