Thousands of Dead Sea Sinkholes Open Up, Worrying Officials

The Dead Sea has been losing water for years, but it's a side effect of that evaporation that has experts especially worried.
Over the last three decades, more than 3,000 sinkholes have opened up in dry parts of the ever-shrinking Dead Sea, according to ABC News. They're developing at all times of the day and night, experts say, and they're starting to affect roadways that run alongside the water.
An article by Smithsonian Magazine in 2005 said there had been about 1,000 sinkholes reported to that point, so the pace at which these holes are forming seems to be accelerating.
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"It's nature's revenge," Gidon Bromberg, the Israeli Director at EcoPeace Middle East, told ABC News. "These sinkholes are a direct result of the inappropriate mismanagement of water resources in the region."
Bromberg said there have been so many sinkholes, some are forming close enough to other sinkholes to merge, leading to an even bigger crater in the Earth.

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