Almost every place in the world there is likely to have a form of contamination.
Toxic chemicals from industrial processes leach into our water supply and devastate natural habitats, endanger animals, and pollute Earth’s lakes, rivers, oceans, aquifers, and groundwater.
Reuters photographers have taken amazing photos of places around the world capturing oil spills, mines leaching toxic chemicals, and repercussions of shipping accidents.
An oil-covered brown pelican sits in a pool of oil in Queen Bess Island Pelican Rookery, Louisiana following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill swirls in various colors in shallow water in East Grand Terre Island, Louisiana on June 8, 2010
Oil mixes with water from the Exxon Silvertip Pipeline oil spill that occurred in July, 2011 along the Yellowstone River in Laurel, Montana
A footprint in the mud six days after red toxic sludge flooded the village of Devecser, Hungary on October 4, 2010
A dead ram decomposes on the boundaries of the Doñana National Park in Spain one week after 5 million cubic meters of acidic toxic fluid spilled from a nearby mine.
A line of soldiers clean up oil that spilled from the “Prestige” oil tanker near the coastal town of Muxía on Spain’s North West Atlantic coast on January 27, 2003.
Volunteers carried buckets of oil from an oil slick along the coast of Refugio State Beach in Goleta, California on May 20, 2015.
A waste pit near a jungle clearing close to the Amazonian town of Sacha in Ecuador is filled with crude oil left by drilling operations years earlier.
A worker scoops oil near Dalian Port in the Liaoning province of China nine days after a busted pipeline leaked 1,500 metric tons of heavy crude into the water.
