POLLUTION, STRANGLED SEA LIFE COULD KILL BLACK SEA

From: The Columbian (Vancouver, WA) | Date: December 31, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

BRIAN MURPHY
The Columbian
12-31-1997
ODESSA, Ukraine — Around the corner from Odessa’s grand portside staircase, twin pipes gush a greenish-brown soup of untreated sewage into the harbor. Nearby beaches are almost permanently closed to swimming and fishing.
A few miles away, a once-esteemed marine research station makes a little money using its seven vessels to ferry goods across the Black Sea to Istanbul, Turkey. It’s the only way to raise money, which once poured in from Soviet science academies.
And a half-day’s sail away, on the border with Romania, a patch ...

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