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US rivers are changing from blue to yellow and green, satellite images show – Livescience.com

Satellite images reveal color changes in rivers across America.

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A third of U.S. rivers have significantly changed color over the last 36 years, turning from blue to  yellow and green, striking new images reveal.
Researchers analyzed 235,000 satellite images taken over a 34-year period between 1984 and 2018 from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Landsat program. The changing hues can be viewed in an interactive map
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More than half of those satellite images showed rivers with a dominant hue of yellow,  while more than a third of images were mostly green….

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