Tsaparang lay amidst a vast and arid desert.

札布让位在一望无际的干漠中。

We've grown food in arid deserts and on the sides of mountains, and used greenhouses to extend growing seasons.

我们在干旱的荒漠和山坡种植粮食，并且利用温室延长植物的生长期。

Their love was an oasis of humanity in the arid desert of repression.

他们的爱是干旱压迫沙漠中的一片人性绿洲。

But more recently, they’ve discovered animals hibernating even in arid deserts and tropical rainforests.

但最近，他们发现动物甚至在干旱的沙漠和热带雨林中也会冬眠。

Different regions of the Ringworld simulated diverse climates and ecosystems, from arid deserts to tropical jungles.

环形世界的不同区域模拟了不同的气候和生态系统，从干旱的沙漠到热带丛林。

Add climate change into the mix, and you can see how an already arid desert can become even more parched.

再加上气候变化，你就会看到本已干旱的沙漠如何变得更加干涸。

Each is a different habitat for microbial communities: from the arid deserts of our skin, to the villages on our lips, and the cities in our mouths.

从荒漠般的皮肤表面，到嘴唇上的微生物村落，还有口腔内的微型城镇。

So rapidly expanding cities began tapping into groundwater. Add climate change into the mix, and you can see how an already arid desert can become even more parched.

因此，快速扩张的城市开始开采地下水。再加上气候变化，你就会发现原本就干旱的沙漠变得更加干旱。

The first is that almost half of the land on earth is practically unusable by humans, in the form of arid desert, ice-sheets or tundra.

首先，地球上几乎一半的土地以干旱沙漠、冰盖或苔原的形式几乎无法被人类利用。

It can turn an arid desert in to an oasis; convert a stream to white water rapids in the monsoon season, and breathe life into the harshest places on earth.

它能把干旱的沙漠变成绿洲；在雨季把浅溪变成急流，给地球上最严酷的环境带来生命。

In Egypt then, instead of today's landscape of arid desert, the Sahara was a lush, open savannah with gazelles, giraffes, zebras, elephant and wild cattle roaming through it , happy hunting for humans.

然而当年的埃及，可不是如今这般干旱荒凉的沙漠景观，那年的撒哈拉一派郁郁葱葱、草水丰盛、一望无际的热带稀树大草原，羚羊、长颈鹿、斑马、大象和野牛等动物就在这片沃土上生息繁衍——对人类而言，这却是一片狩猎的沃土了。

But one of the more recent innovations in food production being deployed in industrial parks in North America, in the urban city centers of Asia, and even in the arid deserts of the Middle East is controlled environment agriculture.

但是，在北美的工业园区、亚洲的城市中心，甚至中东的干旱沙漠中部署的食品生产创新之一是受控环境农业。