Articles for tag: American Rivers, Environmental Change, natural phenomena, River Color Change Science, Turquoise Rivers USA, Water Chemistry

9 American Rivers That Turned Turquoise – The Science Behind the Color Shift

Suhail Ahmed

Across the American West and Alaska, familiar rivers are flashing improbable shades of turquoise, as if someone quietly swapped out their water for melted gemstones. The spectacle isn’t a filter or a trick of tourism – it’s physics, geology, and biology colliding in real time. Scientists are racing to read these colors as clues: what ...