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The Red Sea grows saltier because desert heat evaporates its water

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Trapped between sweltering deserts with massive evaporation rates, this body of water is aggressively concentrating its own salinity. It is basically Mother Nature attempting to pickle the ocean.

The Red Sea grows saltier because desert heat evaporates its water
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