Benzyl, which got to Amur after catastrophe at chemical plant in China, can reach Okhotsk and Japan seas, scientists think.

"In spring, during period of ice melting, toxic substances, absorbed by ice and washed out from bottom sediments, will get into the water", - is opinion of Habarovsk institute of water and ecological problems professor Lubov Kondrateva.

By words of researcher, toxic substances can influence biological variety of Amursk river ecological system. Moreover, "being in water as micro mixtures, toxicants can collect in trophic chain and. Finally, get into human organism, threatening his health", scientist thinks.

In her opinion there is a potential ecological risk of stable toxic substances getting into Okhotsk and Japan seas. In this case problem of frontier rivers` pollution becomes actual not only for Russia and China but for Japan.

"Ecological situation, as a result of human-caused accident in China, touches economical and political relationships between Russia and China. It is evident that both countries need mutual program of rational nature management at Amur-Sungari basin, general principles and united criteria of environmental state monitoring organization", - Kondrateva thinks.
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