Using vermiculite a clay used in potted planting, the researchers engineered a 2D membrane by slicing the mineral into ...

Along a salt evaporation pond known as A12, old tracings show where the tidal channels used to meander through the marsh. The pond will one day be turned back into a tidal marsh.

Most of Earth's water is in the oceans and too salty to drink. Desalination plants can make seawater drinkable, but they ...

In 2022, the United States produced 42 million tons of salt which values at around $2.5 billion, the U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries reported.Salt made from brine is largely ...

Score a parking spot at Quonochontaug Pond this summer, or arrive by bicycle or boat or kayak. After that it's time to get ...

Turns out these ponds are salt mining ponds, and they used to all be coastal wetlands — a swath of tidal marsh larger than Manhattan. Early California settlers, capitalizing on native Ohlone ...

Ogden's 55,000-acre solar evaporation pond complex produces salt, sulfate of potash and magnesium chloride from the Great Salt Lake. With all that in mind, the Utah Division of Forestry, ...

Not all salt sold as sea salt is harvested through these methods, but all salt must meet the FDA minimum for purity -- and, ...

A pinkish-red evaporation pond at the Great Salt Lake in Utah on August 2, 2021. The state published its strategic plan for the lake which prompted pushback from conservation groups.

Editor’s note: This article is published through the Great Salt Lake Collaborative, ... The east evaporation ponds of Compass Minerals as seen from above on Oct. 18, 2016.

Researchers have developed a sponge-like material with long, microscopic air pockets that uses sunlight and a simple plastic ...