The water levels in the Dead Sea – the deepest point on Earth – are dropping at an alarming rate with serious environmental consequences, according to Shahrazad Abu Ghazleh and colleagues from the University of Technology in Darmstadt, Germany.

By Lynn Arave Deseret News The Great Salt Lake is not living up to its name this year, despite a wetter-than-normal winter and a cool spring. The lake is shrinking again and could approach the same near- record low levels seen in 2004.

The water in the Great Salt Lake has begun rising again after years of drought, changing the landscape and starting to submerge one of Utah's best-known artifacts: an enormous earth sculpture called the Spiral Jetty.