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Libby, Montana Asbestos Contamination
Health workers say more than 400 people have been killed over the last several decades in Libby, which is considered the nation's deadliest Superfund site. -
The Love Canal
A school bought land on top of a chemical waste dumb -
The Great Smog of 52
A period of time where the weather made it so the polutants stayed in the air for a few days, the later killed 4,000 people prematurly, and injured 10,000. -
Castle Bravo
The code name given to the first US test of a dry fuel thermonuclear hydrogen bomb. -
Minamata Disease
A neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning. Descovered in waste water in Japan. -
Silent Spring
Book written by Rachel Carson, was a book to help launch the American environmental movement. The main thesis of the book stated taht unecamined pesticide use was harming and even killing not only animasl and birds, but also humans too. -
Palomares Incident
Two airplains colided when doing a mid air refueling and dropped 4 hydrogen bobs. 3 were found right away, then the last one was found after a 3 month search. -
Eccocide in Vietnam
Herbicides that destroyed the enviornment -
Door to Hell
The Door to Hell is a natural gas field in Derweze, Ahal Province, Turkmenistan. The Door to Hell is noted for its natural gas fire which has been burning continuously since it was lit by Soviet petrochemical scientists in 1971, fed by the rich natural gas deposits in the area -
Amoco Cadiz
A very large oil tanker that sand and was the biggest oil spill at the time. -
The Seveso Disaster
It was the highest known exposure to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) in residential populations -
The Three Mile Island Nuclear Explosion
A partial nuclear meltdown which occurred in one if the two nuclear reactors in pennsylvania. The worst accident in US commercial nuclear power plant history. Released small amounts of radioactive gases into the envornment. -
The Bhopal Disaster
Over 500,000 people were exposed to methyl isocyanate gas and other chemicals. -
The Chernobyl Nuclear Explosion
The Chernobyl disaster is widely considered to have been the worst nuclear power plant accident in history. -
Pacific Gyre Garbage Patch
A place where all of the litter and garbage people throw in the ocean ends up because of the water currents. -
The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
Occured in Alaska. One of the biggest oil disasters caused by humans, some say. The tanker spilled 260,000 to 750,000 barrels of oil. -
The Kuwait Oil Fires
These fires were caused by Iraqi military forces setting fire to over 600 oil wells while retreating from Coaliton military forces. -
Baia Mare Cyanide Spill
a leak of cyanide near Baia Mare, Romania, into the Someş River by the gold mining company Aurul. The worst enviornmental disaster sence Chernobal -
The Al-Mishraq Fire
it was the site of the largest human-made release of sulfur dioxide ever recorded when a fire (thought to have been deliberately started) gained control and burned for almost a month. -
E-waste in Guiyu, China
It is the location of what may be the largest electronic waste (e-waste) site on earth. -
Jillin Chemical Plant Explosions
A series of explosions which occured in China. The explosions killed six, and injured dozens. The blast created an 80 km long toxic slick in the Songuha River. -
TVA Kingston Fossil Plant Coal Fly Ash Slurry Spill
At Tennessee, a earthern wall in Kingston Fossil Plant gave away releaseing 1.3 million cubic meters of fly ash. Ash is a sludgy liquid that damaged many homes and buried 300 acres in sludge. -
Deep water horizon BP oil spill
A massive oil spill that started in April 2010. Affected almost 20000 animals and sea creatures. -
Fukushima Daiichi
It was a series of equipment failure after an earthquake. It is the largest nuclear disaster sence the Chernobyl diseaster of 1986 and the second disaster to measure level 7 on the International nuclear event scale. -
Sidoarjo Mud Flow
An erupting mud volcaino. Biggest mud volcaino in the world -
1st Earth Day
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Golf of Mexico Dead Zone
Dead zones are hypoxic (low-oxygen) areas in the world's oceans and large lakes, caused by "excessive nutrient pollution from human activities coupled with other factors that deplete the oxygen required to support most marine life in bottom and near-bottom water. -
The Shrinking of the Aral Sea
The shrinking of the Aral Sea has been called "one of the planet's worst environmental disasters." The previous one of the four largest lakes in the world, is at the 10% of the size. -
The three Gorges Dam
The Three Gorges Dam is the world's largest power station -
The Panama Canal
A canal that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific ocean -
Tragedy of the Commons
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