Mass River Pollution - Poland
Greenpeace have blamed wastewater discharge from coal mines for the mass die-off of thousands of fish in the Oder River last year. The August 2022 environmental disaster saw 300 tonnes of dead fish recovered from the waterway, which runs along the Polish-German border.
Polish authorities blamed the incident on a bloom of toxic golden algae, which thrives in highly salty water and in hot temperatures. However, environmental campaign group Greenpeace blamed the river’s elevated salinity levels on wastewater discharges from Poland’s coal mines after experts' test results of the waters were released.
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