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 3 feet annually. Unique formations on ...

The increasingly exposed shoreline and the sinkholes, caused by a flow of freshwater dissolving layers of salt beneath the Earth's surface, are not new. In fact, the Dead Sea, nestled where ...

In the Middle East, excessive groundwater extraction has led to increased sinkhole activity in Iran, Jordan, and the Dead Sea region, where over 6,000 sinkholes have formed due to falling water ...

In efforts to save the Dead Sea, the Red Sea-Dead Sea Conduit has ... will hopefully keep tourists and locals safe from the sinkholes, and there won't need to be as many warning signs such as ...

Rarely, sinkholes are presaged by cracks or slumping. Other locales with known sinkholes include the Dead Sea, since salt also easily breaks down, and Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, which is often ...

The increasingly exposed shoreline and the sinkholes, caused by a flow of freshwater dissolving layers of salt beneath the Earth's surface, are not new. In fact, the Dead Sea, nestled where Israeli, ...