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The Panama Canal
The Panama Canal is a 77 km (48 mi) ship canal in Panama that joins the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and is a key conduit for international maritime trade. -
Minamata Disease
It is a neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning. It was caused by the release of methylmercury in the industrial wastewater from the Chisso Corporation's chemical factory. -
The Great Smog of '52
The Great Smog of '52 or Big Smoke[1] was a severe air pollution event that affected London during December 1952. 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 December 1952, and then dispersed quickly after a change of weather. -
Castle Bravo
Its the code name given to the first United States test of a dry fuel thermonuclear hydrogen bomb. -
Silent Spring
A book writen by Rachel Carson that started the American Enviromental movment. -
The 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 (9,450 m) over the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Spain. -
Tragedy of the commons
The idea of the tragedy of the commons is if everyone tries to take advantage and use as much resource as possible, the total pool of resources will become depleted and no one can benefit from it in the future. -
1st Earth Day
Its an annual event. Held worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection. It brought 20 million Americans out for peaceful demonstrations in favor of environmental reform. -
Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone
Areas in the world's oceans and large lakes, caused by "excessive nutrient pollution from human activities coupled with other factors that deplete the oxygen required to support most marine life. -
Enviromental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency or EPA is an agency of the United States government established for the purpose of protecting human health as well as the environment. They seek to accomplish this task by writing and enforcing regulations . -
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. -
The Seveso Disaster
It was an industrial accident that occurred in a small chemical manufacturing plant approximately 15 km (9.3 mi) north of Milan in the Lombardy region in Italy. It resulted in the highest known exposure in residential populations -
Amoco Cadiz
A very large crude carrier (VLCC) under the Liberian flag of convenience. It resulted in the largest oil spill of its kind in history to that date. -
The Three Mile Island Nuclear Explosion
A partial nuclear meltdown which occurred in one of the two Three Mile Island nuclear reactors in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. -
The Bhopal Disaster
It was a gas leak incident in India, considered the world's worst industrial disaster -
The Chernobyl Nuclear Explosion
A nuclear accident that happend in Ukraine. An explosion and fire released large quantities of radioactive particles into the atmosphere, which spread over much of the western USSR and Europe. -
Pacific Gyre Garbage Patch
The patch is characterized by exceptionally high concentrations of pelagic plastics, chemical sludge and other debris that have been trapped by the currents of the North Pacific Gyre. -
The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
An oil tanker that struck the shore of Alaska. One of the most devastiting enviromental disasters. -
The Kuwait 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. -
E-waste in Guiyu, China
Guiyu, in Guangdong Province, China, is made up of four small villages. It is the location of what may be the largest electronic waste (e-waste) site on earth. -
Libby, Montana Asbestos Contamination
Toxic asbestos dust from the vermiculite mines that supplied jobs to more than 200 residents and helped Libby prosper for decades. -
The Shrinking of the Aral Sea
The Aral Sea was the world's fourth largest lake, the Aral Sea has lost 75% of its water volume. This loss is due to the agricultural diversion of the Syr Darya and Amu Darya rivers, the Aral's main sources of inflowing water. -
Baia Mare Cyanide Spill
It was a leak of cyanide near Baia Mare, Romania, into the Someş River by the gold mining company. -
The Al-mishraq Fire
Al-Mishraq is a state run sulfur plant near Mosul, Iraq. In June 2003, it was the site of the largest human-made release of sulfur dioxide ever recorded when a fire (thought to have been deliberately started) gained control and burned for almost a month. -
The Three Gorges Dam
The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric dam that spans the Yangtze River by the town of Sandouping, located in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, China. The Three Gorges Dam is the world's largest power station in terms of installed capacity. -
Jilin Chemical Plant Explosions
A series of Explotions. The blasts created an 80 km long toxic slick in the Songhua River, a tributary of the Amur. The slick, predominantly made up of benzene and nitrobenzene, passed through the Amur River over subsequent weeks. -
Sidoarjo Mud Flow
Is the result of an erupting mud volcano. It is the biggest mud volcano in the world; responsibility for it was credited to the blowout of a natural gas well drilled by PT Lapindo Brantas. -
"An Inconvenient Truth"
Talks about the issue of global warming -
TVA Kingston Fossil Plant Coal Fly Ash Slurry Spill
Its an ash dike ruptured at an 84-acre (0.34 km2) solid waste containment area at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant in Roane County, Tennessee, USA. -
Deep water horizon BP oil spill
An oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect, considered the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry -
Fukushima Daiichi
The plant suffered major damage from the 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit Japan.It was not expected to be reopen.The earthquake and tsunami disabled the reactor cooling systems, leading to nuclear radiation leaks. -
Eccocide Vietnom
Eccocide can be used to refer to any extensive destruction of the natural environment and disruption or loss of ecosystem(s) of a given territory to such an extent that the survival of the inhabitants of that territory is endangered. -
The Love Canal
It was a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, located in the LaSalle section of the city. In the mid-1970s Love Canal became the subject of national and international attention after it was revealed in the press that the site had formerly been used to bury 21,000 tons of toxic waste by Hooker Chemical .
