The area around the Dead Sea, despite its misleading name, is actually an area teeming with life. The historical, religious, and cultural significance of the Dead Sea can’t be denied either ...

Climate change and exploitation of natural resources threaten the natural wonder that is the Dead Sea.

Sometimes you need a new vantage point to understand an older picture. Two months ago a small camera-equipped, motorized glider took off close to a signpost that said “steps down to the Dead Sea ...

The large-scale deposits of salt around the Dead Sea, known as salt giants, are built up as the lake's highly saline water evaporates, and a new study of their formation has revealed some of the ...

Nov. 21, 2005 — -- Israel's Dead Sea is, ironically, as old as life itself. Hidden in the world's deepest valley and protected by majestic desert mountains, the Dead Sea is one important ...

The lake — named the Dead Sea because its high salinity is inhospitable to aquatic life — has been drying up for decades. It's a human-made problem, say environmental researchers and officials.

The salt sea has some 12 million years of geological and chemical history. Will efforts to stabilize its water level kill its very essence?

For many, the Dead Sea is on their bucket list. Here, you can float on the water while reading a newspaper or rub the nourishing mud on your skin at the shore. However, what most people don't know is ...

The Dead Sea is literally dying and significantly shrinking every year — and it’s all our fault. The Dead Sea is in the heart of the Syrian-African rift valley, bordered by Jordan, Israel and ...

Israel's Dead Sea Works factory piles up white potash, which is extracted from the Dead Sea and exported for fertilizer, in the southern part of the Dead Sea on Nov. 10.