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Libby, Montana Asbestos Contamination
plauge town -
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Minamata Disease
is a neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning. discovered in Minamata city in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan, in 1956 -
The Great Smog of 52
was a severe air pollution event that affected London during A period of cold weather, combined with an anticyclone and windless conditions, collected airborne pollutants mostly from the use of coal to form a thick layer of smog over the city. It lasted from Friday 5 to Tuesday 9 and then dispersed quickly after a change of weather. -
Castle Bravo
hydrogen bomb twice as big as planned -
Amoco Cadiz
Amoco Cadiz was a very large crude carrier under the Liberian flag of convenience owned by Amoco, from the coast of Brittany, France, split in three and sank, largest oil spill of its kind to that date -
silent spring
Written by Rachel Carson. Discusses the dangers of pesticides -
The Palomares Incident
mid air collison over mediterrainan sea -
Door to Hell
natural gas field in Derweze been burning continuously since it was lit by Soviet petrochemical scientists in 1971 -
The Seveso Disaster
the highest known exposure TCDD in residential populations[1] which gave rise to numerous scientific studies and standardized industrial safety regulations. The EU industrial safety regulations are known as the Seveso II Directive. -
The Three Mile Island Nuclear Explosion
a partial nuclear meltdown which occurred in one of the two Three Mile Island nuclear reactors. The partial meltdown resulted in the release of small amounts of radioactive gases and radioactive iodine into the environment. -
The Love Canal
neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, Two bodies of water define the northern and southern boundaries of the neighborhood -
The Bhopal Disaster
Gas leak from Union Carbide considered the world's worst industrial disaster -
The Chernobyl Nuclear Explosion
sudden and unexpected power surge, and when an emergency shutdown was attempted, an exponentially larger spike in power output occurred, which led to a reactor vessel rupture and a series of steam explosions. -
The Exxon Valdez oil spill
occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, spilled 260,000 to 750,000 barrels -
The Kuwait Oil Fires
were caused by Iraqi military forces setting fire to more than 600 oil wells as part of a scorched earth policy while retreating from Kuwait in 1991 after invading the country but being driven out by Coalition military forces -
Pacific Gyre Garbage Patch
strech of floating debris in the ocean, found by Charles Moore -
Baia Mare Cyanide Spill
a dam holding contaminated waters burst and 100,000 cubic metres of cyanide-contaminated water spilled over some farmland and then into the Someș rive -
The Al-mishraq Fire
state run sulfur plant near Mosul, Iraq. it was the site of the largest human-made release of sulfur dioxide ever recorded when a fire gained control and burned for almost a month -
E-waste in Guiyu, China
largest electronic waste (e-waste) site on earth. -
Jilin Chemical Plant Explosions
a series of explosions, killed 6 people happend in 1 hour in china -
Sidoarjo Mud Flow
that has been in eruption since May 2006. It is the biggest mud volcano in the world; responsibility for it was credited to the blowout of a natural gas -
“An Inconvenient Truth”
An Inconvenient Truth is a 2006 documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about former United States Vice President Al Gore's campaign to educate citizens about global warming via a comprehensive slide show that, by his own estimate made in the film, he has given more than a thousand times. -
TVA Kingston Fossil Plant Coal Fly Ash Slurry Spill
An ash dike erupted right before 1 am. Largest ash fly in the usa history -
Deep water horizon BP oil spill
Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect considered the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry -
Fukushima Daiichi
Radiation still washes up on american beaches today from this
