Vast amounts of chemical waste were probably dumped into a river on the Polish-German border, Poland’s prime minister said Friday, killing tons of fish and creating an ecological disaster that could take years to clean up.
the RND newspaper group. “All sides are working flat out to find the reasons for this mass [killing of fish] and minimize potential further damage.”on social media shows fish piled up and floating along the river bank. Local fishermen say they have been hauling dead fish and beavers out of the water for weeks.Scientists have speculated that factors beyond deliberate dumping could be at play.
“This is a problem we will increasingly face as we move into a world affected by climate change. Pollutants that are out there are more toxic because they are present in higher concentrations during drought conditions,” said David Taylor, a professor of environmental change at the National University of Singapore.
“We are in this strange period now, where we are beginning to see, more and more, not just the direct effects of climate change, such as droughts and storms, but also the knock-on effects of climate charge.”In 2016, Vietnam blamed a steel plant on its coast for a toxic waste spill that killed about 100 tons of fish, in what has been called the country’s worst environmental disaster. The spill contaminated 125 miles of coastline and left many fishermen in the region jobless.
that the plant, run by Taiwan’s Formosa Plastics Group, had committed more than 50 violations, according to Reuters.a petition urging their dismissal. He also sacked the chief inspector of the country’s Environmental Protection Agency for not acting quickly enough. “The situation we are dealing with was in no way foreseeable, but certainly the responsible agencies could have acted faster,” he said in a
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