Image: Alaska Area U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service/Flickr
In a splendidly thorough, helpful story, Alec Luhn takes us through the next terrific ecological hazard dealing with Alaska -its rivers are turning orange. Rivers throughout the Brooks Variety (which has actually remained in the news just recently as hunters and anglers flock to safeguard it from foreign mining interests) are turning orange as permafrost thaws and iron is dripped into the water. Other elements are affecting this occurrence, also, however up until now the early returns reveal that these orange rivers are deadly to nearly all marine life.
We’ll have an extensive analysis of this story later on, however for now, you can check out the complete writeup here.
