Dead Sea shrinks at record rate(1/4)

Aerial view shows patterns formed by crystallized minerals and sinkholes on the surface of a dried-up Dead Sea area which exposed and created a salt plain, near the southern Israeli Neve Zohar Resort, Aug. 15, 2023. (Photo/Agencies)

The Dead Sea has lost a third of its surface area since 1960 with the blue water receding about a meter (yard) every year, leaving behind a lunar landscape whitened by salt and perforated with gaping holes.

Aerial view shows patterns formed by crystallized minerals and sinkholes on the surface of a dried-up Dead Sea area which exposed and created a salt plain, near the southern Israeli Neve Zohar Resort, Aug. 15, 2023. (Photo/Agencies)

Aerial view shows patterns formed by crystallized minerals and sinkholes on the surface of a dried-up Dead Sea area which exposed and created a salt plain, near the southern Israeli Neve Zohar Resort, Aug. 15, 2023. (Photo/Agencies)

Aerial view shows patterns formed by crystallized minerals and sinkholes on the surface of a dried-up Dead Sea area which exposed and created a salt plain, near the southern Israeli Neve Zohar Resort, Aug. 15, 2023. (Photo/Agencies)