The near-bottom water in the U.S. Northeast continental shelf provides a critical cold-water habitat for the rich regional ...

Salinity in Bangladesh’s Bengal Delta has risen sharply since 2007. Western delta zones show highest increases.

This is because salinity decreases near the equator and at both poles. The salinity of an ocean varies in different areas. Heavy rainfall in the tropics near the equator decreases the salinity as ...

Environmental scientists at Nottingham Trent University have identified exactly where coastal waters meet freshwater rivers, ...

As sea levels climb and weather grows more extreme, coastal regions everywhere are facing a creeping threat: salt.

The source of salinity depends on where you are in the Colorado River Basin and when you’re looking. Up-basin in Colorado River tributaries in Eagle County — where naturally occurring salinity ...

It's a complex issue, but those changing salinity levels could have major impacts on the world's economy, on creatures that live in the ocean and on the residents of coastal areas — Florida ...

Mound House, a museum dedicated to the history of Fort Myers Beach, has a new public water quality monitoring station. The ...

Increasing salinity puts these special agricultural regions at risk. The threat is perhaps most grave in Asia, where vast “megadeltas” are vital for growing the continent’s staple crop — rice.

Of all the challenges facing the Colorado River, there’s at least one that all stakeholders are working on collaboratively, not competitively — salinity. Since 1974, the seven Colorado River basin ...