From Dholavira, Dhordo is an 88km drive, passing through salt flats, castor fields, banni grasslands, and past herds of stocky banni buffalo. Dhordo is home to the Rann Utsav Tent City, managed by ...

The salt-loaded hydrogel was tested under various humidity conditions. The researchers found that, at a range of humidity levels – 30%, 50% and 70% – the hydrogel absorbed moisture without ...

The Salar de Uyuni desert is famous for its gleaming surface waters and hexagonal salt crust patterns, but below this otherworldly landscape lie about 11 million tons of highly sought-after lithium.

Sweat keeps some animals cool in scorching heat. Salty secretions also serve one desert shrub a refreshing sip of water. The Athel tamarisk uses a special selection of salts excreted from its ...

Rising from the bare expanse of the large salt desert that separates India from Pakistan is what will likely be the world's largest renewable energy project when completed three years from now.

It's like nowhere else on the planet. Tatsiana Volskaya/Getty Images Traveling to the Atacama Desert feels like stepping onto a different planet. There’s a reason for that — the soil here is ...

SOUTH SALT LAKE, Utah — City officials in South Salt Lake are working to help fill vacant ground-floor retail and address an area that was classified as a food desert. Their solution, beer.

The curving sands in central northern Iran’s salt desert, Dasht-e Kavir, can be seen in this image from the Ikonos-2 satellite. Here, clays and sand soils have a high surface salt content owing ...

The Utah Legislature allocated nearly $2 billion worth of taxpayer funds this year to help build two sports and entertainment districts in Salt Lake City. Now, another group is preparing to ask ...

Archaeologists discovered a group of footprints in the Great Salt Lake Desert earlier this summer. Reporter Anastasia Hufham joins “The Daily Buzz” to discuss her reporting on the footprints ...

The Salar de Uyuni desert is famous for its gleaming surface waters and hexagonal salt crust patterns, but below this otherworldly landscape lie about 11 million tons of highly sought-after lithium.