List of environmental disasters
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[edit] Industrial and agricultural disasters
- The Dust Bowl in the United States (1934-1939)
- Mercury poisoning in Minamata, Japan - see Minamata disease (1950s & 1960s)
- Itai-itai disease, due to cadmium poisoning in Japan
- Love Canal Toxic waste site (activism in 78 ...)
- Bhopal disaster (1984)
- Sandoz chemical spill into the Rhine river (1986)
- The severe damage to the Ok Tedi river system in Papua New Guinea by mining operations
- Destruction of the old growth forests
- EPA Superfund sites in the United States
- AZF Explosion at a Toulouse chemical factory (2001)
- 2005 Jilin chemical plant explosions
- Release of cyanide, heavy metals and acid into the Alamosa River, Colorado from the Summitville mine, causing the death of all marine life within a 17 mile radius.
- Release of 20,000 gallons of lethal chemicals (metam sodium, tradename Vapam) into the Upper Sacramento River near Dunsmuir, causing the death of all marine life within a 38 mile radius.
[edit] Nuclear disasters
[edit] Oil spills
- Amoco Cadiz
- Exxon Valdez
- Prestige oil spill
- Saddam Hussein's oil spill and Kuwaiti oil fires
See also: Category:Oil spills
[edit] Other
- Draining of the Al-Hawizeh marsh
- Reduction in the number of the American Bison
- The hole in the ozone layer
- Soviet Aral Sea mismanagement
- Introduction of infectious diseases causing the death of indigenous people during colonisation
- Introduction of the Nile perch into Lake Victoria in Africa, decimating indigenous fish species
- Global warming
[edit] See also
- Natural disaster
- Environmental disaster
- Timeline of environmental events
- List of environment topics
- Category:Disasters
- Category:Man-made disasters
