Salt makes almost everything taste better - we add it while cooking to enhance the flavor of other ingredients, sprinkle some ...

Global climate models predict that the ocean around Antarctica should be warming, but in reality, those waters have cooled ...

These dissolved salty minerals eventually reach the oceans, bringing 4 billion tons of salt to the sea each year. If the rivers carry salt, why aren’t they salty too? Rainwater dilutes the rivers and ...

After fire hydrants ran dry during the wildfires in Los Angeles, listeners wondered why firefighters didn't just use ocean water to begin with. On this episode of Possibly, we explain the tradeoffs of ...

Contact lens loss is another concern around swimming with them in your eyes. “Chlorinated or saltwater can cause lenses to ...

Ocean evaporation is a key process in the hydrological cycle, contributing to more than 85% of atmospheric water vapor. It plays a central role in regulating climate and precipitation. An increase in ...

A clarifier at the Bustamante Waste Water Treatment Plant expansion in El Paso, Texas on March 5, 2025. Credit: Justin Hamel for The Texas Tribune ...

"The CO-to-CO2 ratios appear to increase in Salt Lake, but they decreased in LA and, of course, the question is 'why?'" Lin said. That reasoning likely boils down to a few factors, according to ...

The city didn’t actually spread more salt than usual. But it may have seemed that way, according to the Sanitation Department, because there was less snow and rain. By Patrick McGeehan The last ...

But fresh, cool water from melting Antarctic ice is diluting the salty water of the ocean, potentially disrupting the vital ocean current. Our new research suggests the Antarctic Circumpolar ...

In 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft first discovered towering plumes of water ... Enceladus's salty ice shell. "We postulate that the reservoir is not necessarily a subsurface ocean, but could ...

If you were to shake a glass of ocean water vigorously, small bubbles would form on the surface of the liquid. This is how sea foam forms, when the ocean is agitated by wind and waves. Most sea ...