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Poisoned Paradise: How War is Killing the Hospitable Sea
- The Quiet Destruction of the Black Sea’s Marine Life by Russia Ukraine War The Black Sea has always been a place of paradox. To the ancient Greeks it was the Pontos Euxeinos which means the “hospitable sea," a legendary highway for the Argonauts chasing the Golden Fleece. Yet beneath its glittering surface lies a prehistoric horror: nearly 90 percent of its volume is anoxic, a vast, oxygen-starved abyss filled with poisonous hydrogen sulphide (H₂S) that has perfectly preser
Samira Basher Roza
Mar 295 min read
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