Environmental history

In 2009, ministers from the Maldives held the first underwater cabinet meeting

In 2015, nearly 200 countries adopted the Paris climate agreement

In December 1989, environmentalists met to secure the future of Germany’s ‘Green Belt’

An international conference in 1985 changed the history of climate change

In 1997, a Gambian woman started an environmental initiative

In 2010, an earthquake struck the coast of Chile triggering a tsunami

In 1998, a strange phenomenon turned the world’s most colourful coral reefs deathly white

In 1985, news broke of a major environmental discovery: a hole in the earth’s ozone layer

On 17 January 1995, an earthquake devastated the city of Kobe, in Japan

In 1970, American student Gary Anderson designed a logo for recycled paper products

In 2008, seeds began arriving at a frozen vault designed to save the world’s food supply

In the early 2000s, a woman known as ‘Lady Tarzan’ fought India’s so called timber mafia

In 2009 a tsunami killed 149 people. Lumepa Hald tells the story of destruction and loss

In 1948, the Dover Sun House, in the US, was the first home to be heated by solar power

In 1986, remote parts of Cameroon were turned into ghost villages overnight

In 2003, Paris was overwhelmed by the hottest European heatwave for 500 years

In 2010 a $3.6billion fund began to stop oil drilling in Ecuador’s Yasuni national park

In 2003, the Sarayaku community began a legal battle against an oil company

In 1978, a crude oil tanker was shipwrecked off the coast of France

In 2013, campaigners were arrested for protesting against oil drilling in the Arctic

An island expedition helped save Guadalupe's wildlife from extinction...and goats

In May 2013, the widest tornado ever recorded hit the US state of Oklahoma

Geoff Chapple's vision was to create New Zealand's national walking trail

In 1978, a group of volunteers in Denmark built their own wind turbine to power a school