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The desert was advancing by a mile or two a year.

One start-up, Algenol, has plans for a 100 million gallon a year facility in northern Mexico's Sonora Desert.

They pile, all 12 of them, into a truck which takes aim for the west coast, more than 1, 000 miles of desert and a mountain range away.

Far from hiding out in the desert, the Kingstons ran a $ 150 million business empire right in the suburbs of Salt Lake City.

The U. S. Army opens the National Training Center, a 1, 000-square-mile state-of-the-art combat-simulation facility in the Mojave Desert.

The war commenced in January 1991, with U. S. troops forming the majority of the coalition which participated in Operation Desert Storm.

On Jan. 16, 1991, the White House announced the start of Operation Desert Storm to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.

In such a case, the multinational forces launched the Desert Storm operation on the morning of January 17, 1991.

Fig. 1 Changes in the importance value of main plant species with succession time during the succession process of desert ecosystem.

Heavy industry and low-quality vehicle fuel are the main causes of air pollution in this desert city of 1. 3 million.

Wang Tao, a leading Chinese desert scholar, reports that each year some 1, 400 square miles of land in northern China turn to desert.

In China, where the Gobi Desert is growing by 10, 400 square kilometers (4, 000 square miles) a year, the refugee stream is swelling.

Built 22 centuries ago to hold off barbarian invaders from the north, it writhes 1, 500 miles across mountain and desert.

The Afghan frontier, a 1, 550-mile stretch of rock and desert, contains other possible boltholes.

Shams 1 will produce 100 megawatts and cover one square mile of the desert in Madinat Zayed, about 75 miles southwest of Abu Dhabi.

The Pilbara, a desert region about 1, 300km (800 miles) north of Perth, is the main focus.

The deadliest was Jan. 26, 2005, when all 31 Marines aboard a CH-53 Sea Stallion transport crashed in bad weather in the western desert.

It shows that the average value of static and dynamic vision of drivers on the desert highway is respectively 1. 3 and 0. 7.

Since 2000, China has lost nearly 1, 400 square miles each year to desert.

The Sahara is the largest desert in the world, 1, 000 miles from north to south and 3, 000 miles from east to west.

1 In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the Desert of Judea