Therefore, the Dead Sea is home to some of the saltiest and most mineral-rich natural water on earth. With the same depth of water, a surface water’s salinity can be seven to nine times higher than ...

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

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

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

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

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

Scientists have identified mineral formations on the floor of the Dead Sea that could warn of oncoming sinkholes. | Earth And ...

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 ...

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 ...

Isolated bodies of water can also become extra salty, or hypersaline, through evaporation. The Dead Sea in the Middle East is an example of this. The high salt content increases the water's density, ...