Pollution accidentelle des eaux par produits chimiques

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.

The ship that sank off the southern province of Antalya on April 5 might cause sea pollution as it contains bauxite, a professor has warned.

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.

A massive acid spill from the ICL Rotem plant polluted the Ashalim Creek west of the Dead Sea in 2017 and caused serious damage to fauna and flora along the riverbed

Des chercheurs ont mené une nouvelle étude sur l'épave du V-1302 John Mahn, un navire de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, reposant dans la partie belge de la mer du Nord. Il

"This is a true example of bureaucracies working together for good of the people," said Genesee County Sheriff Christopher Swanson.

New details about Huron River chromium spill emerge from Michigan EGLE “egregious” violation notice issued to Tribar Technologies.

It’s been almost a year since a barge transporting coal ash from Puerto Rico to a landfill in Folkston, Georgia, spilled more than 5,000 tons of the toxic industrial byproduct into the ocean off Atlantic Beach.

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…

Residents and business owners in parts of Monmouth County, New Jersey, have been warned of potentially hazardous materials at a former industrial site after firefighters found leaking containers and materials on fire at the location.

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

Melbourne Transport and Warehousing, if found guilty, could be fined up to $1.8 million after 20 tonnes of dead fish had to be hauled from the creek system following the spill in Melbourne’s west.

The July 2021 rupture of a tailings dam at a diamond mine in Angola killed off much of the aquatic life in the Lova, Tshikapa and Kasai rivers. Twelve people are known to have died after exposure to the polluted water. A new report by the International Peace Information Service (IPIS), an independent research institute, […]

Début août, la fédération mahoraise des associations environnementales (FMAE) a été alertée par des riverains. Ces derniers ont constaté un grand nombre

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy was alerted Monday that a Wixom company released hexavalent chromium into the sewer system, prompting a warning not to touch Huron River water.