River Runs Red

[Paris]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1306378/River-turns-colour-tomato-soup-storm.html

[Cheryl Nelson]

Mother Earth is bleeding.

[HeartNsoul]

This phenomenom seems to be occurring more often..it reminded me of the red falls in the Antarctic which I read about earlier in the year:

Roughly 2 million years ago, the Taylor Glacier sealed beneath it a small body of water which contained an ancient community of microbes. Trapped below a thick layer of ice, they have remained there ever since, isolated inside a natural time capsule. Evolving independently of the rest of the living world, these microbes exist without heat, light, or oxygen, and are essentially the definition of “primordial ooze.” The trapped lake has very high salinity and is rich in iron, which gives the waterfall its red color. A fissure in the glacier allows the subglacial lake to flow out, forming the falls without contaminating the ecosystem within.

[edina]

Good tip, Shadow,

[Kim B]

Makes me hungry for tomato soup.