You may hear about natural disasters often, but some of the deadliest disasters in world history have been anthropogenic hazards (environmental disasters caused by human activity). For this list ...

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That’s because much of the world is on the brink of a shortage of edible cooking oil. Suddenly, we have less than we need—and most of this growing problem is man-made. The natural disasters of ...

The images of agitated Sri Lankans storming into their country’s presidential residence in reaction to the mishandling of farm policy by their government left me with a single thought: This ...

In recent decades, the world has faced an increasing number of natural and man-made disasters. Such disasters include tsunamis, earthquakes, the current ongoing financial crisis, terrorism, riots, and ...

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Description: Chernobyl is a visual account of how safety lapses led to the world’s worst nuclear power ... left to fight with heat and flames. Man-made disaster on National Geographic The ...

Natural disasters, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons, and floods, and man-made disasters, such as wars and economic crises ... using data available for comparing results from countries around ...

Here are the five worst environmental disasters ever, caused by companies. The Niger Delta is the worst victim of company-made disasters. There were over 7,000 oil spills (over 13 million barrels of ...