Explore Peru’s Maras salt ponds, where ancient communities still harvest natural salt from mountain springs.

The sting of climate change is often viewed as an issue for future generations and as unimportant as a few degrees of temperature change. But for a region of farmers in the Indian state of Gujarat, ...

Salt is all around us—inside our oceans, beneath our feet, on our roadways, in our food and as part of the products we use every day. But with global temperatures climbing, weather events becoming ...

Harvesting salt from the sea is a practice that goes back millennia in Hawaii. The Polynesian voyagers likely found crystallized salt collecting in the rocks along the shoreline when they arrived in ...

For female artisanal salt farmers in Pemba, salt production is both their livelihood and their struggle. In this deeply patriarchal Muslim community, the gleaming piles of white salt represent ...

CIREBON, Indonesia, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Salt farmers in Indonesia's West Java province are reaping the benefits of an El Niño-driven drought even as crop farmers brace for a prolonged challenge from the ...

PEMBA, Tanzania, Jan 20 (IPS) - As the cool morning breeze sweeps across the Indian Ocean beach in Tanzania’s Pemba archipelago, Salma Mahmoud Ali begins her day. With her brightly coloured Kikoi ...