Environmental Disasters & "Oops" Moments
The catastrophic power surge in a nuclear power plant in Ukraine in 1986.
The Chernobyl Disaster
Oil spill that occurred in Prince William Sound Alaska, 1989.
The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
A leak of methyl isocyanate gas from a union carbide pesticide
The Bhopal disaster
the primary cause for current day extinction including the cutting of trees.
Habitat loss
a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s
The dust bowl
The largest marine oil spill in history that happened in 2010
The deep water horizon oil spill
an evolutionary phenomenon where a large population's size is drastically and randomly reduced by a catastrophic event
the bottleneck effect