Tag Archive | "disaster"
Mount Vesuvius Erupting in 1944
It was 1944 and the Second World War was raging. In Italy, American airmen were stationed at Pompeii Airfield when the debris started falling, but this was no ordinary wartime air raid. The cinder and rock dropping from the sky were being sent forth by the volcano dominating the horizon: Mount Vesuvius. Overhead, bombers wheeled in the air, their pilots’ minds turning from the threat of flack to an altogether more pervasive menace.
Continue reading...The Unstoppable Coal Fire Blazing Beneath Pennsylvania
Friday, July 31, 2009
In 1962, firemen in the Pennsylvanian mining town of Centralia successfully extinguished a minor blaze at a landfill dump – but little did they know a layer of coal just below the surface had ignited, creating a hidden and deadly inferno that raged undetected beneath the town for almost twenty years. This is the story of Centralia and the fire that refuses to be extinguished.
Continue reading...This Day In History: Wierdest Disaster Ever
Friday, January 16, 2009
On this day in 1915 (from the day of publishing, at least), argueably the strangest man-made disaster ever happened in Boston when a 50 foot, 2.3 million gallon tank of molasses collapsed. This created a wave of sugary destruction up to 15 feet-high, travelling at the breakneck speed (for molasses) of 35 mph and what must surely be one of the hardest clean-up efforts of a non-inherently lethal substance in recent history.
Continue reading...Myanmar Gets Leveled By Cyclone
Monday, May 5, 2008
Images of Myanmar before (above) and after (below) (modified from Wikimedia Commons and AFP) Environmental Graffiti is, of course, the site for environmentalists who don’t take themselves too seriously. Aside from going on at PETA every once in a while, we’re happy to spread urban legends and make [...]
Continue reading...Report: Weather Disasters Have Increased 400%
Monday, November 26, 2007
Weather related disasters have increased 4-fold since 1980, according to a report published by Oxfam on Sunday. Oxfam attributed the increase to global
Continue reading...5 Deadliest Effects of Global Warming
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Global Warming effects Green house gases stay can stay in the atmosphere for an amount of years ranging from decades to hundreds and thousands of years. No matter what we do, global warming is going to have some effect on Earth. Here are the 5 deadliest effects of [...]
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Monday, August 24, 2009
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