Road salt is essential for our safety during times of winter weather, however, one environmentalist says there's a cost.

Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino acids, offering clues to how early Earth got its ingredients for life ...

Fragments of the asteroid Bennu, carefully collected and ferried to Earth by a robotic spacecraft ... It has a larger and more diverse collection of salt minerals, too. Similar brines have ...

Despite its extreme conditions, the Atacama is home to stunning geological formations like the Valle de la Luna (Moon Valley), with its cracked earth and towering salt pillars, and the Valle de la ...

Nearly 200 years ago Edmund Halley1 suggested that the age of the earth might be ascertained by measuring the rate at which rivers delivered salt to the sea. The suggestion was of course fruitless ...

In 2022, the Great Salt Lake – celebrated as the largest saltwater lake ... the lead author of the study and a PhD candidate in PSU’s Earth, Environment and Society program. Bigalke’s research builds ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission uncovered a cosmic connection between asteroid Bennu and Earth’s Searles Lake ... evaporation ponds still concentrate valuable minerals like soda ash, salt, and lithium from ...

SALT LAKE CITY – Research on the Western Hemisphere's largest saltwater lake is providing insights into the factors contributing to its historic decline. A study conducted by experts at Portland State ...

Department of Atmospheric Science, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, & Earth Sciences, University of Miami, Miami, Fl 33149, United States ...

Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, East China University of Technology, Nanchang 330013, China ...