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A mass fish die-off in a reservoir in southern Vietnam’s Dong Nai province has shone a new light on soaring temperatures in Southeast Asia.

Fishermen have been working to wade through and collect the hundreds of thousands of dead fish that have blanketed the 300-hectare Song May reservoir amid a ferocious heatwave.

Intense drought swept through Vietnam’s south in April as temperatures soared to nearly 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit), leaving farmers struggling to keep their crops alive.

Community members and local media are blaming the drought, heatwave and problems with the reservoir’s management as contributing factors.

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[-] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago

I expect this sort of thing to become depressingly common

[-] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

I don't think so. At some point there will be no more fish

[-] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

To become? It already is common.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago

Daily surface air temperature in the tropics: https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_daily/?dm_id=tropics

Its actually worse than the sea surface temperature and that's also been off the charts: https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/

[-] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Can't wait to see how far we'll break the record on largest hurricane ever this year!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Thank you for reminding me to visit my grandmother before hurricane season.

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