The Dead Sea, the bottom level on earth, is dying. The intensely salty physique of water – an enormous vacationer draw – has been shrinking at a price of about 4 toes yearly for many years. The causes: local weather change-driven warmth and man-made mining. The Dead Sea’s sluggish demise is denting tourism, inflicting sinkholes and opening fissures in underground rocks. NCS’s Jeremy Diamond explores.