The water melts the ice, the ice freezes the water back, and so on. Ice wins more battles when it’s colder; but as it warms up, water becomes the victor. So where does salt come into this battle?

Sea ice melt is not a significant contributor to sea level rise, but its contribution is not nothing, either. Sea ice is ...

“Everyday Cheapskate” reader Jennifer does, and she wrote ... Why this works: Salt (sodium chloride) melts ice because adding salt lowers the freezing point of the water.

Factors that influence ice melt include the angle of sunlight, cloud cover, the distribution of salt and sand, and plowed roads, which allow solar radiation to penetrate the asphalt more easily.

And while road salt does serve its purpose of melting ice, once a fresh layer of ice forms, drivers are back in peril until salt trucks make their rounds again. To address these concerns ...

Rich Kerr, owner of Kerr Landscaping, Altoona, picks up a bag of rock salt at Mallow’s Hardware in Altoona on Friday afternoon. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski Years of mild winters paired ...

Melting ice sheets would "dump vast quantities of fresh water" into the current, the modelling found. This would change the ocean's salt content, making it harder for cold water to circulate ...