Mono Lake in the Eastern Sierra Nevada is known for its towering tufa formations, abundant brine shrimp and black clouds of alkali flies uniquely adapted to the salty, arsenic- and cyanide-laced ...

However, after 30 years Mono Lake remains chronically below its mandated healthy level, causing some of the worst particulate-matter air quality violations in the country and impairing the ...

As such, not many forms of life call it home – mostly just alkali flies, brine shrimp, and a few species of tiny worms. But when the researchers closely examined a sample of water from Mono Lake, they ...

So, aside from that fact, why is Mono Lake so special? It features an alkaline and saline ecosystem that supports a unique ...

The lake is famous for being home to creatures like shrimp and alkali flies. The latest organism ... named Daniel Richter collected a sample of Mono Lake during his climbing trip.

Walk along the shores of Mono Lake and you’ll be struck by two oddities of nature you won’t find anywhere else in California. First, there are the brine flies. Each step you take, they swarm ...

Mono Lake provides habitat for imperiled shorebirds such as Wilson’s phalaropes, which stop at saline lakes during their long ...

Explore the world’s most weird, wonderful and unusual lakes, featuring everything from jellyfish-filled waters to vibrant ...

Transmission typically occurs when a fly regurgitates directly on food or on surfaces that humans touch. This can cause a number of illnesses, including: As if this litany of ills weren’t enough ...

California’s fourth largest lake with 55,179 acres of surface area in Mono Lake. It is just east ... birds that feed on the shrimp and alkali flies Honey Lake is the state’s fifth largest ...

Sep. 12, 2024 — Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction -- and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, 'groundbreaking' new fossil research ...

Mono Lake is a beautiful but harsh environment, its salty and arsenic-laced water home to brine shrimp, alkali flies and little else. Scientists recently discovered an unsuspected resident ...