Calcified salt formations are pictured at the base of the pillars holding a disabled pumping station from the northern basin of the dead Sea near Kibbutz Ein Gedi in eastern Israel on December 30, 2024, after the station stopped operations due to the lake's drying. The Dead Sea, nestled where Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian territory meet, has famously been dying for years. (Photo by Menahem Kahana / AFP)