Finding a sunken ship in the vast Lake Superior, 800 feet down, is not easy. Identifying it can be even harder. By Victor Mather He wanted to save the dog. A century ago, on Oct. 11, 1923 ...

A recent study reveals that this region was once home to a vast lake and river system. These favorable conditions fostered grasslands and savannahs, enabling human migration -- until drought ...

Utah’s Great Salt Lake is a relic of a once-vast lake that occupied the same site during the Ice Age. The lake’s level has fluctuated since measurements of it began in 1847, but it’s about ...

Or maybe better put, an other worldly landscape: the vast, and drying wetlands along the Great Salt Lake, the largest saline lake left in the western hemisphere, some fifty miles long and thirty wide.