And New Year’s fireworks account for only one of these episodes.
Catholic Online: Scientists are investigating why two million fish washed up dead in Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay. “Natural causes appear to be the reason,” the Maryland Department of the Environment said in a news release. “Cold water stress exacerbated by a large population of the affected species (juvenile spot fish) appears to be the cause of the kill.” Read more here.
8000 Turtle Doves fall dead from sky in Italy. See here
100,000 fish found dead last week along Arkansas River. See here
450 red-winged blackbirds, brown-headed cowbirds, grackles and starlings found littering a highway in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, last week.
3,000 blackbirds on roofs and roads in the small town of Beebe, Arkansas, last week.
Tons of dead fish wash ashore in Brazil last week.
Thousands of dead crabs wash ashore on England’s beaches this week. See here.
