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  2. Scorched earth - Wikipedia

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    A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy of destroying everything that allows an ... which further added to the environmental impact and resulted in the 1938 ...

  3. Environmental impact of war - Wikipedia

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    Study of the environmental impact of war focuses on the modernization of warfare and its increasing effects on the environment. Scorched earth methods have been used for much of recorded history. However, the methods of modern warfare cause far greater devastation on the environment .

  4. War and environmental law - Wikipedia

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    The Environmental Modification Convention is an international treaty prohibiting the military or other hostile use of environmental modification techniques having widespread, long-lasting or severe effects. The Convention bans weather warfare, which is the use of weather modification techniques for the purposes of inducing damage or destruction.

  5. How scorched earth left by wildfires can trigger new disasters

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    Wildfires can bring devastation to homes, businesses and the landscape, but even after a fire is extinguished, that doesn't mean the dangers subside. The lack of trees and vegetation caused by a ...

  6. Canada says it can fight climate change and be major oil ...

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    During a May wildfire that scorched a vast swath of spruce and pine forest in northwestern Canada, Julia Cardinal lost a riverside cabin that was many things to her: retirement project, gift from ...

  7. 1938 Yellow River flood - Wikipedia

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    NRA commanders intended the flood to act as a scorched earth defensive line against the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] There were three long-term strategic intentions behind the decision to cause the flooding: firstly, the flood in Henan safeguarded the Guanzhong section of the Longhai railway , a major northwestern route ...

  8. Wildfire retardant is laden with toxic metals, USC study finds

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    The findings add to long-running concerns from environmentalists about the effects of retardant drops. But fire officials say the practice saves lives, and that the benefit of protecting ...

  9. Human impact on the environment - Wikipedia

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    As well as the cost to human life and society, there is a significant environmental impact of war. Scorched earth methods during, or after war have been in use for much of recorded history but with modern technology war can cause a far greater devastation on the environment.