The Dead Sea is a confluence of extraordinary conditions: the lowest point on the earth’s surface, with one of the world’s highest salinities. The high concentration of salt gives it a correspondingly ...

The Dead Sea is an extraordinary natural laboratory, providing rare insights into the formation of large-scale salt formations known as salt giants. A recent study led by UC Santa Barbara’s Eckart ...

Credit: Encylopedia Britannica The Dead Sea is one of Earth's saltiest bodies of water, with a salt concentration of approximately 34.2%. Interestingly, despite its name, the Dead Sea is a salt lake, ...

The Dead Sea isn’t just the saltiest body of water on Earth—it’s a living laboratory for the formation of giant underground salt deposits. Researchers are unraveling how evaporation, temperature ...