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While the tourist season is in full swing, it is now impossible to swim on the coast of Orbetello due to the presence of thousands of dead fish on the surface of the water.I am already over one hundred quintals of carcasses collected, while the dense, brown water flows out of the lagoon and into the Tyrrhenian Sea, making the beaches inhospitable, where there are such high levels of Escherichia coli and intestinal enterococci that they have pushed the authorities to prevent bathing.The mayor of the Tuscan town he called for a state of calamity and aid from the government.According to experts, two factors caused the disaster:fertilizers and the extremely warm temperature of the waters. From the first light of dawn on Saturday 27 July, operators have been busy monitoring, controlling and collecting fish carcasses in Tuscan waters, also with the aid of small boats.Orbetello is a lagoon with poor water circulation:for this reason, the fertilizers used in the fields that flow into the sea e...

River banks lined with carcasses and dead fish visible through the water:this is the image described by American officials who revealed that in the Nishnabotna River, a tributary of the Missouri, a fertilizer spill wiped out much of the aquatic life for a 60-mile stretch (about 97 km) causing a massacre and an environmental disaster.Over 789,000 fish would have been killed in what is one of the most ecologically devastating chemical spills in recent years in the region.Most of the species involved are small, but thousands of catfish and carp were also found among the carcasses found.Matt Combes, scientific supervisor of the ecological health unit for the Missouri Department of Conservation, estimated that about 40,000 fish have died within his state alone, adding that even trying to find the words for "a near total die-off for 60 miles of river it is astounding and daunting.”According to Andrew Loftus then, fisheries biologist and author, lThe tragedy would also be environme...