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And yet, at a time of fast-melting glaciers and strange rains, of spreading deserts and rising seas, it is a frail and distant promise.

It takes just six hours for the sun to shine down on deserts the same amount of energy all humanity uses in a year.

If I were a little waterdrop, I would gather all my brothers and sisters to turn the deserts into oasis.

methods, aided by a few lucky finds from peat-bogs, deserts, and frozen soils, is able to fill up a good deal of the gap.

NASA scientists said the lunar crater they hit was actually wetter than some of the driest deserts on Earth.

Deserts and high mountains have always been a barrier to the movement of people from place to place.

Life can be found in scalding, acidic hot pools, in the driest deserts, and in the dark, crushing depths of the ocean.

During the last act of the film takes us along the historic Silk Road as it crosses remote mountains and deserts.

For just a few thousand years, the Sahara, Sinai and Arabian deserts were lush and green.

"What she said about food deserts, that's a really important issue that needs to be addressed, " Bryant said.

Deserts and mountains have always been a barrier to the movement of people.

My only scruple in advising the match was on his account, as being beneath his deserts, and a bad connexion for him.

I decided the best plan was to search for gold in the great deserts of the American Southwest.

Defencecompanies have enjoyed a decade of rising spending, but not enough to leave asurplus after destruction in foreign deserts.

The deserts of the Americas are the perfect cactus habitat, with a wide variety of species that often grow very densely.

But far from meeting human needs, the new estates often proved to be windswept deserts lacking essential social facilities and services.

The Namib is one of a handful of deserts that stretch adjacent to a cold sea .

Luke 1 : 80 And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel.

Even deserts can get as much as twenty inches of rain a year, but it all comes down at once.

Some of these so-called " extremophiles" have been found thriving in complete darkness, in parched deserts and even miles below ground.

Scorpions follow prey out of the sea. Slugs became snails. Fish tried amphibian life. Frogs adapted to deserts.

Arid and extremely arid land are deserts, and semiarid grasslands generally are referred to as steppes.

When water and food become scarce on the deserts where camels roam, the fatty humps serve as stored food and are used for nourishment.

To begin with, scientists thought the Red Planet was as lifeless as the Moon, with dust storms swirling over vast sandy deserts.

Most Bugs require some modifications, or conversions, to get them ready for racing in harsh conditions like the deserts of Baja California.

Van Persie added that five trophyless years at Arsenal are proof that great football does not always get its just deserts.

If it were filled with your most high deserts?

WITH its deserts and its slight air of decay, New Mexico is a good place to shoot a post-apocalyptic action film.

You can experience this fascinating culture as you explore the deserts of the Red Centre or the lush landscapes of the tropical north.

The Bible is filled with stories that take place in warm places, often with deserts.

Mirages can happen whenever there is a hot sun beating down on a flat surface. (3) Some of the best mirages are seen at sea and in deserts.

Electricity from the deserts could be transferred to population centres thousands of miles away using high-voltage direct-current cables.

Scientists are trying to make the deserts into good land again.

Will he be checking on the heat and the cold of the deserts and of the poles?

Deserts are hot inhospitable places , not cool, so you think .

This sparkling book, which takes us up and down rivers and across mountains and deserts, is the perfect antidote to despair.

Suffice it to say, Deserts Xuan has lots to say and is not afraid to say it.

The U. S. Department of Agriculture calls areas with little access to affordable and nutritious groceries "food deserts. "

Today's state of Oregon is a land of great geographic diversity, ranging from rain forests, to mountains, to valleys, and deserts.

Some regions are deserts and receive no rain, as they have no water element or divas (small angels) to weave the life upon the land.

These low-nutrient "marine deserts" appear to be expanding due to rising ocean surface temperatures.

Man of practice seeks, loves and finally deserts the Tao, which are changes in phases that we must recognize.

Wars, plagues and famines visited us, but we did not stop in our industrious creation of deserts.

we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us.

In northeastern Ethiopia one of the earth's driest deserts is making way for a new ocean.

This latter idea is impractical, says Dr Caldeira, who reckons that half the world's deserts would have to be covered.

In its southern stretch, especially in California's Imperial County, the river irrigates deserts to produce America's winter vegetables.

Red foxes live around the world in many diverse habitats including forests, grasslands, mountains, and deserts.

The Great Wall of China runs from west to east, across deserts, over mountains and through valleys, till it reaches the sea.

Many parts of the world, which once had large populations and produced plenty of crops, have become deserts.

If the wind blows over sandy country, such as deserts and beaches, it picks up quite a lot of sand and carries it along.

Here you can experience amorous feelings of the Mediterranean Sea, African deserts as well as the Red Sea.

Like a giant dragon, the Great Wall of China winds its way across grasslands, deserts and mountains.

With climate change, concrete deserts and agriculture, human beings have fundamentally altered the face of the Earth.

Massive concentrating solar plants give deserts a futuristic feel and promise thousands of megawatts to power cities.

Alas for Schizodactylus, the sandy deserts it prefers have retreated from north-eastern Brazil and its optimality there has vanished.

The book is about a man who deserts his wife.

smaller-scale private efforts have eaten up deserts all along the river valley and far to the east and west of the delta.

Then do you know all the other places at the same latitude on the globe are mostly deserts?

Oliver was a young lawyer, fresh from the schools, who had gone out to the deserts of Nevada to begin life.

On both sides of it new cities appeared, trees were planted, and deserts became grasslands.

We made these deserts from the desire for more money and from despair at the lack of it.

"Without change, deserts deteriorate, " claims Tony Burgess, a burly ecologist with a huge red beard.

So get all sources of sweets, deserts and sugar out of your house.

Saline plains, saline soil in deserts, sandy areas at lakeshores. Xinjiang [Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan].

China is a vast and extraordinary country spanning thousands of miles from the deserts in the west to the ocean on the east.

An army led by General Stephen Kearny captured Santa Fe and moved across the deserts and mountains into California.

Most of the Earth was covered in ice with the rest vast deserts stretching thousands of miles.

China is at war. It is not invading armies but expanding deserts that threaten its territory.

It's about a long-last fight between an old couple forest guard and deserts in areas of Ningxia and Gansu province.

Duke calls them "food deserts, " city neighborhoods where the few places to shop have limited products, few healthy options and high prices.

Slightly saline-alkaline deserts, arid slopes, ravine sides, alluvial fans. NW Gansu, Ningxia, N Qinghai, Xinjiang [Kazakhstan, Mongolia].

Herders travel from place to place in the dry, dusty deserts to find food and water for their animals.

Kashgar is an urban oasis within the vast deserts of Xinjiang, China's most westerly province.

The United States is a varied land--of forest, deserts, mountains, high flat lands and fertile plains.

Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

Builders are also contemplating immense solar-power stations in the nation's deserts that would pose the same transmission problems.

any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in deserts and salt marshes.

At the edge of the fields , rising in dramatic hills or stretching flat to the horizon, lay the brown barren deserts .

As the rainfall is small, the mainland for more than one-third of the area actually covered by deserts.

Land-locked. aside from most modern routes of communication . and broken up by the mighty Hindu Kush mountains and by vast deserts.

Torrential rains along the Californian coast and the Peruvian deserts have all been ascribed to the whim of El Nino .

It winds its way from west to east, across deserts, over mountains, through valleys, till at last it reaches the sea.

Deserts can be turned into cultivated land and oases by planting a certain kind of shrub.

Such local meridional circulation leads to the dry climatology over the two deserts.

Spiders are found everywhere from rain forests to deserts, and can even be found in tide pools along the coast.

The story is about a man who deserts his wife.

The geography of India is extremely diverse, with landscape ranging from snow-capped mountain ranges to deserts, plains, hills and plateaus.

This increase will come partly from shifting population dynamics, as people flee flooded coasts or searing deserts for more habitable areas.

Their remains, though lying in one of the world's largest deserts, are buried in upside-down boats.

Five hundred fifty, as the dragon flies, through deserts, mountains, swamps, and demon-haunted ruins.

Its desolate plateaus, scorching deserts, and snow-capped mountains resemble Nevada or Wyoming more than Beijing.

North Africa has a small population relative to the size of its deserts.

Deccan Plateau in south, flat to rolling plain along the Ganges, deserts in west, Himalayas in north.

before names of rivers, seas, oceans, mountain ranges, groups of islands, deserts, gulfs, peninsulas and newspapers.

A combination of low rainfall and different average temperatures creates tropical, temperate, and cold deserts.

Spring frontal systems over Asian deserts bring active dust storms, causing the worst air quality in both origins and downstream areas.

It is one of the world's driest deserts with less than 10 cm of rain per year!

In addition to a few varieties of trees and tough shrubs, most deserts have grasses, herbs, and other annual plants.

Nebuchadnezzar would make desolation among the people of Kedar, who dwelt in the deserts of Arabia.

The rate of evaporation in deserts can be 20 times higher than the rate of precipitation.

The world's newest carbon citadel rises up between the blasted deserts of Inner Mongolia and the coal-black lands of Shaanxi province.

The dreadful earthquake destroyed the city that had grown up when men discovered gold in the deserts of California.

Lowland tropics, mangroves and deserts at greater risk than mountainous areas as global warming spreads, study finds.

All . American citizens have the right to equal treatment in places of public entertainment according to their behavior and deserts.

Deer live mainly in forests but may be found in deserts, tundra, and swamps and on high mountainsides.

These clouds protect the forest from the daytime heat and night-time cold of nearby deserts, keeping temperatures fit for plant growth.

Not all of that is in sunny places, but there are many deserts besides Oman's that have oil beneath them.

O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.

his pride never deserts him , but with the rich he is liberal - minded , just , sincere , rational , honourable , and perhaps agreeable.

Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths.

Two reasons account for the fact that deserts are spreading.

Writing in the Daily Telegraph last week, the Prince of Wales warned the countryside is being left behind in "broadband deserts" .

Gobi desert, saline soils in deserts, sunny slopes. N Xinjiang [Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia (W Siberia)].

More recently I took the U2S with me on a holiday to the beautiful Malaysian island of Langkawi and the deserts around Dubai.

He crossed mountains and deserts, overcoming numerous hardships, and finally reached Tianzhu after a journey of whole year.

Higher temperatures might turn arid shrub lands into deserts while improving the growing season in colder steppes.

A land of heavy forests and barren deserts, of high-peaked mountains and deep canyons, America also enjoys great rivers and lakes.

The students in grade 4A are finishing up the unit on deserts and will be moving into unit six by the end of the week.

Do you know how fast do deserts expand on earth every year? shocking!

These clouds also carry smoke from forest fires, soot from fossil fuels, calcium from deserts, and minute grains of sea salt.

better for deserts, or sunny lots on the edge of town, than for roofs where the area available is limited.

He lived in an opulent if sand-scarred palace out in the Tatooine deserts.

I headed down to the beach on a dreary morning to try out the PT-03 Deserts in the sand; both soft and firm.

Human beings fill every ecological niche on the planet, from the icy tundra to the tropical rain forests to the deserts.

A more of the world dries out and deserts expand, wind may pick up more dust into the atmosphere.

Some riders had to brave vast stretches of rugged terrain, icy mountain passes, and dry, hot deserts.

Just deserts, sweet tooth, Screwing with people before you kill them. ? We're dealing with the trickster, aren't we?

There are expanses of grasslands and deserts that have yet to be explored .

Manufacture of vehicles for special-purpose in petroleum industry: vehicles for deserts, etc.

They seek insights from natural phenomena like clouds and glaciers, deserts and tropical forests.

deserts have expanded to overtake previously vegetated areas , accelerated in some cases by overgrazing of domesticated animals.

The fly in the deserts of Gobi posture, the helpless loneliness, not dance, melody, beautiful and desolation song.

The sand cat is found in the arid deserts of Asia and Africa and has particularly furry feet to protect them from the scorching sands.

Bactrian camels live not in shifting Sahara sands but in Central and East Asia's rocky deserts.

Deserts are known for being desolate and lifeless, but they are also quite striking and beautiful, especially when seen from above.

Apothecary Society Messenger says: The Argent Dawn's agents scored a decisive victory in the deserts of Tanaris.

A turkey vulture spreads its wings in one of California's deserts.

Car commercials put their vehicles in the most improbable of places: sides of cliff, tops of rock pillars, middles of deserts.

We depend on water, forests, deserts, oceans. Fishing, breeding, farming are still the world's foremost human occupations.

Aqueducts also allowed cities to be built in normally inhospitable environments, such as deserts, by providing an outside water source.

People can immediately identify her paintings of huge, colorful flowers or bones in dream-like deserts.

The primary beneficiaries of tax incentives and other nudges aimed at abolishing food deserts are big grocery chains, not poor shoppers.

There will come a time when the deserts bloom again and there is enough rainfall to sustain life.

Wealth brings many friends, but a poor man's friend deserts him.

Or Qaddafi could retreat into the sparsely populated southern deserts of Libya.

Terrain: Mostly mountainous, with high plateaus and deserts in the west and plains, deltas and hills in the east.

In the jungles and deserts of Africa, people can take safaris and see wild animals in their natural habitat.

The deserts of the Arabian Peninsula on the east and the Sahara Desert of Africa on the west are light gray.

This might work on a large scale in the northern deserts of Inner Mongolia, where land is cheap, plentiful and in need of fertiliser.

First identified in Scotland in the 1990s, food deserts have come to epitomise urban decay.

Australia's biggest city, Sydney, has been shrouded in red dust blown in by winds from the deserts of the outback.

Hear the deserts call, it sings of your destruction.

The far western deserts of China have been filled with wind farms and solar panels.

In time, learning that the Camel can travel long distances, even across deserts, on little water, Man came to value the beast.

Naturally, in this stupendous world of armoured trees and vertical deserts, humans have always looked endangered.

Polluted water can be cleaned; man-made deserts can bloom again.

Some of the problems are in fact common to loess plateaus and dune deserts.

It is the same valor that charged fearlessly through the assault of enemy fire from the mountains of Afghanistan to the deserts of Iraq.

The size and location of the world's deserts are always changing.

Some are already deserts; others are being seriously degraded by the sand.

Saline and alkaline deserts, Gobi desert, wet plains, sometimes on field margins.

Not all of that is in sunny places, but there are many deserts besidesOman's that have oil beneath them.

Deserts are often viewed as desolate and devoid of life.

the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths and encourage the arts and commerce.

Deserts also might not be what you expect.

Human Planet: Deserts will be broadcast on Thursday 20 January at 2000 GMT on BBC One, and will also be available on the BBC iPlayer.

Their lives could have become great oases, but they remain deserts.

Authorities worry that expanding deserts could put crops and water supplies in the world's second largest economy at risk.

Making those food deserts bloom is a centerpiece of Michelle Obama's anti-obesity agenda.

BANGKOK, Thailand - The polar oceans are not biological deserts after all.

A soldier who deserts his post in time of war is punished severely.

They comb the deserts of Tatooine in search of discarded scrap and wayward mechanicals.

over the mountains and through deserts and plains.

A large number of trees have been cut down, so a lot of lands have been turned into deserts.

Seeing the day is lost, Darius commits the unforgivable. He deserts his post and flees.

A quarter of the land in the world has turned into deserts.

So you always find dinosaurs in deserts or badlands -- areas that have very little plant growth and have flash floods in the spring.

Here are polar caps in sunbake deserts, giant volcanoes , mighty canyons.

My hometown, MinQin in GanSu province, is a city surrounded by deserts in three sides.

In the Aftertime this is likely to form over the Mexican deserts, over the vast continent of Africa, and over the high lands of Mongolia.

Seeds dispersal by rain is especially important in extremely hot and dry deserts.

Deserts: the stone deserts of the Gobi and the Ordos, the Tanguli and the Kurban Tungu and the dreadful Taklamakan.

Australia has 11 large deserts, which account for about 20% of the area throughout the continent.

A soldier who deserts in time of war is severely punished.

The missions do vary location - from snowy mountains to vast deserts to forests.

Many areas would become deserts and many animals would lose their homes and maybe die out.

The resident of the deserts in Mongolia and China is endangered.

While these reserves feed and protect animals, they are in danger of turning into barren areas or deserts.

Deserts are very dry regions with little rainfall.

The expansion of deserts must be stopped if we are to survive on this planet.

That continuity of moisture is what brittle landscapes like deserts need to become fertile again.

Stony slopes, gravelly deserts; 500-3400 m. Gansu, Nei Mongol, Qinghai, Xinjiang [? India, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia].

Now, sand dunes cover only about one fifth of our deserts.

Planting a green belt of trees along the edge of deserts is the second step.

Deserts will spread and heatwaves will become more prevalent.

I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.

deserts and beaches, it picks up quite a lot of sand and carries it along.

GIANT underground reservoir of molten rock has been discovered under the deserts of Ethiopia by British geologists.

That means that the impact site has more water than some deserts on Earth.

natural changes. But those who must answer for deserts are man and animals. In.

From their slopes flow streams feeding the oases strung along the rim of inland deserts.

Then as now, people-free wilderness existed mostly in deserts and tundra.

In deserts, where there is not much rainfall, trees need to hold on to water.

Mostly low plateau with deserts; fertile plain in southeast.

"Even the driest deserts on the Earth have more water than are at the poles and the surfaces of the moon, " Green said.

But the prevalence of food deserts is almost certainly overstated.

Deserts were tidy, because there were no weeds in them, nothing that crawled.

Arabs ride on camels which travel in deserts for days without drinking .

Considered one of the world's oldest deserts, the Namib contains sand dunes that reach some 1, 000 feet (305 meters) in height.

on the planet, from the icy tundra to the tropical rain forests to the deserts.

Have gone around hills and deserts, in wind and rain, with no lakes at hand.

I can live almost anywhere it's not too cold, from deserts to tropical rain forests.

Like the Deserts Miss the Rain?

Cold winter deserts have long, dry summers and low rainfall or snow in the winter.

Our deserts were of several kinds, but they had one thing in common: nothing grew there.

Deserts are also created because people cut down trees and dig up grass.

"The beauty of deserts - the challenge of desertification" is the theme of World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought on June 17, 2006.

coastal deserts have cool winters and long , warm summers.

Deserts are also created because people cut down trees dig up grass.

Scientists may not be able to change the deserts in time.

The deserts are coming to us, he warns in the first of three book excerpts.

China's expanding deserts now cover one-third of the country because of overgrazing, deforestation, urban sprawl and drought.

The routes crossed mountains and deserts and had many dangers of hot sun, deep snow and even battles.

Cactus can survive, and multiply in desolate deserts.

Covering the deserts with vegetation is another step.

Besides mountains, lakes, deserts and plateaus , California also has a long Pacific coast line, which is longer than that of Washington.

On the floor of the basins lie deserts , lakes and swamps.

it is bordered by the world ' s highest mountains , by deserts , and by tropical seas.

they compare its streets with lonely forests and deserts of lava.

That's why dry deserts everywhere are almost not covered by trees or grass.

There will be many columns of smoke and fire such as White Feather has seen the white man make in the deserts not far from here.

Where did it come from , and at what moment in time did it walk out of the deserts and forest to sleep at the foot of man?

This may range from a high rain forest in the wet tropics to almost bare rock on the deserts.

Diversify plains according to their region - Which are real plains, which deserts, swamps, wastelands etc?

What is worse, these deserts are spreading at a surprising rate every year.

two-humped camel of the cold deserts of central Asia.

BARACK OBAMA has a magic way with words; but when the magic deserts him it deserts him big time.

The polar oceans are not biological deserts after all.

Deserts cover twenty percent of the earth's surface.

He deserts the little dog in the desert.

Rocky mountain valley slopes, deserts, semideserts; 900--3200 m. N Xinjiang [Kazakhstan, W Mongolia].

"I have to live, " he told me. "And you can't reforest deserts if there is no moneymaking business model. "

The western half of China in the interior of Asia consists of very tough deserts.

They drill for oil in deserts, in mountains and under the sea.

I think national parks, forests and deserts are for animals, not for me.

at this very hour, patrol far- off deserts and distant mountains.

Even as we are running our wells dry, we are also mismanaging our soils, creating new deserts.

Some places on the Earth don't get much rain. But they still don't become deserts.

What is the difference between moral deserts and entitlements?