People travel to the Middle East specifically to see the Dead Sea as its high sodium chloride and other salt levels make it easy to float on the surface. A tourist holds a newspaper upside down ...

The Dead Sea and Jerusalem were included on The Travel's top 10 best attractions in the Middle East on Wednesday. Coming in at spot number eight is the Dead Sea , which is bordered by Jordan to ...

Freshwater resources in the water-stressed Middle East are rapidly declining at a time when global climate change is projected to make the region even drier, scientists report in a new study ...

Middle East river basin has lost dead sea-sized quantity of water: Researchers cite pumping from underground reservoirs. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases ...

Now, with relations in the Middle East looking increasingly dismal, it’s unlikely that the pipeline will ever see the light of day – potentially signing a death sentence for the Dead Sea.

"The Dead Sea is dying because the waters that used to feed the Dead Sea, the holy River Jordan, is no longer flowing," says Gidon Bromberg, Director of Friends Of The Earth in the Middle East.