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Russia’s troubled environmental history hides a surprise:NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC LOOKING AT THE EARTH FROM EVERY POSSIBLE ANGLEPROOFSunset falls on a youngarctic fox framed byreindeer antlers, onWrangel Island in theChukchi Sea. Wrangelis one of 105 Russianzapovedniks—“strictnature reserves” towhich all human accessis tightly regulated.8 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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