However, road salt (sodium chloride) is not the kindest of chemicals. Although it's undoubtedly effective at melting ice, it ...

Sea ice melt is not a significant contributor to sea level rise, but its contribution is not nothing, either. Sea ice is ...

And while road salt does serve its purpose of melting ice, once a fresh layer of ice forms, drivers are back in peril until salt trucks make their rounds again. To address these concerns ...

NO. 2: LIQUID ICE MELT Pour warm water into a bucket. Add rock salt crystals to it. (A good ratio is 1 gallon water to 1 cup rock salt, but this is not an exact science; you want to create salty ...

Rich Kerr, owner of Kerr Landscaping, Altoona, picks up a bag of rock salt at Mallow’s Hardware in Altoona on Friday afternoon. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski Years of mild winters paired ...

When sea ice ages, the salt sinks into the ocean, leaving fresh, drinkable water on top. Charlotte Naqitaqvik collects a teapot of water at her family’s hunting camp in Nuvukutaak, near the ...

“The steady and substantial influx of freshwater would change the ocean’s salt content, alter current patterns, and raise sea levels. This is what’s happening as the Greenland Ice Sheet shrinks.

But fresh, cool water from melting Antarctic ice is diluting the salty ... of climate change Ocean currents respond to changes in temperature, salt levels, wind patterns and sea-ice extent. So the ...