Lake Urmia, located in northwest Iran, is one of the largest saline lakes in the world. Over the past few decades, it has faced severe environmental challenges, primarily due to human activities ...

is the largest saline lake in the Western Hemisphere and the eighth largest in the world. Its 21,000-square-mile drainage basin includes the Wasatch Mountains, whose snowfall accounts for much of ...

Wilson’s phalaropes are inland shorebirds that rely on saline lakes in the Great Basin as critical stopovers along their migratory path to South America. The species is threatened with extinction ...