Worst Man-Made Environmental Disasters

Newsweek has published a slideshow of 11 of the worst environmental disasters wrought by humans. Many of these are so famous that simply saying the names of the locations tells their stories: Chernobyl, Bhopal, Love Canal.

The other 8 worst man-made environmental disasters:

• Eroding coastlines and melting ice caps
• Coal spills at power plants
• Rainforest destruction
• Industrial mining
• Overfishing
• Oil spills
• Ocean pollution and a trash-filled gyre larger than Texas
  
• Diverting waterways (with an arresting image of camels near a ship sitting on grassy land that used to be the bed of the Aral Sea).