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Oder River disaster: What is known about the alga Prymnesium parvum?

In July and August 2022, a man-made environmental disaster occurred in the Oder River: a mass die-off of fish, mussels and snails that started in the Polish section of the Oder and then continued downstream until it reached the border Oder. Researchers estimate that up to 1,000 tonnes of fish were lost.

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Salt discharges must be reduced and river development stopped to regenerate the Oder River

Today, Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke visited the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) in Berlin to learn about the first interim results of the special investigation programme on the environmental disaster in the Oder River (“ODER~SO”), which has been funded by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, N

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