1. On this day in 1972, the Stockholm Conference on Human Environment was held in Sweden. Since then the _________is celebrated on this day.

2. Fuel?

3. This species of bird native to North America was considered to have been one of the most numerous birds on earth. Intensive shooting and the destruction of the birds’natural breeding ground brought about a sudden fall in their numbers. The last of this species on earth died in a zoo in Circinnati in 1914. Name this bird.

4. Which is the first Indian state to implement the path-breaking proposal that environment should be included as a separate subject in schools?

5. In the world’s worst nuclear accident in 1986, 31 people died, 129 others suffered acute radiation and many thousands are expected to die prematurely as a result of exposure to radiation released from the stricken plant. Name the site of this mishap.

 6. The ____________, which has been the subject of much debate, proposes to build 30 major dams, 135 medium sized dams and 3000 smaller dams on the X river and its tributaries. The major concerns regarding this project are

 The project will submerge over 4000 sq. km. of forest, cultivated land and grazing land  

 Between 1 & 1.5 million people will be displaced 

 At least 40% of the land to be irrigated is prone to water-logging and salination 

7. Bjorn Lomborg, known to many as 'The Skeptical Environmentalist' and named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time Magazine, has criticized current expectations of climate change and the consequences in his book. Many leading experts on environmental topics have commented on this. NGO's such as ____________, an organization of which Lomborg used to be an active member, have attacked him on various occasions

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9. Where was the earth summit held and when? Agenda 21 was released here.

10. The most literal meaning of blue moon is when the moon (not necessarily a full moon) appears to a casual observer to be unusually bluish, which is a rare event. The effect can be caused by smoke or dust particles in the atmosphere, as has happened after forest fires in Sweden and Canada in 1950 and 1951, and after the eruption of _______in 1883, which caused the moon to appear blue for nearly two years. Other less potent volcanos have also turned the moon blue. People saw blue moons in 1983 after the eruption of the El Chichon volcano in Mexico, and there are reports of blue moons caused by Mount St. Helens in 1980 and Mount Pinatubo in 1991