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​Glasgow, Scotland,

winter inversions and smoke accumulations has killed over 1,000 in a city long known as “old reeky” for its air pollution.

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Meuse River Valley, Belgium
The killer smog incident
Three days weather inversion in this industrial valley holds in smoke and 63 people died, with 6,000 ill.​

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The years that had most pollution in this timeline

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The years that had most pollution in this timeline

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The years that had the most pollution were in world war 2 because of the bombs that were being planted and nuclear things.​

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London, United Kingdom
The Killer Fog
4000 people die in the worst London killer fog. Vehicles use lamps in broad daylight, but smog is so thick that busses run only with a guide walking ahead. By December 8 all transportation except the subway had come to a halt​.

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Minamata, Japan
Minamata Disease DIsaster
Chisso Corporation’s industrial wastewater containing methyl mercury was released into Minamata Bay and the Shiranui Sea. The disease was caused by mercury poisoning attacks to the nervous system. About 2,250 people succumbed as a direct outcome of the pollution event.

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Seveso, Milan, Italy.
The Seveso Disaster
An explosion at an manufacturing plant north of Milan, Italy released Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) into the atmosphere. The gas severely affected the neighboring town of Seveso. A little after, 3,300 animals died and many more were killed to stop the spread of the contamination into the food chain. About 500 people were found to have skin lesions and children were hospitalized with skin inflammation.​

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Bhopal, India,
Union Carbide Cyanide Gas Leak
a Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant accidentally released a deadly killer fog, that killed more than 5,000 people. They were victims of fatal poisoning by an isocyanate (pesticide) gas. More than 50,000 people have gone through treatment due to exposure to the gas and more than 500,000 people were exposed to the gas.

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Alaska, USA

The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
260,000 to 750,000 barrels of crude oil was spilled in Prince William Sounds, Alaska by the oil tanker Exxon Valdez. It resulted as an accident after the oil tanker crashed into Bligh Reef. Research categorizes it as one of the most destructive human caused environmental disasters with both the long-term and short-term effects. The instant outcome was the deaths of 100,000 to as many as 250,000 seabirds, at least 2,800 sea otters, 300 harbor seals, 247 Bald Eagles, and 22 Orcas, and unidentified number of salmon and herring.

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Kuwait
The Kuwait Oil Fires
Around 6 million barrels of oil were lost from January to November, 1991. 600 oil wells were set afire as part of the scorched earth policy by the retreating Iraqi military forces. $1.5 billion was spent by Kuwait to extinguish the fires that caused heavy pollution to the soil and air.

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Jilin, China
Jilin Chemical Plant Explosions
here was a series of explosions at the Jilin chemical plant – Petro chemical plant in Jilin City, Jilin Province, China. These explosions claimed the life of six employees and left numerous people injured creating the need for evacuating tens of thousands of neighboring residents. What’s more, the explosions adversely polluted the Songhua River with approximately 100 tons of pollutants containing nitrobenzene and benzene whose exposure diminish white blood cell count and is linked to leukemia.

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Gulf of Mexico
British Petroleum Oil Spill
there was an explosion and sinking of a of the deepwater horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil rig was leased and controlled by BP (British Petroleum) and was regarded the most prominent accidental marine oil spill in the petroleum industry history. Eleven employees died as a result of the explosion. The explosion also released about 60 million barrelsof mixed-grade oil from the disconnected well, which went on for more than four months. Over 34,000 birds (including egrets and blue heron), hundreds of sea turtles, about 72 dolphins and other marine vertebrates and invertebrates were poisoned, suffocated and died in the floating oil.

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For 2020 go check out the powerpoint since 2020 has to much information for the timeline

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For 2020 go check out the powerpoint since 2020 has to much information for the timeline