Climate Change – 20th and 21st centuries
Even the most skeptical of critics now admit that global warming is a fact of life, so their line has…
Sinking of the Derbyshire – 1980
The Liverpool-registered merchant ship MV Derbyshire was a state-of-the-art bulk carrier when she was launched in 1976. The length of…
Rainforest Destruction – 20th and 21st centuries
Once upon a time, rainforests wrapped around the earth’s equator like an unbroken green girdle - and that time was…
Three Gorges Dam – 2006
As the New World Order (NWO) transfers economic power from West to East, another sort of power underpins that inexorable…
Prestige Oil Spill – 2002
On November 13 2002 the Prestige, a single-hulled oil tanker registered in the Bahamas and owned by a Liberian-registered corporation,…
Martin County Sludge Spill – 2000
The Appalachian Mountains run from Newfoundland in Canada to central Alabama in the USA. Certain regions of this ancient and…
Marcopper Mining Disaster – 1996
In 1969 the Marcopper Mining Corporation began open-cut mining at Mount Tapian on Marinduque Island in the Philippines. Marinduque is…
Gulf War Oil Spill – 1991
On August 2 1990 Iraqi president Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, provoking instant condemnation from the international community. The UN immediately…
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill – 1989
Although it comes way down the list of the world’s worst oil disasters in terms of the volume of oil…
Castillo de Bellver Oil Spill – 1983
The impact of human activity on the planet and the consequences of that activity going wrong are nowhere as dramatically…