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Residents living near California’s dried up Owens Lake remember when the dry lakebed became a source of dangerous dust and PM10 pollution. Will it happen to Great Salt Lake?
The Museum is adding Rich Strike to several of its attractions
Conservationists may seek monument status for Conglomerate Mesa, a remote plateau near Death Valley National Park.
How the surge in COVID-19 cases is impacting the return to work here in Kentucky Locally, LEX 18 hasn't found any companies that decided to go back on plans to return. However, BaseHere Director of Operations Meredith Moore says companies are discussing the impact of a resurgence. and last updated 2021-07-26 19:05:04-04 LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) â The surge in COVID-19 cases caused by the Delta variant has companies rethinking their return to the office. Apple made headlines when they cited the uncertainty and the breakthrough cases as factors in their decision to delay the company's retur...
LONE PINE, Calif. — Perched high in the craggy Inyo Mountains, between the dusty Owens Valley floor and Death Valley National Park, looms a rugged, nearly roadless chunk of desert terrain teeming with wildlife and scarred by mining operations. Conglomerate Mesa’s charcoal smelters helped give birth 150 years ago to the nearby rip-roaring silver town of Cerro Gordo, where ingots were produced and shipped off to the small pueblo of Los Angeles by steamboat and a 20-mule team. Now, the 22,500-acre tableau of Joshua trees, piñon pines and limestone boulders bristling with fossil shells is...