saline

Several dozen horses calmly graze along the shores of Mono Lake, a sparkling saline expanse spread out before the jagged Sierra Nevada mountains.

They scrounged for clean blankets, saline and other emergency medical supplies in the dusty and mud-caked camp.

While on holiday she was fascinated by their foraging behaviour as they moved gracefully through the shallow, saline wetlands, filter-feeding for molluscs and crustaceans.

Medical teams triaged evacuees in a car park, wrapping up wounds and stringing up bags of saline for IV drips under tents.

Argentine student Martina Blangetti later wrote that the experience “showed me that we young people are capable of changing the world and saving our saline lakes.”