1.   Although the oil wells survived they where badly managed and an environmental disaster.

2.   If there had been a bolt on my belay at Swanage it would not have been an environmental disaster.

3.   Of course, the Third World has already had - and has - some considerable environmental disasters.

4.   Perhaps international pressure can stop this environmental disaster.

5.   The company described reports of environmental disaster as gross exaggeration.

6.   This could result in an environmental disaster of biblical proportions.

7.   This is an environmental disaster which will have implications for more than one country.

8.   Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland have set forth joint plans to cope with environmental disasters such as oil spills in Arctic waters.

9.   In order to ward off a possible environmental disaster, the government has banned the growing of genetically modified crops.

10.   The accident is already shaping up as a significant environmental disaster.