Winter salt is either rock salt (sodium chloride) or ice melt (a blend of sodium chloride, magnesium chloride and other salt) and bags were jumping off store shelves over the weekend.

Though traditional rock salt remains a go-to for many, a plethora of DIY snow melt solutions exist (and ... and coffee grounds for instant traction on ice, to a few drops of dish soap and kitty ...

Ocean conditions (temperature, salt content and the speed of ocean currents) and the shape of the ice determine which melting regime applies. Ice sheet shape is key because meltwater is fresh and ...

This is the final tax year for a cap on the federal government's State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction, which reduces your IRS income tax bill based on taxes you've already paid to state and local ...

If you're trying to figure out what salt to use to melt all the ice and snow the Pittsburgh area is seeing, Andy Amrhein from Every True Value Hardware sorts out what's safe for pets, plants and ...

If you need to go out, however, and you don’t have any rock salt for melting the ice that’s sure to form on your driveway and walkway, then your strategy might be to try to clear the snow at ...

They clear the snow with their plows while applying salt to melt the ice on the roads. Without these efforts, most of us would literally be stuck in our homes. Rock salt is necessary as it is the ...

Whether you’re a newbie to the sport of ice fishing or a seasoned angler, everybody needs that one ice fishing rod to handle multiple species. These versatile ice rods are sensitive enough for sunfish ...

salt lowers the freezing point of water. "You wouldn't want to go swimming there, but it can melt ice very quickly," Naughten said. The amount of warm water flowing through the Filchner Trough and ...

A groundbreaking imaging method for tracking salt inside plant cells has rewritten knowledge of how roots handle toxic levels of sodium ions. The findings might aid efforts to boost plant ...