Articles for tag: Environmental Science, microbial blooms, natural phenomena, pink lakes, saline ecosystems

Why Some Lakes Turn Pink Every Summer

Why Some Lakes Turn Pink Every Summer

Gargi Chakravorty

Picture this: you’re standing at the edge of what looks like a massive strawberry milkshake stretching to the horizon. A pink lake is a lake that has a red or pink colour. “I didn’t believe that it could be that pink, but it’s like a Pepto Bismol pink,” one visitor describes. This isn’t some chemical ...