"Canada's Dead Sea" is a salt lake on the prairies and it has healing qualities
There’s a lake on the Canadian prairies where the water is so salty that it makes you buoyant, and it’s been referred to as ...
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Why Does the Dead Sea Let You Float? The Science of Extreme Salinity
Visitors often ask, “Why does the Dead Sea let you float?” The answer is simple. It’s because of the unique mix of density, mineral concentration, and buoyancy. This makes t ...
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'It looks like smoke': Mysterious chimneys spewing shimmering liquid discovered at the bottom of the Dead Sea
Scientists have discovered "white smokers" — towering salt "chimneys" spewing clouds of shimmering fluid — on the bottom of the Dead Sea. And they appear to be harbingers of destruction.
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How a photographer captured this bizarre salt island in the Dead Sea
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 ...
The bizarre 10,000-year-old miracle of the Dead Sea
Nir Arielli’s rigorous history, The Dead Sea, ranges over millennia of the landscape’s paradoxes, conflicts and botanic ...
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Why is the sea salty?
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, ...