List of environmental disasters

This article is a list of environmental disasters.

In this context it is an annotated list of specific events caused by human activity that results in a negative effect on the environment.

Mushroom-shaped cloud and water column from the underwater nuclear explosion of July 25, 1946, which was part of Operation Crossroads
November 1951 nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site , from Operation Buster , with a yield of 21 kilotons. It was the first U.S. nuclear field exercise conducted on land; troops shown are 6 mi (9.7 km) from the blast.