The 6 weirdest colored bodies of water on Earth

When seen from space, Earth’s water appears in vibrant shades other than the deep blue that we’re used to. What’s up with that?

Hosted by Joe Hanson from Be Smart, Overview uses stunning 4k drone footage to reveal the natural and human made marvels shaping our planet--from a 10,000-foot view--literally.

[AndrewPurnell-ty]

I’ve lived on the Great Lakes for 46 years and Lake Erie is the only one that I have ever seen an algae bloom on. I also don’t remember them happening in the first 20 years of my life. They are caused by manure and fertilizer runoff and the increasing temperature of the lake every year. The bloom can cover the whole lake if it gets bad enough but is usually just on the American side, I wonder why?

[pooryorick]

Whe. I was a kid we would drive past the salt beds at the south end of San Francisco Bay. The water turned pink as it evaporated out of the bed. I thought it was pink lemonade or Kool Aid. I was 5 years old at the time.

[culgi-culgi]

i get to 4

Black Bayou
Black Pond
Blackwater River
Black Sea

[luizeduardom.]

This Brazilian river is actually the Amazon river

[stevenclark]

So the teal is a glacial erosion thing? I first saw it in Alaska so I just kinda assumed it was a too-cold-for-normal-algae thing.

[nichendrix]

I'm not 100% sure, because there a number of two tone rivers in Brazil, whereone river have a brownish color due to it carrying mud and other sediments and the other being sediment poor and having pristine green/blue water. But the name given in the picture and other details on the picture it looks a lot like the town I live in, Teresina where the Poty river meets the greater and very sediment rich Parnaíba river, also called the Old Monk, due to the Franciscan monks brown robes, and since there are a number of important Franciscan Monasteries in the region, that were very inportant in colonial times.

Which IIRC is the Parnaíba-Poty is the second biggest place where rivers meet in such conditions, one being very muddy due to sediment and the other with far less free floating sediment.

The biggest is the Madeira and Solimões rivers in which essentially gives prize to the greater Amazon river. The Madeira river has blackish, but clear waters duetl to the specific combination of minerals on its waters that reacts and gives it its blackish color, and the Solimões, very sediment heavy.

[AjSmit]

Noooo the caption should have said "artefact" instead of "artifact"