The world’s salt lakes are drying up, but solutions are hard to come by

The world’s salt lakes are drying up, but solutions are hard to come by

An eclectic book asks how humans have shaped these ‘queer’ landscapes and how they can be restored.

Salt Lakes: An Unnatural HistoryCaroline Tracey W. W. Norton (2026) More than 11,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, huge glaciers that shrouded the Sierra Nevada mountains in what is now… [+3723 chars]