Sheer drama. That's what the Great Sand Dunes are. Starkly beautiful desert dunes set against a backdrop of pretty, ...

Ancient limestone towers emerge from Mono Lake, shaped by time and a unique geochemical process. Towering limestone formations, Tufas, rise from Mono Lake, sculpted over thousands of years by a ...

Walton and his colleagues believed that large soda lakes, such as California's Mono Lake, could hold the key. Mono Lake, known for its unusual chemistry, has no natural outflow; water exits only ...

Owens Lake in California was drained dry and is being rehabilitated, while California's Mono Lake is the subject of restoration efforts as well. But Mono Lake is just 70 square miles, in ...

and then there’s Mono Lake old. This ancient saline lake is a weird yet wonderful place. Besides the fact that there are no fish in this lake, its most surreal feature is the tufa towers.