Cedar Pond is one of the most degraded ponds in Orleans. Based on recent public discussion one would think that the only cause of this ecological mess has been cormorants - where they choose to roost ...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, taking photographs from a doorless helicopter was proving more difficult than San Francisco Bay Area photographer joSon had anticipated. Bundled in ski apparel and buckled into ...

This salty pond in Tully freezes, but temperatures near the bottom can be 80 degrees in the winter. Federal geologists studied the pond to see if similar ponds could be used to heat homes. (United ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (KGO) -- An October court ruling has placed a key piece of San Francisco Bay Shoreline, the Cargill salt ponds, back on the restoration agenda for local environmental advocacy ...

FREMONT, Calif. — Environmentalists and developers have been battling for years over the fate of a salt production site on prime south San Francisco Bay real estate. Now, the Army Corps of Engineers’ ...

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 ...

The evaporation ponds at the south end of the Dead Sea produce both sodium chloride and potassium salts. The pond size, and thus salt production, has expanded substantially in response to global ...

Q: We have a koi and goldfish pond with a few plants. We have heard we should add salt, and we are unclear about how much is OK, what it does and if it will hurt the plants. A: Let’s cover the reason ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Locals call it the “Coast of Buckroe” — a near mile stretch of beach heading northward along ...

“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 ...