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Daily Monitor
Tuesday February 16 2021
Summary
Lake upwelling is the movement of poorly oxygenated water from the bottom to the top. The process causes mixing of water resulting in the suffocation of fish due lack of oxygen.
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Panicked fishermen were recently baffled to find thousands of dead fish beached on the shoreline.
But residents have been assured the dead fish are not harmful.
Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (Kemfri) Director James Njiru said the fish had suffocated.
“In any lake, there is always what we call stratification. There is normally a layer of cold water underneath warm water that is lighter.
Plastics in your table salt
Health & Science - By
Gatonye Gathura | February 1st 2021 at 06:00:00 GMT +0300
Some of the table salt sold in Kenya is contaminated with tiny plastic particles, which may be a health risk to consumers.
Salt bought from open markets and supermarkets in eight African countries, including Kenya, was tested, and found to contain plastic particles.
“It is obvious that microplastics contamination in table salts should be of a major public health concern,” said Fadare Oluniyi of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and chief investigator in the study.
The researchers collected samples of different brands of commonly consumed commercial table salts from Kenya, Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Uganda. All the samples, the report in an ahead of the print issue of Marine Pollution Bulletin states, were contaminated with plastic particles, some not visible to the naked eye.