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River Colors are Changing

In the past 35 years, one third of large rivers in the United States have changed their dominant color, often due to sediments or algae.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using data courtesy of Gardner, J., et al. (2020) and Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kasha Patel.

Published February 26, 2021
Data acquired 1984 - 2018

Sources:
Landsat 5 > TM
Landsat 7 > ETM+
Landsat 8 > OLI