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High level rivers contamination badly impacting fish populations Peshawar December 27, 2020 PESHAWAR: Researchers working on a project to analyze endocrine disrupting chemicals and types in Kabul and Swat rivers have warned that high level contamination in both the rivers is badly impacting fish populations. “Our research studies during the project found high concentration of phthalates, dissolved form of plastic, which is badly affecting fish health and diversity in both the major rivers o...

The rest of us. those are minor streams. >> so when it rains and in north dakota and south dakota. it is called a duct factory of america. those places are vitally important because s -- so thats important. the extreme is anywhere where fish spawn and certain hooieigh of water there. >> theand others across the couy and they came out of rules protecting the two areas. so what could happen is you could change and do that rule over and take away those protections and ultimately that hurts our fish...

The life out of the reefs, this is what one under water scientist to us moments ago. >> we are getting reports from further out locations that are popular fishing sites and dive sites, further off than we have investigat, rently, and in the st week,nd that there is a -- a definite drop in the fish population, they are already moving off and finding safer locations. >> reporter: jae, he said when a reef dies it is called a bleaching effect and it could be devastating and it isifficult to bring th...

That means fishermen and oyster men, hundreds of them are now without work. >> shepard: the louisiana bulb jindal took along the media including you to get a look from the air today. what was that like? >> he wanted to get an aerial perspective firsthand to see what the areas impacted look like right now. he took us up earlier today. we were out there for about an hour or so. when you get up that high, you can clearly see the massive scope of this problem. and here is how the governor put it. >>...

Situation off the gulf coast as the oil from the sunken oil rig nears the shore. what are we looking at? >> wind is still coming in from the southeast. that is still blowing the waves and the wind and the water and the oil all the way up into the mississippi delta, into the mississippi river delta, that little point that sticks out. see that yellow box that weve made? kind of the irregular box? thats where the sheen is. inside that sheen is the thick oil where it looks white, although its really...

Ton of wild life that lives there. what kind of wild life and ecosystem are we dealing with? >> this is a unique ecosystem and very complex and it consists of barrier islands andest wears, but the bottom line is that this estuary provides the environment and food that they need to survive, from the plankton up to the economically important crabs, mussels, clams, oysters, plankton is the backbone of the food chain here and the plankton and if the oil smothers the plankton and the plankton die. ot...

>> amazing images. let me talk to you about this because we heard in the epa as they talked about the spill. the discharge coming from a mine, a mine that became inactive before the epa was founded. but talk about the four diversion ponds and is that enough to help clean up and divert the fouled water? >> is it enough? it started with two and now its four. and this mine is still leeching fluid. theyre going to have to build a fifth until they can cap this thing. its worrying to see this go into ...