One, the North American dead lake incident
1, the United States and Canada is the western hemisphere's most developed industrial areas, the annual emission of more than 25 million tons of sulfur dioxide. 1970 began, the most developed areas of these industries appeared in a large area of acid rain area, acid rain or even compared to lemonade, many of the lakes of the creatures are dead music, the forest trees withered.
Two, Cadiz tanker incident
1, March 16, 1978, the United States 2 super tanker "Cadiz", carrying Iranian crude oil to Rotterdam, sailing to the coast of Brittany, France, hit a reef and then sank, 224,000 tons of crude oil leaked out, polluting more than 350 kilometers of coastline. of coastline.
2. More than 1,000 tons of oysters alone died, and nearly 20,000 tons of seabirds died. The incident cost more than $100 million, and the pollution and remediation costs amounted to more than $500 million, while the damage caused by the polluted marine ecosystem is incalculable.
Three, the Gulf of Mexico blowout
1, June 3, 1979, the Mexican oil company's platform drilling rig into the submarine more than 3,000 meters deep in the oil layer, a sudden serious blowout of the crude oil leakage, contamination of the marine environment in this area.
Four, Cubatang "Valley of Death" incident
1, Sao Paulo, Brazil, the city of Cubatang business owners only care about making money, the discharge of waste industrial gases and industrial wastewater, the valley is filled with smoke, stagnant water, 20% of the people with respiratory allergies, so that more than 20,000 residents of the slums were seriously victimized.
Fifth, the West German forest dieback
1, the original West German forests were eroded by acid rain, 34% of them were infected with dieback, and each year the volume of dead reserves accounted for more than 21% of the growth of forests in the same year, and successively more than 800,000 hectares of forests have been destroyed.
2, affected by acid rain, in the Bavarian National Park, every tree got blight. In Hesse, fir trees at an altitude of more than 500 meters died one after another, and 57% of the state's pine trees were sickened by the disease.
3, Baden-Württemberg's "Black Forest", is because of the fir, pine green black and named, is Europe's famous vacation mecca, but also half of the trees are infected with dieback disease, the leaves of the trees yellow and brown off, of which 460,000 acres of complete death. Hamburg also faced the death of 3/4 of its trees. The forests of the Ruhr industrial region were then full of bald trees, dead birds and bees, and tens of thousands of the region's children were infected with a special laryngitis every year.
Six, India, Bhopal public incident
1, midnight, in the outskirts of Bhopal "United Carbide Pesticide Plant" a storage tank of 45 tons of methyl isocyanate security valve leakage of poisonous gas accidents, the formation of a 25-mile radius of the toxic fog area.
2. 2,500 people died, more than 1,000 others were critically ill, and more than 3,000 became seriously ill as a result of the accident. In this pollution accident, 150,000 people were admitted to hospitals because of the hazards of pollution, and four days after the accident, the number of victimized patients is still increasing at a rate of one person per minute. The accident also blinded more than 200,000 people.
Seven, Chernobyl nuclear leakage
1, April 27, 1986 morning, Ukraine Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a group of reactors suddenly nuclear leakage accident, causing a series of serious consequences. Clouds of radioactive material drifted to Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, resulting in radiation doses along the eastern coast of Sweden exceeding 100 times that of normal conditions.
2, the nuclear accident so that 10% of the wheat affected, while also contaminated water sources, so that the former Soviet Union and the European countries of the livestock industry are affected.
Eight, the Rhine pollution incident
1, November 1, 1986, the Swiss Sandoz Chemical Company warehouse fire, resulting in the explosion of steel tanks containing 1,250 tons of highly toxic pesticides, sulfur, phosphorus, mercury and other toxic and harmful substances with more than a hundred tons of fire extinguishing agent into the sewer, discharged into the Rhine River.
2. The highly toxic substances, 70 kilometers long, flowed downstream with the Rhine at a speed of 4 kilometers per hour, causing widespread deaths of river creatures, the closure of all waterworks along the river, and the closure of all river locks across the country that are connected to the Rhine.
9, Athens "state of emergency"
1, November 2, 1989, 9:00 a.m., Athens, Greece, the center of the Athens Atmospheric Quality Monitoring Station, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the air 318 mg / m3, exceeding the national standard of 59%, a red danger signal. 11:00 a.m. concentration rose to 604 mg / m3, exceeding the national standard of 59%, the red danger signal. 604 mg/m3, exceeding the 500 mg/m3 emergency danger line.
2. The central government immediately declared a "state of emergency" in Athens, banning all private cars in the city center, restricting taxi and motorcycle traffic, and ordering all fuel boilers to be turned off, major factories to cut fuel consumption by 50 percent, and schools to be closed.
Ten, Japan's "four major public health hazards", Minamata disease
1, 1956 in Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture, the cause of the nitrogen fertilizer company will contain methylmercury wastewater discharged into the sea, resulting in the residents of the sea due to the predation of fish caused by mercury poisoning.
2. The second Minamata disease was caused by mercury-containing wastewater discharged into the sea by Showa Denko.
3. Yokkaichi Asthma: Air pollution caused by industrial emissions of sulfur oxides into the atmosphere.
4. Pain and Soreness: water pollution caused by mining companies discharging large amounts of cadmium into the river.
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