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

In an interdisciplinary research project coordinated by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), researchers ...

The lowest land-locked body of water, that also happens to be extremely peculiar because of its ecosystem and composition: ...

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 ...

In an interdisciplinary research project coordinated by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), researchers ...

These chimneys resemble hydrothermal chimneys discovered in oceanic ridges, but "the system is completely different," ...

Today, these deposits are found more than 200 meters above the water level of the Dead Sea. View from Masada across the Dead Sea. (photo credit: GFZ) Two drones were intercepted above Masada ...

Water level is receding and salt crystallization is due to evaporation on the shores of the Dead Sea, Israel. getty I visited Greenland in 2008. I was pulled on dog sledges in snow fields ...

Here's how they form: As the globe warms and sea level rises, more and more saltwater ... leaving a haunted ghost forest of dead and dying timber." Still standing in or near brackish water ...

Ghost forests are among the numerous and visible impacts resulting from coastal flooding and sea level rise, and are prevalent along the U.S. East Coast ...