Estimated to be around the size of Texas, this contaminated area of ocean has by some estimates more plastic than food for marine life.
Aside from the potential health hazards of living in an area contaminated with radiation, domino socioeconomic effects have caused multiple problems in these regions.
The drugs thought to be contaminated in the Wigan area are brightly-coloured heart-shaped ecstasy tablets which come in purple, green, red and yellow.
Recently the government said it needed to clear about 2, 419 square kilometres of contaminated soil an area larger than greater Tokyo that received an annual radiation dose of at least five millisieverts, or over 0.5 microsieverts an hour.
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There is no question that an area around Fukushima is contaminated and needs to be cleaned-up before anyone can re-enter.
"It depends on how long they would have been in the area that's contaminated, how constant the the level of asbestos fibres in the air are, " he said.
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While reluctantly agreeing, Kazakhstan said it feared that highly toxic fuel had contaminated water and soil over a huge area.
These will be much more effective at filtering contaminated water because the beads will have greater surface area for the arsenic to bind to than the plastic chips.
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John Steele, vice president of the Postal Service's Northeast Area Operations, said that the machines would most likely have been contaminated by an anthrax letter bound for an address in the town of Seymour, only a few miles from where Lundgren lived.
The researchers studied male leopard frogs across a large area of the US and found a high proportion to be developing female characteristics where they swam in waters contaminated with the herbicide.
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