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Australia's pink lakes: The remnants of ancient rivers now teeming with microbes that make rosy pigments
Pink lakes in Western Australia get their color from pigments produced by microbes, but climate change and other human ...
New research reveals that K’gari’s largest and longest-lived lakes may be more vulnerable to drying than previously believed.
It was a single photograph of blush-colored land framed by endless blue sky that first convinced me I needed to see a pink lake in Australia with my own eyes. I had always been enchanted by travel ...
It's called bioluminescence, a phenomenon found in nature where micro-organisms will start to glow after a disturbance in the water. For photographer Phil Hart and his pals, vacationing along the ...
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K’gari’s unique ancient lakes once dried out. Could this happen again?
New research found some of K'gari’s deepest lakes dried out 7,500 years ago. And it’s possible this could happen again.
Australia's pink lakes, like Lake Hillier and Lake MacDonnell, are famous for their vibrant colors due to microorganisms, primarily Dunaliella salina algae that produce beta-carotene. The pink hue ...
Just a one-and-a-half-hour flight from Perth, you will find this charming beach town of Esperance, which serves as a gateway to dozens of pink and rainbow lakes. Here, you get to witness lakes that ...
Researchers have found that a lake on an island off the coast of Queensland, Australia, has been relatively untouched by changes in climate for the past 7000 years, and has so far also resisted the ...
Droughts, heatwaves, and algal blooms are contributing to low levels of oxygen in some Australian lakes and rivers. Roughly one million dead fish were found in a river in New South Wales last week. To ...
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