Melting glaciers at Novaya Zemlya contain radiation from nuclear bomb tests
Fallout from nuclear bomb tests, long locked up in the archipelago's glaciers, is poised to melt into the Kara and Barents seas.
October 10, 2018
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A scientific expedition to Novaya Zemlya has discovered “big concentrations of radioactivity” in the ice — and concluded that the glaciers are melting into the sea at record speed.
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