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Libby, Montana Asbestos Contamination
Libby, Montana, is the story of a town discovering and then coping with toxic asbestos dust from the vermiculite mines that supplied jobs to more than 200 residents and helped Libby prosper for decades. -
Castle Bravo
Was the code name given to the first United States test of a dry fuel hydrogen bomb. Castle Bravo was the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the United States. -
Silent Spring
Silent spring is an enviromental science book written by Rachel Carson. The book documented the detrimental effects on the environment. Carson accused the chemical industry of spreading disinformation and public officials of accepting industry claims unquestioningly. -
The Palomares Incident
A B-52G bomber of the United States Air Force's Strategic Air Command collided with a KC-135 tanker during mid-air refuelling at 31,000 feet over the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Spain. -
Door to Hell
The Door to Hell is a natural gas field in Derweze. The Door to Hell is noted for its natural gas fire which has been burning continuously since it was lit by Soviet petrochemical engineers in 1971. -
Amoco Cadiz
Amoco Cadiz was a very large crude carrier under the Liberian flag of convenience owned by Amoco. And ultimately split in three and sank, resulting in the largest oil spill of its kind in history to that date. -
The Three Mile Island Nuclear Explosion
Was a partial nuclear meltdown that occurred on March 28, 1979 in one of the two Three Mile Island nuclear reactors in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The incident was rated a five on the seven-point International Nuclear Event Scale: Accident With Wider Consequences. -
Pacific Gyre Garbage Patch
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a collection of marine debris in the North Pacific Ocean. Marine debris is litter that ends up in oceans, seas, and other large bodies of water. -
The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
Occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska. A oil tanker bound for Long Beach, California, struck Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef. spilled 260,000 to 750,000 barrels of crude oil. -
The Kuwait Oil Fires
The Kuwaiti oil fires were caused by Iraqi military forces setting fire to 605 to 732 oil wells. The fires were started in January and February 1991, and the first well fires were extinguished in early April 1991, with the last well capped on November 6, 1991. -
Jilin Chemical Plant Explosions
A series of explosions. Petrochemical Plant in Jilin City, Jilin Province, China, over the period of an hour. The blasts created an 80 km long toxic slick in the Songhua River. -
Sidoarjo Mud Flow
The Sidoarjo mud flow or Lapindo mud is the result of an erupting mud volcano. It is the biggest mud volcano in the world. -
TVA Kingston Fossil Plant Coal Fly Ash Slurry Spill
1.1 billion US gallons of coal fly ash slurry was released. The coal-fired power plant, located across the Clinch River from the city of Kingston, uses ponds to dewater the fly ash, a byproduct of coal combustion, which is then stored in wet form in dredge cells. -
Deep water horizon BP oil spill
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill. In the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect. It claimed eleven lives and is considered the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. -
Fukushima Daiichi
Nuclear power plant in Japan that had a meltdown. It was the largest nuclear incident since the Chernobyl disaster in April 1986 and the second after Chernobyl to measure Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale
