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JERUSALEM (AFP) — Three people have been arrested in Israel in connection with the deaths of 10 young hikers in flash floods during a program to prepare them for military service, police said Friday. The ten students, mostly aged 17 and 18, were caught up in floods while hiking in the Arabah desert in southern Israel following exceptionally heavy rainfall. They were part of a group of around 25 hikers taking part in the […]
(Eagle News) — Two teenagers were killed in flash floods in separate incidents in Negev, a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel, and in the desert hills east of Bethlehem, on Wednesday, April 25, as Israel experienced a rare hail, as well as thunderstorms. The bodies of the two teenagers — a teenage Bedouin boy who was swept away in the Negev desert, and another young Palestinian girl who was swept away by […]
“On January 8, Landsat 8 captured data for these natural-color images of the snow in the Sahara,” said a release from NASA that showed this image. “For the second time in three years, snow has accumulated in the desert near the northern Algerian town of Aïn Séfra,” it said. The town is sometimes called the “gateway to the desert.” Aïn Séfra is a town of 35,000 people which sits between the Sahara and the […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) – Nearly 400 mysterious ancient stone structures have been identified in the Saudi Arabian desert by an Australian researcher using Google Earth. David Kennedy, whose team has spent decades recording thousands of archaeological sites in the Middle East, said the man-made edifices, known as “gates”, are thought to have been constructed between 2,000 to 9,000 years ago. But their purpose and function are a mystery. “You can’t see them in any […]
by Paulina Abramovich ESTACION YUNGAY, Chile (AFP) — Chile’s Atacama desert may seem to contain little besides red-grey rocks and sand — but scientists are busy searching here for clues to life in a place it much resembles: Mars. This desert in northern Chile, like the red planet, is hot, dusty and extremely dry. Yet life exists here: tiny algae and bacteria that have evolved to survive in the parched earth on little more than […]
