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Anyone who has been on the Baltic coast in recent years knows what blue-green algae is. It is that smelly, poisonous porridge that covers the beaches in mid-summer and it is what has lead the Baltic to be dubbed "the world's most polluted sea".
Writer: Elna Nykänen
Russia
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