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What’s Causing These Geological Formations on the Great Salt Lake?
Angelic Anderson crouched down and ran her fingertips across a large white mound that rose several inches from the surface of the bone-dry lakebed. As a park ranger at the Great Salt Lake State Park in northern Utah, she’s accustomed to seeing the massive lake’s waterline recede, especially during dry months when there’s little to…
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Haunting Satellite Imagery Shows Turkey’s Second-Largest Lake Has Dried Up
A new satellite image of Turkey’s Lake Tuz is gorgeous — and, if you know more about what it’s portraying, worrying. The stunning capture from the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2 satellite shows Turkey’s second-largest lake has completely dried up this year, exposing a haunting expanse of salt.
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Life Under Antarctica Is Surviving on Pulverised Rock
You might not expect Lake Whillans to be a cradle for life, as it’s freezing cold and lies beneath 762 m of Antarctic ice. But as a team of glaciologists recently reported, it is precisely those conditions that nurture microscopic organisms, which feast on the rock beneath the continent.
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Watch A Stone Skip A World Record 88 Times Across A Lake
One of the two best feelings a kid can have is that immediate king of the world, I’ve got this life thing all figured out of learning how to skip a stone across a body of water (the other is the freedom of learning of how to ride a bike, I think). But that smug…