Waste disposal incidents

a severe neurological disease caused by mercury poisoning, first discovered in the Japanese city of Minamata.

2010 industrial accident in Hungary

industrial accident

October 1966 mining disaster in Wales, UK

The Goiânia accident, also known locally as, also known locally as the Caesium-137 Accident was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on September 13, 1987, in Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil, after an unsecured radiotherapy source was found by looters at an abandoned hospital site in the city. It was subsequently handled by many people, resulting in four deaths. About 112,000 people were examined for radioactive contamination and 249 of them were found to have been contaminated.

pollution

thumb|Map of the Tobol basin. The Techa river (Теча) may be found to the left center, next to the regional ЧЕЛЯБИНСКАЯ ОБЛАСТЬ (Chelyabinsk Oblast) label. The Techa (, ) is an eastward river on the eastern flank of the southern Ural Mountains noted for its nuclear contamination. It is long, and its basin covers . It begins by the once-secret nuclear processing town of Ozyorsk about northwest of Chelyabinsk and flows east then northeast to the small town of Dalmatovo to flow into the mid-part of the Iset, a tributary of the Tobol. Its basin is close to and north of the Miass, longer than these

mass die-off of fish, beavers etc. in the Oder river (Poland and Germany) during the summer of 2022

28,800 plastic bath toys

dam failure releasing toxic mine tailings in Andalusia, southern Spain

2001, country of Georgia, 3 injured, 1 dead

mass-casualty disaster in Kyiv

health crisis in the Ivory Coast

1998 radioactive contamination incident in Spain