Mark Jinks’ first visit to the Salt Plains of Wood Buffalo National Park in Northeast Alberta stands out clearly in his memory. “You go down a gravel road and it just opens up to this vast ...

Bolivia's Uyuni salt flats are the largest salt plains in the world The lunar landscape is the closest thing Earth might have to a void. Nothing is the first word that springs to mind.

In Bolivia and Chile, the high tonnage of lithium embedded in the salt plains has given rise to massive facilities. From the air, the evaporation pools associated with the mineral's extraction dot ...

Melissa Daniels is a member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN). She uses the salt from Wood Buffalo's salt plains in a bath product for her line of skincare products.

Once you leave it and head into the salt plains, drinking water is impossible to find. That evening we made camp in the company of a caravan by the banks of the river.

A family digs for crystals at the Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge. In northern Oklahoma, there are more than 11,000 acres of salt flats where visitors can view wildlife and dig for crystals.

Salt Plains NWR also travels outside the park to educate and will host Slithering Saturday beginning at 11 a.m. Oct. 12, 2024 at the Cherokee City County Public Library.

Cite: "Breathing New Life into an Evocative Salt Mine: A Landscape Journey with Snøhetta at YACademy" 18 Apr 2025. ArchDaily.

Researchers have discovered a jaw-dropping ecosystem of crystal-clear lagoons and salt plains in Argentina's Puna de Atacama desert that could offer a window onto early life on Earth and Mars.

Cycles of evaporation and deposition followed, leaving vast plains of salt behind – infused with one of the world's most sought-after minerals: lithium.