March
March 21, 2003
Invasion of Iraq by US and British forces leads to widespread oilfield burning and other war-related environmental problems.
March, 2004
Environmentalists object when Yellowstone Park Rangers kill over 200 buffalo roaming near the parks edges. The buffalo are thought to be carrying the bovine disease brucellosis and the killings are designed to prevent the spread of disease to nearby cattle ranches.
March, 2005
US Congress votes to open the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, but the vote snags in late November as the public opinion turns against the Bush Administration's environment and energy polices.
March 14, 2006
Indonesia University students and demonstrators with bows and arrows assault a US gold mining company's hotel in Timika. No one is injured that day, but it sets off a wave of protests that leaves three police officers and a soldier dead and dozens of police and protesters injured. Protesters are demanding a halt to the world's largest gold and copper mine, located in Papua and owned by Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. of the U.S. Every day, the mine dumps 700,000 tons of mining waste on an area now covering 90 square miles of wetlands. Protests continue.
March 10, 2008
Conservative US Southern Baptist religious domination says there is an obligation to address climate change, and noted that the church's previous position was "too timid."