2000 In The Environment
This is a list of notable events relating to the environment (biophysical), environment in 2000. They relate to environmental law, conservation (ethic), conservation, environmentalism and environmental issues. Events *Large scale phosphate mining in Nauru ends leaving an environmental disaster on the small island nation. *The clean up of contaminated land due to the British nuclear tests at Maralinga in Australia is completed. *The Scimitar oryx is assessed as being extinct in the wild. January *The 2000 Baia Mare cyanide spill, Baia Mare cyanide spill was a leak of cyanide near Baia Mare, Romania, into the Someş River by the gold mining company Aurul, a joint-venture of the Australian company Esmeralda Exploration and the Romanian government. The polluted waters eventually reached the Tisza and then the Danube, killing large numbers of fish in Hungary and Yugoslavia. The spill has been called the worst environmental disaster in Europe since the Chernobyl disaster. *A leaking u ...
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