When it comes to desserts, Smita Grosse, the Mauritian executive pastry chef at The Mira Hong Kong, uses salt to enhance and balance flavours of sweet treats like decadent chocolates, crumbly ...

Walvis Bay in Namibia is home to the largest solar sea-salt production plant in sub-Saharan Africa. The plant is famous for ...

India is one of the world's top salt producers. Most of the country's salt comes from the desert of the Little Rann of Kutch. Here, the Agariya people do the dangerous job of farming salt.

Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants that have adapted to the harsh conditions there. Some deserts are among the planet ...

ATACAMA DESERT, Chile — At the top of a craggy path ... The lithium in the brine beneath the brilliant white Atacama salt flat, which stretches out across the valley floor, has become a global ...