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A neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, which became the subject of national and international attention, controversy, and eventual environmental notoriety following the discovery of 21,000 tons of toxic waste buried beneath the neighborhood.
What is Love Canal?
1969 fire caused by the mass pollution in the Cuyahoga River in Ohio. Molten sparks from a passing rail car set fire to oil- and chemical-soaked debris floating on the Cuyahoga.
What is Cuyahoga River Fire ?
A series of equipment failures, nuclear meltdowns, and releases of radioactive materials at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant following the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011.200,000 people were forced to leave their homes indefinitely.
What is the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant ?
The deadliest and most destructive Atlantic hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It is the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States.
What is Hurricane Katrina ?
Valley within Yosemite National Park and protected by the federal government, leaving it up to Congress to decide the valley's fate. National opinion divided between giving San Francisco the right to dam the valley and preserving the valley from development.
What is Hetch Hetchy?
In 1949, five domestic cats were brought to Marion Island to deal with a mouse problem in the station. The cats multiplied quickly, and by 1977 there were approximately 3,400 cats on the island, feeding on burrowing petrels instead of mice, threatening to drive the birds to extinction on the island.
What is Marion Island Cats 1949 ?
Ultra-deepwater offshore oil drilling rig. In April 2010 an explosion on the rig killed 11 men and Deepwater Horizon sank, resulting in the largest offshore oil spill in United States history. After the incident, Obama issued an executive order saying no new drilling in the Gulf was allowed at depths greater than 500 feet.
What is Deepwater Horizon ?
A floating patch of primarily plastic that is centered around a current known as the North Pacific Gyre. Most of the water in the area has a large concentration of small and large floating plastic particles.
What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch ?
mass methylmercury poisoning incident that began in late 1971. Grain treated with a methylmercury fungicide and never intended for human consumption was imported into Iraq as seed grain from Mexico and the United States.
What is Iraqi Seed Grain Poisoning 1971-72 ?
Once the fourth largest lake in the world, Central Asia's shrinking this has reached a new low, thanks to decades-old water diversions for irrigation and a more recent drought. Satellite imagery released this week by NASA shows that the eastern basin of the freshwater body is now completely dry.
What is the Aral Sea?
A neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning. Minamata disease was first discovered in Minamata city in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan, in 1956. It was caused by the release of methylmercury in the industrial wastewater from the Chisso Corporation's chemical factory
What is Minamata Disease (Japan) ?
The 1948 Donora smog was a historic air inversion resulting in a wall of smog that killed 20 people and sickened 7,000 more in Donora, Pennsylvania. Researchers analyzing the event have focused likely blame on pollutants from a zinc plant.
What is the Donora Smog 1948?
Area of hypoxic (less than 2 ppm dissolved oxygen) waters at the mouth of the Mississippi River. Its area varies in size, but can cover up to 6,000-7,000 square miles. Hypoxic water supports fewer organisms and has been linked to massive fish kills in the Black Sea and Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Gulf of Mexico Deadzone ?
A neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, which became the subject of national and international attention, controversy, and eventual environmental notoriety following the discovery of 21,000 tons of toxic waste buried beneath the neighborhood.
What is Love canal?
designated by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act amendments of 1987, is to be a deep geological repository storage facility within Yucca Mountain for spent nuclear fuel and other high-level radioactive waste in the United States.
What is Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Respository?
It was built on the Chang Jiang in China. The dam helps to control flooding along the great river, the third largest river in the world. It also generates power and allows ships to sail farther into China. It towers over 600 feet high and spans a valley of over a mile wide and creates a reservoir nearly 400 miles long. At least 1000 towns and villages disappeared under the waters of the reservoir when the dam is completed. May be triggering landslides, altering entire ecosystems and causing other serious environmental problems—and, by extension, endangering the millions who live in its shadow.
What is Three Gorges Dam ?
Parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas that were hit hard by dry topsoil and high winds that created blinding dust storms; blew dust from Oklahoma to Albany, New York. The phenomenon was caused by severe drought coupled with decades of extensive farming without techniques to prevent wind erosion.
What is the Dust Bowl?
a massive oil spill followed an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig operated by British Petroleum; most significant environmental disaster to occur in the U.S.; billions of dollars in damage was done to the Gulf of Mexico fishing industry, the tourism industry, and the habitat of hundreds of bird, fish, and other wildlife species
What is the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill 2010 ?
chemical leak in 1984 in the city of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh state, India. At the time, it was called the worst industrial accident in history.
What is the Madhya Pradesh (India) gas leak [bhopal] ?
At this 8,000-acre site in New Hampshire, long-term studies of air, water, soils, plants, and animals have produced major discoveries about human and natural disturbances to the forested landscape of the northeastern United States.
What is Hubbard Brook?
worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history. An accident at the nuclear plant at this location that caused a radiation leak and forced the evacuation of 140,000 people near the site.
What is Three Mile Island ?
Occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska in 1989 when Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker bound for Long Beach, California struck a reef and spilled an enormous amount of crude oil. Killed thousands of seabirds and sea otters. One of the most devastating human-caused environmental disasters.
What is the Exxon Valdez ?
A phenomenon in which worker bees from a beehive or European honey bee colony abruptly disappear. A serious problem threatening the health of honey bees and the economic stability of commercial beekeeping and pollination operations in the United States.
What is the Honey Bee Colony Collapse 2006 - ?
A century ago, this was a busy small town filled with shops, residents and a brisk mining business. Coal from local mines fueled its homes and its economy, and its 1,200 residents worked, played and lived as tight-knit neighbors.
What is Centralia Penn?
one of the first big supertankers, and the source of one of the first major oil spills when it hit a reef off the coast of Cornwall.
The spill created an oil slick measuring 270 square miles, contaminating 180 miles of coastland. More than 15,000 sea birds and enormous numbers of aquatic animals were killed before the spill was finally contained.
What is the Torrey Canyon Oil Spill ?