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shortages of firewood for industries and basic needs of the population. Carbon health problems, deterioration of buildings, visibility the effect of pollution on plants.
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From the nineteenth century, especially following the Industrial Revolution, pollution problems become more severe and worry starts for environmental sanitation.
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where in1930 the emanations of an industrial complex located in the Meuse valley left a toll of 63 dead from poisoning by fluorine; this tragedy occurred during a short event low thermal inversion and fog. In the United States, Pittsburgh.
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a similar case occurred in a group of steel processing industries and zinc, in the presence of similar weather patterns
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in London, five days of fog and low investment that reduced the thickness of dilution in the atmosphere at less than 150 meters resulted in the deaths of more than 4,000 people.
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there was a leak of chemicals from a pesticide plant in India , causing the release of a toxic gas cloud as hydrocyanic acid
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the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl (Ukraine) had a serious accident during which abundant radioactive material was released into the atmosphere.
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the Exxon Valdez ran aground ship on the shores of Prince William Sound , Alaska , spilling 41 million gallons of crude .
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in the municipality of The Mirror there was a fire in a chemical industry, which led to a mushroom of black smoke for several hours and caused alarm in the population
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it occurred one of the largest nuclear accident in Japan - the second after Fukushima - . Three workers at a uranium processing plant performed poorly
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an explosion on the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, British Petroleum , killed 11 workers and broke the Macondo well , which caused the worst oil spill offshore in US history
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earthquake and tsunami in Japan caused serious damage to the Central Fukushima I, implying technological failures that eventually the complete loss of control over the plant and its reactors
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