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1.Linfen, China
Linfen has more air pollution than any other city in the world. Sitting in the heart of China's coal belt, smoke and soot from industrial and automobile pollutants blacken the air at all hours. It is said that if you hang your laundry here, it'll turn black before it dries
Linfen has more air pollution than any other city in the world. Sitting in the heart of China's coal belt, smoke and soot from industrial and automobile pollutants blacken the air at all hours. It is said that if you hang your laundry here, it'll turn black before it dries
North 2.Pasifik pilin
An island of trash twice the size of Texas floats in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, circulated by the currents of the North Pacific Gyre. Bins, which consists mainly of plastic waste, floating as deep as 30 feet below the surface.
An island of trash twice the size of Texas floats in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, circulated by the currents of the North Pacific Gyre. Bins, which consists mainly of plastic waste, floating as deep as 30 feet below the surface.
3.Rondônia, Brazil
Rondônia is a state in northwest Brazil, along with the states of Mato Grosso and Pará, is one of the most barren areas of the Amazon rain forest. Thousands of hectares of forest have been slashed and burned here, especially to make room for farms.
Rondônia is a state in northwest Brazil, along with the states of Mato Grosso and Pará, is one of the most barren areas of the Amazon rain forest. Thousands of hectares of forest have been slashed and burned here, especially to make room for farms.
4.Sungai Yamuna, India
Yamuna is the largest tributary of the Ganges. Which flows through Delhi, it is estimated that 58 percent of municipal solid waste dumped directly into rivers. Millions of Indians still rely on this murky, debris-filled water for washing, waste disposal and drinking water.
5.Danau Karachay, Russia
According to a report by the Worldwatch Institute on nuclear waste, Karachay is the most polluted places on Earth. This is used by the Soviet Union as a nuclear dumping site, and now the radiation level here is so high that it is enough to give a lethal dose after only one hour of exposure.
6.Haiti
Haiti was once the nation's 60 percent forested. Today, only 2 percent of the country still has a standing trees. This picture shows the air border between Haiti (left) and the Dominican Republic (right). Haiti has cleared almost every tree up to its borders.
7.Appalachia, West Virginia
Mountain removal mining is one of the world's most environmentally damaging practices, and this is associated with coal mining in West Virginia's Appalachian Mountains. The entire mountain top removed to get to the coal, which increases erosion and runoff thick with pollutants, poisoning rivers and streams throughout the region.
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