How an Arctic City Became One of the World's Most Polluted Places

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By Cristen Hemingway JaynesDec 1, 2021, 11:56 am205 pts
In Norilsk, the northernmost city in the world, the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world, but the permafrost and structural problems have not been caused by climate change alone. A smelting company has polluted rivers and destroyed boreal forest. Norilsk, population 176,000, is known by…

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