Alaska’s rusting waters: Pristine rivers and streams turning orange

Alaska’s rusting waters: Pristine rivers and streams turning orange

Dozens of Alaska’s most remote streams and rivers are turning from a crystal clear blue into a cloudy orange, and the staining could be the result of minerals exposed by thawing permafrost, new research in the Nature journal Communications: Earth and Environment finds. For the first time, a team of researchers from the National Park … Read more