Kuuleialoha Gaisoa determines whether a person is worthy of receiving her Hawaiian pa‘akai, or salt, based on whether they’ll help her protect the salt ponds of Hanapēpē on Kaua‘i. Like the kūpuna, or ...

Discover the stunning salt pans of Maras, Peru, where over 3,000 hand-mined ponds yield natural salt crystals, a tradition dating back to Incan times.

Road salt can often wash into nearby wetlands and ponds and hurt freshwater wildlife, but some animals appear to be adapting.

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. "Great Salt Pond on Block Island, about 13 miles off the main coast of Rhode Island, is arguably the most gorgeous of the bunch," Reader's Digest said.

And as the salinity changes, so do the pigmented microorganisms that thrive in the brine, giving each pond a unique color — from the lime green of Dunaliella algae in low-salinity pools to the ...

Saving a marsh and town in the face of sea level rise A bird flies over remnants of a tidal marsh that has been trapped for decades as a manmade salt evaporation pond.

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A plan to protect Utah from US Magnesium’s toxic waste relies on something that is disappearing The plan for the Superfund site requires sufficient water in the Great Salt Lake to create a salt ...

Glowing like opals under the midday sun, these salt-crystallizing ponds stretch across 27 square miles on the coast of Western Australia near a tiny, remote town with the curious name of Useless Loop.

Salt is all around us—inside our oceans, beneath our feet, on our roadways, in our food and as part of the products we use every day. But with global temperatures climbing, weather events becoming ...

A customer at a Rhode Island restaurant this week captured an extraordinary scene on video as a giant shark surfaced behind boaters in Great Salt Pond. In the footage, as the shark’s fins slice ...

In San Francisco's salty South Bay, an ambitious wetlands restoration project is attempting to balance a return to the ecological past with the realities of a warming future.