A good example of a group which separated itself from society at large and defined itself against the Temple in Jerusalem are the Essenes, or perhaps you might say, the people of the Dead Sea ...

The Dead Sea is a paradoxical place. A large, terminal lake, not a sea, it lies at the lowest point on earth. The Jordan flows in, but no river flows out. It’s full of undrinkable water ...

"Fish stocks went down and in the end all we caught were dead fish. Now young people have to leave for other countries in search of jobs". The Aral Sea has shrunk to 10% of its former size - an ...

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 ...