What are the most known environmental disasters?
Answer:
Exxon Valdez
Saddam lighting Iraq's oil fields in 1991
Big oil spills which happened a lot in the 80s before the invention of the double-hulled tanker. The wreck of the Exxon Valdez is the one most people remember.
I vividly remember the Union Carbide incident in Bhopal, India.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bhopal_disa...
I'm sure there are more, but you asked for well-known so I only listed the ones I can remember. I'm 36 though, and someone older or younger might remember different things.
Most known? Chernobyl and Valdez/Exxon. The atom bomb in Hiroshima, Japan. Sad.
Those are big ones. Denial's not helping with the small stuff.
The Holocene extinction event. Or the tsunami of the Indian Ocean a few years ago. Or the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. Or hurrican Katrina.
Edit: The Atlantic Empress isn't as well-known among common folk like me but in the scientific community ranks as one of the worst oil spill they know of in their lifetimes.
Earthquakes, Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Mud and Land slides, Flash Floods, and Volcanic Explosions.
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