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Silent Spring
Silent Springs is a book that documents the effects pectisides have on the enviorment, ecspecially birds. -
The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
An oil tanker bound for Long Beach, California, struck Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef at 12:04 a.m. local time and spilled 11 to 38 million US gallons of crude oil over the next few days. It is considered to be one of the most devastating human-caused environmental disasters. The Valdez spill was the largest in US waters until the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, in terms of volume released. However, Prince William Sound's remote -
Jilian Chemical Plant Explosions
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.
The blasts created an 80 km long toxic slick in the Songhua River, a tributary of the Amur. The slick was made up of benzene and nitrobenzene. -
TVA Kingston Fossil plant coal ash spill
A retention pond wall collapsed spreading ash and water on a pond and 400 acres of land. It also caused a train wreck and flooded 12 homes. -
Fukushima Daiichi
was an energy accident at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, initiated primarily by the tsunami of the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011. The damage caused by the tsunami produced equipment failures, and without this equipment a loss-of-coolant accident followed with nuclear meltdowns and releases of radioactive materials beginning on 12 March. It is the largest nuclear disaster since the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 and the second disaster (after Chernobyl) to be given the Le -
Great Pacific Garbage Patch
It is a distinct area in the ocean where marine trash is gathered and held together by currents. It kills the animals who are caught in it or digest it.