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The intention of this list is to create a hospitable environment for the contribution and creation of a detailed lineage of intentional and unintentional anthropogenic activities or actors that continue to contribute to the ongoing degradation of Australian and First Nations cultural heritage and environmental sites. The term incidents refers ...
This is a list of industrial accidents and incidents that have resulted in environmental damage and/or has resulted in death or major injury that have occurred within the fossil fuel industry in Australia, in either the extraction, mining, processing or transporting phases. Oil tanker Oceanic Grandeur oil spill – 1970 [1]
The Great Barrier Reef's environmental pressures include water quality from runoff, climate change and mass coral bleaching, cyclic outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish, overfishing, and shipping accidents. The government of Queensland currently kills sharks in the Great Barrier Reef using drum lines, causing damage to the marine ecosystem ...
This is a list of notable waste disposal incidents. Incident Description Date ... Queensland: toxic waste Australia ... a non-profit organization.
This article is a list of environmental disasters. In this context it is an annotated list of specific events caused by human activity that results in a negative effect on the environment . Main article: Environmental disaster
Near Mackay, Queensland: 40: 1943 Jun 14: Bakers Creek air crash. USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress crashes shortly after take-off [112] Flooding: Queensland: 38: 2010 Dec – 2011 Jan: 2010–11 Queensland floods. 38 confirmed deaths plus 6 people missing (presumed dead) Shipwreck: Cardwell, Queensland: 36: 1872: Shipwreck Maria.
This is an alphabetical list of environmental issues, harmful aspects of human activity on the biophysical environment. They are loosely divided into causes, effects and mitigation, noting that effects are interconnected and can cause new effects.
This is a list of all major natural disasters in Australian European history. The natural disasters included here are all the notable events that resulted in significant loss of life or property due to natural, non-biological processes of the Earth within Australian territory. Due to inflation, the monetary damage estimates are not comparable.