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U.S. U.S. Officials Believed Israel Was Plotting to Kill Iran's Nuclear Negotiators, Report Says World Green Scum, Grand Symbol: The Science Behind the Algae in Washington's Reflecting Pool California Why California's Gas Prices Stay So High Heading Into the Fourth of July Sports Djokovic Ties Federer's Wimbledon Record With a Gritty Comeback Win Los Angeles Family Sues LAPD After Officers Fatally Shoot Their Dog During a Canoga Park Welfare Check U.S. A Pilot Says Bats Invaded His Denver Hotel Room and One Bit Him. Now He's Suing Marriott.World Lam Wing-kee, Defiant Hong Kong Bookseller Who Exposed His Mainland Detention, Dies at 70 Los Angeles What's Open and Closed on the Fourth of July U.S. U.S. Officials Believed Israel Was Plotting to Kill Iran's Nuclear Negotiators, Report Says World Green Scum, Grand Symbol: The Science Behind the Algae in Washington's Reflecting Pool California Why California's Gas Prices Stay So High Heading Into the Fourth of July Sports Djokovic Ties Federer's Wimbledon Record With a Gritty Comeback Win Los Angeles Family Sues LAPD After Officers Fatally Shoot Their Dog During a Canoga Park Welfare Check U.S. A Pilot Says Bats Invaded His Denver Hotel Room and One Bit Him. Now He's Suing Marriott.World Lam Wing-kee, Defiant Hong Kong Bookseller Who Exposed His Mainland Detention, Dies at 70 Los Angeles What's Open and Closed on the Fourth of July

Topic: water

A green algal bloom swirling across the water of Lake Erie.

Friday, 7/3, 05:38 PM

Green Scum, Grand Symbol: The Science Behind the Algae in Washington's Reflecting Pool

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool turned a murky green this summer, its mirror surface swallowed by an algae bloom.
It is an unglamorous sight for a national monument — and a useful reminder, on the country's birthday, that the microscopic organisms behind it are among the most important living things on the planet.

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California Concedes It May Not Stop the Golden Mussel

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