the algal bloom, with Beachwatch posting a photograph on Twitter showing water the colour of tomato juice. Yangtze River Turns Red and Turns Up a Mystery For a river known as the "golden watercourse," red is a strange color to see. Yet that's the shade turning up in the Yangtze River and officials have no idea why. The red began appearing in the Yangtze, the longest and largest river in China and the third longest river in the world, yesterday near the city of Chongquing, where the Yangtze connects to the Jialin River . Natural bodies of water like lakes and rivers turning blood red sounds like something apocalyptic straight out of the Bible, but a lake in southern France displaying this phenomenon has a perfectly natural explanation for it: salt. A lake in the Camargue in southern France, a river delta right where the Rhne meets the sea, turned blood red, causing some panic. But fear not: scientists are saying that the color is due to a natural phenomenon, and not a chilling portent of doom, reports NY Daily. The Beirut River mysteriously turned blood red Wednesday after a stream of an unidentified substance started pouring into the southern bank of the river in Furn al-Shubbak. While the source of the red-colored water is still to be determined, the river was still emptying the red-colored water into the Mediterranean Sea by Wednesday evening. Sea of Azov turned bloody red Scientists and citizens are baffled as the waters of the