Harvesting salt from the sea is a practice that goes back millennia in Hawaii. The Polynesian voyagers likely found crystallized salt collecting in the rocks along the shoreline when they arrived in ...

Benjamin Jacobsen has loved salt since childhood. But it wasn’t until studying abroad in Scandinavia in 2006 that he experienced a turning point in his relationship with the mineral. One day, Jacobsen ...

Estuaries -- where freshwater rivers meet the salty sea -- are great locations for birdwatching and kayaking. In these areas, waters containing different salt concentrations mix and may be sources of ...