Toxic

An estimated 113 million tons of coal ash are produced annually in the US, and stored in almost every state—some of it literally in people's backyards.

北太平洋の中央には「ゴミの島」がある－－。大海の中心部では潮流が渦を生み、そこにゴミが集積される。このゴミ島は「太平洋ゴミベルト」と呼ばれる。テキサスほどの大きさとも言われるゴミ島には、無数のプラスチックが分解されないまま漂流を続けている。

In the burning fields of Southern California’s Imperial Valley, the honey bee population is dying, and so are millions of fish in the Salton Sea.

In the city of Naples and the surrounding countryside of Campania, Italy, the Mafia has controlled the waste-management industry for decades.

Massive corporations are blowing up mountains and creating environmental ruins in West Virginia.

We travel to the oil sands of Canada to investigate the impact of digging for this previously unobtainable oil.

We travel to the single most polluted place on earth, the coal-mining town of Linfen in Shanxi Province, China.

America's Water Crisis is our three-part series about the sad state of freshwater in America.