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Toxic fuel from Russian rockets in Arctic waters raises environmental and legal issues

By Andreas Østhagen October 9, 2017

A recent study published in the journal Polar Record argues that old Russian satellite-carrying rockets end up dumping highly toxic fuel in both the Norwegian side of the Barents Sea and Baffin Bay between Greenland and Canada, causing international environmental and legal issues.

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