1.Chernobyl, Ukraine
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 right now because of widespread radioactive contamination.
2.Linfen, China
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 right now because of widespread 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 to blacken the air at all hours. It is said that if you hang your laundry here, it'll turn black before it dries
3.Pasifik Pilin
An island of trash twice the size of Texas floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, released by the North Pacific gyre currents. The 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.Sungai Yamuna, India
Yamuna is the largest tributary of the Ganges. Where flows through Delhi, it is estimated that 58 percent of the city garbage 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, 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 America's smelter has polluted the city since 1922.
7.Danau Karachay, Russia
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 is very high here, so it was enough to give a lethal dose after only one hour of exposure.
8.Haiti
This nation of Haiti had 60 percent forest covered. Today, only 2 percent of the country still has a standing trees. This picture shows the border between Haiti air (left) and the Dominican Republic (right). Haiti has cleared almost every tree up to its borders.
9.Kabwe, Zambia
Lead and cadmium soaked hills Kabwe after decades of mining and processing. The children here have led to a concentration five to 10 times the permissible U.S. Environmental Protection Agency level, and the ground was 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 mountain was issued to get to coal, which increases erosion and runoff thick with pollutants, poisoning rivers and streams throughout the region.
3.Pasifik Pilin
An island of trash twice the size of Texas floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, released by the North Pacific gyre currents. The 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.Sungai Yamuna, India
Yamuna is the largest tributary of the Ganges. Where flows through Delhi, it is estimated that 58 percent of the city garbage 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, 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 America's smelter has polluted the city since 1922.7.Danau Karachay, Russia
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 is very high here, so it was enough to give a lethal dose after only one hour of exposure.8.Haiti
This nation of Haiti had 60 percent forest covered. Today, only 2 percent of the country still has a standing trees. This picture shows the border between Haiti air (left) and the Dominican Republic (right). Haiti has cleared almost every tree up to its borders.9.Kabwe, Zambia
Lead and cadmium soaked hills Kabwe after decades of mining and processing. The children here have led to a concentration five to 10 times the permissible U.S. Environmental Protection Agency level, and the ground was 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 mountain was issued to get to coal, which increases erosion and runoff thick with pollutants, poisoning rivers and streams throughout the region.source : http://eksplorasi-dunia.blogspot.com/2009/10/10-tempat-paling-tercemar-di-dunia.html
