Museum of Dirt is located in Boston, USA, and has over 300 exhibits. Hobby for things dirty things belongs to Glen Johansen, who decided to turn their passion into art. Peak, the museum has enjoyed success and those who have visited have begun to donate things as odd somehow contaminated as odd....
Strange museums, exhibitions, weird museums, Museum of Dirt, Boston, Massachusetts
After decades of mining and ore processing, Kabwe has turned into one place so toxic, that do not understand how people can live here. Rivers of water loaded with lead and cadmium are escaping from barren hills, poisoning everything. In the blood of children, lead levels 10 times higher than Western norms predict and contaminated soil is so bad, that people can not grow anything....
A report on nuclear wastes, eleborated by the Worldwatch Institute, describe this lake as the most polluted place on earth. For years in a row, the Soviet Union was used as landfill for radioactive waste disposal, and now the radiation is so high that an unprotected person would receive a lethal dose after only one hour of exposure....
Pollution, environment, nature, toxic places, dirty places, ugliest places, Karaciai Lake, Rusia
What is there? Well it is famous - tragic fame - Pacific landfill. Because of ocean currents that converge in this area and they carry with trash floating in the ocean, there was formed a floating island of garbage, of enormous dimensions. Its surface was estimated to be approximately double that Texas American status (the second largest in the U.S.) that's about. 1.4 million km square, a frightening figure. In this vast expanse - and down to 10 meters under the surface - floatin...
The town has a sad record: is the most polluted city air around the world, is so designated in 2007, a report by the Blacksmith Institute, an American organization specializing in projects relating to pollution control. Surrounded by coal mines and power plants using coal as an energy source throughout, Linfen - the city with over four million inhabitants - is a chronic black smoke choked the darkened sky. They say that if you dry your clothes outside, you have no chance to get cl...
As dirty and dangerous as the Citarum, Yamuna River, the largest tributary of the Ganges, passing through the city of Delhi - and that says almost everything about halul incare there. It is estimated that 58% of city waste product goes directly into the Yamuna, whose waters are used by millions of Indians both waste disposal and for washing, cooking and drinking....
Pollution, environment, nature, toxic places, dirty places, ugliest places, Yamuna River, India
It was called the dirtiest river in the world - a title that nobody would wish for the water near which he lives. Around five million people live in the Citarum river basin, and many of them use it as a water source. Late last year, a large bank Asian Development Bank - has granted a loan of 500 million dollars to clean infected watercourse. To hope that, years later, Citarum will not be on the list like this....
Pollution, environment, nature, toxic places, dirty places, ugliest places, Citarum River, Indonesia
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