Blood Snow what why | Rose Snow | Pink Snow | Pink Ice | Glacier Blood | Babul ngo | Eco info
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Date: 2023-04-11

EcoInfo by Babul ngo brings you interesting information, facts, scenarios about various aspects of Environment. 
You might have heard about white snow, do you know PINK SNOW? Well, Talking about snow turning pink it can also be called Watermelon Snow, Blood glacier, Pink ice,  Blood snow, Watermelon Snow. It is a phenomenon caused by blooming green algae called Chlamydomonas Nivalis. In the year 2020 pink snow mysteriously appeared in the Italian Alps the Presena Glacier then started turning pink. This process has been studied for more than 100 years. According to recent reports 50 percent of the glaciers are expected to be gone by 2020. High up in the mountains rapid growth of algae, or glacier algal blooms, are turning the melting snow into pink. They further darken the surface of the snow and make it melt more quickly. Scientists are trying to understand what's causing Pink Snow and how they impact water levels in drought prone areas. According to recent reports 50 percent of the glacier's ice is expected to be gone by 2020. This phenomenon has been very common in the parts of Antarctica like Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Washington, Oregon and Alaska.

So when a snowpack melts, it provides water resources through rivers to downstream ecosystems. And if the snow melts quickly in spring or summer months, occurrences of flooding events and droughts may take place.So the rate of snowmelt can impact the quantity of water available throughout the summer season. When the snow algae increases overtime, and in particular if they are increasing on snow that's protecting glaciers in the summer, then the snow algae  bloom is considered to be harmful. 

People are out hiking and climbing and backcountry skiing all the time, and they are the eyes of the project called SNOW PROJECT introduced by the science department and created by Camp Mobile, a subsidiary of South Korean internet search giant Naver Corporation to know more about snow ice and snow turning pink. This data allows them to survey across large areas over long periods of time to address the question, are they changing? Are things getting worse? 

In an interview Robin Kodner, an associate professor of environmental science at Western Washington University says that the snow turns pink when the algae cells grow in the snow, they produce a red coloured pigment that turns the snow reddish pink. And that pigment helps act as, like, a sunscreen for the algae. It helps them from high light levels. This pigmented algae affects the snow by growing at high concentrations, they darken the snow's surface, which increases the amount of solar radiation absorbed by snow. 

As a scientific community, we need to figure out that there haven't  been that many people around the world studying algae, but scientists predict that they would be getting worse or more intense as the climate warms and the snowpack and the glacier snow melts more regularly. 

Although pink snow is not properly studied, scientists have always been worried about the darker snow which may absorb more of the sun's heat than white snow and cause the snowpack to melt more quickly. That has important implications for climate change and summertime water supplies that rely on steady runoff. Watch this film, LIKE SHARE Comment for wider outreach. Join us to see more environmental awareness videos and educate yourself for a green living in the society.
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