List of years in the environment

This is a list of years in the environment. The subjects relate to environmental law, conservation, environmentalism and environmental issues.

Some of the more notable events are listed here with a full list on the respective pages.
List of years in the environment (table)

List of years

1920s

1940s

1950s

1960s

  • 1962 - Silent Spring, the widely acclaimed book by Rachel Carson which documented the effects of indiscriminate use of pesticides, is published.
  • 1963
  • 1964
  • 1965
  • 1968
  • 1969

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

- 2010 is declared to be the International Year of Biodiversity by the United Nations General Assembly.
- The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico flows unabated for three months.

2020s

gollark: The system here (for A levels) is that you just do one set of exams at the end of two years and schools can do mock ones if they want. It *sounds* sensible, except you apply to universities before getting any A level grades and also a significant amount of things depend just on how well you happened to do over one/a few days.
gollark: You have very brief time to revise between exams?
gollark: Huh. Wow.
gollark: Oh, so you just... have... exams... constantly?
gollark: That seems really early, what do you do the *rest* of the year?

See also

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