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  The Dead Sea, a landlocked lake at the lowest point on Earth, is experiencing significant environmental changes, with its water level receding by approximately 4 feet annually and its surface area shrinking by about a third over the past five decades. The lake is now leaving behind a new landscape of salt-encrusted shorelines and sinkholes, and its water levels have dropped by more than 90% since the 1970s. The shrinking Dead Sea is also causing the river to carry only 100 million cubic meters of water annually co…

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