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Clipul Cele mai poluate locuri din lume durează 4:56 și a fost văzut de 2.384 ori pe Clipmania, în categoria Altele, din 2011.

10 Dzerzhinsk, Russia

A center of Cold War chemical manufacturing, the city’s 300,000 residents have one of the lowest life expectancies in the world thanks to waste injected directly into the ground.

Average life expectancy is roughly 45 years — Robinson

“Fifteen to 20 years less than the Russian average and about half a Westerner’s.”

9 Kabwe, Zambia

The second largest city in this southern African country was home to one of the world’s largest lead smelters until 1987.

As a result, the entire city is contaminated with the heavy metal, which can cause brain and nerve damage in children and fetuses.

Measurements of children’s blood levels of lead average over 50 micrograms per deciliter and some were over 100 — Fuller

For every 10 points above 10 micrograms per deciliter [(the U.S. Centers for Disease Control standard for treatment)] that your blood level goes up, your IQ drops.

8 La Oroya, Peru

Although this is one of the smallest communities on the list (population 35,000) it is also one of the most heavily polluted due to lead, copper and zinc mining by U.S.-based Doe Run mining company.

7 Linfen, China

A city in the heart of China’s coal region in Shanxi Province, its three million inhabitants choke on dust and drink arsenic that leaches from the fossil fuel.

In addition, extreme pollution makes visibility difficult.

6 Norilsk, Russia

This city above the Arctic Circle contains the world’s largest metal smelting complex and, therefore, some of the world’s worst smog.

“There is so much pollution going into the air from this place that there is no living piece of grass or shrub within 30 kilometers of the city,” Fuller says.

Contamination [with heavy metals] has been found as much as 60 kilometers away.

5 Sukinda, India

Home to one of the world’s largest chromite mines—used to make steel stainless, among other things—and 2.6 million people, the waters of this valley contain carcinogenic hexavalent chromium…