[HN Gopher] Mysterious mass fish kill in Oder River: Climate cha...
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Mysterious mass fish kill in Oder River: Climate change or poison?
Author : lioeters
Score : 59 points
Date : 2022-08-13 13:50 UTC (9 hours ago)
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| numlock86 wrote:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32450020
| aaron695 wrote:
| emergie wrote:
| Cyanotoxin hypothesis
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| Daily cycles on this graph [1] and oxygen surplus can be
| explained by hyperactivity of organisms that do photosynthesis -
| cyanobacteries and algae. Something boosted their activity. It
| might be natural, caused by high temperature very low level of
| water. Might be because someone contaminated the river with
| something that worked as fertilizer.
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| [1]
| https://nitter.it/pic/orig/enc/bWVkaWEvRmFDNl9EeVgwQUFRNmpRL...
| tomohawk wrote:
| The climate change hypothesis presumes re-animating poison that
| was dumped some time in the past. And that perhaps the sediment
| is being disturbed.
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| In the past, the Soviet Union controlled this area, and they are
| well known for the massive ecological disasters they created.
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| It wouldn't surprise me at all if this turned out to be the case
| here.
| pvaldes wrote:
| Most fishes shown in the photos are carps. I assume that are
| mud carps (bottom feeders), but identifying correctly the
| species could help to understand the path followed by the
| poison, and their origin.
| hef19898 wrote:
| Back during the USSR it was Poland and the DDR, but yeah they
| didn't care atvall about the environment. Not that the west
| did, the Rhein was basically a dead river at one point in time
| due to polution.
| frank_bb wrote:
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