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{{Short description|Cataloging of environmental disasters}}
{{see also|List of environmental issues|List of environmental conflicts}}
This article is a '''list of environmental disasters'''. In this context it is an annotated list of specific events caused by human activity that results in a negative effect on the [[Environment (biophysical)|environment]].
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==Environmental disasters by category==
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===Agricultural===
{{main|Environmental impact of agriculture}}
* [[Africanized bee]]s, known colloquially as "killer bees"
* Mismanagement and shrinking of the [[Aral Sea]]
* "[[Dirty dairying]]" in New Zealand
* [[Dust Bowl]] in central United States (1930s)
* [[Great sparrow campaign]]; sparrows were eliminated from Chinese farms, which caused locusts to swarm the farms and contributed to a famine which killed 38 million people.
* [[Gulf of Mexico dead zone]]
* [[Salinity in Australia]]
* Salinization of the [[Fertile Crescent]]
* [[Salton Sea]] California, U.S.

===Biodiversity===
* [[2006 Zakouma elephant slaughter]]
* [[Chestnut blight]]
* [[Indian vulture crisis]] due to [[Diclofenac#Ecological problems|Diclofenac]]  
* Deforestation of [[Easter Island#Destruction of the ecosystem|Easter Island]]
* Destruction of the [[old growth forest]]s
* [[Devil facial tumour disease]]
* [[Dutch Elm Disease]]
* [[Emerald Ash Borer]]
* [[Environmental threats to the Great Barrier Reef]]
* Extinction of [[Australian megafauna]]
* [[Four Pests Campaign]] of China, 1958
* [[Ghost net]]s
* Grounding of [[SS Makambo|SS ''Makambo'']] on [[Lord Howe Island]]
* [[Gulf of Mexico dead zone]]
* [[Invasive species in New Zealand]]
* Introduction of the [[Nile perch]] into [[Lake Victoria]] in Africa, devastating indigenous fish species
* Introduction of [[nutria]] to [[Louisiana]]
* [[Kudzu in the United States]]
* [[Wetlands of Louisiana#Loss of the wetlands|Loss of Louisiana Wetlands]]
* [[Mercury contamination in Grassy Narrows]]
* [[Rabbits in Australia]]
* [[Red imported fire ant]]s
* Reduction in the number of the [[American Bison]]
* <!-- sort these out: Draining of the [[Al-Hawizeh]] [[Central Marshes (Iraq)|Central Marshes]] in Iraq. And Mesopotamian Marshes, Glory Canal -->
* [[Shark finning]]
* The [[Saemangeum Seawall]]
* The [[Biodiversity loss|loss of biodiversity]] of New Zealand

===Human health===
* [[Agent Orange]] use by the United States during the [[Vietnam War]], resulting in lasting serious health effects on the [[Vietnamese people|Vietnamese population]], such as [[cancer]], nervous system disorders, and countless related fatalities
* [[Cancer Alley]]
* [[Goiânia accident]], human deaths resulting from dismantling a scrapped medical machine containing a source of radioactivity
* [[Health effects arising from the September 11 attacks]]
* Introduction of infectious diseases by Europeans causing the death of indigenous people during [[European colonization of the Americas]]
* Introduction of the bubonic plague ([[Justinian plague|the Plague of Justinian]]) in Europe from Africa in the 7th century resulting in the death of up to 60% (100 million) of the population.
* Introduction of the bubonic plague ([[Black Death|the Black Death]]) in Europe from Central Asia in the 14th century resulting in the death of up to 60% (200 million) of the population and recurring until the 18th century.
* [[Mercury contamination in Grassy Narrows]]

===Industrial===
{{see also|List of industrial disasters}}
* [[Itai-itai disease|1912 Itai-itai disease]], due to cadmium poisoning in Japan
* [[1948 Donora smog]]
* [[Great Smog|1952 The Great Smog in London]] 
* 1962 to 1970 [[Mercury contamination in Grassy Narrows]] 
* [[Ontario Minamata disease|1970 Ontario Minamata disease]] in Canada
* [[Seveso disaster|1976 Seveso disaster]], chemical plant explosion, caused highest known exposure to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) in residential populations
* [[Times Beach, Missouri|1983 Times Beach, Missouri]] the town was completely evacuated due to a [[Dioxins and dioxin-like compounds|dioxin]] contamination
* [[Bhopal disaster|1984 Bhopal disaster]] (December 3, 1984, India), leak of methyl isocyanate resulted in more than 22,000 deaths.
* [[Sandoz chemical spill|1986 Sandoz chemical spill]] into the Rhine river
* [[Phillips disaster of 1989|1989 Phillips Disaster]]s
* 1990, Release of [[cyanide]], [[heavy metals]] and [[acid]] into the [[Alamosa River]], Colorado, from the [[Summitville mine#Cease-and-desist order and aftermath|Summitville mine]], causing the death of all aquatic life 17 miles downstream.
* 1991, [[California's largest hazardous chemical spill]]: A 19,000-gallon (72,000 L) tank railroad car containing the pesticide/herbicide [[metam sodium]] derails from a northbound Southern Pacific freight train, tumbling off the bridge over the [[Sacramento River]] at the Cantara Loop near [[Dunsmuir, California]], and rupturing on the rocks below, spilling the car's entire load into the river. Virtually every aquatic organism on a 40-mile (64&nbsp;km) stretch of river was killed.<ref>[http://www.mindfully.org/Pesticide/Dunsmuir-Sacramento-River.htm Dunsmuir 10 years later]. ''[[SF Chronicle]]''. July 9, 2001.</ref>
* [[2000 Baia Mare cyanide spill]] of a gold mine in Romania, January 2000
* [[Toulouse chemical factory explosion|2001 AZF Toulouse chemical factory explosion]]
* [[Al-Mishraq|2003 Release of sulfur dioxide at the Al-Mishraq]] plant in Iraq
* [[2005 Jilin chemical plant explosions]]
* [[Esperance, Western Australia#Lead and nickel contamination| 2007 Release of lead dust into Esperance Harbour]]
* [[2008 Guangxi chemical plant explosions]] China
* [[Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill|2008 Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill]]
* [[2011 Bohai Bay oil spill]] China
* [[2012 Guangxi cadmium spill]] China, when toxic [[cadmium]] contaminated the [[Guangxi|Guangxi Longjiang river]] (龙江河) and water supply.
* [[2015 Shenzhen landslide]] China, a landslide of [[construction waste]] at Shenzhen.
* [[Fujian Quangang Carbon Nine leakage event|2018 Fujian Quangang Carbon Nine leakage event]] China
* [[Baogang Tailings Dam]] China
* [[Cancer Alley]]
* [[Environmental issues with the Three Gorges Dam]]
* Health issues on the [[Aamjiwnaang First Nation]] due to chemical factories
* [[Love Canal]] toxic waste site
* [[Minamata disease]] (1950s and 1960s) mercury poisoning in Japan
* [[Kodaikanal mercury poisoning]] in India
* Release of CFCs resulting in [[ozone depletion]]
* [[Spring Valley, Washington, D C|Spring Valley]], which was used as a [[Chemical weapon|chemical weapons]] testing ground during [[World War I]].
* [[Sydney Tar Ponds]] and Coke Ovens sites in the city of Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, known as the largest toxic waste site in North America.
* United States Environmental Protection Agency [[Superfund]] sites in the United States

====Mining====
{{main|Environmental impact of mining}}
{{see also|List of tailings dam failures}}
* [[Summitville mine]] in Colorado, from 1870 to 1992
* [[Iron Mountain Mine]] in California, from 1879 to 1963
* [[Argonaut Mine]] in California, from 1893 to 1942
* [[Tar Creek Superfund site|Lead & Zinc mining]] in northeast Oklahoma / southeast Kansas / southwest Missouri, from 1900s to 1960s
* [[Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company|Copper mining in Tasmania]], from 1893 to 1994
* [[Phosphate mining in Nauru]], from 1906 to the 1990s
* [[St. Pierre Island, Farquhar|Phosphate mining in St. Pierre Island]] from 1906 to 1972
* [[1947 Centralia mine disaster]], a coal mine in Illinois
* [[Centralia mine fire]], Pennsylvania, burning since 1962
* [[Mountaintop removal mining]] in the US since the 1960s
* [[Aberfan disaster]], collapse of a coal mining waste pile in Wales, 1966
* [[Tui mine]], tailings dam from the now abandoned in New Zealand, 1966 to 2013
* [[Darvaza gas crater]] in [[Derweze]], [[Turkmenistan]], burning since 1971
* [[Uranium mining controversy in Kakadu National Park]] in Australia, 1981 to 2009
* [[Ok Tedi environmental disaster]] in Papua New Guinea beginning in 1984
* [[Omai mine#Environmental Incident|Omai gold mine tailing dam breach]] in Guyana, 1995
* [[Marcopper mining disaster]] in the Philippines, March 1996
* [[Doñana disaster]], tailings dam breach of the Los Frailes zinc/silver mine in Spain, April 1998
* [[Aitik|Aitik mine]], tailings dam failure in Sweden, September 2000
* [[Martin County sludge spill]] in Kentucky, October 2000
* [[Magellan Metals|Magellan Metals mine]], lead dust in Australia, 2006
* [[Upper Big Branch Mine disaster]] in West Virginia, April 2010
* [[Padcal tailings spills of August-September 2012]]
* [[Talvivaara Mining Company#Gypsum pond leak|Talvivaara gypsum pond leak]], Finland, 2012
* [[Obed Mountain coal mine spill]] in Alberta, Canada, October 2013
* [[2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill]] in Colorado, August 2015
* [[Mariana dam disaster]], Samarco iron ore mine tailings dam failure, Minas Gerais and Espirito Santo to the Atlantic sea. Brazil, November 2015
* [[Orinoco Mining Arc]], Venezuela, February 2016
* [[Brumadinho dam disaster]] of an iron ore mine in Brazil, January 2019
* [[2020 Hpakant jade mine disaster|Hpakant jade mine disaster]] landslide of tailings into waterway in Myanmar, July 2020

====Oil industry====
{{main|Environmental impact of the oil shale industry}}
{{see also|List of oil spills}}
* [[Lakeview Gusher]] oil spill in California, 1910 –1911
* [[Leaded gasoline]] introduced 1920s; phased out globally by 2012.
* [[Greenpoint oil spill]] in Brooklyn, New York, 1940s–1980
* [[Mississippi River oil spill (1962–1963)]]
* [[Torrey Canyon oil spill]] off the SW coast of the United Kingdom, February 1967
* [[Lago Agrio oil field]] spills in Ecuador, since 1972 (possibly the worst of all)
* [[MV Sea Star]] and Horta Barbosa tankers collision and oil spill into the [[Gulf of Oman]], December 1972
* [[Jakob Maersk oil spill]] off the coast of Portugal, January 1975
* [[Environmental issues in the Niger Delta]] relating to the oil industry, 1976–1996
* [[Arctic Refuge drilling controversy]], since 1977
* [[Amoco Cadiz]] shipwreck and oil spill off the coast of [[Brittany]], France, March 1978
* [[Ixtoc I oil spill]] into the [[Gulf of Mexico]], June 1979
* [[SS Atlantic Empress]] collision and spill near [[Trinidad and Tobago]], August 1979
* [[MT Independența]] collision and spill near [[Istanbul]], November 1979
* [[Nowruz oil field#1983 oil spills|Nowruz oil spills]] into the [[Persian Gulf]], March 1983
* [[Castillo de Bellver oil spill]] off the coast of South Africa, August 1983
* [[Odyssey (tanker)|Odyssey tanker]] shipwreck and oil spill, off the coast of [[Nova Scotia]], November 1988
* [[Exxon Valdez oil spill]] in the [[Prince William Sound]], [[Alaska]], March 1989
* [[Gulf War oil spill]] into the Persian Gulf, January 1991
* [[MT Haven]] explosion and oil spill of the coast of Italy, April 1991
* [[ABT Summer]] explosion and oil spill off the coast of Angola, May 1991
* [[Mingbulak oil spill]] in [[Uzbekistan]], March 1992
* [[MV Braer]] shipwreck and oil spill at the [[Shetland Islands]], January 1993
* [[Taylor oil spill]] off the coast of Louisiana, since 2004
* [[Sidoarjo mud flow]] triggered by Lapindo Brantas gas exploration in 2006; East Java, Indonesia
* [[Deepwater Horizon oil spill]] in the Gulf of Mexico, April to July 2010
* [[2010 ExxonMobil oil spill]] in the Niger Delta in Nigeria, May 2010
* [[Jebel al-Zayt oil spill]] in the Red Sea, June 2010
* [[Xingang Port oil spill]] into the Yellow Sea, July 2010 <!-- Spring/ Summer of 2010 was a bad season -->
* [[Sanchi oil tanker collision]] in the East China Sea, January 2018
* [[Norilsk oil spill]] in Siberia in Russia in between May and June 2020.
* [[MV Wakashio oil spill]] in south Mauritius, since July 2020
* [[2020 El Palito oil spill|El Palito oil spill]] off the coast of Venezuela, since July 2020

===Nuclear===
{{main|Environmental impact of nuclear power}}
[[File:Operation Crossroads Baker Edit.jpg|thumb|Mushroom-shaped cloud and water column from the underwater nuclear explosion of July 25, 1946, which was part of [[Operation Crossroads]]]]
[[Image:Exercise Desert Rock I (Buster-Jangle Dog) 002.jpg|thumb|November 1951 nuclear test at the [[Nevada Test Site]], from [[Operation Buster-Jangle|Operation Buster]], with a yield of 21 kilotons. It was the first U.S. nuclear field exercise conducted on land; troops shown are {{convert|6|mi|km|abbr=on}} from the blast.]]
{{See also|Nuclear and radiation accidents|List of civilian nuclear accidents|List of military nuclear accidents|List of civilian radiation accidents}}
* [[Chernobyl disaster]] in 1986 in Chernobyl, Ukraine [[Deaths due to the Chernobyl disaster|killed 49 people]] and was estimated to have damaged almost $7 billion of property".<ref name=bks/> Radioactive fallout from the accident concentrated near Belarus, Ukraine and Russia and at least 350,000 people were forcibly resettled away from these areas. After the accident, "traces of radioactive deposits unique to Chernobyl were found in nearly every country in the northern hemisphere".<ref name=bks>[[Benjamin K. Sovacool]]. The costs of failure: A preliminary assessment of major energy accidents, 1907–2007, ''[[Energy Policy (journal)|Energy Policy]]'' 36 (2008), p. 1806.</ref>
* [[Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster]]: Following an earthquake, tsunami, and failure of cooling systems at [[Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant]] and [[2011 Japanese nuclear incidents|issues concerning other nuclear facilities]] in Japan on March 11, 2011, a nuclear emergency was declared. This was the first time a nuclear emergency had been declared in Japan, and 140,000 residents within 20&nbsp;km of the plant were evacuated.<ref name=bi-emergency>{{cite news|last=Weisenthal|first=Joe|title=Japan Declares Nuclear Emergency, As Cooling System Fails At Power Plant|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/fukushima-nuclear-plant-2011-3|accessdate=11 March 2011|newspaper=Business Insider|date=11 March 2011}}</ref> Explosions and a fire have resulted in dangerous levels of [[radiation]], sparking a stock market collapse and panic-buying in supermarkets.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1500862/Blasts-escalate-Japan's-nuclear-crisis |title=Blasts escalate Japan's nuclear crisis |date=March 16, 2011 |work=World News Australia |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110407005125/http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1500862/Blasts-escalate-Japan%27s-nuclear-crisis |archivedate=April 7, 2011 }}</ref>
* [[Kyshtym disaster|Mayak nuclear waste]] storage tank explosion, ([[Chelyabinsk]], [[Soviet Union]], September 29, 1957), 200+ people died and 270,000 people were exposed to dangerous [[Radioactive decay|radiation]] levels. Over thirty small communities had been removed from Soviet maps between 1958 and 1991.<ref>Samuel Upton Newtan. [https://books.google.com/books?id=3_2ILEQQqpIC&dq=mayak+nuclear+disaster+1957&pg=PA238 Nuclear War I and Other Major Nuclear Disasters of the 20th Century] 2007, pp. 237–240.</ref>
* [[Windscale fire]], United Kingdom, October 8, 1957. Fire ignites plutonium piles and contaminates surrounding dairy farms.<ref>Benjamin K. Sovacool and Christopher Cooper. Nuclear Nonsense: Why Nuclear Power is no Answer to Climate Change and the World's Post-Kyoto Energy Challenges, ''William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review'', Vol 33:1, 2008, p. 109.</ref>
* [[Soviet submarine K-431]] accident, August 10, 1985 (10 people died and 49 suffered radiation injuries).<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090328130544/http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1887705,00.html The Worst Nuclear Disasters]</ref>
* [[Soviet submarine K-19]] accident, July 4, 1961 (8 deaths and more than 30 people were over-exposed to radiation).<ref name=rad>[http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Magazines/Bulletin/Bull413/article1.pdf Strengthening the Safety of Radiation Sources] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326181428/http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Magazines/Bulletin/Bull413/article1.pdf |date=2009-03-26 }} p. 14.</ref>
* Nuclear testing at [[Moruroa]] and [[Fangataufa]] in the Pacific Ocean
* Fallout from the [[Castle Bravo]] nuclear test at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands
* The health of [[Downwinders]]
* [[Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki]] Within the first two to four months of the bombings, the acute effects killed 90,000–166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000–80,000 in Nagasaki, with roughly half of the deaths in each city occurring on the first day.
* [[Three Mile Island accident|Three Mile Island]], 1979 - It is the most significant accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history. On the seven-point [[International Nuclear Event Scale]], it is rated Level 5 – Accident with Wider Consequences.
* [[Hanford Site|Hanford Nuclear]], 1986 – The U.S. government declassifies 19,000 pages of documents indicating that between 1946 and 1986, the Hanford Site near Richland, Washington, released thousands of US gallons of radioactive liquids.  [[Radioactive waste]] was both released into the air and flowed into the Columbia River (which flows to the Pacific Ocean).   In 2014, the Hanford legacy continues with billions of dollars spent annually in a seemingly endless cleanup of leaking underground

===Air/land/water===
* Proliferation of [[plastic shopping bag]]s
* [[Hong Kong plastic disaster|Hong Kong Plastic Disaster]]

====Air====
{{see also|Air pollution}}
* The [[1983 Melbourne dust storm]]
* The [[1997 Southeast Asian haze]]
* The [[2005 Malaysian haze]]
* The [[2006 Southeast Asian haze]]
* The [[2016 Great Smog of Delhi]]
* The [[2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires]]
* [[Cancer Alley]]
* The [[Donora Smog of 1948]]
* The [[Great Smog of 1952]]
* Health problems due to the [[Jinkanpo Atsugi Incinerator]]
* [[Kuwaiti oil fires]]
* [[Yokkaichi asthma]]

====Land====
* [[Dust Bowl]] in central United States (1930s)
* Contaminated soils in [[Māpua, New Zealand]], due to the operation of an agricultural chemicals factory from 1932 to 1989
* [[Basin F]], a disposal site in the United States created in 1956 for contaminated liquid wastes from the chemical manufacturing operations of the Army and its lessee [[Shell Chemicals]] company
* [[Coastal erosion in Louisiana]]
* [[Nigeria gully erosion crisis]], since before 1980
* [[Exide lead contamination]] at seven locations in the United States, since 1989
* [[Electronic waste in Guiyu]], since the 1990s
* [[2006 Côte d'Ivoire toxic waste dump]]
* In [[Thathri Disaster 2023]], the land and residential houses started cracking in [[Thathri|Nayi Basti Thathri]] of [[Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)|Jammu and Kashmir]], India.

====Water====
* [[Amoco Cadiz oil spill]] off the coast of France in 1978
* [[Cheakamus River derailment]] which polluted a river with caustic soda
* [[Deepwater Horizon oil spill]]
* [[Diamond Alkali]] dumping of "bad batches" of the herbicide [[Agent Orange]] and byproducts of its production into the [[Passaic River]] during the 1960s and 1970s, contaminating river sediments with [[2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin]], PCBs, and PAHs. Diamond Alkali was added to the EPA's National Priorities List in 1987 and cleanup of the Lower Passaic is still underway.<ref>{{cite web |title=Diamond Alkali Superfund Home Page |url=https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/SiteProfiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=second.Cleanup&id=0200613#bkground |access-date=26 February 2024 |publisher=US Environmental Protection Agency |ref=2}}</ref>
* [[Draining and development of the Everglades]]
* [[Draining of the Mesopotamian Marshes]] in the 1990s
* [[DuPont]] dumping of [[perfluorooctanoic acid]] (PFOA) in [[Parkersburg, West Virginia]], USA 1951-2003.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Rich |first=Nathaniel |date=2016-01-06 |title=The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who-became-duponts-worst-nightmare.html |access-date=2023-04-07 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* Effects of polluted water in the [[Berkeley Pit]] in the United States
* [[Gulf of Mexico dead zone]]
* Ignition and conflagration (13 times from 1868 to 1969) of the [[Cuyahoga River]] in Ohio, United States
* The [[Jiyeh Power Station oil spill]] in the Mediterranean region
* [[Lake Okeechobee]] is heavily polluted and during extreme events releases large volumes of polluted water into the [[St. Lucie River]] [[estuary]] and the [[Caloosahatchee River]] estuary.
* [[Wetlands of Louisiana#Loss of the wetlands|Loss of Louisiana Wetlands]] due to Mississippi River levees, saltwater intrusion through manmade channels, timber harvesting, subsidence, and hurricane damage.
* [[Mercury contamination in Grassy Narrows]] pollution of [[Wabigoon River]]
* [[2022 Oder environmental disaster|Oder environmental disaster]] in 2022
* [[Red Hill water crisis]] in Hawaiʻi, United States beginning in November&nbsp;2021
* [[Sandoz chemical spill]], severely polluting the [[Rhine]] in 1986
* [[Selenium]] poisoning of wildlife due to farm runoff used to create [[Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge]], and the artificial wetland

=====Marine=====
{{see also|List of oil spills}}
* [[Coral bleaching]]
* [[Gulf of Mexico dead zone#Gulf of Mexico|Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone]] due to high-nutrient fertilizer runoff from the Midwest that is drained through the Mississippi River.
* The artificial [[Osborne Reef]] off the coast of [[Fort Lauderdale, Florida]], in the United States
* Dumping of conventional and chemical munitions in [[Beaufort's Dyke]], a sea trench between Northern Ireland and Scotland
* [[Marine debris]]
* [[Environmental threats to the Great Barrier Reef]]
*[[Plastic resin pellet pollution|Nurdles]], plastic pellet typically under 5mm in diameter
* The [[Great Pacific Garbage Patch]]
* [[Minamata disease]], mercury poisoning in Japan
* [[Mercury in fish]]
* [[Ocean acidification]] due to [[Human impact on the environment|anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions]]
* [[2022 Caspian seal die-off]]
* Industrial waste dumping in Central Vietnam from [[Formosa Ha Tinh Steel]], which kills tons of marine creatures and destroys the ecosystem

==See also==
* [[Natural disaster]]
* [[List of environmental issues]]
* [[Timeline of environmental events]]
* [[Index of environmental articles]]
* [[Ecophagy]], the consuming of an ecosystem
* [[List of Superfund sites in the United States]]

==References==
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