China river

[awestruckchild]

This is interesting...
I wonder if it is connected in some way to their recent earthquakes..

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs...opstories.html

[RevLogos]

This is interesting...
I wonder if it is connected in some way to their recent earthquakes..

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs...opstories.html

Seems to be a lot of these stories of water turning red lately. The Jianhe River in China also, the Beirut River, and a lake in Camargue France.

All but Camargue have been linked to nearby factories or other pollution. Camargue was caused by high salt levels.

[awestruckchild]

I thought red tides were connected to blooms of pfisteria or to...dinoflagellates...
pollution from a plant would be a completely different story, but you have to wonder if something (nutrients, etc.) seeps from fault lines in the sea and gives the nutrients the organisms need to live and thrive for a span of time...
I think these will be what might kill a third of life in the ocean...still God, of course, but when they thrive they create toxins that humans can escape by just not going in the water. The sea life is not so fortunate and cannot escape the toxins.

[claybevan]

There's also a lake in West Texas that's been affected:
According to officials from Texas Parks and Wildlife Inland Fisheries, the bloody color is the result of Chromatiaceae bacteria, which thrives in oxygen-depleted water and often takes on an opaque red hue. Texas is experiencing a severe drought this summer, which in turn is causing water levels throughout the state to drop. What likely happened here is that the fish began to die as the lake dried up; the decomposing fish reduced the oxygen levels in the water leading to a rapid increase of this Chromatiaceae bacteria.