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Dr. Natalya Borisovna Averbach comforts a child suffering from small brain syndrome in a home fro abandoned children downwind of a nuclear test site in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.

Phillip Lee, 72, suffers from a uranium-related lung disease. Navajo uranium miners like Less die of lung cancer at five times the national rate.

lacking shelter, migrant workers cluster in the streets of El Paso, Texas. They hope to work day jobs on farms in New Mexico. They will earn less than the minimum wage and be exposed to dangerous pesticides.

Virgie Peavy, of Columbia, Mississippi, shows some of the rashes that cover her body. Her yard abuts the former site of Reichhold Chemical, Inc.

Ismay Branch covers her mouth as she passes an illegal dump, nicknamed Mount Trashmore. Every Sunday, parishioners of the East End Baptist Tabernacle Church walk to the dump and pray for its removal.

Darnell McCarter, 8, is an asthma sufferer. He live in Chicago's South Side, an area ringed by 50 landfills and toxic-waste sites and referred to as a 'toxic doughnut.'

DiAndre Nixon, 19 months, is tested for lead at the Roxbury Comprehensive Health Center in Boston. The EPA reports lead poisoning is significantly higher among black children compared to white children.

James McGhee, 86, is the last known black survivor of the Hawk's Nest tragedy in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia.

Willie Crethers, 88, watches as workers remove lead-tainted soil from her yard in West Dallas, Texas. The workers wear protection while residents of the mostly African-American and Latino community remain unprotected.

A cemetery lies in the shadow of Union Carbide, one of 130 companies in the Petrochemical Corridor, a 150-mile stretch of the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans.