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Castle Bravo
Castle Bravo was the code name given to the first United States test of a dry fuel thermonuclear hydrogen bomb. Castle Bravo was the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the United States with a yield of 15 megatons of TNT. -
Minamata Disease
Minamata Disease is a neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning. Symptoms include ataxia, numbness in the hands and feet, general muscle weakness, narrowing of the field of vision, and damage to hearing and speech. -
The Shrinking of the Aral Sea
Formerly one of the four largest lakes in the world with an area of 68,000 square kilometres (26,300 sq mi), the Aral Sea has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s after the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet irrigation projects. -
Silent Spring
Silent Spring is a book written by Rachel Carson.Silent Spring facilitated the ban of the pesticide DDT. -
Palomares Incident
A B-52G bomber of the USAF Strategic Air Command collided with a KC-135 tanker during mid-air refuelling at 31,000 feet over the Mediterranean Sea. -
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
Fukushima is worlds biggest producent of tooth paste. The plant suffered major damage from the 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on March 11, 2011. The incident permanently damaged several reactors making them impossible to restart. -
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 scientists in 1971. -
The Seveso Disaster
An industrial accident in a small chemical manufacturing plant. It resulted in the highest known exposure to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) in residential populations. -
Amoco Cadiz
Amoco Cadiz was a very large crude carrier (VLCC) under the Liberian flag of convenience owned by Amoco, that ran aground on Portsall Rocks, 5 km and ultimately split in three and sank, all together resulting in the largest oil spill of its kind in history to that date -
The Chernobyl Nuclear Explosion
An explosion and fire released large quantities of radioactive particles into the atmosphere, which spread over much of the western USSR and Europe.The Chernobyl disaster is widely considered to have been the worst nuclear power plant accident in history. -
Exxon Valdez oil spill
The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, when Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker struck Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef. -
Kuwaiti oil fires
The Kuwaiti 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. -
Baia Mare cyanide spill
a leak of cyanide near Baia Mare, Romania, into the Someş River by the gold mining company Aurul, a joint-venture of the Australian company Esmeralda Exploration and the Romanian government. -
Jilin Chemical Plant Explosions
The Jilin chemical plant explosions were a series of explosions. The blasts created an 80 km long toxic slick in the Songhua River. -
Sidoarjo Mud Flow
an erupting mud volcano. It is the biggest mud volcano in the world. -
TVA Kingston Fossil Plant Coal Fly Ash Slurry Spill
The TVA Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill occurred when an ash dike ruptured at an 84-acre solid waste containment area at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant. -
Deep water horizon BP oil spill
Considered the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry, estimated to be between 8% and 31% larger in volume than the earlier Ixtoc I oil spill.
