1999 in the environment

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This is a list of notable events relating to the environment in 1999. They relate to environmental law, conservation, environmentalism and environmental issues.

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Events

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References

  1. "Causes and legacy of the dioxin crisis in Belgium". Centrum Agrarische Geshiedenis. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  2. "Islands disappear under rising seas". BBC. 1999-06-14. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
  3. Vidal, John (25 November 2005). "Pacific Atlantis: first climate change refugees". The Guardian . Archived from the original on 15 January 2024. Two uninhabited Kiribati islands, Tebua Tarawa and Abanuea, disappeared underwater in 1999, according to the South Pacific regional environment programme.
  4. Lean, Geoffrey (12 June 1999). "They're going under". The Independent . Ten years on the gloomy predictions are coming true, faster that anyone expected. As we report on page one today, two islands in the Pacific Ocean nation of Kiribati - Tebua Tarawa and Abanuea - have already disappeared beneath the waves.
  5. "Total guilty of French oil spill". BBC. Retrieved August 2, 2025.

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