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The facility and the settlement, part of Greater Mexico City, were devastated, with 500–600 victims killed, and 5000–7000 suffering severe burns. [2] It is one of the deadliest industrial disasters in world history, [ 1 ] and the deadliest industrial accident involving fires and/or explosions from hazardous materials in a process or storage ...
A large gas explosion in a residential building in Mexico City on Monday has injured dozens and killed at least one person.The source of the gas leak was not immediately clear but the Mexico City ...
The Health consequences of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill are health effects related to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010. An oil discharge continued for 84 days, resulting in the largest oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry, estimated at 206 million gallons (4.9 ...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - At least one contractor was killed after a fire struck an offshore platform operated by Mexico's national oil company Pemex, the firm said in a statement on Sunday, adding ...
This article covers the effect of the Deepwater Horizon disaster and the resulting oil spill on global and national economies and the energy industry.. Weeks after the event, and while it was still in progress, the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill was being discussed as a disaster with far reaching consequences sufficient to impact global economies, marketplaces and policies.
An explosion at an offshore gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico left six workers injured and several others missing, Mexican officials said Friday. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said at ...
In 2012, The Big Fix, documented the April 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico following the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. In 2014, The Great Invisible, by Margaret Brown chose to focus on the social impacts on people whose lives have been affected by this tragedy.
Ecological impacts of explosives are the effects that both unexploded explosives and post-explosion by-products have on the environment. [1] Explosive derived contaminants may have adverse effects on the environmental as well as human health. In addition to their military use in warfare, explosives are also used in construction and demolition.