Q: I got home from work last night and couldn’t wait to get into my pool to soak away the day, but when I got to the backyard, the pool water was green—not light green, either, but dark. I didn’t even ...

The lady divers all competed as if everything was fine, with the women from China winning the gold. But it was unsettling to viewers at home. In a statement to SELF, Rio spokespeople said that the ...

After concerns over the water quality near Rio de Janeiro beaches before the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, now a supposedly clean Olympic pool has inexplicably turned green. At the Maria Lenk Aquatics ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. But surely, the water in the swimming pools is safe, right?

The "radical measure" followed failed attempts to clean the kale-colored water, which a Rio spokesman maintained posed no risk to the health of the athletes. By The Associated Press Olympic_Diving_Rio ...

As it turns out, it’s pretty easy being green. Olympic organizers scrambled to answer just how they let a pair of outdoor Olympic pools in Rio turn green. It began Tuesday when, apparently overnight, ...

The lush, green diving pool at the Olympics might not be as safe as officials are saying, according an expert. Olympic officials have said that though they don’t know what has caused the water to go ...

But is it really all that hard to make Rio’s pools blue again? We ask an expert. An inspector takes a sample from the water polo pool which turned green in the Maria Lenk Aquatic Center at the 2016 ...

Olympic organisers admit they have been left red faced over Rio's green pool. Five days after noticing the water turn teal, embarrassed organisers have made the "radical" decision to drain a pool at ...

It's nice to take a dip in your backyard swimming pool, but your little oasis may come at a tremendous cost to the environment. Water filters guzzle power, nasty chemicals keep the water sterile, and ...

While most people paint their swimming pools blue and white, there's nothing stopping you from getting more creative with it. That's exactly what one man realised when he decided to paint his swimming ...