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China: Yellow River turns Red mysteriously!
Oct 24 2006, Irani

An unknown discharge into China’s Yellow River has literally turned it ‘red’ in color! A half-mile section of the river has turned red and smelly too, after a certain discharge has been poured into the river from a sewage pipe, according to state...

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