Books in Environmental Disasters series

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Presents and analyzes the significance and impact of various natural calamities that have recently occurred, describing the events leading up to the disaster, what happened during the occurrence, and the aftermath, as well as the overall effects on the environment and our ability to prepare for such disasters.

Traces the history and eventual cleanup of the ecological disaster known as Love Canal, which resulted from building a neighborhood over a chemical dumpsite that poisoned the environment and endangered the health of residents.

Discusses the disastrous year 2000 overflow of a Romanian reservoir that held heavy metals and cyanide, pouring the deadly mix into rivers that feed the Danube and killing all living creatures in its path.

Presents an account of the 1984 chemical accident at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, and its aftermath.

Presents and analyzes the significance and impact of various natural calamities that have recently occurred, describing the events leading up to the disaster, what happened during the occurrence, and the aftermath, as well as the overall effects on the environment and our ability to prepare for such disasters.

Describes the events surrounding the wildfire that raged in New Mexico in 2000 and the resulting debate over the policy of prescribed burning, or purposely setting fires as a means of forest management.

Discusses the disastrous 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine.

Describes the oil tanker Exxon Valdez, the events that led up to its disastrous oil spill in 1989, and the effects of the spill on the Alaskan environment.

Walker, Jane

Discover why tons of snow slide down a mountain, destroying everything in its path, seemingly without warning.

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