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The Great Smog
A dense fog engulfed the city and stayed for five days. The smoke from the factories and homes plus the fog made the smog. -
Catle Bravo
Castle Bravo is the code name for the first United States test of a hydrogen bomb, -
Castle Bravo
The detonation took place at 06:45 when it was detonated it created a fireball almost 4.5 miles wide within seconds, which was visible for about 250 miles. -
Minamata Disease
Minamata disease is methylmercury poisoning that was found in humans that ate fish and shellfish contaminated by MeHg discharged in waste water from a chemical plant. -
Minamata disease
The disease was first officially found in Minamata City, south-west region of Japan's Kyushu Island. -
The Aral Sea shrinking
the Aral Sea was the world's fourth largest lake, the Aral Sea has lost 75% of its water volume. This loss is due to the agricultural diversion of the Syr Darya and Amu Darya rivers, the Aral's main sources of inflowing water. -
Silent Spring
Silent Spring is a book written by Rachel Carson and published by Houghton Mifflin on September 27, 1962. The book is widely credited with helping launch the contemporary American environmental movement. -
The Palomares Incident
The Palomares Incident occurred when a bomber collieded with a tanker during refueling. -
Tragedy of the commons
The tragedy of the commons is the depletion of a shared resource by individuals. -
1st earth day
The first Earth Day was effective at raising awareness about environmental issues and transforming public attitudes. -
The Love Canal
William T. Love had huge plans for Niagara Falls, New York. He envisioned the creation of an enormous city that would be home to a enviable industry, and housing for millions of people. This great idea for a city soon failed and it left a kilometer-long pit which became a chemical dumping site. Which later had homes built right on top of the pit -
Door to Hell
The door to hell is a natural gas burning field in Derweze, Ahal Province, Turkmenistan. -
The Door To Hell
The door to hell is a crater made by geologists more than 40 years ago many hoped that the crater would just burn all the fuels within days but the flames have been burning ever since. -
Seveso Disaster
The people of Seveso, Italy was exposed to dioxin after an accident in 1976 due to this exposure they have experienced an increased risk of developing cancer. -
Amoco Cadiz
The oil tanker the Amoco Cadiz, that transported 227,000 tonnes of crude oil, suffered a failure of its steering mechanism, and could not get in control of it despite the efforts of the crew. Therefore the entire cargo spilled out as the breaker split in two. -
The Three Mile Island Nuclear Explosion
The Three Mile Island explosion was a nuclear meltdown. This meltdown released small amounts of radioactive gases and iodine into the environment. -
The Three Mile Island Nuclear Explosion
Failures in the non-nuclear secondary system, and a stuck-open pilot-operated relief valve in the system allowed nuclear reactor coolant to escape. -
The panamal Canal
its 48 miles long. it connects to the atlantic ocean -
The Bhopal Disaster
20,000 people lost their lives in Bhopal, India after a chemical gas spill from a pesticide factory. More than 40 tons of methyl isocyante gas created a dense cloud over a resident population of more than half a million people. -
The Chernobyl Nuclear Explosion
The explosion happend because some workers wanted to run a test, when they should have been fixing a reactor. The fourth reactor was the 1st to explode. -
The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
The Exxon Valdez oil spill happened in Prince William Sound, Alaska when an oil tanker bound for Long Beach, California, struck Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef and spilled 260,000 to 750,000 barrels of crude oil. -
The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
The oil spill clean up cost about 2.5 billion dollars, and a lot of hurtand dead animals. -
The Kuwait Oil Fires
The Kuwait Oil Fires was caused by Iraqi soldiers that set fire to 600 oil wells. -
Seveso disaster
Researchers found that outof the people that lived in the Seveso area there was 2122 cases of cancer, 660 of which occurred after 1991. -
Libby, Montana Asbestos Contamination
The W.R. Grace plant in Libby, Montana spewed asbestos over the town for decades sickening more than 1,000 people and killing over 200. -
baia Mare Cydanide Spill
The dam containing toxic waste material from the Baia Mare Aurul gold mine in North Western Romania burst and released 100,000 cubic meters of waste water, heavily contaminated with cyanide, into the Lapus and Somes tributaries of the river Tisza, one of the biggest in Hungary. -
The Al-mishraq Fire
A fire ignited at the Mishraq State Sulfur Mine Plant near Mosul, Iraq that burned for almost a month. -
The Al-Mishraq Fire
Field samples of air in the area of the fire detected sulfur dioxide at levels that are extremely unhealthy. -
Jilin Chemical Plant Explosions
The Jilin Chemical Plant Explosions was a series of explosions located in Jilin City Province China. The chemical explosions lasted for over an hour, it killed 6 people and hurt 70. -
Jilin chemical plant explosions
The initial explosion happened around noon when a plant worker tried to clear the blockage of the chemicals himself but was unnsuccessful causing the explosions. -
Sidoarjo mud flow
The Sidoarjo mud flow or Lapindo mud is the result of an erupting mud volcano that has been in eruption since May 2006 in the subdistrict of Porong, Sidoarjo in East Java, Indonesia -
Sidoarjo mud flow
The mud flow was created due to a blowout of natural gasses drilled by PT Lapindo Brantas -
The Three Gorges Dam
The Three Gorges Dam is the world's largest hydropower project and most notorious dam. The massive project sets records for number of people displaced which is more than 1 million. -
TVA Kingston Fossil Plant Coal Fly Ash Slurry Spill
There waas a coal spill in Tennessee that was recorded as one of the worst environmental disasters of its kind in the USA. -
TVA Kingston Fossil Plant Coal Fly Ash Slurry Spill
Spilled an estimated 5.4 million cubic yards of ash into nearby homes and farmlands -
Deep water horizon BP oil spill
A gas release and subsequent explosion occurred on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig working on the exploration well for BP in the Gulf of Mexico -
Deep water horizon BP oil spill
11 people died as a result of the accident and others were injured. The fire burned for 36 hours before the rig sank, and hydrocarbons leaked into the Gulf before the well was closed. -
Fukushima Daiichi
Electricity, gas and water supplies, and railway service were all limited and sometimes even shut down. These disruptions affected the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, causing a loss of all power and a release of radioactive materials. -
Fukushima Daiichi
Due to the political climate, the reactors cannot be reset. The disaster disabled the reactor cooling systems, which contributed to releases of radioactivity and started a 30 km evacuation zone surrounding the plant. -
Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone
Dead zones is the indirect result of fertilizer use, running off into rivers and then into bodies of water such as the gulf. Once these nutrients get to the ocean, they fuel algae blooms. The algae then die and decompose oxygen and creates oxygen-free areas where fish and other creatures can't survive. The dead zone that has formed in the Gulf of Mexico is about the size of Connecticut. -
Pacific Gyre Garbage Patch
The Pacific Gyre Garbage Patch is an area filled with pounds of trash, and mostly plastic just floating over the pacific -
Pacific Gyre Garbage Patch
An ocean gyre is a circular ocean current formed by the Earth’s wind patterns and the forces that are created by the rotation of the planet.The center of a gyre tends to be very calm and stable. The circular motion of the gyre draws in debris. -
The Kuwait Oil Fires
The fires started in January and ended in November. The fires lasted this long because of the dangers of sending in a firefighting crew these fires were in no comparisson to house fires. -
The Palomares Incident
Two of the four hydrogen bombs. the bomber was carrying detonated before impacting the ground, this resulted in the contamination of a 490-acre area with radioactive plutonium off the coast of Spain. -
Eccocide in Vietnam
The Invention of Ecocide is a book about Agent Orange which is a powerful mixture of chemical defoliants used by U.S. military forces during the Vietnam War to kill enemy forces. It was later found that it caused many serious illnesses like tumors, birth defects, rashes, psychological symptoms and cancer. -
E-waste in Guiyu, China
Guiyu, China breaks down much of the world's discarded electronics, slowly poisoning itself in the process. Many of these gadgets were initially manufactured in China. Through a strange twist of global economics, much of this electronic junk returns to China to die. -
Environmental Protection Agency
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or sometimes USEPA) is an agency of the U.S. federal government which was created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress.
