List of environmental disasters

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This page is a list of environmental disaster

See also: environmental disaster

Contents 1 Industrial and agricultural disasters 2 Nuclear disasters 3 Nuclear warfare 4 Oil spills 5 Ozone depletion in the Earth's stratosphere 6 Other 7 See also 8 External links

[edit] Industrial and agricultural disasters

• Extinction of American megafauna
• Extinction of Australian megafauna
• Salinization of the Fertile Crescent
• Deforestation of Easter Island
• The Dust Bowl in the United States (1934-1939)
• Minamata disease - mercury poisoning in Japan (1950s & 1960s)
• Itai-itai disease, due to cadmium poisoning in Japan
• Love Canal toxic waste site
• Seveso disaster (1976), chemical plant explsion, caused highest known exposure to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) in residential populations
• Bhopal disaster (1984)
• Sandoz chemical spill into the Rhine river (1986)
• The Ok Tedi Environmental Disaster in Papua New Guinea by mining operations
• Destruction of the old growth forests
• Exxon Valdez oil spill (1989)
• United States Environmental Protection Agency Superfund sites in the United States
• AZF Explosion at a Toulouse chemical factory (2001)
• 2005 Jilin chemical plant explosions
• The Sydney Tar Ponds and Coke Ovens sites in the city of Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, known as the largest toxic waste site in North America.
• Release of lead dust into Esperance Harbour.
• 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

• Chernobyl disaster
• Three Mile Island accident
• Windscale fire
• See: List of civilian nuclear accidents
• See: List of military nuclear accidents
• See: List of civilian radiation accidents

[edit] Nuclear warfare

• Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

[edit] Oil spills

See: List of oil spills

[edit] Ozone depletion in the Earth's stratosphere

See: Ozone depletion

[edit] Other

• Draining of the Al-Hawizeh marsh
• Reduction in the number of the American Bison
• Soviet Aral Sea mismanagement
• The Osborne Reef and other similar artificial reefs made of tires
• Introduction of infectious diseases by Europeans causing the death of indigenous people during European colonization of the Americas
• Introduction of the Nile perch into Lake Victoria in Africa, decimating indigenous fish species
• Climate change and global warming
• Rabbits in Australia
• Killer bees

[edit] See also

• List of environmental issues
• Environmental disaster
• Natural disaster
• Timeline of environmental events
• List of environment topics
• Category:Man-made disasters

[edit] External links

• Sandoz chemical spill
• Environmental Disaster Videos