Why did Iran's Lake Urmia just change from bright green to blood red?

[pesco]

Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/07/27/why-did-irans-lake.html
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[Papasan]

[renke]

so earth will not be destroyed to make way for an express route but used as traffic light?

[mr_raccoon]

[Modusoperandi]

Luckily, it still tastes awful.

[Dioptase1]

Uremia

[mysterr]

The fact that the lake is actually called “Lake Urmia” and that the color of the lake so closely resembles the color of urine produced by a person suffering from uremia…

Intentional joke or the best BB typo of all time?

[ficuswhisperer]

The streets lake will flow with the blood of the non believers!

[pesco]

The latter!

[8080256256]

the lake has lost about 70 percent of its surface area over the last 14 years

[ficuswhisperer]

@8080256256

the lake has lost about 70 percent of its surface area over the last 14 years

I’d love to know what it’s secret is. I want to lose 70% of my surface area too!

[Daneyul]

Honestly, you people and your “science”. Sometimes the simplest answer is the best:

“And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood. [Revelation 16:4]”

Now, doesn’t that make more sense than a bunch of elite, climate-change believing, SJW scientists’ mumbo jumbo?

[ficuswhisperer]

@Daneyul

Honestly, you people and your “science”. Sometimes the simplest answer is the best:

/thread

[Boundegar]

The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a dead person, and every living thing in the sea died. The third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood.

• Revelation 16:3-4

EDIT: Oops, you beat me by 10!

[nimelennar]

I actually thought of a different reference…

This is what the LORD says: By this you will know that I am the LORD: With the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water of the Nile, and it will be changed into blood. The fish in the Nile will die, and the river will stink and the Egyptians will not be able to drink its water.

— Exodus 7:17–18

My first thought was, “Is that guy up to his party tricks again?”

[Akimbo_NOT]

In other news; The ground turns white when it snows from time to time.

BB should be a bit more deep than the latest issue of RangerRick. Just say’n. I know that you can do better.

[HMSGoose]

So you’re saying that rather than getting my “neat things about the earth” easily from a blog I hang out on regularly anyway, I have to start lurking in pediatricians’ waiting rooms?

[nimelennar]

@Akimbo_NOT

In other news; The ground turns white when it snows from time to time.

While this might not be a story:

@pesco

Lake Urmia has shifted from green to red and back several times in recent years

This most certainly is:

@pesco

trends suggest that a red Urmia could become increasingly common. Drought and intensive water diversion for agriculture has been limiting the amount of fresh water reaching the lake. “The lake volume has been decreasing at an alarming rate of 1.03 cubic kilometers per year,” noted Tourian, who recently analyzed data from several satellites to track how Urmia has changed. “The results from satellite imagery revealed a loss of water extent at an average rate of 220 square kilometers per year, which indicates that the lake has lost about 70 percent of its surface area over the last 14 years.”

It feeds back into all of the other evidence about climate change.

And, of course…

@Akimbo_NOT

BB should be a bit more deep than the latest issue of RangerRick. Just say’n. I know that you can do better.

Would you say that you’re disappointed in BoingBoing?

[Daneyul]

@HMSGoose

So you’re saying that rather than getting my “neat things about the earth” easily from a blog I hang out on regularly anyway, I have to start lurking in pediatricians’ waiting rooms?

What, you think I’m going to subscribe to Highlights just to feed my Goofus and Gallant addiction???

[akbar5656]

Reports of a crying teenage Japanese boy and his surly red headed female companion could not be confirmed.