A quite extraordinary collection of news clippings on fifty years of catastrophic forecasting: Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions. This is the oldest found at the link, but go to the link to see all the others.
Unfortunately, I am old enough to remember all of them and I can attest that these really were big news stories at the time.
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