A remote bay in Java, Indonesia, where local residents, without infrastructure for waste disposal, discard waste directly into streams and rivers.
Electronic waste, from around the world, is shipped to Accra, Ghana, where locals break apart the electronics for minerals or burn them.
Tires discarded in Nevada
Industrial agriculture in Almeria, Spain, stretches for miles.
Bangladesh, where much of the world's clothing and goods are manufactured.
New Delhi, India, where many landfills are reaching a breaking point. The surrounding population of Delhi totals some 25 million people.
Black Friday, Boise, Idaho.
A man turns away from the smell of the Yellow River in China.
Mexico City, Mexico, one of the most populous cities in the Western Hemisphere.
Kern River Oil Field, California, USA.
Tar sands and open pit mining in an area so vast, it can be seen from space. Alberta, Canada.
Vancouver Island, Canada.
The world's largest diamond mine, Russia.
Tar sands, Alberta, Canada.
Amazon jungle burns to make room for grazing cattle, Brazil.
Former old-growth forest leveled for reservoir development, Willamette National Forest, Oregon, per the Population Media Center.
Los Angeles, California, which is famous for sometimes having more cars than people.
North East Land, Svalbard, Norway, where rising global temperatures are fundamentally changing the ecology.
Coal power plant, United Kingdom.
