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The Black Sea is an integral part of millions of peoples’ lives. Photo of Trabzon, Turkey, by Whewes via Flickr.

With its watershed covering almost one-third of continental Europe, an area home to some 160 million people, there are plenty of opportunities for pollution to run into the Black Sea — and only one outlet to the world’s oceans and seas, the Bosphorus straits in Turkey. It’s little wonder, then, that a dozen years ago, it was described as “facing an environmental catastrophe.” More surprising, perhaps, is that conditions in the <a href="http://w… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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