The Environment Chronicle
Notable environmental events between 1940 and 1949 Deselect
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- 1800 26 Events
- 1900 5 Events
- 1910 6 Events
- 1920 6 Events
- 1930 7 Events
- 1940 7 Events
- 1950 15 Events
- 1960 25 Events
- 1970 106 Events
- 1980 139 Events
- 1990 271 Events
- 2000 30 Events
- 2001 32 Events
- 2002 39 Events
- 2003 37 Events
- 2004 44 Events
- 2005 47 Events
- 2006 46 Events
- 2007 57 Events
- 2008 119 Events
- 2009 286 Events
- 2010 315 Events
- 2011 293 Events
- 2012 231 Events
- 2013 331 Events
- 2014 366 Events
- 2015 374 Events
- 2016 341 Events
- 2017 310 Events
- 2018 25 Events
- 2019 4 Events
- 2020 0 Events
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The 1948 Donora smog was an historic air inversion wall of smog that killed 20 and sickened 7,000 people in Donora, Pennsylvania in the United States, a mill town on the Monongahela River, 24 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
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The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development is set up in Paris as part of the Marshall Plan. It has an environment department, which deals above all with the relationship between economic activity and the environment. The OECD regularly publishes reports on the environment in OECD countries and other studies.
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The Economic Commission for Europe is responsible for a great many fundamental environmental agreements, especially on air quality, water quality, industrial waste and environmental impact assessments.
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The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling aims to conserve large whale populations. It is legally binding in civil law.
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"Fat Man", a 22 kt atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki, killing 70,000 immediately.
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"Little Boy", an atomic bomb with a 60 kg core of uranium 235, explodes over Hiroshima with the power of 13.5 kt of explosives. By the end of 1945, 140,000 have died as a consequence.
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Invention of 2,4,5, trichlorophenoxyacetic acid. During the Vietnam War (1965-1971), it is used as a defoliant under the codename Agent Orange. It is expected that contaminated soil will need over a century to regenerate.
