Salt may be quickest when it comes to keeping roads and sidewalks clear of ice. But at this point of a snowy winter, a shortage in the Northeast has some looking for help and other materials.

With local stores facing a limited supply of rock salt and ice melt, the town of Wilbraham is stepping in to help residents ...

With the New York State salt shortage going on, what else can you use to get rid of the ice, or to get your car going if you ...

Japanese researchers have found salt minerals on the surface of the asteroid Ryugu, suggesting that liquid water was once ...

Deposits Found on a Nearby Asteroid Point to Salty Water in the Outer Solar System Scientists have uncovered salt minerals in ...

Salt is common pantry staple these days, but hundreds of years ago it was a valuable and often rare commodity that people ...

Asteroid Bennu’s samples contain pristine salts, hinting at ancient briny environments that could have formed organic ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission uncovered a cosmic connection between asteroid Bennu and Earth’s Searles Lake. Both contain minerals formed by evaporating salty water, hinting that Bennu’s parent body once ...

A statewide rock salt shortage is affecting the SUNY Brockport campus, leading to growing safety concerns. While this impacts ...

Consumers in Niskayuna and surrounding areas are finding salt in short supply, not due to a shortage, but because of ...

Rock salt, also commonly known as pink salt. Often people use rock salt during fasting. Apart from this, people start using rock salt to improve digestion and to keep blood pressure under control.

It is a sign of Erie County’s desperation for road salt that Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz was thrilled at the prospect of buying some from an unlikely source: Louisiana. Given the ...