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Minamata Disease
a neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning. Symptoms include ataxia, numbness in the hands and feet, general muscle weakness -
great smog of 1952
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. -
Castle Bravo
Castle Bravo was the code name given to the first United States test of a dry fuel hydrogen bomb, detonated on March 1, 1954, at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, as the first test of Operation Castle. -
Silent Spring
Silent Spring is an environmental science book written by Rachel Carson and published by Houghton Mifflin on September 27, 1962. book talked about our affect of the enviorment especially about the birds -
Palomares Incident
The 1966 Palomares B-52 crash or Palomares incident occurred on 17 January 1966, when a B-52G bomber of the United States Air Force's Strategic Air Command collided with a KC-135 tanker in mid air -
Tragedy of the Commons
The tragedy of the commons is an economics theory, according to which individuals, acting independently and rationally according to each one's self-interest, behave contrary to the whole group's long-term best interests by depleting some common resource. -
1st earth day
every year on april 22nd which is supposed to demonstrate support for environmental protection. launched by Denis Hayes -
EPA
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. Proposed by richard nixon -
Door to hell
field of natural gas in Derweze (Derweze means door) that lit by Soviet petrochemical engineers in 1971 The hot spots range over an area with a width of 60 metres (200 ft) and to a depth of about 20 metres (66 ft) -
Seveso disaster
Industria accident that affected around 17,000 people exposed people to TCDD -
The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
an oil tanker headed for long beach California struck a reef off of Alaska spilling 750,000 barrels of crude oil into the ocean it killed nearly 100,00 birds -
Al-Mishraq fire
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. -
Jilin chemical plant explosion
The Jilin chemical plant explosions were a series of explosions which occurred on November 13, 2005, in the No.101 Petrochemical Plant in Jilin City, Jilin Province, China, over the period of an hour. The explosions killed six, injured dozens, and caused the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents. -
Deep water BP oil
began on 20 April 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect. It claimed eleven lives and is considered the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry -
Fukushima Daiichi
This is when the tsunami struck japan and caused a 3 of the 6 reactors to meltdown at the Fukushima power plant it wa the largest inccident since cherynobl -
Amoco Cadiz
Amoco Cadiz was a very large crude carrier under the Liberian flag of convenience owned by Amoco. in 1978 the ship ran aground 1,604,500 barrels (219,797 tons) of light crude oil
