Did you know the Dead Sea is incredibly salty, with 342 grams of salt per kilogram? That’s about 34.2% salt, making it ten times saltier than regular ocean water. Located 1,388 feet below sea ...

The Dead Sea has no life in it but strange chimney-like structures on the lake floor has been tied to a life-threatening ...

There’s no cure for eczema, but some products have been shown to ease symptoms. One example is Dead Sea salt, which may treat symptoms like itching and inflammation. Eczema is a common skin ...

A few years ago Ricardo Braz was scrolling through Instagram when he spotted a picture of a tiny island made of salt in the Dead Sea. He added it to his bucket list. In December the 24-year-old ...

Isolated bodies of water can also become extra salty, or hypersaline, through evaporation. The Dead Sea in the Middle East is an example of this. The high salt content increases the water's density, ...

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, ...

DEAD SEA (33A: Extremely salty lake) The DEAD SEA is located between the countries of Jordan and Israel. It has a salinity of about 34%, compared to the 3.5% salinity of the world's oceans. As a ...