GREAT SALT LAKE, Utah — The Great Salt Lake is so briny that swimmers bob in the water like corks. It is teeming with tiny shrimp that were sold for years in the back of comic books as magical "sea monkeys." And, for reasons scientists cannot explain, it is heavily laden with toxic mercury.
Exactly where the poison is coming from _ and how much danger it poses to the millions of migratory birds that feed on the Great Salt Lake...
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