South Aral Sea, Uzbekistan • As the rising sun casts golden rays over the Aral Sea, a group of Uzbek fishermen wearing sweatshirts and knit caps gathered on a chilly beach to discuss the day’s plan.

We often describe the stillness and quiet of the desert as timeless. But deserts are dynamic and desert lakes fragile, none more so than Utah’s Great Salt Lake. Emblematic of the West’s Great Basin, ...

A diverse microbial community has adapted to an extremely salty environment deep in the Red Sea. The microbes, many unknown to science, occupy a one-meter-thick area overlying the Suakin Deep, an ...

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The Great Salt Lake is so dry, and its water so salty, that resource managers have partially closed a breach in a railroad causeway to stem the flow of hypersaline water between the north and south ...

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Could a diminutive fly be a key to conservation at the Great Salt Lake? Absolutely, suggests new research on brine flies — a key food source for foraging water birds at inland salt lakes including ...

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SALT LAKE CITY — It sounds so perfect. Thanksgiving turkeys almost always taste better when they're brined, and a brine always includes copious amounts of salt. Hmmm... where is there a large source ...

SALT LAKE CITY — In a landlocked state 600 miles from the nearest ocean, fleets of commercial fishermen compete for a creature that in spite of its minuscule size makes for quite a fish tale. Brine ...