Nestled between Jordan, Israel, and Palestine, the Dead Sea is a geographical and natural marvel. It is the lowest point on ...

The Dead Sea is drying up, and dropping salt water levels mean there is more fresh water to eat away at the salt. “Sinkholes are caused by human irresponsibility,” he says.

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 ...

With the Dead Sea — a lake, really — shrinking at a rate of 3 to 5 feet a year, its salt water is replaced by fresh water, which rushes in and dissolves subterranean salt layers, some of them ...

The Dead Sea is only hypersaline water body on Earth today where this salt fingering process is happening, so it represents a unique laboratory for researchers to study the mechanisms by which ...

The Dead Sea's water level is dropping nearly 4 feet a year. ... Millions of tons of salt are left annually on the floor of these pools, causing the water to rise 8 inches a year.

But since the 1960s, irrigation has diverted much of the Dead Sea's freshwater inflow. As a result, water that evaporates isn't replenished, leaving behind a higher concentration of salt at the ...

Today the Dead Sea still mystifies us. Because it is so low -- 1,300 feet below sea level -- it's closest to all the deep Earth's minerals and, most visibly, the Earth's salt, which cakes at its ...

For centuries the waters of the Dead Sea have been known for their therapeutic benefits. The sea contains a high concentration of sea salts with healthy minerals like magnesium, calcium, iodine ...

The salt snow originates here but the warmer, less dense water around it doesn’t mix with the colder water below. So how the salt was raining down into this colder layer was a puzzle. In 2016 Nadav ...

JERUSALEM — The Dead Sea has been rapidly disappearing for the past 50 years, one of the world’s natural wonders careening toward ecological collapse. In a rare display of regional ...

But today the Dead Sea is dying, and its banks are collapsing. The water level is dropping close to 4 feet every year. The main part of the lake is now around 950 feet deep — about 15% shallower ...