The World's Most Polluted Places

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Environment

The World's 10 Most Polluted Cities

From lead in the soil to toxins in the water and radioactive fallout in the air, The Blacksmith Institute has created a list of the world's worst ecological disaster areas

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How the List Was Chosen

By Bryan Walsh

It's a Top 10 list no city wants to be on. But the group behind it aims to make sure that world's worst ecological disaster areas are no longer among its most forgotten