Though traditional rock salt remains a go-to for many, a plethora of DIY snow melt solutions exist (and most common ingredients can be found right in your own kitchen). Look around and you'll find ...

Consider using sand, rock salt, snow melting mats, chloride compounds, heated walkways, kitty litter, vinegar, or urea as de-icing techniques, each with their own pros and cons. There is a lot to love ...

Councils have a statutory duty to keep the main routes clear of snow and ice Using rock salt to de-ice roads is harmful to wildlife and alternatives should be explored, a scientist says.

Image caption, This gritter is the real winter soldier While it’s called grit, most gritters actually use halite, also known as rock salt. But halite doesn’t actually melt snow the way heat does.

Fagre predicts that within 30 years most if not all of the park's namesake glaciers will disappear. "Things that normally happen in geologic time are happening during the span of a human lifetime," ...

Abrasives: Small gravel or sand that can't melt snow or ice, such as non-clumping cat litter. Often, abrasives are mixed with salt to provide additional traction and lessen the cost of applying ...

which increases the amount of sunlight that the snow soaks up and makes it melt faster, new measurements confirm. On Alaska’s Harding Icefield, these microbes are responsible for about a sixth ...

The iceberg that served as a movie screen was trapped in the sea ice ... of the salt water below. The hunter has to haul it up. But the glaciers flowing into Uummannaq Fjord are melting faster ...

UN weather agency issues ‘red alert’ on climate change after record heat, ice-melt increases in 2023 The U.N. weather agency is sounding a "red alert" about global warming, citing record ...

The salty water of the Great Salt Lake is up compared to the past ... where one state official predicted it might hit amid snow melt. The lake did still have high enough water levels to play ...

a hydrologist with the National Weather Service based in Salt Lake City. The last two years have been above average, he said, and this year the snow melt equivalent was 131% of normal. It’s been ...