All disaster articles
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ResearchFailings in response to East Palestine train derailment compounded human and environmental impact
Study makes recommendations to better protect humans and the environment in the event of a future chemical incident
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OpinionLetters: September 2024
Readers discuss antidepressants, industrial disasters and what Humphry Davy inhaled
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OpinionLetters: August 2024
Readers share their connections to the Flixborough disaster, discuss the importance of inorganic neurochemistry and more
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OpinionRemembering Flixborough: 50 years on from one of the chemical industry’s deadliest disasters
The legacy of one of the UK’s worst industrial accidents is a safer industry
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OpinionA post-Flixborough risk assessment
In the last 50 years, attitudes to safety have improved so that first-hand experience of lab incidents is now rare
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News‘Fire and devastation’: 50 years on from the Flixborough disaster what’s changed?
Lessons from deadliest chemical accident in UK history are still relevant today
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FeatureHow to prepare for a lab catastrophe
Nina Notman looks at steps scientists can take to better protect the content of their labs from floods, fires and other disasters
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NewsMobile mass spec provides new insight into pollutants released by East Palestine train derailment
Acrolein levels at Norfolk Southern train derailment site in late February were up to six times higher than normal
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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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NewsIndian 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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ResearchChemist 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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PodcastSodium 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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ReviewFilm: The Devil We Know
The story of an industrial waste dumping scandal, the effects of which have persisted for decades
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ReviewChernobyl: 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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NewsBP’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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NewsBrazilian mine disaster releases dangerous metals
Irreversible negative human health and environmental effects could result from Brazilian mine’s dam collapse
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NewsEnvironment 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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NewsBP 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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NewsEmerging from Deepwater
Five years after a BP oil rig explosion spewed millions of oil barrels into the Gulf of Mexico, key questions remain