Explore The Great Salt Road, Europe's ancient trade network. Discover its immense economic impact, forgotten routes, and how ...

Deep inside a salt mine under the Swiss Alps this week, a gathering of Irish people will be able to touch a seam of minerals left by an ancient sea, stretching all the way home to Ireland. They will ...

About 700 million years ago, Earth froze over so completely that even tropical oceans turned to ice, an episode scientists call Snowball Earth. New research now points to an overlooked accomplice in ...

Salt is an essential nutrient for the human body. But hundreds of millions of years before the first humans, salt minerals once shaped entire landscapes. They even determined where early life on Earth ...