As the Atlantic's current weakens, North Atlantic salinity could swing more wildly than ever, raising flood risk on Europe's ...

Northern Utah’s Great Salt Lake—the largest saltwater lake in the western hemisphere—is rapidly disappearing and by some estimates may be totally gone within just a few year ...

Starved for freshwater, the Great Salt Lake is getting saltier. The lake is losing sources of freshwater input to agriculture, urban growth and drought, and the drawdown is causing salt concentrations ...

Salt intrusion is a growing concern worldwide. Eleonora Saccon, who completed a master's degree in climate change ecology in her native Italy, studied the effects of salty surface water at the NIOZ ...

Surfers are used to getting mouthfuls of saltwater. Anyone who's been knocked over by a wave at the beach knows that the ocean tastes like salt. This is true whether you swallow a mouthful of seawater ...

Iron Age communities living along the Elbe River transported liquid brine upstream to produce salt roughly 2,500 years ago, ...

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Salinity plays a major role in salt marsh grass's response to insect grazing, new research shows. Plants are always trying to deal with infestation by overcompensating and growing more, researchers ...

The Great Salt Lake is getting saltier, creating a serious threat to the ecosystems and the economies that depend on it. New research examines the trajectory the two halves of the lake might take on a ...