Why Is This Lake PINK?

[@OkaTeluguAbbayi2003]

I remember when the channel was still rather small, but showed a lot of promise. Now it's close to having a million subscribers. Great work dude!

[@ALu-nq8rf]

Yeah, i remember when I didn't know what Atlas Pro looked like.

[@HattieMcDanielonaMoon]

@@ALu-nq8rf I miss when I didn't

[@gewsbahks6224]

I love how even when he was small he still had amazing quality videos too.

[@leontebogdan2759]

I can't believe I'm following someone huge before 1m

[@swanceva]

@@ALu-nq8rf he's cute 😍

[@davidec.4021]

I knew about the lake but this video is SO interesting because you show the process behind it, cross-researching linguistics and ethnology starting from Google Earth. Your approach is one of the things that make the info on your channel really stand out. 10/10 mate as always

[@rockocanuck]

Even explaining the term sodium. I knew exactly where he was going with it, but never knew that is how Sodium got it's name!

[@shannonmikko9865]

This comment said it better than I ever could

[@slevinchannel7589]

@@shannonmikko9865 Collabs help the channel grow. Just sayin'. On another note: And theres many Science-Channel who's Fan's dont know each other's channels. So here comes my plan into account: I drop random comments about 'Hey, want some recommendations about something? Anything?', get called a bot sometimes, but who cares, and sometimes people say 'Thanks, i take a look', which makes my Day!

[@slevinchannel7589]

@@shannonmikko9865 In other words, Shannon-chan: May i recommend you some nice science-channel you may not know? Or even something else? Interested in learning how to write a book, which the myth says is soooo terrrrible hard, but actually, in reality, its FUN? ?

[@shannonmikko9865]

@@slevinchannel7589 sure

[@JimRFF]

"Halobacterium Salinarum" Bruh... a scientist literally named this thing "Salty Salt-microbe" xD

[@WanderTheNomad]

Ancient Greek ἅλς (háls, “sea, salt”) Latin sāl

[@HouseOfKung]

Redundant department of redundancy

[@WanderTheNomad]

@@slevinchannel7589 I *despise* copy-pasting spammers. Doesn't even matter if you're a bot automatically posting or a human manually posting. The end result is essentially the same thing. An annoying comment completely unrelated to the video hijacking multiple comment threads for attention.

[@slevinchannel7589]

@@WanderTheNomad The End-Result is you ranting off against someone who tried to be nice, helpful and education-spreading. That, my friend, is the end-result here.

[@slevinchannel7589]

@@WanderTheNomad If your so soul-weak that you cant differenciate btween Attention-Seekers and warm Help-Offerings, that makes me sad. Even sadder if you cant even think of a reasonable Difference between Non-feeling Bots and real People.

[@Wotun]

So as a person who speaks a language where Sodium is just called Natrium, the meaning of "Lake Natron" was a bit obvious

[@natalyamartirosyan]

Totally. When he said that there’s no such element in the periodic table, I was like “whaaat?” Somehow completely missed that it’s sodium in English.

[@dadarmwn]

Yassss. To me it's so obvious

[@sohopedeco]

What language still uses Natrium?

[@Nikolasz1173]

@@sohopedeco Most languages

[@speacky6229]

@@sohopedeco Belarusian, Bulgarian, bosnian, german, vietnamese, japanese to name but a few

[@pixelmaster98]

Being German, where sodium is called "Natrium", I gotta say I was pretty confused when you were talking about it like it's something nobody knows xD

[@rizwanasir6587]

I who memorised some of the original names of elements I was equally confused

[@kaivoormolen1825]

@@rizwanasir6587 Me being Dutch AND knowing some of the elements I was even more confused

[@modmaker7617]

Latin: Natrium German: Natrium Russian: Natriy Greek: Nátrio Swedish: Natrium Norwegian: Natrium Danish: Natrium Icelandic: Natrium Finnish: Natrium Bulgarian: Natrii North-Macedonian: Natrium Belarusian: Natryju Ukrainian: Natryju Dutch: Natrium Scottish Gaelic: Natrium Luxembourgish: Natrium Lithuanian: Natrio Latvian: Natrijs Estonian: Naatrium Hungarian: Nátrium Georgian: Nat'riumi Armenian: Natrium Azerbaijani: Natrium Serbo-Croatian: Natrij/Natrijum Slovene: Natrij Albanian: Natriumi English: Sodium Polish: Sód Spanish: Sodio Portuguese: Sódio Czech: Sodik French: Sodium Italian: Sodio Romanian: Sodiu Slovak: Sodíka Irish: Sóidium Welsh: Sodiwm Turkish: Sodyum Maltese: Sodju Basque: Sodioa Catalan: Sodi In European there seems to be a divide on what to call this element.

[@kaivoormolen1825]

@@modmaker7617 That's interesting because there doesn't really seem to be a clear divide between to language groups such as Western-Eastern Europe, Germanic-Romanic, etc.

[@koraptd6085]

@@modmaker7617 I'd like to know why is there such a divide in the European scientific nomenclature.

[@deuronius]

The Flamingo's there just before migration is a wonder to behold. Awesome vid big fan from East Africa.

[@slevinchannel7589]

Collabs help the channel grow. Just sayin'. On another note: And theres many Science-Channel who's Fan's dont know each other's channels. So here comes my plan into account: I drop random comments about 'Hey, want some recommendations about something? Anything?', get called a bot sometimes, but who cares, and sometimes people say 'Thanks, i take a look', which makes my Day!

[@fukkitful]

BBC covers it in Earthflight, and yes they can be up to 2 million in one flock. Its amazing watch them take off.

[@slevinchannel7589]

@@fukkitful Yeah... BBC... the same guys who bought us a lot of horrorifyingly stupid tv-shows... ...

[@geoffdb8118]

@@slevinchannel7589 what's your point ? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@slevinchannel7589]

@@geoffdb8118 Wow. Are you like 8 yo? I mean, not understanding a very simple comment and what it means, that’s just 1 thing, but finding not understanding it so funny that you drop like a hundred laughing emojis? Really? Ouch, i think some hashtags apply here.

[@Xelaria]

Altas: do you want to know why this lake is pink? Me: *Na*

[@jtgd]

I just wanna see his pretty face

[@pomtubes1205]

@@jtgd so😳di😳um

[@amehak1922]

This deserves more likes

[@2KOOLURATOOLGaming]

Oh no, the salt jokes from high school!!! "I would tell you a joke about Sodium, but Na" "What's Batman's theme tune?", "SodiumSodiumSodiumSodiumSodiumSodiumSodiumSodium BATMAN!"

[@sankarsah]

Imagine Atlas Pro and Linus of Linus TEch Tips standings side by side

[@davidthomas7884]

You’ve just answered a question that my A level biology teacher couldn’t about osmosis and has bugged me for 15 years. Thanks so much

[@burgersnchips]

What was the question?

[@shadymcnasty5920]

@@burgersnchips the salinity permiating cells walls and stripping it of its moisture

[@davidweikle9921]

The north end of the Great Salt Lake in Utah is pink and distinctively discolored compared to the south end of the lake. It is bisected and salt and other minerals are harvested from the north end of the lake.

[@slevinchannel7589]

Collabs help the channel grow. This channel should do some with other S-Channels! Anyway: And theres many Science-Channel who's Fan's dont know each other's channels. So here comes my plan into account: I drop random comments about 'Hey, want some recommendations about something? Anything?', get called a bot sometimes, but who cares, and sometimes people say 'Thanks, i take a look', which makes my Day!

[@hunterjackson1949]

I was going to mention the Great Salt Lake too. The reason why only half of the lake is pink is also fascinating. During the construction of railroads across the western US a causeway was constructed across the Great Salt Lake upon which to build a rail line. This casueway bisected the lake into northern half and a southern half. Now the Great Salt Lake has three primary inlet rivers, Jordan River, Weber River, and Bear River. All three of these rivers enter the lake on the southern half though. Without an inet of fresh water in the northern half the evaporation caused it to become even more hypersaline than the rest of the lake. From there thr processes of pinkifying discussed in the video happened to the north half of the Great Salt Lake. Eventually this bisection if the lake was remedied by constructing a bridge on the causeway to allow water to mix between the two halves. To this day though the north end of the lake maintains a distinct pink color compared to the southern half.

[@davidweikle9921]

@@hunterjackson1949 yessir, all true. Thank you for expanding on this.

[@Gingerbreadley]

If you want tips on cool places to look at geography wise check out the Arizona sky islands. The desert turns the tips of mountains into little islands leading the area to have the highest biodiversity in the United States.

[@gustavosauro1882]

What

[@Gingerbreadley]

@@gustavosauro1882 basically the tops of the mountains are tropical because of rain but lower down it’s a desert so animals don’t go from one mountain top to another which leads to them being called islands.

[@gustavosauro1882]

@@Gingerbreadley wow

[@savary5050]

This is so cool

[@Dragrath1]

On a related note did you know the American Southwest basin and range province is actually a rift valley? It is why both places have an odd mix of high mountains held up by the upwelling hot asthenosphere and deep basins with no outflow channels, the cause of the rifting is a bit different and the latitude differences play a role in differentiating the two continents but of the 4 active continental rift valleys they are probably the ones with the most in common as relatively warm evaporation dominated rift valleys, as the other two lake Baikal (where Amur is rifting away from Eurasia) and the Antarctic rift valley (where west Antarctica is rifting away from East Antarctica) are far colder and thus have a lot less evaporation. The rate of rifting in North America has slowed down and the overlaying crust is not yet considered completely separate under typical definitions by the USGS (the Northern parts are still attached with the rift probably needing help from the Yellowstone Hotspot )but it is still spreading apart and producing volcanoes.

[@Wolfiyeethegranddukecerberus17]

Before he started using facecam, I thought it was the compass talking

[@shwetak1052]

I thought it was computer.... His face doesn't match his voice

[@David-kl1lh]

AtlasPro: You may have never heard of Natrium Me, a German: *visible confusion*

[@royalgummyworm8131]

@Shaurya wants to Explore it's part of portion if I remember

[@jeancamenen433]

I was psyched when I saw the title. I've been to lake Natron when I was young, thank you for making it the case study of this video, it's brilliant, it clarified so many things! We were there during dry season, and we saw what you show at 6:56. However, if the horizon over the lake from a distance feels pink-ish (and so does the shoreline), the water itself is rather clear. On the other hand, another lake along the Great Rift valley, lake Langano in Ethiopia, is thickly red (diving into it feels like facing Sauron). I am not sure if there is a correlation here or not, but Lake Langano is also the only lake in the country where swimming is permitted, while Ethiopia has 20 lakes. I've been told that it's linked to a certain type of algae, but my understanding of the phenomenon is only superficial. Would you be able to explain how and why is it so red? Also, if you stick to the thread of colourful lakes, why is the water of the Loch Ness so thickly black?

[@martijn5512]

Hey Atlas Pro, I have a question for you. Where do you find those ‘old school’ documentaries which you use in between segments of the videos? I am very much fascinated by them and would love to watch some of them in my spare time. Kudos in this video as well, very enjoyable and interesting as usual.

[@Migmaqiw]

I was scrolling comments to see if anyone else asked yet

[@SpaceMonkeyBoi]

"So... in other words, it's a lake of sodium chloride?" "No... it's salt"

[@paemonyes8299]

Is this from that Jimmy Neutron video?

[@ShihammeDarc]

@@paemonyes8299 yes

[@Dave_Sisson]

So our host tells us how microbes on Earth turn flamingoes pink, then he goes on to talk about life on Mars, but doesn't tell us why Martian people are green. Perhaps he's leaving us in suspense for the next episode?

[@slevinchannel7589]

On another note: And theres many Science-Channel who's Fan's dont know each other's channels. So here comes my plan into account: I drop random comments about 'Hey, want some recommendations about something? Anything?', get called a bot sometimes, but who cares, and sometimes people say 'Thanks, i take a look', which makes my Day!

[@Spiggle25]

@@slevinchannel7589 is a bot

[@DontWorryBeHappy75]

I can explain why Martians from the red planet are green. They're colour blind

[@nonenones3570]

LOL.

[@sooscar6214]

I just love videos like these, professional yet also with the person that narrates the whole story on camera

[@jacksonwilliams8971]

Owens Lake in CA, Las Coloradas in the Yucatán in Mexico and the Great Salt Lake are 3 pinky pals just in N America This channel continues to slap man I’ve been awake for 21 hours but I can’t put this video down because I have no choice but to continue to slake my thirst for that sweet, sweet knowledge, baby 😎

[@a_PIayer]

That's actually unhealthy I don't think you should stay awake for 22 hours

[@lulzdragon7339]

@@a_PIayer Just wait until you learn how long the guy driving the semi truck next to you on the interstate has been awake.

[@mack.attack]

The GSL isn't usually pink, though

[@jacksonwilliams8971]

@@mack.attack Lake Natron ain’t always pink either

[@kendryckresendiz]

Fun fact: Only the northern half of the Great Salt Lake turns pink. This happens because the lake was split into two by a railroad causeway.

[@WanderTheNomad]

What a coincidence! I was just searching up baking soda today because of Cody'sLab new video. I was curious where it could be found and looked at the wiki page for it. It mentioned mineral springs and basins. It also mentioned natron and nahcolite.

[@davidec.4021]

A person of culture that follows great channels, i see

[@minette36]

@@davidec.4021 Of course theyre a person of culture--they've got a FMA profile pic, after all ;)

[@akazimirov]

A year ago I've seen a very small pink lake in Siberia, near lake Baikal (52.68287900921457, 106.42538901315898) and wondered why it occasionally turns pink. And your video explains it perfectly!

[@bradreyno7146]

Some pink lakes exist in Australia near Kalbarri (WA).

[@matthewshearn1079]

And just by the border of vic/south Australia and Westgate lake in Melbourne turns pink as well

[@BESHYSBEES]

There is hundreds of pink lakes in Australia they’re mostly salt pans, I’ve seen many in my travels

[@toni4729]

Yeah, you tell him. 😆😅

[@tommarch.4493]

they arent common, but arent rare

[@martijn9568]

Imagine commenting before watching the end of the video

[@sourcepotato_bwobby]

Yes, I love another week of geography with Atlas Pro

[@luisangelguzman2335]

This kind of videos make me proud to say that I discovered your channel just as you reached over 11,000 subs. The topic is really interesting and the explanation is a 10/10 in my book, easy to follow, straight to the point and just the right ammount of simplification. I hope one day you recieve the recognition you deserve for these amazing videos.

[@slevinchannel7589]

Collabs help the channel grow. This channel should do some with other S-Channels! Anyway: And theres many Science-Channel who's Fan's dont know each other's channels. So here comes my plan into account: I drop random comments about 'Hey, want some recommendations about something? Anything?', get called a bot sometimes, but who cares, and sometimes people say 'Thanks, i take a look', which makes my Day! !

[@chulebam]

Here where i live its only 6 am on monday, i just woke up and im having my coffee and before preparing for work, so yeah pretty cool to see this on my feed 😁 great week for everyone!

[@2Links]

Can't believe you're already almost at a million. Seem to remember watching your early videos when there were only some 20k subscribers.

[@banalevita]

I got to see Laguna Colorada as well as Salar de Uyuni on a road trip a number of years ago, and it does totally feel like Mars! The trip was inspired by poking around on Google earth too :) Great work on this

[@K.E.L-117]

We've got three or four pink lakes in Western Australia, one WNW of Geraldton (Hutt Lagoon you mentioned) another NW of Esperance and a load more in Mcload

[@RyanYoxo]

Also 6 on Rottnest island. There’s a bunch of pink lakes throughout Australia. But they don’t look that pink in person

[@ymeynot0405]

I just want you to know how catchy your Intro video/music is... I was watching a "It's ok to be Smart" video and the cold open had me jazzing for the intro music... when I realized that it wasn't the cool music that I loved. I paused for a second, thought about it and pulled up one of your videos to double check the music and was thrilled when it started to play. So in short your intro videos are so catchy that I leave another educational channel to come to your video for the intro before going back to their video... Well done.

[@idraote]

I had this thought... Mummies are essentially cured meat. Like prosciutto. I feel queasy now.

[@seansingh4421]

Yes officer 👮 this post right here

[@captainpacifist6128]

I'm sad that this video doesn't have more views, it's fascinating as hell. Keep up the good work man!

[@domino_201]

The CGP Grey of geography, going into these rabbitholes that nobody asked for yet everyone loves.

[@supingo3339]

CGP Grey sucks

[@oldcowbb]

@@supingo3339 what?

[@ZeMarkKrazee]

22:30 Captions: “Pink licks” 🧐 Haha. I thought it was a funny misinterpretation of pink lakes. You might add captions to your videos for hard of hearing and deaf people. I love your videos and channel. Thanks for the continuing fantastic content. Congrats on almost 1,000,000 subscribers! 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

[@RyuuNoSenshi]

loved this video! I remember watching your previous Nile vid and thinking ''oh look! That must be one of those funky colored lakes like Australia has.'' while looking at the google earth footage. I already knew the color in such lakes comes from extremophiles but didn't know all the details or why such organisms only made some lakes colored so this video taught me a lot, thank you! :D Although, you not knowing the names of every single lake on earth makes me wanna unsubscribe now :/ (JK!) Also, loved you using the music from your Earth 2.0 video at the end there while talking about Mars, I'm taking a wild guess and say that was an intentional music choice and I just want to say that such little details and callbacks don't go unnoticed and are really appreciated ^^ lastly, 10/10 on your fashion as always

[@AtlasPro1]

I figured most of my dedicated viewers would know the basics but still would find the full story interesting! Glad to see I was right about that :)

[@chrisdouglas5020]

It’s crazy how I thought I was learning why a lake is pink, I did; but I learned so much more! Thank you!

[@tankedwarthog6424]

I just watched a video from fact fiend that talked about pink flamingos and this goes even more in depth than I ever expected to learn. I have honestly learned more from this channel than I have ever learned in school.

[@TimRobertsen]

I remember subscribing to you when you had about 7k subs. Already back then, your channel was a massive, undiscovered, treasure cove of top quality videos, the El Dorado of youtube :) Your videos are amazing!

[@jordanweir7187]

This explains why reddit has that reddish orange colour, too much salt

[@pas-giaw6055]

But bacteria means its cultured And reddit is uncultured

[@Tokru86]

@@pas-giaw6055 bacteria may be cultured, but they are still one of the most primitive life forms. it all checks out.

[@pas-giaw6055]

@@Tokru86 there some slightly cultured subreddits, like r/neography

[@ozzyprod9332]

I remember as a kid always loving the pink waters in the small salt flats of Puerto Rico

[@santiagoacevedo3860]

What a great way to wake up, with another amazing video. Youre the best bro

[@slevinchannel7589]

Collabs help the channel grow. This channel should do some with other S-Channels! Anyway: And theres many Science-Channel who's Fan's dont know each other's channels. So here comes my plan into account: I drop random comments about 'Hey, want some recommendations about something? Anything?', get called a bot sometimes, but who cares, and sometimes people say 'Thanks, i take a look', which makes my Day!

[@danielle78730]

okay…i LOVED your source of the nile video last week…but IMHO, *this* is your best work yet!! fantastic presentation, research, and solid empirical (and correlative!) science. WOW!

[@christophhanke6627]

6:00 In german, it is still called Natrium, just like "K" is called "Kalium" Instead of "Potassium". So I was kinda surprised when you mentioned how "we" might never seen Natrium on the periodic table xD NaHCO3 is what we in germany all "natron" which is why I directly assumed you only mean this compound

[@semaj_5022]

Man I love your videos. I like how you approach these subjects from multiple angles and highlight how tightly intertwined every system on this earth is. Plus I wasn't just hear before 1 million subscribers, pretty certain I was here before 100k! Or at least before 200k. Still congrats on your growth and success, dude!

[@catcommentator6583]

As russian speaker and son of a chemistry engineer, after yous said Natron, i thought about sodium, as russian didnt butcher the latin name of an element

[@latlatko]

i'm pretty sure all germanic languages also call it natrium.

[@WanderTheNomad]

@@latlatko isn't english a germanic language?

[@espenschjelderup426]

@@WanderTheNomad yes, but also the one most influenced by romance.

[@fastwebcam]

@@WanderTheNomad all germanic languages that are not English. fixed

[@HansLemurson]

I've been enjoying your channel since long before you ever showed your face. My first video was "Why Oceans are Deserts".

[@ingydegmar2060]

One day I shall drop this story on a first date and it will blow her mind and we live happily ever after. I shall name my first kid Atlas.

[@peterfireflylund]

That reminds me of how Elon Musk started a date once in college: “so, do you ever think of electric cars?” ;)

[@Tokru86]

Followed by: "Want to see my rocket?"

[@roryfriththetraveller4982]

i LOVE how many topics this video touches ! linguistics biology geography , i really enjoy the mix in your videos its fascinating :D if you wanted to look at another lake, i dont know if youve already talked about lakr Baikal or not but its also fascinating and also a bit cursed lol awesome but gives me the heebies

[@TheDrumrhythm]

Isn’t it funny when you think you know a thing, only to be amazed by what you don’t know? Keep up the good work!

[@jaedogg7836]

you really are a pro at giving information. Instead of saying natrum was just another term for salt you went through its origins and gave a very good explanation for it. Seriously that part blew my mind. Not the information but moreso how you gave us that information

[@bakmanthetitan]

Man, the amount of suspense before he said "sodium" :D

[@eliletts1680]

Wow! You covered this topic so well! Also, congratulations on nearly 1 million subscribers! 😉👍

[@koharumi1]

Wait Google has a time-lapse thing?

[@paulholleger8538]

Since you asked, I have seen one red lake in my life. It was near the town of Chichiriviche in Venezuela, on a tiny island called Cayo Sal. The explanation I was given at the time was that there were bushes along the edges of the lake that dropped their red berries into the water to dye it pink, but I didn't see any detritus that would indicate that. And the lake was incredibly warm and salty. Salt lines the shores, and when I tried to walk in, I didn't stay long because it was so hot.

[@davidlisovtsev6607]

isn't natrun is just Sodium? don't scream at me I'm at the start of the vid, it's Natran in Hebrew so that can't be a coincidence

[@davidlisovtsev6607]

big brain moment

[@richjordan6461]

This is perhaps my favorite video of Atlas Pro because honest curiosity is front and center

[@maxhatterschannel5140]

Him: You have never heared of the Element Natrium Me a German: What what ? Yes I did. What is he talking about ? 😆 Him: Oh they changed that in English Me: Oh, yeah that makes sense

[@alvinrasmus6674]

Another great video! Amazing how you get to the bottom of these things, and thanks for explaining to me why flamingos are pink. You have a new subscriber, and you definitely earned it!

[@-ROZAAA-]

First

[@mattsmith5421]

Think you meant saddest

[@mikhailsufyan1940]

Amazing

[@taitano12]

I remember learning about all this from an old Time Life book set. Your presentation is very much on the level of productions like that and Nat Geo. Amazing video. Thank you, sir.

[@akash-qz4bm]

Looks like I am first

[@theangryaustralian7624]

Can you teach me how your so quick

[@priyanks91]

Man this is good content. You've come such a long way! Everyone here might have seen a documentary or 2 about this lake, even I went like 'Aah, here's another one', but damn, the perspective was so unique. Thanks so much !

[@luuk_twister2068]

I need the song playing at 23:00. You used it previously in one of your space videos, loved it then and I still do. I checked your SoundCloud but couldn't find it. Maybe I haven't searched hard enough?

[@AtlasPro1]

oof yeah that's "nebula" a song I had written only after I ran out of free space on my sound cloud, I'll try to find another way of sharing it that doesn't cost me $15 a month 😅

[@luuk_twister2068]

@@AtlasPro1 That would be awesome!

[@nelsonbuelvas6]

As always, excelent contents... here in Colombia 🇨🇴 we also have "Salinas de Galerazamba"!!

[@tomatosoup44]

This video was super interesting! I love how you go from clue to clue to solve the case, so to speak.

[@deteon1418]

I love your curiosity and deep research. Fantastic video! 👍👍

[@miskelyja]

Hey very informative amazing video as always. I also wanted to know what is the backround music at 23:00 could not find it in he description ?

[@TheSpectralArtisan]

Has Anyone else noticed/commented on the birds eye of the lake at 18:20 is suspiciously looking like a flamingo? 😆😆 Also just found you last week or so! Sounds like you really know your stuff! Been binging your channel while at work welding 🤪 Looking forward to the next one!

[@ShihammeDarc]

I never knew about this but as soon as you mentioned Natron and flamingos at the start I knew exactly why it was pink. Never had such a big grin on my face!

[@nhbt]

Thank you for your deep research and also for this informative video. In addition Salt Lake in Turkey is spread over 1500 km² and people can walk around on the lake ground. It is also a pink home for a lot of flamingos🤗

[@skatesandkicks5935]

Great video and explanation. We have many pink lakes in Australia, including the two well known lakes in Western Australia, Pink Lake (which is losing it’s colour), it’s neighbour, Lake Warden (which is still pink), and the lakes you mentioned, Lake Hillier, Hutt Lagoon and Quairading Pink Lake. Again, they were also found to contain the bacteria Dunaliella salina alongside Halobacterium cutirubrum amongst others. Thanks again :)

[@markuslindholm6206]

This certainly was one of the most interesting videos I’ve seen in a long time. Thank you!

[@emilyshafron8]

I love that half the comments under these videos now is just us all recognizing how amazing this channel is and how it deserves more recognition

[@dispergosum]

Geological, ecological, and linguistic history in one! Great job! Thanks for the quality and more quality work over the years!

[@jonathanarmstrong8542]

love the pacing on this video, excellent work!

[@AlicjaChojecka]

we appreciate you asking questions.. AND answering them in videos

[@arashkborzoo]

Lake Maharloo south of Shiraz Iran (my hometown) is also naturally pink most of the year.

[@VoIcanoman]

I've been there! I climbed Ol Doinyo Lengai (the erupting volcano that is just to the south of Lake Natron) in 2006, about 2 months before it had a massive lava flow eruption that left the crater and flowed away from the volcano (I watched it erupt a much smaller lava flow that stayed confined to the crater). Lake Natron was blue at the time, btw. As described in the video, from November to May, the area receives a lot of rainfall during two periods one could call "rainy seasons" separated by a couple months of less rainy activity (I was there during the hiatus, at the end of February...but it still does rain frequently at this time - I endured TWO massive thunderstorms, back-to-back over about a 2 hour period, while camped on top of the volcano, which is so high that we were practically INSIDE the clouds*). The rainfall dilutes the salts present in the lake, making it blue because the micro-organisms that make it pink rely on high sodium carbonate levels that result from months of evaporation. Of course (again, as described in the video) the runoff from rainfall does add more carbonate minerals to the lake, which then concentrate down as the water vaporizes. That area is perhaps the most beautiful I've ever seen in my life. The textures of the landscape, the volcanoes, the massive sand storms (I got caught in one, and had to put a cloth across my mouth so I could breathe while it blew through) and thunderstorms in the evening, the wildlife (zebras, giraffes and other varied ungulates like gazelles and antelope; the odd group of cheetahs; lions; baboons; freakin' elephants...and so much more)...it's all so raw and impressive, like nature is putting on a show. Plus, it's super-remote - there are no roads, so you're driving off-road through loose soil that turns into mud when it rains (requires a great 4x4) for 40-50 km, using the tire tracks of previous drivers as your guide (and just keeping on a general north heading). Eventually you get to this tiny village called Ngare Sero, home to a few hundred members of the Maasai ethnic group, living a fairly traditional lifestyle, in which they supplement their grazing income by helping tourists climb their local volcano. All in all, if you want to take a trip that is more than a trip...more of an expedition really, a true adventure...I highly recommend this small corner of Tanzania (plus, there's tons of other stuff to do nearby, including visiting the famous Serengeti and Ngorongoro national parks, chock full of amazing African animals). No doubt about it...I've been to Hawai'i, Iceland, Italy, and a few countries in South and Central America...but my "trip of a lifetime" remains the 3 weeks I spent in Tanzania. I would love to return some day...maybe when the lavas of Lengai are accessible again. Right now they're at the bottom of a sheer-sided crater, and all of the toxic volcanic gases get trapped in there making it unwise to descend, but that's how the volcano was in the late '60s, and by the mid-'80s, it had filled up its crater with lava, allowing people to literally walk into a shallow crater and see the eruptions up close. I hope the same thing happens again...perhaps as soon as the mid 2030s! And I never did get to climb Kilimanjaro...that is certainly something I'd consider doing on a second adventure (hopefully before the glaciers disappear for good). Fortunately, I can wait 10-15 years to return to Tanzania as there are so many places I want to go, places I've never been before. [My shortlist: Indonesia; Papua New Guinea; Vanuatu; Colombia, Guyana and Venezuala (for the amazing, extremely biodiverse rainforests and unique tepui geography); northern Chile where it meets Bolivia and Peru (the Atacama desert and nearby volcanoes); Japan; New Zealand; and the "Democratic" Republic of the Congo (which will have to wait until the resource wars stop, or hell freezes over, whichever happens first :-) )] *This terrifying night is one of the only times in my life where I thought there was a solid chance I might die. Not just because, being atop a volcano whose altitude is nearly 10,000 feet a.s.l., I was at nearly the highest point possible for more than 100 miles in any direction (the only higher point was the true summit of the volcano, maybe 100 feet above me...I camped in the active crater, just below the summit) meaning that the copious lightning (at the peaks of the storms, the sky was basically a massive strobe light above me, with sheet and fork lightning shooting around) could at any point have hit my tent and, well...goodbye world...but because as the storm raged, the volcano was making booming noises BENEATH me, in its depths. You could feel them rattling in your chest once every few minutes. I assume this was because, as rainwater was percolating through the permeable layers of weathered lava of the crater (the lavas of Lengai weather in hours to days on exposure to atmospheric moisture/rain, forming a sandy/clay like series of hydrated mineral grains), it was interacting with very hot rocks and/or molten material, and occasionally the resulting steam would get trapped and explode as a result. Ignorance really is bliss here...knowing what I knew then, I was aware that one of these explosions could punch through the crater floor and again...I'd be instantly killed.

[@bombuslucius363]

Amazing work! I would like to see you talk about the Baltic sea and the problems its facing! Keep up the great work!

[@Docchop1000]

Great work on this video! Looking really professional!

[@brunoggallas]

INCREDIBLE video! Congratulations! And... HOW do you get those old documentaries about everything?? And all of them have the same narrator?!

[@maika2449]

In Kazakhstan there is a lake named Kobeituz, that becomes pink once in a few years. It meets all of the requirements for a pink lake that you mentioned. I'm sure there are many more pink lakes here, because there are a lot of lakes, a lot of salt, few rivers, arid land...

[@qiziqkop_]

Oh, somebody said it. 😂 I was getting déjà vu from hearing the description, which described the lake a few kilometers away from myself.

[@neerithedragon298]

Great video! I always take my time watching one of your videos :)

[@ahmadalshamrani1108]

This content is so interesting, entertaining, informative and creative. Continue to the success.

[@OpenHeartsUnited]

Beautiful channel! I can't wait to see the gold subscriber button in the background 😊

[@Benwut]

We here in Australia have this island called Rottnest on the west coast that also has pink lakes for the same reason, i would have to say that Rottnest is one of Australia's best sights, with wildlife found no where else in the world, vast reefs, beautiful beaches, and awe inspiring lakes. And it being only 4.5km long makes it entirely explorable in one or two days and you can camp there. So if you ever visit our beautiful (i'll be it scorching) country, a tour or camp at Rottnest is 100% recommended, and the ferry ride to it is short too, as it is located only 15km off the coast of Perth!

[@AlexAltair]

The southern end of the San Francisco Bay has tons of artificial salt ponds, and they span all the colors of blue, green, yellow, orange and pink!

[@stirnisbriedis9859]

Awesome video! Thank you! Keep up the good work of educating youtube dwellers.

[@ajrobbins368]

Thank you so much for the excellent video. Here before 1 million!

[@GetOutsideYourself]

Wow, that old shot of Kilimanjaro. So much snow and glaciers.

[@goldenghostinc]

I loved the old clips that you included. I don't know why, but they always appeal to me.

[@YouDonMessedUp]

Great work, Atlas!

[@raymondtonk12]

Words cannot describe how much I love this channel lmao

[@MapleRhubarb]

Excellent video as always! The quality of information and video quality is top notch.

[@etepeteseat7424]

As someone who grew up watching old shorts and serials on TCM, I *really* appreciated the retro edutainment splices!

[@BlueHeysel]

I love this channel. Its so fun to see how much this channel has grown and keeps growing.Hope you see this!

[@catattack_2754]

Australia has like 4 pink lakes in the western part of the country which is really cool. I always thought they were the only ones in the world but I guess not! Awesome video!

[@sammitchell9396]

Awesome video if lakes interest you atlas pro it would be worth checking out sand island lakes and how they form as they are extremely rare 👍

[@ivantyler4593]

So quick info about Searles lake in California. Searles Lake is an endorheic dry lake in the Searles Valley of the Mojave Desert, in northwestern San Bernardino County, California. The lake in the past was also called Slate Range Lake and Borax Lake. The mining community of Trona is on its western shore. The evaporite basin is approximately 19 km long and 13 km at its widest point, yielding 1.7 million tons annually of industrial minerals within the basin to the Searles Valley Minerals mining operations.

[@einsteinwasright1044]

The elevation of Lake Natrum is about 600m or 2000ft. That is a modestly high elevation, but considering that it is so close to the equator this elevation further increases the solar irradiation (less atmosphere thickness for sunlight to pass through). By contrast, the several intermittently pink lakes that you showed along the south-west of the Nile delta (Wadi El Natrun) are about 23m BELOW sea level, and their latitude is about 30.5°N, both of which reduce the sunlight intensity. Anyhow, thanks for this very interesting novel and educational video!

[@ughuff9753]

atlas pro? 🤨 no you mean atlas broooo what a great video bro 😈

[@sneakyangels9156]

Really enjoyed this video. Well done! :)