Can the Dead Sea Live?

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The Dead Sea now lies 424 meters below sea level, and the water is dropping by one meter a year. In certain places, the water's edge has receded a full kilometer from shore. More than 3,000 sinkholes have opened around the perimeter in recent years, about one every two days. Some fill with brine; others do not. Image: Eitan Haddok

The Dead Sea is a place of mystery: the lowest surface on Earth, the purported site of Sodom and Gomorrah, a supposed font of curative waters and, despite its name, a treasure trove of unusual microbial life. Yet its future is anything but a mystery. After centuries of stability—owed to a delicate equilibrium between freshwater supply from the Jordan River and evaporation under the relentless Middle Eastern sun—the lake is now disappearing.

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