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TWiEVO 92: There's algae in the jar

This Week in Evolution

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The Great Salt Lake Evaporation

The Great Salt Lake is a terminal lake. It really gets replenished or it depends on snow melt every year. This has been a big year. So I think the lake is up about five feet from last fall starting to evaporate again. As it evaporates, it gets more salty. And so what happened as a result,. this is like literally divided the lake in half in terms of the accessibility of the water.

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