Researchers have discovered fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited North America during the Last Glacial Maximum, in what is now New Mexico. Credit ...

Restoration work at the site of a "key" ancient Egyptian temple is revealing long-hidden colorful details in its decorations. The Temple of Esna, located on the west bank of the Nile over 30 miles ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the ruins of a 2,000-year-old temple believed to have been built by an ancient civilisation featured in Indiana Jones. Remains of ancient altars and inscribed marble ...

Sebkha el Melah could stay filled for years. When the salty lakebed filled in 2008, the water didn’t completely evaporate until 2012, according to a NASA Earth Observatory release.

Satellite image of Sebkha el Melah in Algeria captured on August 12, 2024, by Landsat 9’s OLI-2 Satellite image of Sebkha el Melah in Algeria captured on September 29, 2024, by Landsat 9’s OLI-2. The ...

A NASA planetary expedition blasted off amid much fanfare this month to probe what scientists think is an underground salty ocean that could support life on one of Jupiter’s moons, Europa. The Great ...

An investigation has found "no one" considered the risk of taking wheelchair users onto Roadford Lake, as ITV News' Grace Pascoe reports A "catalogue of failings" lead to the deaths of two care ...

As the lake has shrunk, more of its dry playa has been revealed, and Utahns have observed strong winds lifting dust off the exposed lakebed. This dust — and the metal compounds within ...

During that expedition, they were surprised to find massive depressions dotting the lakebed. Around the same time, shipwreck hunters Brendon Baillod and Dusty Klifman also noticed the craters.

“As the Salton Sea lakebed recedes, toxic dust is contaminating air quality and threatening the stability of the local ecosystem,” said U.S. Senator Alex Padilla. “The $250 million in Inflation ...

The proposed project is a 3,000-megawatt closed-loop storage plant located 35 miles northeast of Kingman at the dry lakebed known as Red Lake on federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management.