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Libby, Montana Asbestos Contamination
The story can be traced back to 1919 when companies first started pulling vermiculite out of mines in Libby. Decades of mining the vermiculite exposed workers and residents to toxic asbestos dust. -
Castle Bravo
Castle Bravo was the code name given to the first United States test of a dry fuel hydrogen bomb, detonated 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 (and just under one-third the energy of the Tsar Bomba -which was the most powerful device detonated). -
Silent Spring
Written by Rachel Carson; The book documented the detrimental effects on the environment—particularly on birds—of the indiscriminate use of pesticides. -
The Palomares Incident
when a B-52G bomber of the United States Air Force's 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. -
Amoco Cadiz
A very large crude carrier under the Liberian flag of convenience owned by Amoco. On 16 March 1978, she ran aground on Portsall Rocks, 3 miles from the coast of Brittany, France and ultimately split in three and sank, resulting in the largest oil spill of its kind in history to that date. -
Door to Hell
A natural gas field. It's noted for its natural gas fire which has been burning continuously since it was lit by Soviet petrochemical engineers in 1971. -
Fukushima Daiichi
One of the 15 largest nuclear power stations in the world. -
Ecocide in Vietnam
This refers to Agent Orange which was used in Vietnam to wipe out all the crops and drive out the people. I also read that Agent Orange is used when an environment is past the point of self-healing, however it was only past self healing because it was destroyed by Agent Orange... (?) -
The Three Mile Island Nuclear Explosion
a partial nuclear meltdown that occured in one of the two Three Mile Island nuclear reactors. It was the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history. -
The Great Pacific garbage patch
Also described as the Pacific trash vortex, it is thought that, like other areas of concentrated marine debris in the world's oceans, the Great Pacific garbage patch formed gradually as a result of marine pollution gathered by oceanic currents. -
The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
Ocurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24, 1989, when Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker bound for Long Beach, California, struck Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef at 12:04 a.m. local time and spilled 260,000 to 750,000 barrels of crude oil over the next few days. -
The Kuwait Oil Fires
Caused by Iraqi military forces setting fire to a reported 605 to 732 oil wells along with an unspecified number[quantify] of oil filled low-lying areas, such as "oil lakes" and "fire trenches", as part of a scorched earth policy while retreating from Kuwait. -
Jilin Chemical Plant Explosions
A series of explosions caused by a T-102 tower jamming up. The explosions killed six, injured dozens, and caused the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents. -
Sidoarjo Mud Flow
The result of an erupting mud volcano in Indonesia, caused by the blowout of a natural gas well drilled by PT Lapindo Brantas. -
TVA Kingston Fossil Plant Coal Fly Ash Slurry Spill
When 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. 1.1 billion US gallons (4,200,000 m3) of coal fly ash slurry was released. -
Deep water horizon BP oil spill
The BP oil disaster, It claimed eleven lives and is considered the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry.
