Flying in or out of the Bay Area, you may have noticed San Francisco Bay’s colorful salt ponds from above. Otherwise, many of the ponds, which cover approximately 16,500 acres of the bay and have been ...

Some of the largest known deposits of lithium—a soft silvery metal that powers batteries in cell phones, laptops, and electric vehicles—lie in one of the driest places on Earth. Much of the surveyed ...

To the cheers of distant onlookers, a yellow excavator sliced through a dirt levee to open a long-captive 19th century industrial salt pond to the wild San Francisco Bay on Wednesday morning, allowing ...

There’s a big new development going up in Mountain View along the edge of San Francisco Bay. But it’s not a tech company headquarters or a condo project. It’s for birds, and fish and hikers. Workers ...

The Santa Cruz Mountains in San Mateo County rise at top as the San Francisco Salt Ponds near Alviso in Santa Clara County shine colorfully in the afternoon sunshine on Monday. The ponds, noted for ...

Evaporation ponds in the Salar de Atacama, Chile are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 22 crew member on the International Space Station. The Salar (salt flat) de Atacama in Chile ...