Mexico and other countries have confronted environmental disaster caused by the oil spill, the explosion of nuclear plants and disposal of chemical materials.
The 5 worst environmental disasters in the Worls
Persian Gulf, 1991: The war between Iraq and the United States caused a major ecological disaster of the twentieth century due to burning oil wells causing black rain that destroyed vegetation and polluted water by the oil spill.
Ukraine, 1986: The explosion in a reactor of a nuclear plant resulted in a radioactive cloud over the Soviet Union and eastern Europe. Radiation finished with four square kilometers of vegetation and life of the Pripyat river.
India, 1984: A leak of 42 tons of methyl isocyanate that became toxic gases caused one of the worst disasters in memory. About 20 thousand people and thousands of head of livestock and pets died from inhaling the pollutants.
Mexico, 1979: The oil well Ixtoc I, belonging to Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), is out of control and exploded causing a spill of 560 million gallons of oil into the Bay of Campeche, Ciudad del Carmen in the Gulf of Mexico.
Italy, 1976: An explosion at a manufacturer of perfumes and cosmetics, instantly killing 193 people and air pollution in 11 communities around the cloud of dioxin that is presented and the ecological disaster.
The 5 worst environmental disasters in the Worls
Persian Gulf, 1991: The war between Iraq and the United States caused a major ecological disaster of the twentieth century due to burning oil wells causing black rain that destroyed vegetation and polluted water by the oil spill.
Ukraine, 1986: The explosion in a reactor of a nuclear plant resulted in a radioactive cloud over the Soviet Union and eastern Europe. Radiation finished with four square kilometers of vegetation and life of the Pripyat river.
Mexico, 1979: The oil well Ixtoc I, belonging to Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), is out of control and exploded causing a spill of 560 million gallons of oil into the Bay of Campeche, Ciudad del Carmen in the Gulf of Mexico.
Italy, 1976: An explosion at a manufacturer of perfumes and cosmetics, instantly killing 193 people and air pollution in 11 communities around the cloud of dioxin that is presented and the ecological disaster.
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