A third of rivers in US found to be changing from blue to green and yellow – Phys.org

A team of researchers with members from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Colorado State University reports that approximately a third of the rivers in the U.S. have changed color over the past 34 years. In their paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the group describes their study of thousands of satellite images taken of the U.S. and what they learned from them.
River health is important to a large number of people in the U.S. and many other countries,…

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