Mono Lake, tucked in the Eastern Sierra, is no ordinary lake. Its eerie tufa towers and teeming swarms of brine shrimp and ...

The same concept — called the public trust doctrine — was central to a successful lawsuit involving Mono Lake in California in the 1980s. The Los Angeles water department had bought and dried ...

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 ...

Los Angeles will take most or all of its allotment of water from Mono Lake through March, disappointing local environmentalists and conservation experts after raising hopes that more water would ...

Languages: English. Scientists have identified a previously unknown microscopic organism in Eastern Sierra Nevada's Mono Lake that could provide insights into the origins of complex animal life on ...

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 ...

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 ...

City leaders in Los Angeles have announced plans to take a limited amount of water from creeks that feed Mono Lake this year, a step that environmentalists say will help build on a recent rise in ...