* Astronomy

 Stockholm: Birth of the green generation

Economically, the world has never had it so good. But governments are beginning to realise that nature is paying a price.
On 5 June 1972, in the Swedish capital, they began to build their response, in the form of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment - the first UN summit on the environment, and the event that really put the issue on the global political agenda.
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