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Dr. Michael Wenger
While soot and pollutants are transported from the south to the Arctic, substances bound in the permafrost are now being transported back to the south by the tundra fires.
Leaking tanks and pipelines, diesel and cyanide pollution of soil and water have been going around in the Arctic in recent weeks.
The Canadian government has extended a ban on oil and gas production along the country's Arctic coast, much to the chagrin of representatives of the Northwest Territories.
A total of four floating nuclear power plants are to be built and used for the large-scale mining of raw materials in the middle of Chukotka.
