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Environmental Disasters Timeline

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    Environmental Disasters

  • Hiroshima

  • Al-Hawizeh Marsh

    Starting date unknown. Lasted until the early 2000s.

  • London Smog Disaster

    Lasted until Dec. 9.

  • Minamata

    Lasted until 1963

  • Aral Sea

    Exact month and date is unknown. Still ongoing.

  • Sydney Tar Ponds

    Beginning date unknown. Lasted until 2007, when the clean-up began.

  • Torrey Canyon

  • Seveso – Dioxin Crisis

  • Amoco Cadiz

  • Love Canal

  • Three Mile Island

  • Bhopal – Union Carbide

  • Depletion of the Ozone

    The excat date the ozone depletion was dreported is not known. This is still ongoing.

  • Chernobyl

  • Piper Alpha

  • Exxon Valdez

  • Hagersville Fire

    Lasted 17 days.

  • Kuwait Fires

  • Baia Mare – Cyanide Spill

  • Walkerton Water Tragedy