Salt's Impact on Mountain Lakes Studied
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Scientists are researching the long-term environmental effects of winter road maintenance, using the Cascade Lakes near Lake Placid as a laboratory.
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About 1,500 dead birds that washed up on the southern shore of the Great Salt Lake may have been killed by avian cholera, an expert said.
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Human-induced climate change and an unslakable thirst for water may drain Lake Mead, the West's largest reservoir, by 2021, say researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
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Scientists find four big lakes under the ice of Antarctica which may help explain how ice flows into the sea.
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By Ian Hoffman, STAFF WRITER  SACRAMENTO -- Scientists say bits of air pollution as small as a thousandth of a hair's width appear to be reducing rain and snowfall in the Sierra, Cascades and Rockies, potentially adding to threats of water shortages tied to global warming.
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By The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Sep. 22--SARASOTA -- The Southwest Florida Water Management District wants to know how outdoor enthusiasts rank local lakes, rivers, streams and aquifers on their water levels.
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By Judy Fahys, The Salt Lake Tribune  Feb. 6--The pollution that plagued northern Utah valleys last month left  Ann Waters, like many Utahns, disgusted and alarmed.
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The Mars Opportunity site continues to intrigue scientists as they decipher the chemistry deeper in Endurance crater. The rise in chlorine and fall in sulfur may suggest alterations by evaporating water in the crater's past.
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A five-acre glacial lake in Chile's southern Andes has disappeared &#151; and scientists want to know why.
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By Chris Woodka, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo. May 26--GUNNISON -- It all seemed so simple 85 years ago: The proportions were cut and dried. Turns out, they're all wet.
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Utah's world-class mountain peaks have been barely visible at times from the floor of the Salt Lake valley. A winter storm that won't quit? No, it's nasty pollution that just won't blow away.
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By Art Campos, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 7--The warm weather has arrived, and so has the potential for accidents in lakes, rivers and swimming pools.
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By Jeffrey L. Frischkorn, The News-Herald, Willoughby, Ohio  Jun. 25--A decades-old earthen cap has started to leak, allowing salt to  leach into the fragile Mentor Marsh.
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Climate change and a growing demand for water could drain two of the nation's largest manmade reservoirs within 13 years, depriving several Southwestern states of key water sources, scientists warn.
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Shrinking ice sheets and melting glaciers are making northern seas less salty, researchers say.
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"In most cities desalination plants are not required."  GENEVA: Extracting salt from seawater to make it drinkable is the wrong way to handle water shortages around the world and could exacerbate climate change, a leading conservation group said Tuesday. via International Herald Tribune
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 12  /PRNewswire/ -- Recent space observations of freshwater storage by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) are providing a new picture of how Earth's most precious natural resource is distributed globally and how it is changing.