turn green

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The results help explain why forests do not always turn green as early as rising temperatures might suggest.

From Science Daily • May 5, 2026

In warm weather that nutrient load caused the water to turn green, so called "algal blooming".

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026

After a few days, the flesh started to turn green.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

In these near-tropic environs, the sky can darken or turn green and twist itself in an instant, then open up and dump cold rain down in ceaseless deluges.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2023

The lake would turn green with algae, and the golf course would burn up, and the dragonflies would crack open for want of good water.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien