Brine pools are hypersaline underwater lakes that are lethal to most marine life. Created from ancient salt deposits sleeping on the sea floor, they are so dense that their surface is nearly ...

Scientists found deep-sea 'death pools' in the Gulf of Aqaba. These pools host extremophile microbes and are devoid of oxygen ...

New research indicates that Arabia experienced five times more rainfall 400 years ago compared to today. Scientists highlight ...

A new study reconstructing extreme rainfall in Arabia has uncovered that rainfall in the region was five times more extreme ...

"The NEOM Brine Pools, as we name them, extend the known geographical range of Red Sea brine pools, and represent a unique ...

A research team led by Sam Purkis, a professor and chair of the Department of Marine Geosciences at the University of Miami, ...

Scientists have discovered natural death pools in the Red Sea, in the region now believed to be the location where Moses ...

Kiel. How dangerous are submarine landslides in deep-sea canyons? To answer this question, the German research vessel SONNE sets sail today from Wellington, New Zealand, for a multi-week expedition in ...

Tropical riparian ecosystems—those found along rivers and wetlands—recovered much faster than expected following the ...

Fossil evidence from North China suggests that some ecosystems may have recovered within just two million years of the ...