Imperial County is the No. 1 producer of salt in California. The salt is not produced for commercial use; it is stored in the Salton Sea as a waste product. The salt is a fundamental waste product ...

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University’s Neal Iverson and an international team of researchers are working to help quantify the single biggest uncertainty in predicting how much glaciers will contribute ...

A NASA researcher finds that the amount of sea ice that moves between Greenland and Spitsbergen, a group of islands north of Norway, is dependent upon a “wave” of atmospheric pressure at sea level. By ...

The deep-sea Venus flower basket sponge can filter feed using only the faint ambient currents of the ocean depths, no pumping required, new research reveals. This discovery of natural 'zero energy' ...

The Arctic Ocean's Beaufort Sea has increased its freshwater content by 40 percent over the past two decades. When conditions change this freshwater will travel to the Labrador Sea off Canada, rather ...

Where water once stood is now an arid, dry, open landscape in western Kazakhstan punctuated with low-lying shrubs. Only when you finally reach the Little Aral Sea, known as Kishi Aral, can you feel ...