The source of salinity depends on where you are in the Colorado River Basin and when you’re looking. Up-basin in Colorado River tributaries in Eagle County — where naturally occurring salinity ...

Another alarming possibility: Salinity, which is the concentration of salt in seawater, has a major effect on deep ocean currents that affect global climate, moving heat from the tropics to the poles.

Some of the water around Antarctica has been getting saltier. And that has affected the amount of sea ice at the bottom of the planet. A study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National ...

Salinity changes threatening marine ecosystems Date: July 12, 2023 Source: University of North Florida Summary: A groundbreaking study reveals the critical yet severely understudied factor of ...

Salinity intrusion triggered by different factors, including sea-level rise, commercial shrimp cultivation, and decreased upstream transboundary water flow, have directly affected agriculture in ...

Algae growth on an Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Surface Mooring, which measured water properties and velocity at the US Northeast shelfbreak, right after recovery. Woods Hole, Mass. (May ...

Its salinity levels also dropped back to healthy levels as this happened. It fell from that peak of 185 grams per liter to as low as 124 in 2023, per U.S. Geological Survey data.