Earth’s Lowest Point The Dead Sea, often termed nature’s paradox, holds the title of being the lowest point on Earth's ...

Once a shimmering 68,000-square-kilometer (26,000-square-mile) inland sea straddling Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, the Aral Sea ...

Pollution is leaking into the bay waters from creeks bearing nitrogen and phosphorous from wastewater treatment plants, ...

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...

Prolonged drought can lead to a soil’s high concentrations of salts and an unhealthy environment for farmland. Undergraduate student Jason Perez prepares soybean plants that will be studied as they ...