Enviromental Timeline

By jb_wavy

  • Panama canal

    Millions of earth moved

  • The great smog of 52

    pollotion

  • Castle Bravo

    First hydrogen bomb in US
    23,500 pounds of hydrgen expolsives

  • Minamata Disease

    Disease in Japan
    deformed the body and joins

  • Sshrinking of aral sae

    polloded sea

  • Silent Spring

    chemicals in pestaside that killed birds
    Caused egg shell to be weak

  • Palomares

    B-52 Crash on coast of spain
    2 sq killomiter crash site

  • 1st earth day

  • Gulf of mexico dead zone

    low oxygen areas

  • Evironmental protection agency

  • Door to hell

    Nature oil field has been burning for almost 40 years in Derweze, Ahal Province
    60mm wide

  • Amoco Cadiz

    largest oil spill to date
    219,797 tons of oil spilled

  • The seveso Disaster

    Chimical high exposer

  • 3 Mile island

    Nucular meltdown
    in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

  • Love love canal

    Toxic spill
    21,000 tons of toxic waste

  • The bhopal diaster

  • The chernobyl Nuclear Expolison

  • Gyre Garbage patch

    coliction of trash littered by humans
    Patch is growing, and is killing some sae life

  • Exxon

    750,000 barrels
    11,000 sq miles covered in spilled in oil

  • Kuwait oil fires

    Oil that caught on fire in Kuwait
    600 oil wells, cost 1.5 billion in damage

  • Libby, motana

    County in montana
    uses many natural reasoruses

  • Baia mare cyanide spill

    spill in Europe

  • The 3 gorges dam

  • E-Waste in guiyn, china

    Computer and technolical waste

  • Jilin Chemical Plant Explosin

    6 people killed
    80km long toxic slick

  • Sidoarjo Mud

    Mud valcano eruption
    180,000 m3 of mud a day

  • An inconvnient truth

  • Kingston Fossil Plant

    Ash. slurry spill
    1.1 billion gallions

  • BP oil spill

    4.9 million barrels of oill spilled
    68,000 sq miles of the ocean and shores covered in oil

  • Fukushima

    Nucular power plant expolison
    30km evacuation zone