Environmental Timeline

*Instructions: You are to visit the website (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/04/22/science/earth/20100422_environment_timeline.html) and locate each of the dates listed on the timeline. Write a brief summary of what happened on each of those dates that is relative to environmental science.

Date: June 8, 1940 Oct 30, 1948 June 1959 September 1962 December 17, 1963 September 3, 1964 January 1969 April 22, 1970 September 1970 December 2, 1970 October 1972 September 1973 August 1977

Environmental significance:

June 15, 1978 March 1979 November 1980 March 1986 April 1986 March 24, 1989 October 1990 December 11, 997 April 2007 May 19, 2009 December 7, 2009 March 31, 2010