List of Environmental Disasters Caused By Humans
- Seveso disaster, 1976 - Release of dioxin. No immediate human deaths. Within two years over 80,000 animals had been slaughtered.
- Amoco Cadiz oil spill, 1978 - the vessel broke in two, releasing its entire cargo of 1.6 million barrels (250,000 m3) of oil.
- Bhopal disaster, 1984 - Release of methyl isocyanate gas and other chemicals Some estimate 8,000 people died within two weeks. A government affidavit in 2006 stated the leak caused 558,125 injuries including 38,478 temporary partial and approximately 3,900 severely and permanently disabling injuries.
- Chernobyl disaster, 1986 - The official Soviet count of 31 deaths has been disputed. An UNSCEAR report places the total confirmed deaths from radiation at 64 as of 2008. The eventual death toll could reach 4,000. Some 50 emergency workers died of acute radiation syndrome, nine children died of thyroid cancer and an estimated total of 3940 died from radiation-induced cancer and leukemia.
- Exxon Valdez oil spill, 1989 - spilled 260,000 to 750,000 barrels (41,000 to 119,000 m3) of crude oil. No human deaths.
- Prudhoe Bay oil spill, 2006 - spilled up to 267,000 US gallons (6,400 bbl). No human deaths.
- Deepwater Horizon oil spill, 2010 - An explosion killed 11 men working on the platform and injured 17 others. The gushing wellhead was capped, after it had released about 4.9 million barrels (780,000 m3) of crude oil.
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