A few years ago Ricardo Braz was scrolling through Instagram when he spotted a picture of a tiny island made of salt in the Dead Sea. He added it to his bucket list. In December the 24-year-old ...

Siebert and his team have been researching how the dynamics of the groundwater system in this region are changing and how ...

Mineral chimneys found on the Dead Sea floor signal potential sinkhole sites, aiding in hazard prediction and environmental ...

Researchers have discovered meter-high chimneys on the floor of the Dead Sea. These are formed by the spontaneous crystallization of minerals from groundwater with an extremely high salt content ...

The Dead Sea in the Middle East is an example of this. The high salt content increases the water's density, which is why people float in the Dead Sea more easily than in the ocean. This effect is seen ...