Scientists have built the first-ever thorium reactor. Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than uranium—the most common fission fuel. The system also uses molten salt instead of ...

Honeycomb patterns form in salt deserts all over the world, for example in the Badwater Basin of Death Valley in California or in the Salar de Uyuni in Chile. These enigmatic salt structures attract ...

KHAVDA, India (AP) — Rising from the bare expanse of the large salt desert that separates India from Pakistan is what will likely be the world’s largest renewable energy project when completed three ...

India is one of the world's top salt producers. Most of the country's salt comes from the desert of the Little Rann of Kutch. Here, the Agariya people do the dangerous job of farming salt. They face ...