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Engineering disasters often arise from shortcuts in the design process. Engineering is the science and technology used to meet the needs and demands of society. [1] These demands include buildings, aircraft, vessels, and computer software. In order to meet society’s demands, the creation of newer technology and infrastructure must be met ...
Natural disasters avalanches, droughts, earthquakes, floods, heat waves, landslides, tropical cyclones, volcanic activity Nuclear issues — Nuclear fallout • Nuclear meltdown • Nuclear power • Nuclear weapons • Nuclear and radiation accidents • Nuclear safety • High-level radioactive waste management
At about 5 a.m. Sunday morning, the roof of Minneapolis's Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome tore under the weight of 17 inches of snow. The Metrodome has a roof of fiberglass fabric that's inflated by the stadium's air pressure, but a weekend blizzard was the trigger to cause the roof to sag and tear, dumping a large volume of snow all over the ...
1976 Seveso disaster, chemical plant explosion, caused highest known exposure to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) in residential populations; 1983 Times Beach, Missouri the town was completely evacuated due to a dioxin contamination; 1984 Bhopal disaster (December 3, 1984, India), leak of methyl isocyanate resulted in more than 22,000 ...
An accident in a laboratory at the Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute caused 65 workers to become infected with brucellosis. [73] More than 10,000 residents of Lanzhou were infected by November 2020. [74] The outbreak was reportedly caused by incompletely sterilized waste gas from a nearby biopharmaceutical factory.
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Estimates of the death toll range from 3700 to 16,000. The disaster caused the region's human and animal populations severe health problems to the present. June 25, 1985: The Aerlex Fireworks plant explosion in Hallett, Oklahoma killed 21 people after a chain-reaction occurred. May 4, 1988: PEPCON disaster, Henderson, Nevada. A massive fire and ...
This is an article of notable issues relating to the terrestrial environment of Earth in 2021.They relate to environmental events such as natural disasters, environmental sciences such as ecology and geoscience with a known relevance to contemporary influence of humanity on Earth, environmental law, conservation, environmentalism with major worldwide impact and environmental issues