The spiciest city in spicy Sichuan, Zigong was once home to an empire of salt and has a history of high- and low-end cuisine, ...

Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in ...

Sheer drama. That's what the Great Sand Dunes are. Starkly beautiful desert dunes set against a backdrop of pretty, ...

Researchers have discovered cratonic thinning occurring beneath North America, driven by the remnants of the Farallon Plate.

This extraordinary discovery not only redefines our understanding of salt caves but also adds a geological wonder to Israel’s ...

The study also provides a new approach to solving one of the biggest enduring scientific mysteries: when did plate tectonics ...

The Sundance Film Festival is Boulder bound, leaving its home of four decades in Park City, Utah, for a new chapter in ...

Road salt is considered a main driver of the increase, along with sewage treatment plant discharges and water softeners. Millions of tons of rock salt is spread on U.S. roads each winter as a ...

So much rock salt has seeped into the water supply in the Lower Hudson Valley that a Westchester County reservoir that delivers drinking water to New York City might need to be shut down in 25 years.

Controlling nature by bulldozing dirt and pouring concrete ... Shipping canals have sliced and diced freshwater marshes, providing pathways for salt water to infiltrate and kill vegetation and ...

At the time, rock & rollers were starting to launch their ... Given the determinedly oddball nature of its releases, it was no surprise that Raccoon didn’t last long, going the way of Apple ...

MILAN, Ill. — Nature’s Treatment of Illinois (NTI) plans to keep its Milan location despite previous plans to relocate to Rock Island. Instead of relocating, NTI hopes to expand its operation ...