The Great Salt Lake has struggled for years with overconsumption in its watershed, along with a warming climate that’s ...

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Utah’s Great Salt Lake has just yielded a new resident, a microscopic animal that no one had ever documented there before.

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Salinity plays a major role in salt marsh grass's response to insect grazing, new research shows. Plants are always trying to deal with infestation by overcompensating and growing more, researchers ...

March 12, 2009 In 1748 the monk/physicist Jean-Antoine Nollet exploded a wine-filled pig's bladder when he submerged it in a trough of water (What did he think would happen?). The resulting discovery ...

Since 1974, the Bureau of Reclamation has supported various projects to reduce salt levels in the Colorado River’s upper and lower basins. Now, a bill to increase the 50-year-old program’s funding is ...

The amount of salt in one of New York City’s key sources of drinking water has tripled over three decades and is on track to exceed allowable levels around the turn of the next century, environmental ...

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 ...

VALLEY CENTER —- San Diego County’s avocado growers have beenstruggling for years with the soaring cost of water and mandatorycutbacks in its use. But several dozen trees on the Nick StehlyRanch ...