About 100 metric tons of chemicals, including potentially lethal benzene, spilled into the Songhua River after an accident at Jilin petrochemicals plant in northeastern China and is heading along the Amur River toward the Russian city of Khabarovsk.
Russian scientists have acknowledged the possibility of the contamination of two Far Eastern seas as a benzene spill moves its way from China down the Amur River toward the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan. Can the benzene reach the seas in spring after the ice has melted and accumulate in the food chain?
01-Dec-05 
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