Ocean waves peaked at 100 feet, the height of 10-story buildings. Waves 30 feet high battered the New England coast, destroying 200 homes. Nine people died, including the six-man crew of a swordfish boat from Gloucester, Massachusetts. (CNN.com) Not only was a book wrote about this event, they later made a movie about too. But in spite of such amazing events in history caused by
About 4,000 people who lived there were evacuated by boat. The town of Futaleufu, with about 1,000 residents, was also evacuated. Smaller communities to the southeast such as Chubut and Rio Negro also received heavy ash falls. The ash plume was so thick in some parts of Argentina that schools, highways and airports were forced to close. Indeed, Chaitén was a major concern to both the airline industry and the neighbouring country of Argentina.
These runoffs have contributed to the beach closures, and the unsustainable condition of biological life in the lake. Human health is at great risk due to the untreated waste that is dumped in Lake Huron each year. The untreated sewage contains many viruses, two being Giardia (an intestinal parasite), cryptosporidium, which causes intestinal illnesses and even death. E. coli a more familiar virus has elevated its concentrations in Lake Huron, found in either animal or human feces, which causes diarrhea, nausea, and stomach cramps. ("Testing the waters,"
Hedges and Sacco report that over five hundred mountaintops have been blown up in West Virginia, while the underlying carbons seems are gouged away by huge machines that only require a few workers. The people of West Virginia have poor lifestyles while they suffer the consequences of the coal mining: cancer. The resources of this land are exploited, as well as the people, which will eventually lead to their extinction. Sacco and Hedges focus on coal mining’s economic, social and environmental effects. They give an example of the Easter Island and the abundance of freshwater and woods, “seafood was plentiful” (150).
The two raids killed at least 243 people and between 300 and 400 were wounded. Twenty military aircraft were destroyed, eight ships at anchor in the harbour were sunk, and most civil and military facilities in Darwin were destroyed (source 1).” This text is very relevant to the issue because it provides a very detailed outline of the horrific damage caused by the bombing of Darwin. It is believed that the bombing of Darwin was the one of the largest Japanese attack since Pearl Harbour. The Japanese inflicted very heavy losses upon Darwin, seeing as the town was poorly defended. The raids also caused urban areas of Darwin to suffer some damage, and there were a number of civilian casualties.
The North Pacific Gyre: Recycling is Dire There’s a new continent in the Pacific Ocean! This continent has been called many things from the great pacific garbage patch to Trash Island. This swirling mass of plastic bags plastic bottles and other non perishable items has been accumulating in the Gyre for years. Caught in the northern Pacific currents that form the N. Pacific Gyre. This Largely covered area of plastic remnants that have been broken down to small pieces have a damning effect on the wildlife that depends on the Gyres currents for food.
On December 7, 1941 Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and sank three of the eight American battleships, destroyed 150 airplanes and killed 2,400 Americans (Bowles, 2011). The main reasons why the Japanese attacked the United States was because the United States mistrusted Japan and was strongly against Japanese aggressions into China. In 1940 the US imposed an embargo of all scrap metal and oil to Japan. Officials said that it would take further sanctions like freezing of all Japanese assets in the US if Japan didn't abandon its incursions into East Asia. There was 16 million Americans that went off to fight and 400,000 of them would lose their lives, but worldwide 80 million people were killed (Wattenberg, 2000).
In this environmental disaster, 10 cubic meters of water and 4.5 million cubic meters of potentially toxic slurry were spilled into virtually untouched forest, lakes and rivers. If something like this happens at the Pebble Mine, then most of the fish and wildlife in Bristol Bay would be in danger of being killed. A species that would be greatly affected by this is the sockeye salmon. More than half of the world’s population of these fish lives in Bristol Bay. This means that the survival of this species would be threatened.
Oil washed ashore on both islands resulting in one-thousand penguins being oiled and five-thousand birds died either during transportation or in the first few days after arriving at the rescue stations (Adams). Luckily, four-thousand-seven-hundred-eighteen penguins could be cleaned by the South African National Foundation and later returned to their habitat. The Apollo Sea tragedy was the largest South African oil spill for penguins before the sinking of the Treasure (Anderson). Shortly after, it became noticed that there was a larger number of seabirds at risk of being oiled off South Africa. Actions were immediately taken to help reduce the risk of more penguins becoming oiled.
Out of all the marine mammals that would be affected, the bowhead whale would feel the worst affects of drilling. It is currently endangered and still making a recovery from nearly becoming extinct. Of the 10 thousand bowhead whales that still exist, the majority are found in the Western Arctic. These whales are extremely sensitive to noise disturbance which can damage migratory paths and interfere with breeding and nursing