Tiny extremophiles give the salty lakes their rosy hue, but over-mining and climate change are threatening their existence.

Pink lakes in Western Australia get their color from pigments produced by microbes, but climate change and other human ...

Lake MacDonnell took my breath away, particularly the famous span of road with bright pink water on one side and blue-green on the other. Near Penong, this pink sand beach Australia experience ...

The vibrant pink lakes in Western Australia look like something out of a cartoon but there's some very real science behind ...

Australia's pink lakes, like Lake Hillier and Lake MacDonnell, are famous for their vibrant colors due to microorganisms, primarily Dunaliella salina algae that produce beta-carotene. The pink hue ...

Discovered in 1802 by British explorer Mathew Flinders, Lake Hillier is one of five pink lakes in Victoria, Australia, alongside Lake Crosbie, Becking, Hardy, and Kenyon sharing a similar phenomenon.

News Australia’s largest lake is one of the world’s strangest natural wonders Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre turns pink only a few times each century – and here’s how you can see it ...

Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre is located within Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre National Park in South Australia. It's the country's lowest geographical point and largest salt lake, and measures in at a mind ...

But seeing the pink waters of the once-in-a-lifetime Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre isn’t easy. It is best to fly from Adelaide Airport (ADL) to Coober Pedy Airport (CPD).

Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre is technically Australia’s biggest lake, but you wouldn’t know it most of the time – it rarely has water in it. But, thanks to record-breaking fall rains, this expanse ...

There are a bunch of them around Western Australia, produced by salty aquifers and algae that produce beta carotene (also found in carrots). Like so much on our journey, the pink lake was ...