Biggest Man Made Environmental Disasters
Biggest Man Made Environmental Disasters
21. Baia Mare Cyanide Spill
After the Chernobyl incident in Russia, this cyanide spill in Baia Mare, Romania is aptly called the worst environmental disaster in Europe. On January 30, 2000, 100,000 cubic meters of cyanidecontaminated water leaked out from a dam, spewing out 100 tonnes of cyanide.
22. The Shrinking of the Aral Sea
Dubbed as one of the planets worst environmental disasters
23. The Bhopal Disaster
Known as the worlds worst industrial disaster, more than half a million people were exposed to methyl isocyanate gas and other toxic chemicals in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India on the night of December 23, 1984. The Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plants leak of the poisonous gas claimed 2,259 casualties.
24. The Chernobyl Nuclear Explosion
Being one out of two accidents classified as level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale, Chernobyl is known as the worst nuclear power plant incident in history. Cancers, deformities and other long term illnesses were the scars of not only human inhabitants but of animals as well.
25. The Great Smog of 52
Thousands died and a hundred thousand fell ill because of a blanket of smog that covered London for 5 days in 1952. Cold weather, combined with
