Salt is farmed in huge quantities on remote islands in South Korea. These islands are nicknamed "slave islands" by local media because the salt is often harvested by mostly mentally disabled ...

Farm owners collect the bulk of the earnings, while the workers—who toil under the weight of every harvest—are left to scrape by, their paychecks barely carrying them through the season. Most families ...

Chae, 48, one of the victims, who is mentally challenged, recounts that his ordeal started after he was introduced to the owner of a salt farm on Shinui Island off Shinan County by a job broker in ...

The target salt production is 4,000 mt more than the 6,000 mt of salt produced by the farm from the time it started its operations in November 2023 to June this year.

Huadian New Energy Group has finished building a 1 GW solar farm on a salt field in Binhai New District, in the Chinese city of Tianjin, according to the State Council Information Office (SCIO ...

"Hard, but it keeps us going." Salt farming has always tested endurance, but climate change conspires against the women who depend on it. Rising temperatures accelerate evaporation, often causing ...