Tuesday, 4. November 2003
Topic: NATURE - on November 4, 2003 at 1:57:41 PM CET
Dead Sea Drying Up, Israeli Study Warns
The Dead Sea gets its name from its heavy salt content, because no aquatic creatures can live in it. Now there's a new "death threat" the Dead Sea is drying up and disappearing.
An Israeli TV reporter, illustrating the government report, stood on a spot where, just 20 years ago, water met land. Now that point is 2,000 feet of parched ground away, he said, as the sea gradually recedes.
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