Blue Colored Ducks After Chemical Accident in Brazil

In a big city in Brazil, visitors to a park marvel at a particularly blue lake – including blue ducks and fish. Because dyes ran out in a truck accident, the animals discoloured. The dye should be safe, yet experts are concerned.

An accident with a truck carrying 2,000 liters of dye may have caused pollution in Brazil: birds got blue feathers, fish died.

Blue-colored animals have been spotted in a Brazilian lake after a truck carrying dye crashed, the Latin American state's prosecutor's office said on Friday, adding that an investigation has been launched into the matter.

The truck had loaded 2,000 liters of dye

In the city of Jundiaí in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, a truck loaded with dye has hit a lantern mast – blue paint ran into a river and dyed it and animals living in it blue. Authorities and NGOs are now trying to save affected animals. In the accident on Tuesday, an organic chemical based on acetic acid expired, according to the authorities. This dyed both the water of the river Jundiaí and the plumage of ducks and geese blue. In the water…

Blue animals have been spotted in a Brazilian lake after a truck carrying dye crashed, the Latin American state's prosecutor's office said on Friday, adding that an investigation has been launched into the matter. The post Blue animals spotted in a lake and it's a huge problem first appeared on Most Hír.