Pollution accidentelle des eaux par produits chimiques

A city in southern Brazil has declared a state of emergency after a truck loaded with sulfoni

BAUAN, Batangas – A chemical spill hit Barangay San Miguel here on Saturday, November 4, prompting the evacuation of 248 families, police said Monday, November 6.

Six months to the day that a fiery train went off the tracks in East Palestine, members of the community are gathering to talk about what the incident has done to their lives and businesses.

Local Japanese residents took to social media and described the flowing red water as 'gruesome' and 'venomous'.

Le procès du déversement de boues toxiques issues de la mine du groupe Boliden s'est ouvert mardi, 25 ans après cette catastrophe environnementale.

Un bateau transportant plusieurs sacs de cyanure a chaviré aux alentours du 18 mai dans le plus grand lac du Suriname. Si la gravité de la situation est encore inconnue, le gouvernement tire la sonette d'alarme.

Norfolk Southern spent $387 million in the first quarter to cover the damage caused by its East Palestine, Ohio, derailment in February, the company said Wednesday. Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw said on an earnings call that the company aims to complete its cleanup of the derailment site and have all of its tracks in…

A crash near Louisville, Kentucky, caused three barges to become "lodged"—one of which, officials said, was partially submerged and carries 1,400 tons of methanol.

Scientists will be likely monitoring the ecosystem surrounding the areas affected by a massive chemical spill in Ohio for years to come.

Federal investigators say the crew of the train that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, tried to slow and stop the train after getting a critical sensor warning. But the preliminary NTSB investigation also found that the warning, which came from an overheated axle, didn't arrive until just moments before the train went off the track. Geoff Bennet reports.

Un bateau s'est abîmé dans la Seine, lundi, à Triel (Yvelines), après avoir heurté un pont. Sa cargaison, du nitrate de calcium, s'est répandue dans le fleuve.

Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, took a video of Leslie Run Creek in East Palestine, Ohio, on Thursday, saying that there are "dead worms and dead fish all throughout this water" two weeks after a train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed.

Cette pollution sur 2 km avait ému les riverains et les promeneurs le long de la rivière. Les pompiers et Limoges Métropole avaient dû déployer des moyens importants pour purger cette pollution à la soude. Ce sont le

Le 21 mai 2021, la Seine a été polluée par un néonicotinoïde, un pesticide hautement toxique. La Métropole avait alors porté plainte pour préjudice écologique. La décision du Tribunal, rendue mardi 21 novembre, contraint l’entreprise mise en cause à verser à la Métropole 50 000€ de dommages et intérêts.

Rio Tinto Alcan has been ordered to pay half a million dollars for spilling dangerous substances into the Saguenay River.

Spanish authorities initiated a civil trial against a Swedish mining company seeking $98M in compensation for a toxic spill that occurred near the Doñana National Park in 1998.

A rail bridge over the Yellowstone River in rural southwest Montana collapsed Saturday, taking a freight train with it. The train that derailed was loaded with asphalt and sulfur, leading to some of the cargo leaking into the river, according to local officials. Stillwater County emergency services chief David Stamey told The Associated Press that…

Dans chaque cas, la pollution de l'eau résulte de la fuite d'un produit toxique contenu dans des cuves agricoles tombées de tracteurs lors d'accidents de la route. De quoi désoler les pêcheurs, qui appellent à la vigilance.

A la suite d'un accident de la route à Gétigné, la citerne d'un tracteur s'est  déversée dans un affluent de la Sèvre nantaise. La pollution a causé une forte mortalité piscicole.

Tests of drinking water find no contamination yet from a spill of up to 12,000 gallons of chemicals near Philadelphia. Here's what happened.

Incident released hazardous materials across a five-mile radius, killing tens of thousands of aquatic species and forcing local evacuations

The head of the U.S. government's environmental agency said on Tuesday that rail operator Norfolk Southern Corp must "pay for cleaning up the mess" created when a freight train derailment in Ohio released toxic chemicals into the environment.

A "contaminant plume" that had been heading down the major waterway at around one mile an hour was "no longer detectable," Ohio Governor Mike DeWine said.

Toxic fumes billowed over northeastern Ohio on Monday as authorities aimed to mitigate a potential explosion from derailed tanker cars carrying hazardous materials.