Tag: Environmental disaster
Millions of dead fish float on Australia river
A heatwave and recent flooding have caused a mass die-off of native fish in a remote region of south-east Australia. Photos in local media show a carpet of dead fish…
Saline waste water continues to be discharged into the Oder – knowledge
Five months have passed since the Oder disaster, in which more than a thousand tons of fish died. Christian Wolter, fish ecologist at the Leibniz Institute for Freshwater Ecology and…
That can’t be true: the Oder is too salty again – knowledge
What else has to happen? Fish with a total weight of several hundred tons died in the Oder in the summer. The gills shredded by the toxin of a brackish…
Cruise documentaries in the ARD: Diesel dreams
The ARD has heaved a cruise documentary that has already been canceled back into the program. In view of the energy and climate crisis, the ideal world flair seems outdated.…
Fish deaths in the Oder: One river, two insights – politics
In the end, a microscopic alga was the only thing that Polish and German authorities could agree on. The so-called golden algae spread explosively in the Oder this summer, report…
Fish deaths in the Oder: is there still life in the river? – Knowledge
Of Tina Baier Whoever led the saline waste water into the Oder in August for the proliferation of the poisonous golden alga Prymnesium parvum and thus to the mass death…
Lemke after fish deaths for an expansion stop on the Oder – policy
Massive deaths of fish, anger about the flow of information, delicate relations with Warsaw – the meeting between Federal Environment Minister Lemke and her Polish colleague Moskva contains a lot…
After fish kills: Long-term damage feared for Oder – Politics
It is not yet possible to say whether the river will fully recover, says Environment Minister Lemke. “In the Oder as an ecosystem, far greater damage was done than the…
Did a poisonous alga kill the fish in the Oder? – Knowledge
In the search for the cause of the fish deaths in the Oder, scientists from the Berlin Leibniz Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) suspect an alga. They…
Hurricane “Zeynep”: Summary of the storm – Panorama
The day after the storm, Hamburg is still standing, the sun even comes out for a few seconds. The sun, which you can only guess at for weeks because it…