blue-green
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GUILIN, China—More than a millennium ago, the Tang dynasty writer Han Yu said of Guilin’s landscape, “The river forms a blue-green silk ribbon, the mountains are like jade hairpins.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
The microscopic organisms can look like blue-green paint, scum or greenish-brown discolouration.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
In July 2025, testing found Canvey Lake contained 2.5 million cells of blue-green algae per millilitre, more than 100 times the warning threshold of 20,000 cells.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
As locals and visitors make the trip to Northern Ireland's lakes in search of summer sunshine, they are once again facing an unwelcome sight: blue-green algae.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
She did, and saw what looked like a wide, fearsome snake, blue-green in color, coiling through the woods.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
