Environmental Crisis
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| Ecology | The study of the relationships between living things and their environments
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| Pesticides | The chemicals used to kill insects on plants
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| Earth Day | Nationwide demonstration to send a message to politicians telling them to wake up and do something, first earth day was April 22, 1970
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| Multilateral environmental agreements | Pacts among nations to protect the environment
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| Pollution | The release of wastes such as chemicals or harmful gases into their, water, and soil
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| Love Canal | Near Niagara Falls, diseases and birth defects, lived on top of a decades-old toxic waste dump
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| Three Mile Island | Nuclear facility, overheated when cooling system failed, closed down the reactor until they could seal the leak
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| Bhopal | Chemical plant, released deadly toxic fumes in to the air, killed 3,800 people and injured 100,000
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| Chernobyl | Nuclear explosion, radioactive waste that killed hundreds and caused persistent health problems
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| Prince William Sound | In Alaska where shortly after midnight the oil tanker Exxon Valdez struck the Bligh Reef in Prince William sound and spilled more than 11 million gallons of oil
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| Kyoto Accords | One of the most talked-about MEA's in recent years, grew out of a conference held in Kyoto, Japan
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