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#370 The Forgotten Arsenal of the Ocean: Clearing Dumped Munitions
At the end of the Second World War, millions of tonnes of unwanted explosives and weapons were disposed of at sea. For decades, these dumped munitions lay hidden beneath the waves as time and tide passed over them. Now 80 years past that mass-dumping, corrosion has begun to expose the explosive chemicals inside these weapons casings. Lead, mercury and TNT breakdown products have begun to be detected in fish stocks throughout the affected waters. At the same time, the growth of offshore infrastructure such as wind farms is increasing the need to understand and manage hazards on the...
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flit between the jagged outlines of corroding steel objects.
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- 每分钟 127 词：语速慢，清晰。
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Some 30 meters below the surface of the Baltic Sea, schools of cod, flounder, perch and herring flit between the jagged outlines of corroding steel objects. Covered in almost a century of algal growth, these structures lie encrusted with a thriving colony of barnacles,
rust, minerals and ejecta, all feeding the local marine life. The shoals of fish move this way and that in search of food. The wreckage no less a haven for marine life than any natural reef. But here, there is something else.
Invisible to the eye, plumes of chemicals permeate the area. The fish pass through these clouds, back through again, and back yet again. Each pass exposes them, and so the entire food chain, to concentrations of lead, of mercury, and 246-trinitrotoluene. TNT
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