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environmental disaster

disaster to the natural environment due to human activity with widespread or long-lasting consequences
Class type of: disaster Q3193890

Facts

2 properties
Subclass of
disaster
Relates to sustainable development goal, target or indicator
Target 1.5 of the Sustainable Development Goals[2]
🏷️ Also known as
en eco-catastrophe en environmental disaster en ecological disaster en ecological catastrophe ar كارثة بيئية cs ekologická katastrofa da miljøkatastrofe de Umweltkatastrophe de ökologische Katastrophe el οικολογική καταστροφή es desastre ecológico es catástrofe ecológica es desastre ambiental es desastre medioambiental fa فاجعه زیست‌محیطی fi ekokatastrofi fi luonnonkatastrofi fi ympäristökatastrofi fr catastrophe écologique fr catastrophe environnementale
🔖 Identifiers · 19
Library of Congress authority ID
sh2006008090
OpenAlex ID
C2993093264
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Sulfide disaster in Levikha Village.jpg ↗
BBC Things ID
f9e465e5-1df4-4925-8684-d583a7f8d61d
BNCF Thesaurus ID
56578
Elhuyar ZTH ID
007259
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
catastrophe-ecologique
Freebase ID
/m/02r0sq
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
miljøkatastrofe
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
environmental-disasters
NL CR AUT ID
ph119805
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007540054005171
Show all 19 identifiers +7
PSH ID
1020
SVKKL authority ID
0394121-ekologicke-havarie
Topic's main category
Category:Environmental disasters
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10664352
Wellcome Collection concept ID
sf2emqcv
YSO ID
7750
Yale LUX ID
concept/1728d55c-54ac-467a-a94c-8cf32f080f7b

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🔗 Connections
Examples 18
Chernobyl disaster, Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Dust Bowl, Great Stink, 2023 Ohio train derailment, Nord Stream pipelines sabotage, 2000 Baia Mare cyanide spill, 2022 Oder environmental disaster +10 more
← Category combines topics 6
Category:Environmental disasters by country, Category:Environmental disasters in the United States, Category:Environmental disasters in Ukraine, Category:Environmental disasters in Japan, Category:Environmental disasters in Australia, Category:Environmental disasters in Canada
Subtypes 2
oil spill, nuclear disaster
← Has effect 2
2020 Norilsk oil spill, 2025 North Sea ship collision
← Main subject 2
Darwin's Nightmare, Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Heart of the Forest
Subclass of 1
disaster
Topic's main category 1
Category:Environmental disasters
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Environmental disasters
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Summary

environmental disaster is a type of disaster[1].

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  2. [2] ↑ . globalgoals.org. Retrieved . globalgoals.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

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  1. 21w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → 0394121-ekologicke-havarie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ SVKKL authority ID: 0394121-ekologicke-havarie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  2. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → disaster
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → —
    Relates to sustainable development goal, target or indicator → Target 1.5 of the Sustainable Development Goals
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|18 */ YSO ID: 7750, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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