Climate Change

Midwest Streams Overheat, Killing Thousands of Fish

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The dry summer is causing water temperatures to rise up to 100 degrees, killing off thousands of fish in the streams and rivers.  Almost 40,000 shovelnose sturgeon were killed in Iowa last week as the temperatures in the water got up to 97 degrees.  Sturgeon, catfish, carp, and many other species of fish in the lower Platte River are boiling in the drought stricken heated waterways. 

Read it at Oakland Tribune


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