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Re: The Sky is Falling!
« Reply #30 on: February 02, 2013, 04:35:53 am »




yellow Slime molds  Seems they include them wit this stuff :D

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« Reply #31 on: February 05, 2013, 04:35:07 pm »
Looks like everyone took a good stab at it trying to figure out what it is.  Anyone near this area that could go get a sample?
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« Reply #32 on: August 18, 2013, 03:23:47 pm »
Haven't had an entry in this department for some time... but here is one...

Pink Snow Surprises Residents In Karaghanda
17 August, 2013



Pink snow surprised residents in Karaghanda, Kazakhstan,


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Summer is not yet over, but this does not prevent strange snow for showing up in some parts of the world.

Residents in Karaghanda, Kazakhstan witnessed extraordinary snowfall on August 13. Snow falling from the sky was pink!

Meteorologists predicted rainfall on that day, but snow fell instead. According to weather experts this is a normal and natural phenomenon that cannot always be predicted, just like a tornado or storm.

Extreme weather conditions have surprised us before. We have seen on a couple of occasions how lakes and seas have suddenly turned red.



http://www.messagetoeagle.com/pinksnowkaraghanda.php#.UhEYvNLUnjK

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« Reply #33 on: August 18, 2013, 03:32:00 pm »
Interesting how one link leads to so many others :D

Wonderful Things: Don’t Eat the Pink Snow
By Jennifer Frazer | July 9, 2013


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If you stumbled one midsummer on the melting snow in the image below, what would you imagine produced the strange color?


Translated German caption: "Snow area with Chlamydomonas nivalis (snow blood) near Abisko (Northern Sweden)" Creative Commons Ökologix. Click image for license and source.

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Here’s another example with a pinker hue, from further out.


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Here’s a poorer example that I stumbled on myself on July 4, 2011 on Long’s Peak in Colorado:



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When an 1818 British expedition led by Captain John Ross tasked with finding the Northwest Passage stumbled onto “extensive patches” of this stuff near Greenland’s Cape York in Baffin Bay, the Times of London confidently declared it to be iron-nickel meteorite detritus. In reality, the Scottish botanist Robert Brown — he of Brownian motion fame — suggested in an appendix to Ross’s mission report that same year the color could be due to an alga, a photosynthetic microbe. And it was.

If there’s one thing Earth has taught us, it’s that if a surface or substrate is ever wet, something will grow. And, despite near-zero temperatures, acidity, solar irradiation, and what must be frankly admitted to be minimal nutritional value, snow is no exception. Over 60 species of algae alone dwell there, and no doubt more await discovery. Scientists just announced this May the discovery of a new species from Colorado snow that they suggest could be a source of biofuel feedstock for northern climates where other algae cannot thrive.

By far, the most common species of snow alga is Chlamydomonas nivalis, which colors snow red or pink. With their pair of front-mounted flagella, they ply the films of water found in melting snow drifts. Midsummer is the best time of the year to see them, if you live in a high-altitude or Arctic clime with snowbanks that stubbornly refuse to yield to the sun.

Yet surprsingly, active C. nivalis cells are not pink when you look at them under the microscope. Here’s what a different species of Chlamydomonas looks like swarming in water to give you the idea.

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Here’s a closeup alongside a slinky green alga called Euglena. The homely, roundish cells are Chlamydomonas, and you can see both their paired flagella and the cells’ various organelles (aren’t you glad our bodies aren’t transparent?):

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The cells know which way to drive in their snowbank because they can see. Most species of Chlamydomonas — and I assume C. nivalis is no exception — possess a light-sensitive eyespot containing rhodopsin. Versions of the same ancient chemical are found (to cite but a few examples) in your own eyes, in sea-faring protists called dinoflagellates, and in salt-loving photosynthetic archaea living in natron flats, who use it not to see but to make supper.

C. nivalis is a green alga — the group that gave rise to land plants, and includes the desmids I discussed here last month. And as you saw, the vegetative cells of Chlamydomonas nivalis are green while growing. So how is it that they color snow pink?

Since, like lichens, these algae must contend with intense UV bombardment, they need sunscreen to protect their light-harvesting molecule chlorophyll, and lots of it. They need it most in their resting stage — the one that might have to survive for a long time on top of a snow drift or soil prior to next fall’s snows. That stage is the zygote. In many species of snow algae, this single-celled, immobile product of mating is packed with carotenoids (click here for some nice images).

Carotenoids are brightly-colored UV-absorbing pigments. This huge class of biochemicals includes beta-carotene. When consumed and transported to your eyes, beta carotene performs a similar job for you by absorbing UV, thereby protecting your retina from diseases like macular degeneration. Like the carotenoids found in fruits and vegetables, the chemicals also lend zygotes an orange, red or rusty hue under the microscope.

Midummer snow reveals its chromatic algal payload most readily on permanent snow fields in sunny, dry areas; rain tends to wash them away. C. nivalis zygotes are quite red, so as melting, erosion, or evaporation concentrates algae at the surface, the snow blushes.


Joyce Gellhorn says these self-reinforcing pink pits are called "sun cups". Creative Commons Will Beback. Click image for license and source.

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Not all snow algae color snow pink. Green snow can be found in layers below the surface if you shovel into it, usually near tree canopies in alpine forests. One of these algae, Chloromonas brevispina, makes green zygotes and usually live in areas exposed to considerably less ultraviolet light than their red kin. More rarely, algae color snow orange, as you can see in the footprint above.

For obvious reasons, pink snow is sometimes called “watermelon snow”. Oddly enough, it’s even said to smell a bit like watermelon. So why shouldn’t you find out if it tastes that way too? According to botanist Joyce Gellhorn’s 2002 book Song of the Alpine, there’s a very good reason: in addition to being a tantalizingly refreshing-looking on a hot day after a long hike where a snow cone would be just the ticket, it’s also a laxative.

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The views expressed are those of the author and are not necessarily those of Scientific American.

About the Author: Jennifer Frazer is a AAAS Science Journalism Award-winning science writer. She has degrees in biology, plant pathology/mycology, and science writing, and has spent many happy hours studying life in situ.


http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/2013/07/09/wonderful-things-dont-eat-the-pink-snow/

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Re: The Sky is Falling!
« Reply #34 on: August 18, 2013, 03:36:38 pm »
Watermelon Snow
A Strange Phenomenon Caused by Algal Cells of The Chlorophyta



A field of pink snow in the alpine Sierra Nevada of central California. In addition to snow algae (Chamydomonas nivalis), the snow contains leaves (needles) and pollen of the whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis).

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Have you ever hiked across an alpine meadow or traversed a steep talus slope in high mountain ranges and noticed pinkish patches, or streaks of red, on the snowbanks? This phenomenon is especially common during the summer months in the Sierra Nevada of California where snow has lingered from winter storms, mainly at altitudes of 10,000 to 12,000 feet. Compressing the snow with your boot leaves a distinct footprint the color of watermelon pulp. The snow even has a fresh watermelon scent and is sometimes called "watermelon snow." Walking in pink snow often results in a temporary discoloration of your clothing, such as bright red soles and pinkish pant cuffs. There are unconfirmed reports that consuming "generous quantities" of pink snow may cause diarrhea, a rather distressing situation above timberline.


Packs of colorful pink snow are a common sight during summer on alpine slopes of California's Sierra Nevada. Photo taken near the Dana Plateau in Yosemite National Park at about 12,000 feet elevation.

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« Reply #35 on: August 18, 2013, 03:42:48 pm »
Watermelon Snow

Watermelon snow, also called snow algae, red snow, or blood snow, is Chlamydomonas nivalis, a species of green algae containing a secondary red carotenoid pigment (astaxanthin) in addition to chlorophyll. Unlike most species of fresh-water algae, it is cryophilic (cold-loving) and thrives in freezing water. Its specific epithet, nivalis, is from Latin and refers to snow.

This type of snow is common during the summer in alpine and coastal polar regions worldwide, such as the Sierra Nevada of California. Here, at altitudes of 10,000 to 12,000 feet (3,000–3,600 m), the temperature is cold throughout the year, and so the snow has lingered from winter storms. Compressing the snow by stepping on it or making snowballs leaves it looking red. Walking on watermelon snow often results in getting bright red soles and pinkish pant cuffs.


Green algal cell (Chlamydomonas nivalis) responsible for red coloration of mountain snow packs. This organism utilizes pollutants carried in snow as a food source and reduces the acidity of meltwater. Thin section observed using TEM. Magnified 10,000X. (TEM) Plate #.

The first accounts of watermelon snow are in the writings of Aristotle. Watermelon snow has puzzled mountain climbers, explorers, and naturalists for thousands of years, some speculating that it was caused by mineral deposits or oxidation products that were leached from rocks.

In May 1818, four ships sailed from England to search for the Northwest Passage and chart the Arctic coastline of North America. Severe weather made them finally turn the ships back, but the expedition made valuable contributions to science. Captain John Ross noticed crimson snow that streaked the white cliffs like streams of blood as they were rounding Cape York on the northwest coast of Greenland. A landing party stopped and brought back samples to England. The Times wrote about this discovery on December 4, 1818:

   ”Captain Sir John Ross has brought from Baffin's Bay a quantity of red snow, or rather snow-water, which has been submitted to chymical analysis in this country, in order to the discovery of the nature of its colouring matter. Our credulity is put to an extreme test upon this occasion, but we cannot learn that there is any reason to doubt the fact as stated. Sir John Ross did not see any red snow fall; but he saw large tracts overspread with it. The colour of the fields of snow was not uniform; but, on the contrary, there were patches or streaks more or less red, and of various depths of tint. The liquor, or dissolved snow, is of so dark a red as to resemble red port wine. It is stated, that the liquor deposits a sediment; and that the question is not answered, whether that sediment is of an animal or vegetable nature. It is suggested that the colour is derived from the soil on which the snow falls: in this case, no red snow can have been seen on the ice.

   ”A follow-up article three days later erroneously concluded that the coloration was caused by meteoric iron deposits:

   ”Some doubt has been expressed as to the red snow observed by Sir John Ross and his associates in the newly discovered arctic region; but when it is known that the iron which was also found there, lying on the surface, in heaps, and in considerable quantities, was all meteoric, the doubt will cease, and the fact will admit of an easy solution. Sir John Ross brought home small specimens of this iron, which has been subjected by Mr. Professor Brande to the usual tests, and it is found to be precisely of the kind of the meteoric stones that occasionally fall in more southern latitudes. It is impregnated with nickel, which is never found in earth iron. That, therefore, which loads the atmosphere with the fluid which composes this meteoric iron, serves to colour the snow; iron being found to be the colourist of all metallic as well as vegetable matter.   ”

When Ross published his account of the voyage in 1818, it contained a botanical appendix by Robert Brown. In it, Brown tentatively attributed the red snow to an alga.

The phenomenon was also reported from the Scottish Highlands in the nineteenth century and subsequently recorded scientifically from a snowpatch in the Cairngorm Mountains in 1967.



Chlamydomonas nivalis


Unusual watermelon snow pits, superimposed with an orange-ish bootprint


Tracks made by sliding on watermelon snow in Utah's Uinta Mountains

Chlamydomonas nivalis is a green alga that owes its red color to a bright red carotenoid pigment, which protects the chloroplast from intense visible and also ultraviolet radiation, as well as absorbing heat, which provides the alga with liquid water as the snow melts around it. Algal blooms may extend to a depth of 25 cm (10 inches), with each cell measuring about 20 to 30 micrometers in diameter, about four times the diameter of a human red blood cell. It has been calculated that a teaspoon of melted snow contains a million or more cells. The algae sometimes accumulate in "sun cups", which are shallow depressions in the snow. The carotenoid pigment absorbs heat and as a result it deepens the sun cups, and accelerates the melting rate of glaciers and snowbanks.

During the winter months, when snow covers them, the algae become dormant. In spring, nutrients, increased levels of light and meltwater, stimulate germination. Once they germinate, the resting cells release smaller green flagellate cells which travel towards the surface of the snow. Once the flagellated cells reach the surface, they may lose their flagellae and form aplanospores, or thick-walled resting cells, or they may function as gametes, fusing in pairs to form zygotes.

Many species feed on C. nivalis, including protozoans such as ciliates, rotifers, nematodes, ice worms and springtails.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermelon_snow

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« Reply #36 on: August 18, 2013, 04:02:32 pm »
Pink Snow Hits Buffalo
Posted: 03/20/10


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BUFFALO, N.Y. — Some snow in a Buffalo neighborhood turned a deep shade of pink after a cloud of powder was released during demolition of a business that used to make food coloring. As surprised parents and pet owners wondered whether to ban outdoor play, state health and environmental officials collected samples.

A demolition contractor said a pipe that contained about five pounds of residual red dye No. 40 ruptured at a building being torn down near the former Buffalo Color plant Thursday afternoon. John Yensan of Ontario Specialty Contracting says powder was carried by the wind across homes, cars and streets.

Authorities said the dye didn't appear to pose a health problem.

A water truck was sent in to clean up.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/18/pink-snow-hits-buffalo-vi_n_427221.html

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« Reply #37 on: August 18, 2013, 04:13:45 pm »
Yangtze River In China Turns Red
9 September, 2012


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We have seen on a couple of occasions how lakes and seas have suddenly turned red.
In August a lake in Southern France unexpectedly changed color and shortly before that the strange appearance of Azov Sea stunned residents who saw how the water had turned red....

Next on the list is the Yangtze, the longest and largest river in China and the third longest river in the world.

Earlier this week, the Yangtsze River, near the city of Chongquing, where the Yangtze connects to the Jialin River surprised residents by becoming orange-red. Some people were so amazed that they collected samples in water bottles.

Others like a fisherman ignored the phenomena went about his daily business as if nothing had happened.


Yangtze River has changed its color. Image credit: ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images


Some people continued to work as if nothing had happened.
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he cause is currently unknown, but it not the first time a river has turned red in China. Last December, the Jian River in the city of Luoyang, in the north Henan province, turned red after becoming polluted by a powerful dye.
The dye was being dumped into the city's storm drain network by two illegal dye workshops.

Officials raided the factories to shut them down, and then disassembled their machinery.

According to chapter 16, verse 4 of the Bible's book of Revelations, one of the signs that Armageddon is near will be an angel pouring a bowl into the rivers, turning them into blood.


Whatever it was that dyed the river was almost orange in color.
Image credit: ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images



Many see this as a sign of end times.
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"And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood." (Book of Revelation2, 16:4)

This and other similar events have frightened many people who consider the change of color as a sign of the end days and fulfillment of the Biblical prophecy.

Officials are reportedly investigating the cause.


The Yangtze river washes up on and stains a tiled floor.
Image credit: ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images



he Yangtze river is a very unusual sight today....
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« Reply #38 on: August 18, 2013, 04:32:53 pm »
Ancient, frozen ecosystem produces blood-red ice flows



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The McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica are considered one of the least hospitable places on Earth; NASA has used them to simulate conditions that might prevail on Mars. The area gets little precipitation, and the water that is present is locked into ancient, thick glaciers that have been in the area for longer than modern humans have existed. Almost by definition, any living things that manage to scrape out an existence in this environment are going to be pretty unusual. But scientists are now reporting the discovery of an ecosystem buried under the ice of one of these glaciers that stretches the definition of unusual well past the breaking point.

Nobody would be likely to suspect that there is any life underneath the ice, which is hundreds of meters thick in the area, if it weren't for the striking red ice erupting from the glacier's terminus, giving the formation the name Blood Falls. That red color comes from iron concentrated in the ice, which exists primarily in the Fe(II) state favored when oxygen is absent. Thanks to a release event that occurred in 2004, researchers have projected where that iron originates, and suggested its likely source. They've also figured out what the environment at that source looks like.

It seems that the red ice has travelled from a pocket that exists four kilometers from the glacier's end, at a site where the ice is over 400m thick. Based on the chemical composition of the material trapped in the ice, scientists think that the pocket encases the remains of an arm of the ocean that extended into the area during the Pilocene, which ended over 1.8 million years ago. Once encased under the glacier, that pocket became hyper-saline and completely devoid of free oxygen. Consistent with its total isolation from the surface, the amount of 14C in the sample is extremely low.

Despite the fact that the liquid water is below the freezing point of pure water, there appears to be a microbial community that has called it home. Consistent with an origin in the oceans, three quarters of the DNA sequences obtained from Blood Falls appear to come from relatives of marine organisms. Most of the clones come from within the Proteobacteria, and the closest cultured relatives of many of these metabolize sulfur and iron (there are also high levels of sulfur present in the brine).

Unlike sulfur-powered communities present at undersea vents, there's little indication of a hydrogen sulfide metabolism present in the ice at Blood Falls. Instead, it appears that energy is obtained when sulfur is cycled through different oxidation states by reacting it with iron, producing the Fe(II) seen in the brine. The oxidized sulfur is then used to react with carbon compounds, powering the metabolism. All of that is pretty low-energy—the authors suggest that the doubling time for a bacterium in this environment would be roughly 300 days—and requires an external source of Fe(III) to power the system. The authors posit that the glacier itself might provide the source by extracting new iron as it scrapes across the underlying rocks.

Bizarre environments like this help inform scientists as they consider the prospects for life on other planets and moons. But this specific example may tell us something about how life managed to persist on Earth during what appear to have been complete global glaciations that occurred in the Neoproterozoic. These "snowball earth" events may have frozen over the oceans, but the Blood Falls bacteria suggest that life could have eked out a metabolism under these extreme conditions, providing raw material for evolution once the planet warmed again.

Science, 2009. DOI: 10.1126/science.1167350

http://arstechnica.com/science/2009/04/ancient-frozen-ecosystem-produces-blood-red-ice-flows/

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« Reply #39 on: August 18, 2013, 04:36:56 pm »
Lake In France Turns Red
13 August, 2012


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This year, we have encountered the color red in places where we don't expect to see it. A while back the strange appearance of Azov Sea stunned residents who saw how the water had turned red. The red rocks in China have also puzzled scientists for a long time.

Now, a lake in Southern France has also suddenly turned red.

The charming Camargue, France is a river delta where the Rhône meets the sea

This region is home to a number of salt flats and this concentration of salt sometimes stain the red the regions normally blue water.


These waters are normally blue, but now everything is red due to high salt concentrations. Image credit: Caters News Agency


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In this region we can also find riz rouge, or red rice, so-named for its unmistakable blood red color.


mage credit: Caters News Agency

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« Reply #40 on: August 18, 2013, 04:42:07 pm »
Strange Red Appearance Of Azov Sea - Locals Panic
29 July, 2012


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You might remember the article about the red rocks that puzzled scientists for a long time.

This week, scientists and citizens were stunned to see how the Azov Sea suddenly turned red.

"It might be a sign of the coming events, or even end of the world" say the locals.

The officials have been trying to calm down people, explaining that although this does not happen often it is a natural phenomenon that does sometimes occur.

Azov Sea, or Sea of Azov as it is often called is situated off the southern shores of Ukraine and Russia.

It forms a northern extension of the Black Sea, to which it is linked on the south by the Kerch Strait. The Sea of Azov is about 210 miles (340 km) long and 85 miles (135 km) wide and has an area of about 14,500 square miles (37,600 square km).


This picture of the Azov Sea was taken by one of the locals. Image credit: English Russia

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The sea is characterised by high concentrations of organic matter and long blooming periods.
Scientists have discovered about 600 species of planktonic algae in the Sea of Azov.

The number of species is dominated by diatoms and green algae; blue-green algae and pyrophites are significant, and euglena and yellow-green algae form only 5% of the species.

Green algae are mostly responsible for the greenish colour of the sea in the satellite images.

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So, what exactly did happen with the Azov Sea?

It is still unclear what happened. The change of color could be due toxic pollution, but most likely the reason for bloody red color of the sea is algal blooms that are not dangerous to humans. The south-west wind "drove" algal blooms closer to shore. Further flowering could lead to fish deaths of mass proportions.





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"If the Sea of Azov continues with algal bloom, it will be a disaster with unpredictable consequences. If this heat is about to repeat several more years, the sea has the potential to be renamed from Azov in the Dead," said George Ryazantsev from the Research Institute of the Azov sea.

The director of the Institute Leonid Izergin assures that the sea is safe for swimming, but the villagers of Berdyansk do not believe him. They claim that the sea has a special metallic smell that worries them.



http://www.messagetoeagle.com/azovseared.php

http://englishrussia.com/2012/07/25/the-azov-sea-turned-bloody-red/

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« Reply #41 on: August 18, 2013, 04:50:14 pm »
Odd Phenomenon Of The Red Rocks -
Why Did All The Stones Suddenly Change Color?
21 July, 2012


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Some years ago, back in, 2005, over the slopes of Mount Gongga, China all rocks suddenly turned red.

In time, the entire region became known the "Red-Stone-Valley" and today it is a spectacular local tourist attraction.

For many years, scientists have wondered what caused the stones to unexpectedly change color?

Today, scientists can finally offer an explanation what is behind this strange phenomenon.

According to Guoxiang Liu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Wuhan, Hubei, China, and his colleagues, the rocks became red as a result of a newly discovered variety of the algae Trentepohlia jolithus that suddenly expanded.


The stones suddenly changed color. Image credit: Guoxiang Liu

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In their research paper, Liu and his colleagues write that " Trentepohlia is a genus of subaerial green algae which is widespread in tropical, subtropical, and also temperate regions with humid climates".
The scientists state that the reason the algae Trentepohlia jolithus started to expand is due to global warming as well as various human activities.

"This new variety only grows on the native rock, both global warming and human activity have provided massive areas of suitable substrata: the rocks surfaces of the Yajiageng river valley floodplain were re-exposed because of heavy debris flows in the summer of 2005; plus human activities such as tourism and road-building have also created a lot of exposed rock!" Liu and his team write.


Red-Stone-Valley and the stones covered with Trentepohlia-carpets.

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2A-2B: Red-stone Valley and the Yajiageng River; 2C: Red Trentepohlia-carpet in a cold winter; 2D: Trentepohlia growing on stone walls near the road; 2E: Red-Stone-Valley and Yajiageng River; 2F-2G: Red-Stone-Valley in foggy conditions; 2H: Tibetan Ni-ma stack with Trentepohlia growing on it. 2I: Red-Stone-Valley in winter. Image credit: PLoS One


Microscopic view of Trentepohlia jolithus. Image credit: PLoS One

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Today, most of the rocks are covered with deep red colored algal carpets in the Yajiageng river valley.

http://www.messagetoeagle.com/redrockschina.php#.UhFcJNLUnjI

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Hello all,

Recently Gloris Fod and I have found a new specimen of Astral-Jelly in the forest near where we live. It was on a dead log, and we checked in again after a few weeks and it seemed to have grown in size. Of course, we immediately tried to find out what this mysterious species was and we found this forum. That is what got us interested in joining and after finding some more interesting theories on this site we knew we wanted to join. I was wondering if you guys could help me understand more about this seemingly alien species?

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« Reply #43 on: July 23, 2015, 09:58:51 am »
Greetings:

Don't know why we missed this great thread, but we did.

Astral_Jelly… do you have any photos, per chance?



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Seems I need to do a repair on this page as a lot of images are missing

I need to transfer this one to the website so we have the images

 


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