Dead Sea once went dry—Holy Land’s salt lake ran out of water during ancient warm spell

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Dead Sea once went dry

Holy Land’s salt lake ran out of water during ancient warm spell

By Devin Powell
Web edition : Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO — The Dead Sea died once. During a warm period long ago it dried up completely, new evidence reveals.

That’s bad news for the lake today. It’s been shrinking for decades and may be about to die again.

“The lake may actually go dry soon,” Emi Ito of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis said December 5 at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

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Today the Dead Sea is threatened again, this time by the diversion of water from the Jordan River for irrigation and other uses. Now fed only by mountain runoff and underwater springs, the Dead Sea dropped 10 meters between 1997 and 2008.

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1. Death Valley

was once a lake

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2. If they could ween themselves off fossil fuels and bring the climate back into control...

so can we!

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