I'll bite. How about the drying-up Aral Sea?
The receding sea has left huge plains covered with salt and toxic chemicals – the results of weapons testing, industrial projects, pesticides and fertilizer runoff – which are picked up and carried away by the wind as toxic dust and spread to the surrounding area.
Stranded fishing boats scattered across poison plains that used to be the sea floor.
Better yet, have a look at the shipbreakers at Chittagong, in Bangladesh. Search for the city in Google Maps and follow the coast a little ways to the north. The skeletons of hundreds of ships rusting to pieces and leaking toxic waste, gradually being broken down for scrap metal to be dragged ashore by people working with hand tools.
There's some great (and kind of heartrending) imagery at
http://www.saifulhuq.com/#a=0&at=0&mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&s=0&p=0