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  2. Industrial Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Even if Belgium is the second industrial country after Britain, the effect of the Industrial Revolution there was very different. In 'Breaking stereotypes', Muriel Neven and Isabelle Devious say: The Industrial Revolution changed a mainly rural society into an urban one, but with a strong contrast between northern and southern Belgium.

  3. History of environmental pollution - Wikipedia

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    The history of environmental pollution traces human-dominated ecological systems from the earliest civilizations to the present day. [1] This history is characterized by the increased regional success of a particular society, followed by crises that were either resolved, producing sustainability, or not, leading to decline.

  4. Peppered moth evolution - Wikipedia

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    The evolution of the peppered moth is an evolutionary instance of directional colour change in the moth population as a consequence of air pollution during the Industrial Revolution. The frequency of dark-coloured moths increased at that time, an example of industrial melanism. Later, when pollution was reduced in response to clean air ...

  5. Life in Great Britain during the Industrial Revolution

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    A Roberts loom in a weaving shed in the United Kingdom in 1835. The nature of the Industrial Revolution's impact on living standards in Britain is debated among historians, with Charles Feinstein identifying detrimental impacts on British workers, whilst other historians, including Peter Lindert and Jeffrey Williamson claim the Industrial Revolution improved the living standards of British ...

  6. List of environmental films - Wikipedia

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    Dust to Dust: The Health Effects of 9/11: Air pollution: from September 11 attacks, United States Environmental Protection Agency: Heidi Dehncke-Fisher 2006 Earth: Environmental change: effects on three particular species: Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield, and Leslie Megahey: 2007 Earth Days: Environmentalism: environmental movement in the ...

  7. Industrialisation - Wikipedia

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    The effect of industrialisation shown by rising income levels in the 19th century, including gross national product at purchasing power parity per capita between 1750 and 1900 in 1990 U.S. dollars for the First World, including Western Europe, United States, Canada and Japan, and Third World nations of Europe, Southern Asia, Africa, and Latin America [1] The effect of industrialisation is also ...

  8. Industrial melanism - Wikipedia

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    Industrial melanism is known from over 70 species of moth that Kettlewell found in England, and many others from Europe and North America. [17] Among these, Apamea crenata (clouded border brindle moth) and Acronicta rumicis (knot grass moth) are always polymorphic, though the melanic forms are more common in cities and (like those of the peppered moth) are declining in frequency as those ...

  9. Environmental issues - Wikipedia

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    Levels of air pollution rose during the Industrial Revolution, sparking the first modern environmental laws to be passed in the mid-19th century. The environmental movement (sometimes referred to as the ecology movement) is a social movement that aims to protect the natural world from harmful environmental practices in order to create ...