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In March 2001 the Petrobras 36 Oil Platform (P-36) was the world’s largest floating oil production platform, operating 130 km…
A vast area in the marshy lowlands of Las Marismas, around southwestern Spain’s Guadalquivir River, was designated as a wildlife…
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Anyone who wants to damage the largest possible number of people in the shortest possible time could find few better…
The discovery of North Sea oil and gas was a boon to Britain. Piper Alpha made a productive contribution. Originally…
The catastrophic nuclear disaster the world had long feared finally happened in 1986 at the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine. Reactor…
In the early 1960s the pride of the US Navy’s submarine fleet was SSN-593, the second sub to bear the…
St John’s Station cannot be reached from the road, but is accessed by a pedestrian bridge from St John’s Vale.…
In 1969 the American Union Carbide Company established a factory at the Indian city of Bhopal. It would produce the…