Shelter without people (Jordan, Dead Sea)

Since the 1960s, the Dead Sea has been retreating at an alarming rate of more than a meter per year , a direct consequence of massive pumping of the Jordan River and evaporation accelerated by global warming. This rapid retreat has led to the appearance of thousands of sinkholes —sudden collapses of the ground, sometimes several dozen meters deep—making certain areas uninhabitable or dangerous.

The Two Seas project , which plans to connect the Red Sea to the Dead Sea via a canal, aims to slow this disappearance, but it raises numerous environmental and geopolitical debates. The turquoise water, so photogenic, hides a reality of hydrological emergency, where economic interests, ecological survival issues and latent border conflicts clash.

The human absence on this deserted shore does not signal oblivion, but the extreme fragility of an ancient balance.