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The Panama Canal
it is a ship canal in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a key conduit for international maritime trade. -
libby, montana asbestos contamination
Libby, Montana, is the story of a town discovering and then coping with toxic asbestos dust from the vermiculite mines. The story can be traced back to 1919 when companies first started pulling vermiculite out of mines in Libby -
The great smog of 52
It was a severe air pollution event that affected London during December 1952. A period of cold weather, combined with 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
Castle Bravo was the code name given to the first United States test of a dry fuel thermonuclear hydrogen bomb, detonated on March 1, 1954, at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, as the first test of Operation Castle. Castle Bravo was the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the United States with a yield of 15 megatons of TNT. -
Minamata Disease
It is a neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning. Minamata disease was first discovered in Minamata city in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan, in 1956. -
Ecoide in Vietnam
chemical herbicides where first explored as weapons in 1941 by a chicago botanist. Operation as it was called covered almost 3% of the country. nearly 20 millions gallons of herbicide was sprayed on the jungles of Vietnam between the years 1959- 1957 -
The shrinking of the Aral Sea
it was formerly one of the four largest lakes in the world with an area of 68,000 square kilometres .the Aral Sea has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s after the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet irrigation projects. -
silent spring
This book was writen in 1962 by Rachel Carson and it tells a story about pollution in swamps and on earth. The book is widely credited with helping launch the contemporary American environmental movement. -
The Palomares Incident
It occurred on 17 January 1966, when a B-52G bomber of the USAF Strategic Air Command collided with a KC-135 tanker during mid-air refuelling at 31,000 feet over the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Spain. Four survived and three died. -
The 1st Earth Day
which events are held worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection. It was first celebrated in 1970, and is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network. -
The Love Canal
The site had formerly been used to bury 21,000 tons of toxic waste by Hooker Chemical. There was a school that was biult on the are and it the land was bought for $1, areas of the land kept crumbling and exposing a bunch of waste dump sites so they moved the school. But inly 85 feet away. -
Environmental protection Agency
It is an agency of the U.S. federal government which was created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. The EPA was proposed by President Richard Nixon and began operation on December 2, 1970, after Nixon signed an executive order. -
Fukushima Daiichi
First commissioned in 1971, the plant consists of six boiling water reactors. Its one of the 15 largest nuclear power stations in the world. -
Door to Hell
It is a natural gas field in Derweze, Ahal Province, Turkmenistan. It has been burning continuously since it was lit by Soviet petrochemical scientists in 1971. -
The Seveso Disaster
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 to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) in residential populations. -
Amoco Cadiz
It was a very large crude carrier owned by Amoco, that ran aground on Portsall Rocks, from the coast of Brittany, France, on 16 March 1978, and ultimately split in three and sank, all together resulting in the largest oil spill of its kind in history to that date. -
The Three Mile Island Nuclear Explosion
The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown which occurred in one of the two Three Mile Island nuclear reactors in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States, on March 28, 1979. It was the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history.The partial meltdown resulted in the release of small amounts of radioactive gases and radioactive iodine into the environment -
The Bhopal Disaster
The Bhopal Disaster was a gas leak incident in India. Over 500,000 people were exposed to methyl isocyanate gas and other chemicals. The official immediate death toll was 2,259. -
The Chernobyl Nuclear explosion
it was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant 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. -
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre (large system of rotating ocean currents) of marine debris in the central North Pacific Ocean. It was said to be discovered in 1988. -
The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
The spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24, 1989. An oil tanker named Exxon Valdez was headed for Long Beach, California, and hit Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef and spilled 260,000 to 750,000 barrels of crude oil. -
The Kuwait Oil Fires
The Kuwait 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 in 1991. The fires started in January and February 1991 and the last one was extinguished by November 1991 -
Baia Mare Cyanide Spill
The 2000 Baia Mare cyanide spill was a leak of cyanide near Baia Mare, Romania, into the Someş River by the gold mining company. It killed large numbers of fish in Hungary and Yugoslavia. -
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 burned for almost a month. At its height, the fire was putting 21,000 tones of sulfur dioxide a day into the atmosphere. For over 48 hours the white smoke from sulfur dioxide could be seen in the air. -
E- Waste in Guiyu, China
In 2005 there were 60,000 e-waste workers in Guiyu who processed the more than 100 truckloads that were transported to the 52 square kilometre area every day. Guiyu is nicknamed the "electronic graveyard". 88% of childeren suffered from lead poisoning. -
Jilin Chemical Plant Explosions
Series of explosions which occurred on November 13, 2005 in Jilin City, China. The blasts created an 80 km long toxic slick in the Songhua River. It killed six and injured dozens. -
Sidoarjo Mud Flow
It is the result of an erupting mud volcano in Porong, Sidoarjo in East Java, Indonesia that has been in eruption since May 2006. It is the biggest mud volcano in the world. -
"An Inconvenient Truth"
It 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.Premiering at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and opening in New York City and Los Angeles on May 24, 2006, the documentary was a critical and box-office success, winning 2 Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature and Best Original Song -
TVA kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill
It happened on December 22, 2008, at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant in Roane County, Tennessee, USA. And 1.1 billion US gallons of coal fly ash slurry was released. -
Deep Water horizon BP Oil Spill
It was an oil spill that began in April 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico. considered the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry, -
The three Gorges Dam
it 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. -
Gulf of Mexico Gulf Zone
Dead Zones are hypoxic low-oxygen areas in the world's oceans and large lakes, caused by excessive nutrient pollution from human activities combined with other factors that deplete the oxygen required to support most marine life in bottom and near-bottom water. The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is the size of conneticut. -
Tragedy of the commons
It is the depletion of a shared resource by individuals, acting independently and rationally according to each one's self-interest, despite their understanding that depleting the common resource is contrary to the group's long-term best interests.
