disasters
Ukrainian rightists burn alive 39 at Odessa union building
May 5, 2014Some 1,000 Ukrainian rightists surrounded, stormed, and burned the House of Trade Unions in Odessa last Friday, killing 39 pro-Russia demonstrators in the building.
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Oil train explosion rattles and poisons Virginia town
May 2, 2014Oil trains throughout the U.S. are literally crashing and burning. One could easily produce a long list of such disasters from last year alone. Another incident can now be added to that list.
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Today in eco-history: Chernobyl disaster announced to public
April 28, 2014On this day in 1986, continuing high levels of radiation emerging from the Chernobyl disaster led Soviet authorities to publically announce the accident.
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Today in eco-history: Dirty coal killed 45 Virginians
April 24, 2014It became the worst disaster in the country in 1938 and one of the worst coal mining disasters in Virginia history.
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On fourth anniversary of Gulf disaster EPA lets BP off the hook
April 22, 2014Today is the fourth anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, which killed 11 workers and dumped more than 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over a three month period in 2010.
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