Chernobyl is a city in northern Ukraine home to the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, the worst nuclear power accident in history. Once home to more than 14,000 residents, most of the city remains uninhabited and is not safe at this time due to the extensive radioactive contamination.
2.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 will turn black before it dries
3.North Pacific Gyre
An island of trash twice the size of Texas floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, circulated by the North Pacific gyre currents. Trash, which consists mainly of plastic waste, floating deep as 30 feet below the surface.
4.Rondônia, Brazil
Rondônia is a state in northwest Brazil, along with 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, mainly to make room for farms.
5. Yamuna River, India
Yamuna is the largest tributary of the Ganges. Mana flows through Delhi, it is estimated that 58 percent of municipal waste dumped directly into rivers. Millions of Indians still rely on this murky, debris-filled water for washing, waste disposal and drinking water.
6.La Oroya, Peru
La Oroya is a soot-covered mining town in the Andes Mountains, Peru. Ninety-nine percent of the children who live here have blood levels that exceed acceptable limits for lead poisoning, which can be directly linked to American-owned smelter that has polluted the city since 1922.
According to a report by the Worldwatch Institute in 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.
8.Haiti
Haiti had 60 percent of this nation is 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 been clean almost every tree down to its borders.
9.Kabwe, Zambia
Lead and cadmium soak hills Kabwe after decades of mining and processing. The children here have led to the concentration of five to 10 times the permissible level U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the soil is so contaminated that nothing can grow.
10.Appalachia, West Virginia
Mountain removal mining is one of the world's most environmentally damaging practices, and this is closely connected with coal mining in West Virginia's Appalachian Mountains. The entire top of the mountain to get to the coal removed, which increases erosion and runoff thick with pollutants, poisoning rivers and streams throughout the region.
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