All disaster articles
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NewsBhopal disaster explainer: will court ruling end victims’ search for compensation?
39 years ago one of the world’s worst chemical disasters killed thousands in India
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News
Indian supreme court ruling effectively ends Bhopal compensation claims from Dow
Hundreds of thousands of victims of deadly disaster still seeking support 39 years later
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Research
Chemist whose father survived oil rig disaster inspired to swap slides for VR safety training
Training using virtual reality could help chemical manufacturing workers prepare for the worst
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Podcast
Sodium cyanide
This week marks the 20th anniversary of the Baia Mare disaster, when toxic sodium cyanide spilled from a gold processing plant led to ecological damage on a huge scale.
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Review
Film: The Devil We Know
The story of an industrial waste dumping scandal, the effects of which have persisted for decades
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Review
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
What went wrong on the 26 April 1986 disaster and what continued to go wrong in the days, weeks and years that followed
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News
BP’s long legal battle over Deepwater disaster ends
Judge finalises BP’s $20 billion settlement over Gulf of Mexico oil spill
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Brazilian mine disaster releases dangerous metals
Irreversible negative human health and environmental effects could result from Brazilian mine’s dam collapse
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Environment agency accident releases toxic mine waste into US rivers
More than 11 million litres of metal-contaminated water from defunct Colorado mine enters major US waterways
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News
BP emerges from Deepwater with $18.7bn settlement
BP has agreed to pay an $18.7 billion settlement to five states damaged by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
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Emerging from Deepwater
Five years after a BP oil rig explosion spewed millions of oil barrels into the Gulf of Mexico, key questions remain
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News
UN proposes Bhopal contamination probe
Offer to investigate continuing pollution from the Bhopal disaster 30 years ago awaits Indian government approval
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BP Deepwater oil spill fines set to fall dramatically
Louisiana judge rules that disaster released a million fewer barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico than the US government estimated
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News
US agencies report back on safeguarding chemical plants
Rules for handling ammonium nitrate revisited in wake of West disaster, but industry groups are worried by increasing complexity
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Questions remain after huge hydrofluoric acid leak
Korean residents in the affected zone are still afraid to return home six weeks after the disaster that killed five workers
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Research priorities
The heads of the national science academies of 15 countries have urged governments to focus on three ‘global dilemmas’
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Quake-hit Japanese universities move on
Among the universities damaged by the earthquake, by far the hardest hit was Tohoku University
