In 1969 the Marcopper Mining Corporation began open-cut mining at Mount Tapian on Marinduque Island in the Philippines. Marinduque is…
On August 2 1990 Iraqi president Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, provoking instant condemnation from the international community. The UN immediately…
Although it comes way down the list of the world’s worst oil disasters in terms of the volume of oil…
The impact of human activity on the planet and the consequences of that activity going wrong are nowhere as dramatically…
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It seems inconceivable that a well-found ship could run aground in daylight and good weather. Famously, Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell…
Located in Japan’s Mie Prefecture, Yokkaichi is an important industrial town noted for the manufacture of such diverse products as…
The fate of the Aral Sea has been described as the greatest manmade ecological catastrophe. Once the world's fourth largest…
Acid rain kills wildlife, erodes buildings and turns lakes into dark lifeless bodies of water. It is created in industrial…
America plunged the world headlong into the Atomic Age by unleashing its devastating new invention on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to…