It's not against state law to swim in Mono Lake, but it is against the laws of nature. The water in this ancient geological marvel is so thick with salt (more than twice that of sea water) that ...

Mono Lake, California, is home to the bizarre and ... They are so densely packed that within an area about the size of a postcard, there could be over 2,000 flies. van Breugel estimates that ...

To the editor: Thank you for Bruce Resnik’s essay, “A wet winter began to replenish Mono Lake. L.A. should let it be a lake again.” I opened the Mono Lake Committee’s Los Angeles office in ...

With its haunting rock spires and salt-crusted shores, Mono Lake is a Hollywood vision of the apocalypse. To the city of Los Angeles, however, this Eastern Sierra basin represents the very source ...

The bacteria were discovered thriving in the arsenic-rich sediment of the shallow saline Mono Lake, famed for its appearance on a picture-postcard insert to Pink Floyd’s 1975 album Wish You Were ...

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 ...