Univeristy of Iowa Daily Iowan8 天
The Strangest Shapes Found in Desert Landscapes and What They Might Actually Be
Researchers write how layers of salty and less salty water move up and down in currents shaped like donuts, which are squeezed together horizontally to form a honeycomb pattern. Deadvlei in the Namib ...
BBC5 年
The farmers who worry about our phone batteries
Beneath the salt flat is an enormous natural underground reservoir of salty water that contains dissolved ... says Gonzalo Pimentel of the Atacama Desert Foundation, a non-profit institution ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN9 个月
Secret biosphere found 13 feet below world’s driest hot desert
The team suggests they do so by obtaining water from mineral gypsum ... Despite the rough environment, microbial life thrives ...
National Geographic news3 年
How a photographer captured this bizarre salt island in the Dead Sea
During the 15-minute swim, salt water stung the eyes and dried the mouths of Braz and Öhrman. Neither had brought goggles or a bottle of water. On the island, they basked in the sun while the ...
Mongabay1 个月
As lithium mining bleeds Atacama salt flat dry, Indigenous communities hit back
These water sources, or lagoons ... She says the industry expanded gradually, but because “we saw so much salt in the desert, we thought their work would be harmless.” Over time, the word ...
Khaleej Times5 年
Food, fuel produced in desert land irrigated by seawater
A research facility - the world's first desert ecosystem ... The nutrient rich water is used to irrigate and fertilise Salicornia fields, where salt-loving (halophytic) plants that are capable ...