Advancing salinity is gradually taking over fertile agricultural land, making it unsuitable for traditional crops such as rice, vegetables and freshwater fish. As a result, food security and the livel ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s nothing quite like taking a dip in the ocean in the summertime. Sand, sunshine and the smell of salt water are practically ...

Changes in ocean salinity over the second half of the 20 th Century are consistent with the influence of human activities and inconsistent with natural climate variations, according to a new study led ...

Since the saltiness of ocean surface waters is a key variable in the climate system, understanding how this changes is important to understanding climate change. Thanks to ESA’s Climate Change ...

Genetic analysis shows Baltic Atlantic herring evolved four key reproductive adaptations to thrive in low-salinity waters, ...

Studying Mozambique tilapia, the researchers found that short DNA segments enhance expression of genes that regulate the fish's internal body chemistry in response to salinity stress. (Photo by Greg ...

NASA’s new Aquarius instrument has produced its first global map of the salinity of the ocean surface, providing an early glimpse of the mission’s anticipated discoveries. Aquarius, which is aboard ...

Huge swaths of sea in the Southern Hemisphere have never been measured for saltiness. Yet mapping the amount of dissolved salt content and how it’s distributed in the world’s oceans could give us a ...

Of all the challenges facing the Colorado River, there’s at least one that all stakeholders are working on collaboratively, not competitively — salinity. Since 1974, the seven Colorado River basin ...

There’s nothing quite like taking a dip in the ocean in the summertime. Sand, sunshine and the smell of salt water are practically staples when the weather gets warm. The only thing that’s unpleasant ...