[Did you know ?] Australia’s famous pink lakes are disappearing

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Beside the ochre-colored gorges and turquoise coastlines of Western Australia lies a surprising hue: fuchsia pink. The state’s pink salt lakes have been a startling part of the landscape for thousands of years. They’ve appeared in Dreamtime stories and family vacation photos (though in the age before digital photographs, says Tilo Massenbauer, an applied environmental scientist who has studied the pink lakes, if visitors took their film to be developed outside of Western Australia, the technician would say the machine was broken, the color settings off, otherwise how could a lake be that pink?).

More recently, the pink lakes have featured in social media posts, fashion ads and music videos (Mandopop king Jay Chou filmed his Pink Ocean track at Hutt Lagoon). But two of Western Australia’s most iconic pink lakes have lost their distinctive color over the last 20 years because of climate change and resource over-extraction. Yet experts believe the lakes can bloom pink once again through both targeted interventions and letting nature run its course.

 

Read more : https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/western-australia-pink-lakes-travel