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Environmental Impact on Sochi Environmentalist activists say the winter Olympics are causing major damage to Sochi’s precious ecosystems, despite the promise of “green” construction by Russian officials. Water pollution is threatening fish, wetlands are buried under crushed stone, and destruction of trees can’t be reversed, according to critics.
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