Surfers are used to getting mouthfuls of saltwater.

The salinity in isolated seas and salt-water lakes (for example, the Dead Sea) can be considerably greater. Seawater is more enriched in dissolved ions of all types compared to fresh water.

New research confirms that drastic changes in ocean salinity from, for example, severe freshwater flooding, as recently experienced off the coast of north-east Queensland from abnormal monsoonal ...

Operations continue at a federal salinity-control project in the Paradox Valley at a scaled-back rate as efforts also go on to assess the level of earthquake activity associated with it.

The Mekong Delta did not suffer as badly from salinity and a resultant lack of freshwater as last year, with the rainy season even arriving earlier than normal thanks to the La Nina phenomenon. During ...