Ten 'most polluted places' named
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A list of the world's 10 most polluted towns and cities is published by a US-based environmental group.
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By BRIAN SKOLOFF  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Smokers are littering shorelines and waterways worldwide with millions of cigarettes, and their filters topped the list of trash items culled during last year's annual international coastal cleanup, according to a new report.
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By Evan Osnos, Chicago Tribune  Mar. 12--LINFEN, China -- Here in one of the world's most polluted cities, where coal dust blackens apples still on the branch, something new is in the air.   It's not the brown smoke chugging out of coke plants and iron smelters day and night.
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Smokers are littering shorelines and waterways worldwide with millions of cigarettes, and their filters topped the list of trash items culled during last year's annual international coastal cleanup, according to a new report.
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AN east London music hall is on a list of the world's most endangered sites.
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Ten of the globe's most perilous places--and what to do if you have to visit one.
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Beijing determined to clean up all polluted rivers, lakes by 2010  BEIJING, Dec.14 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese national capital will endeavor to make all rivers and lakes within the sixth ring road of the city free of pollution by the year 2010.
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When it comes to forests, air pollution is not an equal opportunity hazard. While dirty air spreads across large areas of the New England region, it's more scattered in the southeastern part of the United States.
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Up to 14 open-air sites in Ivory Coast's port city of Abidjan have been contaminated by toxic waste, and four trucks that transported the waste are missing, U.N. officials said Friday.
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More than 500 Tennessee streams are polluted with E. coli bacteria, according to information from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation.
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The 10 nations with the largest "ecological footprint," according to a study by the conservation organization WWF.
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Contaminated groundwater tainted with trichloroethylene has led to a  dangerous plume that is now affecting the air quality in homes near the  Behr-Dayton Thermal Products Plant in Dayton, Ohio. The U.S.
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A tenth of the world&#39;s irrigated crops - everything from lettuce and tomatoes to mangoes and coconuts - are watered by sewage. And much of that sewage is raw and untreated, gushing direct from sewer pipes into fields at the fringes of the developing ...
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After a decade of complaints about persistent headaches and sick children, one of the world's most polluted towns met Wednesday for the first time with a company whose former battery recycling plant is blamed for dangerously high lead levels in the townspeople.
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Travel: Tower Hamlets has made a surprise appearance on a list of the world's 100 most endangered places.
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Nine chlorine plants in the nation pour at least eight tons of mercury into the environment each year &#151; a situation that demands federal action to force companies to convert to cleaner technology, activists said Wednesday.
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Here are 10 places you can visit for first-rate fireworks.