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Environment & Energy

tawadi

(2,110 posts) Sat Jul 7, 2012, 08:19 PM Jul 2012

By Miguel Llanos, msnbc.com

In lakes and rivers across parched areas of the U.S., heat and lower water levels are reducing oxygen levels -- and killing fish populations by the thousands.

At one lake in Delaware, up to 6,000 dead gizzard shad and 600 perch were found floating this week.

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/07/12616289-another-sign-of-the-heat-times-thousands-of-dead-fish?lite