Water diversion results in low water levels and the slow drying up of the river. While the Jordan River once deposited around 1.3 billion cubic meters of water into the Dead Sea annually ...

Scientists have discovered "white smokers" — towering salt "chimneys" spewing clouds of shimmering fluid — on the bottom of ...

toward the Dead Sea, the terrain changes rapidly and starkly. You move off gradually from [the] ... rolling hillside, through the ravines, and it becomes stark and desolate. It's dry. It's arid.

The minerals that make up Dead Sea mud are extremely rich. The island gradually absorbed the salts and minerals from the high concentration of salt in the water many thousands of years ago. Since the ...

Mr Escusido said that the dry desert climate around the Dead Sea enabled the preservation of artefacts that would not survive elsewhere in Israel. "This is a unique time capsule, whereby fragments ...