In 1863, a Russian paleontologist and mining engineer made his way through the Eocene strata of the Caucasus to the shores of the Caspian Sea. His name was Hermann Vil’gel’movich Abikh, and he had ...

The Great Salt Lake is drying. In the past few years, its waters have shrunk to almost half, NPR said. The dwindling waters cause the wet sediment on the shore to dry up. And as it dries, it turns ...

The appearance of strange 'islands' bristling with reeds on the drying playa of Utah's Great Salt Lake may finally have an explanation. A vast, natural network of underground plumbing emerges from the ...

Utah’s Great Salt Lake is revealing a new chapter in its long environmental story. As water levels drop and the lakebed is increasingly exposed, clusters of reed-covered, circular mounds have begun to ...