Can climate-induced poisoning kill elephants?

Death of 350 elephants in Africa in 2020 was possibly due to climate-induced poisoning, a study has found

Climate change may have induced a poisoning in water that elephants drank, thereby causing mass deaths in 2020 in Botswana, Africa, according to a new study that provided satellite evidence.

In May and June 2020, more than 350 elephants died in northern Botswana under "mysterious" circumstances, according to a report by The Guardian.

While poaching was soon ruled out as a cause for these deaths, toxins produced by algae growing in waterholes was suspected to be one, even as evidence has remained inconclusive, researchers, led by those at King's College London, UK, said.