-
plauge town
-
is a neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning. discovered in Minamata city in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan, in 1956
-
was a severe air pollution event that affected London during A period of cold weather, combined with an anticyclone and windless conditions, collected airborne pollutants mostly from the use of coal to form a thick layer of smog over the city. It lasted from Friday 5 to Tuesday 9 and then dispersed quickly after a change of weather.
-
hydrogen bomb twice as big as planned
-
Amoco Cadiz was a very large crude carrier under the Liberian flag of convenience owned by Amoco, from the coast of Brittany, France, split in three and sank, largest oil spill of its kind to that date
-
Written by Rachel Carson. Discusses the dangers of pesticides
-
mid air collison over mediterrainan sea
-
natural gas field in Derweze been burning continuously since it was lit by Soviet petrochemical scientists in 1971
-
the highest known exposure TCDD in residential populations[1] which gave rise to numerous scientific studies and standardized industrial safety regulations. The EU industrial safety regulations are known as the Seveso II Directive.
-
a partial nuclear meltdown which occurred in one of the two Three Mile Island nuclear reactors. The partial meltdown resulted in the release of small amounts of radioactive gases and radioactive iodine into the environment.
-
neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, Two bodies of water define the northern and southern boundaries of the neighborhood
-
Gas leak from Union Carbide considered the world's worst industrial disaster
-
sudden and unexpected power surge, and when an emergency shutdown was attempted, an exponentially larger spike in power output occurred, which led to a reactor vessel rupture and a series of steam explosions.
-
occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, spilled 260,000 to 750,000 barrels
-
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
-
strech of floating debris in the ocean, found by Charles Moore
-
a dam holding contaminated waters burst and 100,000 cubic metres of cyanide-contaminated water spilled over some farmland and then into the Someș rive
-
state run sulfur plant near Mosul, Iraq. it was the site of the largest human-made release of sulfur dioxide ever recorded when a fire gained control and burned for almost a month
-
largest electronic waste (e-waste) site on earth.
-
a series of explosions, killed 6 people happend in 1 hour in china
-
that has been in eruption since May 2006. It is the biggest mud volcano in the world; responsibility for it was credited to the blowout of a natural gas
-
An Inconvenient Truth is a 2006 documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about former United States Vice President Al Gore's campaign to educate citizens about global warming via a comprehensive slide show that, by his own estimate made in the film, he has given more than a thousand times.
-
An ash dike erupted right before 1 am. Largest ash fly in the usa history
-
Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect considered the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry
-
Radiation still washes up on american beaches today from this
