Explore the fascinating and lethal world of ocean brine pools, known as 'lakes of death,' which harbor unique ecosystems and ...

Utah researchers have confirmed that a tiny roundworm, unknown to science until now, is thriving in the Great Salt Lake, one ...

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.

(via BBC Earth) At the bottom of the ocean, there are brine pools that have a salinity level three - eight times the usual sea level. When a Cutthroat eel gets too close it goes into toxic shock and ...

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 ...