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Black Sea: Environment
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The Black Sea is one of the world’s most unique and fascinating marine environments. However, because of its huge drainage basin and its limited exchange with the world’s oceans, it is ... extremely vulnerable to the impact of human activities on the land.
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Guide Note: November 12, 2007: Russian environmental specialists are fearing an environmental disaster following an oil tanker spill in the Black Sea. Three ships carrying 6,500 tons of sulfur ... sank in a storm powered by 70mph winds, that produced 18ft waves.
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Recent signs of environmental recovery are largely attributed to the economic downturn that followed the collapse of former communist states bordering the Black Sea and Danube River. The decline in the intensive farming ... witnessed a sudden decline in the high levels of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilisers that had been draining into the Sea during the 1970s and 1980s. In recent years the countries along the Danube have also made significant progress in the reduction of nutrients entering the river and the Black Sea.
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