Scientists studying the Great Salt Lake have long described it as a place defined by salt and little else, so expectations ...

A research project put together in part by San Diego researchers achieved something never before done. The research team recovered lake-bed sediment samples, buried under a 15-meter-deep lake located ...

Since the discovery 50 years ago of subglacial lakes in Antarctica—some of the least accessible geological features on Earth—scientists have attempted to extract lake bed sediment to learn about the ...