28-06-2020 14:11 via kvoa.com

Investigators probe reported Russian tundra pollution

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s main criminal investigation body has launched a probe after a report that a nickel-processing plant was pumping water contaminated with heavy metals into the Arctic tundra. The reported pollution detailed Sunday by the Novaya Gazeta newspaper was in the same region where a massive diesel spill last month entered Lake Pyasino, which feeds into the Arctic Sea. The newspaper released a video of what it said was water from a Norilsk Nickel enrichment plant gushing
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