Millions of dead fish clog Australian river

Millions of dead and rotting fish have clogged a vast stretch of river near a remote town in the Australian outback as a searing heatwave sweeps through the region. Videos posted to social media showed boats ploughing through a blanket of dead fish smothering the water, with the surface barely visible underneath. The New South Wales government said on Friday that "millions" of fish had died in the Darling River near the small town of Menindee, in the third mass kill to hit the area since 2018. "It's horrific really, there's dead fish as far as you can see," Menindee local Graeme McCrabb told AFP. "These fish deaths are related to low oxygen levels in the water (hypoxia) as flood waters recede," the government said in a statement.