Jordan and Israel Find Risks in Dead Sea – Red Sea Canal
| January 6, 2012 - 11 Teves 5772 | Posted by Maurice Picow under Latest News |
The Dead Sea is again in environmental headlines as a project to remove salt accumulations from the lakes southern portions have passed preliminary readings in Israel’s parliament. The salt removal project would be largely paid for by the Dead Sea Works, with the profits derived from the sale of the extracted minerals to be placed in a special rehabilitation fund. This project comes on the heels of warnings by environmentalists that the hotels located in this portion of the Dead Sea… more →
Cabinet quashes plan to rehabilitate Dead Sea
| November 22, 2011 - 25 Cheshvan 5772 | Latest News |
Instead, it approves salt harvest measures and increase in Dead Sea Works royalties. Barely a week after the Dead Sea failed to make the list of winners in the New 7 Wonders competition, the cabinet rejected a bill that would provide for its rehabilitation and protection in an 8-7 vote on Sunday. “The government has chosen to stand on the sides of the factories and has failed in safeguarding the Dead Sea,” said Amit Bracha, director of the Israel Union… more →
Rainbow over the Dead Sea
| November 21, 2011 - 24 Cheshvan 5772 | Latest News |
A wonderful picture of a rainbow over the Dead Sea by ‘Salt Of The Earth’ producer S.i.Goodman. more →
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The Dead Sea, Then and Now
| November 12, 2011 - 15 Cheshvan 5772 | Latest News |
The waters of the Dead Sea rise and fall. You may not know that if you only read the newspapers and not the history books. Climate change has affected the earth as long as we can tell. There’s a great demonstration of the historically changing levels (and therefore shape) of the Dead Sea recently created by A.D. Riddle and David Parker. (After you click that link and read the introduction, click on the “Play” button on the right side and you’ll see the water… more →
Now you Dead Sea it…
| November 12, 2011 - 15 Cheshvan 5772 | Latest News |
Here at the lowest place on earth, in 75 degree sunshine, Olga Alexarkin is sitting on a deckchair in bathing suit and gazing eastwards across the radiantly blue, imponderably deep, Dead Sea towards the Jordanian cliffs 11 miles away. In a moment she will plunge into the little waves thrown up by the desert breeze, and bob effortlessly on her back supported by the planet’s most buoyant water, so saturated with salt that it will sting scratches she never knew… more →
Not Looking Back – An excerpt from ‘Salt – A World History’ by Mark Kurlansky
| October 31, 2011 - 3 Cheshvan 5772 | Posted by Mark Kurlansky under Latest News |
Not Looking Back An excerpt from ‘Salt – A World History’ by Mark Kurlansky available from Amazon UK USA SOME 3,000 YEARS ago, wanting a capital in the commanding heights of the Judean hills, David conquered the fortress of Zion and built Jerusalem. Those heights have at times been a fortified high ground and at other times a peaceful gardened promenade. They offer, depending on the times, either a scenic or a strategic view of the region. Not only can… more →
Dead Sea Not So Dead, Divers Discover
| October 3, 2011 - 5 Tishrei 5772 | Posted by Amazing Planet under Latest News |
A diver, outfitted with special equipment designed to brave the salty conditions, is partially obscured by the murk of the Dead Sea. Credit: Christian Lott/ The Hydra Institute. For the first time, researchers have sent a diving expedition into the Dead Sea, where they uncovered freshwater springs issuing from massive craters in the seafloor, along with a menagerie of microbes. Both finds were a first for the world’s saltiest body of water, which is also the lowest spot on… more →
Dead Sea Quiz
| October 3, 2011 - 5 Tishrei 5772 | Posted by Graham under Latest News |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Dead Sea in our new fun quiz. more →
Unraveling the Dead Sea Scrolls: Six Fascinating Facts
| September 27, 2011 - 28 Elul 5771 | Posted by Graham under Latest News |
Until now, your chances of poring over the Dead Sea Scrolls—ancient documents so brittle that direct light would damage them—were on the slim side. But thanks to a new collaboration between Google and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, five of the famous documents hit the Internet today in high-resolution, fast-loading, searchable form. The next step of the project will involve digitizing more of the vast collection, which was discovered outside Jerusalem more than 50 years ago and includes the oldest… more →
Life in the Dead Sea
| September 22, 2011 - 23 Elul 5771 | Posted by Graham under Latest News |
The German newsweekly, Der Spiegel, reports that there’s life in the Dead Sea. German and Israeli researchers have found “an astonishing variety of bacteria” on the sea floor. The Dead Sea is ten times saltier than the North Sea — and as hostile. But now scientists have discovered fresh water springs at the bottom of the Dead Sea that force micro-organisms into the water. The Dead Sea, as can be expected from its name, contains a barren underwater world. But… more →
