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Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History

Geographer Caroline Tracey travels among saline lakes whose shrinking waters and unusual ecologies reveal the costs of human intervention. From extraction and irrigation to climate change and development, she traces how communities have altered these fragile basins and how falling shorelines expose both environmental damage and buried history. The journey combines limnology, cultural geography, memoir, and encounters with people who live beside threatened waters. Tracey treats salt lakes as more than remote curiosities: they are sensitive archives of planetary change and powerful places through which people understand loss, identity, and home.

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date: 2026-03-17
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9781324089025

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Nature / Ecosystems & Habitats / Lakes Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection Science / Earth Sciences / Limnology

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1. Talk Nerdy — Salt Lakes with Caroline TraceyChecked

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Podcast: Nature's Archive — Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History ↗Podcast: The Terrain.org Podcast — Salt Lakes: Extraordinary Ecology and Collapse ↗Spotify: New Books Network — Caroline Tracey, Salt Lakes ↗