Environmental Damage Incidents

Environmental damageGlobalCoring: Event-centricDailyComing soon · vote to prioritise

Pollution and damage events surfaced from narrative reporting. Spills, leaks, illegal logging, contamination, air-quality spikes — structured at Silver tier with responsible actor, affected medium, and source.

What this dataset is

Environmental damage and pollution events live in narrative reporting where they're easily missed. Each spill, leak, discharge, contamination, illegal logging report, and air-quality spike is surfaced and structured at Silver tier — responsible actor, affected medium, geographic scope, source citation.

Example: a claim, structured

“Residents reported increased respiratory issues following emissions from the refinery.”

Becomes a structured Silver record:

event_type:
Pollution incident
sub_type:
Air emissions
location:
X
actor:
Company Y
impact:
Health / air quality
evidence:
Testimonial + local report

The full per-record property set unlocks with a subscription. Free-tier callers get the main fields shown above plus the geometry needed for the map and graph views.

Source mix at Silver

The Silver gate requires corroboration across independent source categories — multiple outlets in one category don't alone clear the bar.

  • Industry + corporate filings — Public disclosures, incident reports, ESG filings.
  • Regulatory enforcement + agency releases — EPA-style enforcement actions, fines, consent orders, state filings.
  • News + investigative reporting — Local + international outlets covering pollution, leaks, contamination.
  • NGO + watchdog reports — Environmental NGO field reports, watchdog publications, community science.
  • Satellite + remote-sensing summaries — Public satellite-based incident reports (deforestation, methane plumes, oil sheen).
  • Community + complaint signals — Public health complaints, community-platform postings (verified).

Per-record fields at Silver

  • · Event date + date precision
  • · Location (lat / lon / country / admin1 / admin2 / H3 cell)
  • · Incident type (oil spill / chemical leak / illegal logging / mining damage / water contamination / air pollution / other)
  • · Responsible actor (company / state / unknown)
  • · Environmental medium (air / water / soil / forest / marine)
  • · Impact category (health / ecological / agricultural / economic)
  • · Severity estimate + estimate band
  • · Source URLs + capture timestamps + content hashes
  • · Confidence score + corroboration count

Free-tier sees a curated subset of these fields in the inspector panel. The full schema (every field above, plus the raw extraction payload) is subscription-only.