The Dead Sea is a confluence of extraordinary conditions: the lowest point on Earth's surface, with one of the world's ...

The Dead Sea is an extraordinary natural laboratory, providing rare insights into the formation of large-scale salt formations known as salt giants. A recent study led by UC Santa Barbara’s Eckart ...

The Dead Sea is one of the most unusual places on Earth. Located at the lowest point on the planet’s surface and known for ...

Eerie salt formations pop up and grow across the turquoise sea, beautiful yet sad signs of continuous water evaporation. Photo by Noam Bedein/Dead Sea Revival Project “600 Olympic pools evaporate in ...

Its water level is dropping. Big sinkholes are swallowing up whole tracts of land around it. Here is why a disaster is unfolding at the Middle East's iconic salt lake.

Gregory, a recent immigrant from Russia, floats in the Dead Sea at a beach connected to an Israeli hotel resort on Nov. 10. The water of the lake is so full of salt that bathers float right to the ...

Dead Sea an 'ecological disaster', but no one can agree how to fix it. ... (122 degrees Fahrenheit) has been exacerbated by decades of water diversions from the sea's main source ...

DEAD SEA — It is an unparalleled wonder of the world: the lowest exposed spot on Earth, its therapeutic waters are so full of salt that bathers float right to the top. This natural spa is a ...

Ein Gedi, once a popular Dead Sea beach in Israel, lies abandoned due to dangerous sinkholes and the receding shoreline caused by climate change and industrial water use. Regional cooperation ...