Bodies of water - Topics

Why the Red Sea is one of the warmest and saltiest large seas Why the Dead Sea is so dense that you cannot sink in it Why the Caspian Sea is legally a sea but physically a lake What the Amazon's freshwater plume does to the Atlantic nearby How the Suez Canal reshaped shipping routes around Africa How the Rhine carries so much barge traffic far inland How much water can cities legally withdraw from the Great Lakes Why Lake Baikal holds more fresh water than all the Great Lakes combined Damming the Nile: how upstream reservoirs change what reaches Egypt How the Aral Sea shrank and what the exposed seabed is used for now How the Black Sea's deep layer stays anoxic and almost lifeless How deep-sea fish bodies withstand crushing pressure How deep the Mariana Trench is compared with the height of Everest What summer temperature layering does to fish in a deep lake Why the Great Salt Lake's level swings so much from year to year Why the deepest ocean trench is still shallow next to Earth's radius