{"id":572741,"date":"2026-08-31T21:15:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T18:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=572741"},"modified":"2026-09-01T01:45:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T22:45:42","slug":"belarusian-environment-ministry-names-preliminary-causes-of-mass-fish-deaths-in-vyhanashchanskaye-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-environment-ministry-names-preliminary-causes-of-mass-fish-deaths-in-vyhanashchanskaye-lake","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Environment Ministry Names Preliminary Causes of Mass Fish Deaths in Vyhanashchanskaye Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection is <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/minpriroda_belarus\/16837\">investigating<\/a> the causes of a mass fish die-off in Vyhanashchanskaye Lake in the Ivatsevichy district.<\/p>\n<p>A special commission inspected the lake. No sources of pollution were found.<\/p>\n<p>According to preliminary findings, the fish die-off was caused by hydrological factors: a drop in the lake&#8217;s water level and increased turbidity. At the time of the inspection, water transparency was less than 0.3 meters.<\/p>\n<p>Specialists collected water samples for laboratory testing. Final conclusions will be made after the samples have been analyzed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection is investigating the causes of a mass fish die-off in Vyhanashchanskaye Lake in the Ivatsevichy district. A special commission inspected the lake. No sources of pollution were found. According to preliminary findings, the fish die-off was caused by hydrological factors: a drop in the lake&#8217;s water level [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":572740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6a96041f28fea.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Environment Ministry Names Preliminary Causes of Mass Fish Deaths in Vyhanashchanskaye Lake"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}