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

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 ...

the salt causes you to float effortlessly on the surface. Many also believe that the Dead Sea (and its mud) has healing powers. Although that hasn't been proven, both the mud and the salty water ...

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

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 ...

Thousands of people flock to the Dead Sea ... This is because the Dead Sea contains 33 per cent salt and a wealth of magnesium, calcium, potassium and other minerals. It is these minerals combined ...

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

This landlocked salt ... below sea level. The minerals in the adjacent mud by the banks are also highly therapeutic, making ...