Topic: Current Ecological Disasters
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When there is a major worldwide ecological disaster, would the cu...
The Egyptian Empire didn't dissolve due to desert encroachment. They were overrun by other various empires, including the Persian, Macedonian (which became the Ptolemaic in Egypt), and the Roman Empires. (There were other peoples who had ru... Read More »
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What large ecologic disaster happened recently in the gulf of Mex...
The BP oil spill. Read More »
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What category of prokaryotes is currently the most important ecol...
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The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster is considered to be the worst envir...
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Love Canal, New York. Chemical dumping forced evacuation of whole town. Of course after the chemical plants denied it. Cuyahoga River, Ohio. So badly polluted the debris and chemicals caught it on fire. Tambora volcano, 1815. Caused worldwi...
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Also in Australia – bad bushfires in Victoria a few weeks ago. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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Try Exxon/Valdez in 1989. Almost 11 MILLION gallons of oil spilled into Prince William Sound in Alaska when the ship (driven by a drunk captain) hit a reef and a hole was ripped into its side. Is that enough of a ecological disaster for you...
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Short answer: The over hunting of cattle, overgrazing of land, a growing beef surplus, and the closing of the open range. Long answer: Several factors led to the end of the cattle boom during the mid- 1880s. First, ranchers crowded the open...
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The Exxon Valdez in Alaska, the ongoing burning of the Amazon Forest, the Bhopal disaster in India, The Three Mile Island and the Chernobyl nuclear plants meltdowns.
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