In 1863, a Russian paleontologist and mining engineer made his way through the Eocene strata of the Caucasus to the shores of the Caspian Sea. His name was Hermann Vil’gel’movich Abikh, and he had ...

Utah’s Great Salt Lake is revealing a new chapter in its long environmental story. As water levels drop and the lakebed is increasingly exposed, clusters of reed-covered, circular mounds have begun to ...