Welcome to Mono Lake, a scenic body of water in the middle of nowhere Central California! This lake isn’t just another body ...

U.S. 395 in Mono County is closed in both directions for the Inn Fire burning just north of Lee Vining, Calif., near Mono Lake. The fire, 140 miles south of Reno, has spread to 540 acres with no ...

At a trailhead surrounded by sagebrush, a naturalist welcomes a group of visitors to Mono Lake beside a sign that reads “Oasis in the Desert.” Guide Ryan Garrett, his face alight, greets the group of ...

The Cunningham property on Mono Lake, where 30 lots are for sale. MONO LAKE, California — For two decades, California’s Mono Lake has been a symbol of victory for environmental activists — the place ...

City leaders in Los Angeles have announced plans to take a limited amount of water from creeks that feed Mono Lake this year, a step that environmentalists say will help build on a recent rise in the ...

Mono Lake, tucked in the Eastern Sierra, is no ordinary lake. Its eerie tufa towers and teeming swarms of brine shrimp and alkali flies make it a hotspot for life that thrives where others can’t. The ...

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Globular colonies of the choanoflagellate B. monosierra seen under a microscope. As indicated by the 50-micron scale bar, these colonies are at the limit of what's visible to the naked eye. Mono Lake ...

MONO COUNTY, Calif. (KOLO) - On Saturday, Dec. 27, at 11 a.m., two people were buried in a large avalanche triggered by ...

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