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BFAR chief rallies support for local salt farmers, cites threat of imports

The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has called for stronger safeguards for Filipino salt farmers, citing an influx of foreign imports threatening local livelihood....

Bangladesh salt farmers struggle as climate shifts disrupt harvests

Bent over a salt bed, a 55-year-old farmer, Nasir Uddin, was scooping up and throwing out water with a hand-made pot His field was flooded by a few hours of heavy overnight rain. O...

Scorching heat boosts salt production in Thoothukudi; glut concerns grow

Recalling last year’s season that was impacted by unseasonal rainfall, Association secretary adds that this year’s weather has been favourable, but anticipated stockpiling of salt...

Salt-Tolerant Bacteria Are Bringing Dying Farmland Back to Life

Roughly a fifth of the world’s irrigated farmland is poisoned by its own water supply. Salt accumulates in the soil as water evaporates, year by year, until the ground becomes inho...

J.Q. Dickinson Salt Works honors salt-making heritage

KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. (WOWK) - West Virginia is well known for its many coal mining towns and coal industry. However, there is another industry that helped put the Mountain State...

Mining company wins licence to extract more salt from Wadden Sea

Dutch salt mining company Frisia has been granted a provisional licence to expand its salt extraction operation in the Wadden...

It was once a thriving lakeshore; now it's toxic and poisoning residents. Mining lithium might offer a solution.

In the Imperial Valley of southeast California, community members are seeking a solution to the harmful effects of the Salton Sea, reports Jill Johnston and Shohreh Farzan for The...

Surviving extreme heat in India's salt pans

India faces challenging heatwaves each year, but few places endure conditions as searing as the country's western desert salt pans, where workers rely on simple techniques to survi...

Saline intrusion in Mekong Delta leaves farmers and scientists at odds

Vinh Long, VIETNAM — Khanh Chi tends a small apricot blossom orchard in Nhuan Phu Tan, a commune in southern Vietnam’s Vinh Long province by the Co Chien River, one of the Mekong R...

Small ponds, big lifelines for Alaminos farmers

ALAMINOS CITY — In the upland farming communities of this city, small man-made ponds originally built to catch rainwater are quietly reshaping rural livelihoods. Known as small far...

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This Bitter Earth

The world’s salt lakes are the canary in the coal mine for the climate crisis, and they are shrinking at a drastic rate.