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• Why can a satellite redness index flag rusting Arctic rivers but still fail to tell which streams are chemically hazardous?
• Why can a river turn orange downstream even if the strongest acidic water enters from one tiny spring along the bank?
• Why can pyrite-rich ground exposed by thaw keep generating acid after the first flush of water has passed?
• When a cold Arctic stream turns orange and acidic with dissolved metals after permafrost thaw, which fish hazard does that chemistry point to first?
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• In rusting Arctic rivers, why can the orange color warn about toxic metals that are not themselves orange?
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