5 days“How about posting a local news source?”
“Nah let’s do this newspaper from the other end of the planet…”
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What the f is this site…
Please just read the corresponding wiki page.
- horsesaysweird@feddit.orgEnglish4 days
- “How about criticising the source with facts?”
- “Nah, let’s just say something sarcastic and vague to gain internet points.”- horsesaysweird@feddit.orgEnglish3 days
What the f is this site…
It’s the third-largest newspaper in India: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_times_of_india
If ads on a news site are not acceptable to you, I wonder where you get your news.
- CAVOK@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
What is the problem exactly? Sometimes I get news from non EU sources, should I not post those then? Is the source bad? Is the reporting inaccurate? What’s the issue with an Indian paper?
The issue here is that the source is kind of wonky to report about events in Germany. You would think that a newspaper will need some correspondent who is working from Germany. Because if he’s not in the country speaking to people living here, to the experts working on those products and people living there, what are his sources?
If you take a look at Times of India, this article doesn’t even have a name. It’s from an anonymous “author” called “TOI World Desk”. So we don’t even know who wrote this article here.
And then there is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Times_of_India#Criticism_and_controversies
- GardenGeek@europe.pubEnglish5 days
Important to note: These are old open-pit mines from the era of German division. Back then, the GDR didn’t waste any resources on reclamation; instead, it simply shut off the pumps that had kept the pits dry. As a result, they filled with groundwater, and the pyrite contained in the coal seams weathered into sulfuric acid. Long story short: The lakes had to, and still have to in many cases, be heavily limed for renaturation or to make them usable again, since the pH level naturally hovers around pH 4.
- sakphul@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish5 days
According to the “Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde” at least for some of the bigger (and older ones) the water quality is “excellent”.
For example Senftenberger See and Geierswalder See. Unfortunately for many of them no data about water quality is publicly available. Probably because they are not open to swimming. Source: https://geoportal.bafg.de/karten/badegewaesser/?page=Seite#zoom_to_selection=true
- Melchior@feddit.orgEnglish5 days
Yes, but that is due to continues liming of many of those lakes. That is likely to keep happening for the next century or two at least in those lakes, which do not have a river running through them. Even that has issues, as the pollution from those lakes can kill the entire river. There are ways to deal with that too, but it is not a perfect situation.
- sakphul@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish4 days
Thanks for linking this article. It was very interesting to read! Especially the part with rising Groundwater levels and the negative impact on existing buildings that did not plan for rising groundwater levels after the end of the mining in the area.
- altphoto@lemmy.todayEnglish5 days
Oh what’s this! A gold nugget! By the coal lakes!
… 3 months later; Germany is digging up old mines that have gold in them.
