Researchers have spent the last few weeks testing waterways in York County to learn how much road salt ends up in streams and ...

Rising temperatures accelerate evaporation, often causing salt to crumble before it can be harvested. Unpredictable rainfall—once a seasonal certainty—now arrives without warning, flooding the ponds ...

Duke University researchers analyze lithium mining's environmental impact at Salar de Uyuni, revealing high arsenic levels ...

Scientists develop a stretchable paper-based generator that creates electricity from water evaporation, offering a flexible ...

The world's largest known lithium deposit exists within a vast salt pan called the Salar de Uyuni, which stretches for ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission uncovered a cosmic connection between asteroid Bennu and Earth’s Searles Lake. Both contain minerals formed by evaporating salty water, hinting that Bennu’s parent body once ...

A new study finds the biggest factors behind Great Salt Lake shrinking is reduced stream flow from the Bear, Weber, and ...

Discover the fascinating findings from asteroid Bennu: pristine salt minerals reveal the presence of liquid water in the ...

Samples from the asteroid Bennu, which landed in Utah's west desert in September 2023, could suggest rocks carrying an ...

By comparing their findings with geochemical models of salt formation at saline lakes ... These reactions might have been induced by evaporation of pore water from icy planetesimals.

The study is the first peer-reviewed effort to quantitatively assess the contributing factors behind Great Salt Lake's record ...