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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Dirty, polluted, congested and razed of many old buildings -- but Beijing has still been chosen as China's most beautiful city.
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China's most polluted province steps up environmental efforts    TAIYUAN, Sept.
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has made the country one of the world&#39;s leading polluters, a long-delayed government report shows. up to 30 percent of the planet&#39;s animal and plant species.
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At least 10 people died and thousands were sickened after chemical waste pumped from a tanker was dumped across the capital city in August.
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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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There is a quiet battle for the future of this industrial town, one of America's most polluted places.
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The National Resources Defense Council report shows Latinos, now a majority in some of the nation&#39;s most polluted areas, are particularly threatened by waterborne diseases, air pollution, pesticides and contaminants such as lead and mercury.
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By MARYCLAIRE DALE, Associated Press Writer, The Associated Press. The spill _ the worst on the river in nearly a decade _ stranded commercial vessels trying to move goods through the busy Port of Philadelphia
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At least 20 villages along the middle reaches of the Shaying River, the largest branch of the heavily polluted Huaihe River, have been plagued by cancer for more than 10 years.
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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. The stranger is talk of an ultimatum.
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Some Southern Arizona mountains were placed on a short list of places around the world where biological resources are at risk.
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London: The site of a gas leak at a pesticide plant in Bhopal is still badly polluted, endangering thousands of people 20 years after the world&#39;s worst industrial disaster, the BBC reported on Sunday.
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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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By Geoffrey Lean  Nearly 400 of Britain's most wildlife-rich lakes are being stifled by pollution, an official study has found. They include most of the country's best-known and best-loved expanses of water.
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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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More than 500 Tennessee streams are polluted with E. coli bacteria, according to information from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation.