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A Pond in Hawaii Has Turned a Shocking Pink

Scientists try to figure out why the water dramatically changed color over one weekend.
Hannah Seo November 15, 2023
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What Are These Strange Towers Growing Out of This Lake? | Untold Earth

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Port Eynon, Wales

Port Eynon Salt House

The seaside ruins of an ancient salt production facility.
For years, scientists couldn't figure out the mechanism behind these mysterious polygons, seen here at the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia.
science

The Mystery Beneath the 'Honeycomb' Patterns of Salt Deserts

After years of hypotheses that came up short, a physicist has finally found a solution.
Line Sidonie Talla Mafotsing March 9, 2023
poison

Podcast: Laguna Del Diamante

What a toxic Andean lake has to say about the dawn of life.
The Podcast Team November 7, 2022
Las Coloradas Bridge
Las Coloradas, Mexico

Las Coloradas Bridge

This small, yet notable, cable-stayed bridge was built to support tourism to a series of internet-famous pink lakes.
A levee divides wetlands and a salt pond, colored vibrant red by halobacteria, in San Francisco's South Bay.
birds

Vivid Images Capture A Stunning Shift in San Francisco's Salty South Bay

An ambitious wetlands restoration project attempts to balance a return to the area's ecological past and the realities of a changing future.
Skylar Knight August 29, 2022
Sal del Rey
Edinburg, Texas

Sal del Rey

This lake sits on an estimated 4 million tons of salt.
Kayakers visit a slumped sinkhole on the Dead Sea Coast.
sinkhole

Is There a Future for the Sinkhole-Studded Dead Sea?

Receding waters are leaving behind an environmental disaster, and a new kind of tourism.
Gitit Ginat June 1, 2022
Art in the Altaussee Salt Mine after WWII
Altaussee, Austria

Altaussee Salt Mines

During World War II, Austria's oldest salt mine was used to store thousands of pieces of stolen artwork.
Figueira da Foz, Portugal

Núcleo Museológico do Sal

This museum documents the ancient practice of salt production in Figueira da Foz.
birds

Podcast: Lake Natron

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team April 7, 2022
The Loch-Eel Monster - the OG
Lochiel, Australia

Lake Bumbunga

This salt lake in South Australia features seasonal color changes and its very own loch monster.
Heavy rains and wind turned the usually featureless Salar de Uyuni salt flats into a riot of color in late January 2022.
floods

Wild Weather Has Turned Bolivia's Salt Flats Into a Work of Art

A satellite captures the stunning effects of heavy rain and high winds on a landscape that—coincidentally—is used to calibrate satellites.
Gemma Tarlach March 10, 2022
The dramatic colors and patterns of salt evaporation ponds on the Great Salt Lake are the result of a combination of salinity levels, wind, currents, and activity of brine shrimp, algae, and bacteria.
salt

Salt-Loving Microbes Make Vivid, Massive Abstract Art

For the latest addition to his stunning salt production series, photographer Tom Hegen ventured to Utah’s Great Salt Lake.
Gemma Tarlach February 2, 2022
Middlemarch, New Zealand

Sutton Salt Lake

New Zealand's only inland salt lake goes through a constant cycle of filling, evaporating, and refilling.
An Apatani family and guests make tapyo around the hearth.
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Without a Source for Salt, This Tribe Created a Delicious Substitute

The Apatani make tapyo from shrubs and ash.
Lavina Dsouza November 3, 2021
Iron-rich springs at Australia's Lake Tyrrell provide intense color in <em>Heart of the Salt Lake.</em>
geology

Is This an Australian Salt Lake or a 'Beating Heart Laid Bare'?

Iron-rich springs generate intense color in a stark landscape that, from above, might be mistaken for a crime scene.
Gemma Tarlach October 12, 2021