If swimming in it isn't enough, you're reminded how salty the ocean is when you accidentally swallow some. Here's where that salt water comes from.

Did you know that we know less about the sea than we do about space? With this comic, we explore some of what scientists do ...

Seawater being dumped on the Southern California fires is full-strength, salty ocean water. And conditions there have been very dry, particularly compared with our East Coast forest plot.

The reason that lakes aren't salty while oceans are is all thanks to the water cycle.Soil erosion does deposit salt ions and other dissolved minerals into lakes, but then rivers and streams carry ...

In 2022, the United States produced 42 million tons of salt which values at around $2.5 billion, the U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries reported.Salt made from brine is largely ...

Extremely salty water flooding into the Atlantic Ocean from the Indian Ocean may have contributed to the end of the last ice age 15,000 years ago, researchers have found.

But a major drought followed the 2024 experiment, so salts lingered in the soil then. The trees’ longer exposure to salty soils after our 2024 experiment may have exceeded their ability to tolerate ...

The trees’ longer exposure to salty soils after our 2024 experiment may have exceeded their ability to tolerate these conditions. Seawater being dumped on the Southern California fires is full ...