As politicians haggle at a U.N. climate conference in Poland over ways to limit global warming, the industries and machines powering our modern world keep spewing their pollution into the air and water.
Urgency of Climate Talks Seen in Coal Plants, Garbage Dumps
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FILE - A passenger plane prepares for landing near an oil refinery in Kawasaki, southwest of Tokyo, Dec. 13, 2018.
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FILE - In this photo taken from a plane, smoke stacks are seen near the city of Urumqi China's northwestern region of Xinjiang, Dec. 5, 2018.
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FILE - A woman who scavenges recyclable materials from garbage for a living walks across a mountain of garbage at the dump on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec. 11, 2018.
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FILE - Indian ragpickers search recyclable materials at a garbage dumping site on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, Dec. 10, 2018.