“Where some of the ponds once were, the locations were now flooded with seawater,” joSon told me. In place of the neon colors of industrial salt ponds, he began noticing “thousands of pearl-like brown ...

The ponds, noted for their vivid colors ranging from magenta to blue green, are especially visible from the air. The colors come from the brine shrimp and microorganisms that thrive in the different ...

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet initiative has ...

In 2003, a project was launched to restore 15,000 acres of salt ponds to their natural state of wetland and marshland habitat. Taking photos of the salt flats from above over more than a decade, ...

Development rings the South Bay and its multicolored salt ponds. Green algae dominate the ponds with low- to mid-salinity levels; red indicates higher levels A small crowd watches the opening of one ...

A western snowy plover looks around at Limantour Beach in Point Reyes on May 15, 2025. Photo by Magali Gauthier. On an overcast morning in mid-April, biologist Maddy Schwarz parked her truck on a ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Villagers harvest salt from five-century-old family ponds using an ancient Quechua principle of collective labor ...

Salt: Without it, life would have no flavor. More importantly there’d be no life, as salts play a crucial part in the world’s biology and ecology. But sometimes salt is a problem, as evidenced in a ...