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See How to Edit and Style and How-to for help, or this article's talk page. An environmental disaster is a disaster that may be due to a natural event or due to human activity.
The impact of humans alteration of the ecosystem that has widespread or long lasting consequences. It can involve mass-killing of animals (including humans) and plant systems, or severe disruption of human life requiring mass migration. In ecology, an ecosystem is a naturally occurring assemblage of organisms (plant, animal and other living organisms—also referred to as a biotic community or biocoenosis) living together with their environment (or biotope), functioning as a loose unit. ...
Of course 'negative' is a relative term. Some might view for example the Three Gorges Dam as an environmental disaster, requiring the migration of 1 million people. Others might see it as beneficial to stop flooding. Some might see the destruction of most of the North American forests as beneficial, as it cleared land for farming and other uses. In Ireland, the clearing of forest led to the formation of bogs, which some people like for their beauty, as well as their products such as peat moss. Others might see these deforestations as negative. The Three Gorges Dam (Chinese: 三峡大å; Pinyin: ) spans the Yangtze River (the third longest river in the world) at Sandouping, Yichang, Hubei province, China. ...
A dense growth of softwoods (a forest) in the Sierra Nevada Range of Northern California A forest (a. ...
Virgin boreal acid bogs at Browns Lake Bog, Ohio A bog is a wetland type that accumulates peat, a deposit of dead plant material. ...
Species See text Sphagnum is a genus of mosses commonly called peat moss due to its prevalence in peat bogs. ...
A more cynical example would be, for example, that Saddam Hussein felt it was beneficial to get rid of the Madan people by draining the Al-Hawizeh marsh because they had joined the United States in the first Gulf War. Another example is the depopulation of the American Bison. It was thought by General William Sherman and others to be a good way to get rid of the American Indians living in the Great Plains, and would make way for the exploding population of the United States of America to take over the area. The people of Madan lived in the marshes of what is now southern Iraq. ...
C Company, 1st Battalion, The Staffordshire Regiment, 1st UK Armoured Division The 1991 Gulf War was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of 34 nations mandated by the United Nations and led by the United States. ...
Binomial name Bison bison Linnaeus, 1758 The American Bison (Bison bison), also called Buffalo, is a bovine mammal that is the largest terrestrial mammal in North America. ...
Portrait of William Tecumseh Sherman by Mathew Brady William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, and author. ...
A Sioux in traditional dress including war bonnet, about 1908 Native Americans – also Indians, American Indians, First Nations, First Peoples, Indigenous Peoples of America, Aboriginal Peoples, Aboriginal Americans, Amerindians, Amerind, Native Canadians (or of other nations) – are those peoples indigenous to the Americas, living there prior to European colonization and...
The Great Plains states. ...
Some disasters can be averted before they have drastic consequences, as is the case with the hole in the ozone layer caused by CFCs, which were subsequently subjected to a near-total ban by various world governments. The ozone layer, or ozonosphere, is that part of the Earths stratosphere which contains relatively high concentrations of ozone (O3). ...
For other uses, see CFC (disambiguation). ...
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