At least 35 tons of dead fish appeared in a lake in southern China, leaving residents stunned.
The piles of fish washed up in a lake in Hainan province on Wednesday,
Residents expressed concerns on pollution, but local authorities said the fish died as a result of salinity change.
The change in salinity levels likely occurred after a tide pushed the fish up farther into Hongcheng Lake in the city of Haikou, state-run People's Daily reported.
Regional environment officials are still investigating.
It's unclear what kind of fish it was, according to People's Daily. It described it as the size of a half palm, saying residents had not seen that type of fish at the lake before.
Dozens of sanitation employees worked for hours to trash the fish, to prevent it from being sold to consumers.
KIM LANDERS: The Prime Minister has used his first events on the campaign trail to highlight the policy differences with Labor.
Malcolm Turnbull says he'll use every day of this election to deliver his message about his economic plan and opportunities for "jobs and growth".
Today he's been doing that by focussing on his plan to cut the company tax rate and to tackle youth unemployment.
Political correspondent Louise Yaxley reports.
MALCOLM TUNRBULL: When you're loading melons, this is the hardest physical work in the markets, do you agree?
MARKET SELLER: I agree, absolutely.
MALCOLM TUNRBULL: Cause you're passing melons on and off a truck all day.
LOUISE YAXLEY: Brisbane's Rocklea markets were the Prime Minister's first election campaign stop this morning.
MALCOLM TURNBULL: In that big hall there in the markets are many businesses who Bill Shorten does not want to support, does not want support for a tax cut, does not want to support in the way we're doing.
LOUISE YAXLEY: Mr Turnbull was promoting his plan to bring down the corporate tax rate gradually over the next 10 years by extending it to bigger and bigger businesses.
MALCOLM TURNBULL: We're talking about business; small businesses. Most of those businesses there are businesses, family-owned businesses. Many of them, I would say most of them, would be benefiting immediately from our enterprise tax cut, if not in the first year then certainly in the second year.
LOUISE YAXLEY: That tax cut proposal is part of the Prime Minister's central campaign theme.
MALCOLM TURNBULL: We've got an election on July 2. We've got eight weeks and we'll be talking about our national economic plan every single day. Jobs and growth, confidence, Australia, its future - that's what this election is about.
LOUISE YAXLEY: He continued the jobs message at his next campaign event at the YMCA in the suburb of north lakes in the marginal liberal electorate of Petrie.
In particular Mr Turnbull hit out at the Opposition for not backing the new PaTH (prepare-trial-hire) scheme he unveiled in last week's budget which would pay incentives to employers to take on the long-term unemployed.
MALCOLM TURNBULL: The critical thing you need to do with young people who have not been in employment and who perhaps for whatever reason; lack of confidence, lack of experience, lack of skills are not getting into a job, what they need is a chance. What we're giving them is the best chance to get started.
And I have to say I agree with the Brotherhood of St Laurence who was pretty scathing about the critics of this PaTH scheme. It really is a very shameful thing that the Labor Party opposes it. If they cared about the employment of young Australians, if they wanted young Australian's who are out of work to get into work and give them the chance to get into work. If they were really committed to more jobs and more growth then they would back this scheme, they would back it right up to the hilt.
LOUISE YAXLEY: A big part of the Green's election push is to challenge both major parties to take a stronger stand against fossil fuels. As their leader Richard Di Natale spelled out this morning.
RICHARD DI NATALE: When it comes to new coal mines we will be other only party taking what I think is the only logical science-based rational decision and that is to say, we can't continue to open up new mines if we're serious about tackling dangerous global warming.
LOUISE YAXLEY: Mr Turnbull has defended not mentioning climate change in his election announcement yesterday
MALCOLM TURNBULL: But let me say to you, climate change is very important and we have a good climate change policy. We are meeting our targets. We're meeting our 2020 targets, we'll exceed them in fact and we are well on track to meet our 2030 targets. Our plan is clear, it's part of a global agreement reached in Paris with all the nations of the world.
KIM LANDERS: And that is the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull ending that report from Louise Yaxley.
Scientists reckon three expolanets orbiting a dwarf star 40 light years from Earth away could harbour life
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Three habitable worlds orbiting around a nearby ultracool dwarf star could be the best bet of finding life on another planet.
The three Earth-like "red worlds" are just 40 light years away from Earth.
The sizes and temperatures of these worlds are comparable to those of Earth and Venus, and are the best targets found so far in the search for life outside the solar system.
Scientists believe they may teem with life forms adapted to infrared worlds, and there could be other as yet undiscovered worlds out there too.
The three Earth-sized planets orbit near the "habitable zone" of an ultracool dwarf star named TRAPPIST-1 - the first planets ever discovered around such a tiny and dim star.
TRAPPIST-1 is much cooler and redder than the Sun and barely larger than Jupiter, but such stars are both very common in the Milky Way and very long-lived.
It lies in the constellation of Aquarius (The Water Carrier).
And because the planets are so close, astronomers should eventually be able to study in greater detail the composition of each of the planets and their atmospheres, as well as look for chemical signals of life.
Professor of physics Adam Burgasser at theUniversity of California, San Diego said: "The kind of planets we've found are very exciting from the perspective of searching for life in the universe beyond Earth.
"While such a 'cold' star might sound exotic, many, if not most, of the stars in our Milky Way Galaxy are of this cool, red, small and dim variety.
"If Earth-like planets around these stars turn out to be common, there may be many more habitable planets out there than current estimates predict."
The international team used the TRAPPIST telescope based in Chile to observe the star 2MASS J23062928-0502285, now known as TRAPPIST-1.
They found this dim and cool star faded slightly at regular intervals, indicating that several objects were passing between the star and the Earth and detailed analysis showed three planets with similar sizes to the Earth were present.
