Using a new twist on standard Global Positioning System technology, a team of scientists has found that Earth's largest salt flat ... Earlier maps do not show any surface relief on the salar ...

Andrew Evans explores Bolivia’s vast salt flats. I can’t think of a worse torture than coming to Bolivia for the first time and then having to rush across the country in under a week.

Alongside the train in one location were vast expanses of coloured salt flats stretching into the distance in a place known as Sivash, or the Rotten Sea. With camera in hand the Crimean returned ...