1. News for Lake Natron


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    1. Huffington Post ‎- by Dominique Mosbergen ‎- 5 hours ago
      Approaching the shoreline of Lake Natron in Tanzania, photographer Nick Brandt faced an eerie sight: There, lying on the earth as still and stiff ...

    1. Lake Natron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Natron‎
      Lake Natron is a salt lake located in northern Tanzania, close to the Kenyan border, in the eastern branch of the East African Rift. The lake is fed by the Southern ...
      ‎Flora - ‎Fauna - ‎Threats and preservation - ‎Visiting the area

    2. The bird mummies of Natron: Lake's waters petrify animals that fall in ...

      www.nbcnews.com/.../bird-mummies-natron-lakes-toxic-waters-...‎
      by Nidhi Subbaraman - in 4,128 Google+ circles
      1 day ago - The Rift Valley's Lake Natron is the chosen mating ground of the endangered lesser flamingo. The long-legged waterfowl may flourish, but...

    3. Contrary to Popular Belief, Lake Natron Does Not Instantly Turn ...

      www.geekosystem.com/natron-birds/
      9 hours ago - Sometimes the media does this thing where it takes something incredibly fascinating and turns into a crappy game of telephone, and at the end ...

    4. Lake That Turns Animals to Stone? Not Quite : Discovery News

      news.discovery.com/.../photographer-rick-brandt-lake-natron-131003.htm
      9 hours ago - Lake Natron in Tanzania is one of the most serene lakes in Africa, but it's also the source of some phantasmagorical photographs.

    5. Meet the fish that happily live in the lake that turns birds to stone ...

      boingboing.net/2013/10/02/meet-the-fish-that-happily-liv.html‎
      by Maggie Koerth-Baker - in 947,513 Google+ circles
      1 day ago - Perhaps you have recently heard about Tanzania's Lake Natron, a body ... Natron, the stuff for which the lake is named, should also sound a bit ...

    6. Lake of doom: deadly waterway calcifies any animal that dares to ...

      www.theverge.com/.../lake-natron-calcifies-animals-nick-brandt-photogr...‎
      1 day ago - Sometimes, truth is indeed more terrifying than fiction. In what could easily make for prime horror film fodder, a renowned photographer has ...

    7. Tanzania's Deadly Lake Natron Turns Animals Into Calcified Statues ...

      www.isciencetimes.com/.../tanzania-lake-natron-animal-statues-africa-fla...‎
      2 days ago - Lake Natron, a saline lake in northern Tanzania, is a deadly body of water most wildlife assumes is better to avoid. But a number of birds, most ...

    8. Deadly lake turns animals into statues - environment - 01 October ...

      www.newscientist.com/.../mg21929360.100-deadly-lake-turns-a...‎
      by Rowan Hooper - in 320 Google+ circles
      3 days ago - The highly caustic Lake Natron in Tanzania kills most animals unlucky enough to enter the water – and calcifies them.

    9. Any Animal That Touches This Lethal Lake Turns to Stone - Gizmodo

      gizmodo.com/any-animal-that-touches-this-lethal-lake-turns-to-stone-14...‎
      2 days ago - I unexpectedly found the creatures - all manner of birds and bats - washed up along the shoreline of Lake Natron in Northern Tanzania. No-one ...