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America's 'Dead Sea' Was Once a Vast Freshwater Lake 10 Times Its Size


We can often understand more about the future by looking into the past – and in the case of a new study published in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, almost 240,000 years into the history of the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

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