This find is part of a broader international effort to study the Dead Sea’s geology and climate history. Drilling projects reaching depths of 1,200 meters below sea level are underway to uncover ...

The Dead Sea, being a closed basin, has been losing water for years due to drought, heat, and agricultural exploitation, causing its level to drop by about 1 metre annually. Unique formations on ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 61, No. 4 (2016), pp. 1214-1231 (18 pages) The Dead Sea is a hypersaline terminal lake, experiencing negative water balance, increasing salinity, and NaCl (halite) ...