Researchers have discovered meter-high chimneys on the floor of the Dead Sea. These are formed by the spontaneous crystallization of minerals from groundwater with an extremely high salt content ...

In an interdisciplinary research project coordinated by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), researchers have discovered meter-high chimneys on the floor of the Dead Sea. These ...

The Dead Sea’s Tzeelim Bay seems to belong to another planet. From what looks like salt embroidery to snow-like salt strips to pillars that emerge from the hypersaline waters, Tzeelim Bay puts ...

Many of the Dead Sea Scrolls are much older than academics previously thought, a new study claims. Scientists from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands utilized artificial intelligence ...

The bacteria and salt-loving algae or fungi found inside the halite were trapped when the crystals formed, making them 830 million years old, the researchers said.

Aerial photograph of the Dead Sea western shore. Parallel paleo shorelines show the intense water level drop (currently about 1 m per year). Salt (halite) actively precipitating from the water ...

Strange Chimney-Like Vents That Emit "Shimmering" Plumes Discovered On Dead Sea Floor These strange white smokers are created by groundwater flowing into the Dead Sea through its lake bed.

EVER SINCE the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered by Bedouin shepherds in the 1940s, debate has raged over their exact age. The scrolls, which contain the earliest surviving copies of books from the ...

New research explains why salt crystals are piling up on the deepest parts of the Dead Sea's floor, a finding that could help scientists understand how large salt deposits formed in Earth's ...

Experts believe a toxic algae bloom is the cause of hundreds of sick and dead sea lions and dolphins that have washed up along Southern California beaches this month. Marine mammal rescue ...

The Dead Sea’s Tzeelim Bay seems to belong to another planet. From what looks like salt embroidery to snow-like salt strips to pillars that emerge from the hypersaline waters, Tzeelim Bay puts ...