Majestic wild horses are trampling Mono Lake's otherworldly landscape. The feds plan a roundup

Federal officials plan to round up wild horses roaming the Eastern Sierra, citing hazards and damage. But local tribes and ...
Times of San Diego

Another Casualty of a Dry Winter: LA Won’t Take Less Water from Mono Lake

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 be ...
Arizona Daily Sun

‘It needs more water’: Calls grow for boosting Mono Lake by easing LA’s water reliance

LEE VINING, Calif. — The picturesque tufa towers on the shores of Mono Lake, formed over centuries by underwater springs and left high and dry as Los Angeles diverted water from nearby creeks, have ...
NPR

This week in science: a newly-discovered species, 'talking' dogs and a beluga's death

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Regina Barber and Rachel Carlson of Short Wave about a newly discovered species in California's Mono Lake, dogs understanding words, and the death of a beloved beluga ...
Science Daily

Creature the size of a dust grain found hiding in California's Mono Lake

Mono Lake is a beautiful but harsh environment, its salty and arsenic-laced water home to brine shrimp, alkali flies and little else. Scientists recently discovered an unsuspected resident, however, a ...