Evaporation via a combination of the sun's warmth and wind increases the salt content in the ponds from about 2.9% to 3.5%, which is still liveable for plankton, algae and small ocean critters.

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Ships and subs at sea are surrounded by billions of gallons of water, all of it undrinkable because of its high salt content.

The waters of Senegal's Lake Retba are back to their famous pink hues three years after floods washed away their rosy ...

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The waters of Senegal's Lake Retba are back to their famous pink hues three years after floods washed away their rosy tinge - ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah's capital city has — over ... because we still have some time left for us to either gain additional water in our snowpack or lose some to evaporation," she said. We really want ...

A research team led by Professor Hyung-Joon Shin from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UNIST has ...

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But she’s not flat-out anti-industry; her family has made a living from the Great Salt Lake. Their business, Mineral Resources International, extracts minerals from evaporation ponds for ...

Why is the Great Salt Lake shrinking so much and can it be saved? – E.T., via email Answer: Utah’s Great Salt Lake is the ...

No sooner had the news hit social media when Julie Barrilliot, 20, bought a plane ticket to fly over from France. Widely known as the "Pink Lake," Retba is a magnet for tourists, lying 40 ...