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Castle Bravo
was the code name given to the first United States test of a dry fuel hydrogen bomb. was the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the United States -
Silent Spring
This is a book made by Rachel Carson. It was published 50 years ago. -
The Palomares Incident
Air Force's Strategic Air Command collided with a KC-135 tanker during mid-air refuelling at 31,000 feet (9,450 m) over the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Spain.Of the four Mk28-type hydrogen bombs the B-52G carried,[2] three were found on land near the small fishing village of Palomares in the municipality of Cuevas del Almanzora, Almería, Spain. -
Door to Hell
The Door to Hell is a natural gas field in Derweze. The pungent smell of burning sulfur pervades the area for some distance. -
Amoco Cadiz
was a very large crude carrier under the Liberian flag of convenience owned by Amoco.she ran aground on Portsall Rocks, 5 km from the coast of Brittany, France. -
The Three Mile Island Nuclear Explosion
The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown. It was the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history. -
Pacific Gyre Garbage Patch
Pacific Gyre Garbage Patch is a collection of marine debris in the North Pacific Ocean. It is also known as the Pacific trash vortex. -
The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
Was 5 billion dollars in damage. contaminating 1,300 miles of coastline with 250,000 barrels (11 million gallons) of oil. -
The Kuwait Oil Fires
Iraqi military forces setting fire to a reported 605 to 732 oil wells along with an unspecified number. Kuwait had set production quotas to almost 1.9 million barrels per day -
Jilin Chemical Plant Explosions
were a series of explosions. The blasts created an 80 km long -
TVA Kingston Fossil Plant Coal Fly Ash Slurry Spill
An ash dike ruptured at an 84-acre. It Flooded 12 houses. -
Sidoarjo Mud Flow
The Sidoarjo mud flow or Lapindo mud (informally abbreviated as Lusi, a contraction of Lumpur Sidoarjo wherein lumpur is the Indonesian word for mud) is the result of an erupting mud volcano[1] in the subdistrict of Porong, Sidoarjo in East Java, Indonesia that has been in eruption since May 2006. It is the biggest mud volcano in the world -
Deep water horizon BP oil spill
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill, the BP oil disaster, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and the Macondo blowout) began on 20 April 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect. It claimed eleven lives[6][7][8][9] and is considered the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry, an estimated 8% to 31% larger in volume than the previously largest, the Ixtoc I oil spill. -
Fukushima Daiichi
15 metre tsunami disabled the power supply. Its located on a 3.5-square-kilometre -
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.The story can be traced back to 1919 when companies first started pulling vermiculite out of mines in Libby
