Impacts thebarentsobserver.com Processing plant for Novaya Zemlya mine to be built on a huge barge Three Finnish-based companies have prepared an outline design for the plant to be towed Russia's Pavlovsky lead-zinc mining project.
Impacts www.washingtonpost.com Polar bears 'invade' town in Russia's Novaya Zemlya archipelago, driven by climate change Thinning sea ice has driven more than 50 polar bears ashore on an Arctic archipelago in northern Russia, causing chaos for the local population.
thebarentsobserver.com Melting glaciers at Novaya Zemlya contain radiation from nuclear bomb tests | The Independent Barents Observer A science expedition to the area has discovered “big concentrations of radioactivity” in the ice – and concludes that the glaciers are melting into the sea at record speed.
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