Seveso: Before and During the Disaster . A small suburban town some 10 miles north of Milan, Italy, Seveso had a population of about 17,000 in the 1970s and was one of several towns in the area ...

Water surged through Milan’s streets as a vicious storm raked northern Italy late Monday into Tuesday, causing Lake Como and the Seveso River to burst their banks and flood the city.. The lake ...

Seveso became a symbol of the lack of control over the chemical industry, forcing authorities all over Europe to take action. A number of international agreements have been signed to avoid a ...

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 8 - Due to torrential rain in Milan on Tuesday, the Seveso river's anti-flood storage tank was activated while the Lambro river overflowed its banks, flooding the neighbourhood ...

Three decades after an accident at a chemical factory in Seveso, Italy in 1976, which resulted in exposure of a residential population to the most dangerous type of dioxin, newborn babies born to ...

Seveso disaster — 1976. Technicians check the pollution degree inside "Zone A," the most polluted area fenced off to outsiders, two years after a dioxin poison cloud spread from a chemical plant ...

The term "Seveso” refers to a town in northern Italy, in Lombardy, which suffered the consequences of an industrial accident that took place in 1976 at the Icmesa chemical plant in the municipality of ...

Three decades after an accident at a chemical factory in Seveso, Italy in 1976, which resulted in exposure of a residential population to the most dangerous type of dioxin, newborn babies born to ...