The ideal location for it would be in an arid or semi-arid climate, near a water source.
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About 80 percent of Kenya is arid and semi-arid land, making pastoralism the main economic activity in those parts.
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It estimates 20 percent of livestock has died in the arid and semi-arid counties, an area comprising about 80 percent of Kenya's landmass.
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Cactus pear plantations can function not only as a water reserve but also absorb carbon dioxide in arid and semi-arid regions, it added.
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Three-quarters of Kenya's landscape is arid or semi-arid and the East African country experiences repeated droughts, trapping millions in poverty and hunger.
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Across Kenya's arid and semi-arid regions, communities face intensifying water shortages, as growing populations draw water from sources already depleted by climate change-linked drought.
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Demand for drought-resistant varieties has increased, due to the erratic timing and low levels of rainfall in the country's eastern region, made up of arid and semi-arid land.
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Sanitation is just one element of my work - I also work on responding to the needs of refugees in camps and looking at water supplies in arid and semi-arid areas.
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Today, the site -- known as Al Wusta -- is a hyper-arid desert, but environmental analyses revealed that it would have once been a perennial fresh-water lake in a semi-arid grassland setting.
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That can happen in extremely arid, frozen, or soggy places.
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Jordan is already one of the world's most arid countries.
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No fresh water, no fertilizer, no feed, no arid land.
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Nor will we be travelling into those bare, arid mountains.
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Bahrain is an arid island country in the Persian Gulf.
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The show's arid, cerebral tone is matched by its performances.
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Sokoto, in northwest Nigeria, sits on a broad, arid savanna.
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It's like a direct injection of her arid momager essence.
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A tug of war for the arid earth had ensued.
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The two contested islands, Tiran and Sanafir, are both arid.
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How do the trees thrive in so arid a landscape?
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The arid heat shrivels bodies, and blowing sand envelops the remains.
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As the Last Ice Age approached, the environment grew more arid.
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Will we give them the arid hilltop or the blue sea?
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He is a broken man, an arid husk, an empty vessel.
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Flooding in arid areas creates breeding grounds for malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
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The arid ones include four of China's five biggest farming provinces.
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An MQ-9 Reaper buzzes loudly over an arid, mountainous landscape.
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These blights are therefore growing, especially in the semi-arid West.
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In an expanse of arid badlands, he spotted an arm bone.
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Because of the arid climate, Vittoria growers are permitted to irrigate.
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In fact, it's the most biodiverse arid desert on the planet.
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The dry, arid land has also contributed to Australia's bushfire crisis.
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Breakfast is an arid mountain of noodles, rice, fries, and seaweed.
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The research was a kind of proof-of-concept, one showing that similar analyses can be performed by paleoclimatologists in any arid and semi-arid region, which is typically where rich deposits of pedothems are found.
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Avoiding arid timelines, MacMillan, an Oxford professor, instead provides intimate human encounters.
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In a dystopian future, ultra-violent scavenger gangs roam the arid landscape.
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Climate change has made an arid nation even more combustible and deadly.
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Arid regions need water, but fog harvesters work best in humid areas.
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Plenty cover arid, mountainous wilderness that is spectacular but inhospitable to life.
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Dooom - No ChorusThe Sorcerers - Arid Plain (edit)Commodo - Set It Straight ft.
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He had his father's dutiful nature and also his father's arid wit.
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It's not that the arid region lends itself to outdoor cannabis farming.
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Due to the arid, harsh conditions, wild animals and plants aren't abundant.
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But ARID it is, because of the low humidity and strong winds.
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Arid Delhi has been obsessed with access to water since its inception.
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The arid desert climate was kind to the textiles through the centuries.
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Rain often fails in this semi-arid area, which makes farming risky.
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Some of the country is arid, rough terrain and some is mountainous.
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It shows an arid desert landscape separate by a tiny foot-high wall.
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But for those who live in the arid center there is little respite.
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But we'll figure it out soon enough, as the region grows increasingly arid.
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These transmission cables — across arid and wind-prone terrain — increase the fire risk.
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How had this arid, dusty, ruthless part of the world become his life?
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Dirt trails slash through a pale green, arid valley near Ida Mountain, Crete.
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It's an arid nation with an average annual rainfall of just 15 inches.
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The plants can be woven into roof or wall designs in arid climates.
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"Conditions for agriculture are bad, ...the land is arid," said resident Nevzad Ferati.
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"The situation is very grave — it's hopeless," he said of the arid countryside.
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And in such an arid climate, finding shade inside the classroom is imperative.
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If he commits a mistake, the Far East will become an arid land.
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So how did they end up in the arid core of the desert?
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Or that the desert's arid climate can leave you feeling parched year-round.
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For too long politics has been an arid, otter-less desert — no longer!
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Such technological advances are expected to become more important as warming temperatures cause a rise in the number and duration of heat waves and droughts, particularly in semi-arid and arid areas in north and central Asia, the UNESCAP report said.
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As a warming climate spurs more extreme weather, herders in Kenya's arid and semi-arid northern parts can lose up to 0003 percent of their livestock when drought hits, according to the Pastoralist Capacity Development Programme, a local non-profit.
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"Two-thirds of the country is in arid and semi-arid regions, so they are already susceptible to higher temperatures and less rainfall," said Suruchi Bhadwal, an associate director at research organization The Energy and Resources Institute, based in New Delhi.
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The marathon thus has its roots on the arid, dusty roads of southern Greece.
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Much like the Andes, this area is arid, so volcanic features are well-preserved.
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The region is semi-arid and has perpetual problems with water shortages, she said.
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It sat in the arid hills above the green valley of the Cañete River.
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By then, she was also drawing galaxies, constellations, and arid sections of desert earth.
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Maryam Eisler's black-and-white photographs of nudes in arid landscapes are damn sexy.
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A few specialised animals and plants scrape a living in the less arid parts.
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Arid conditions and high winds, reaching speeds of 79mph, caused them to spread quickly.
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The arid regions where water is scarce are often where response times are longest.
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Afghanistan seemed like a lawless place, harsh like its arid, craggy Hindu Kush landscape.
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Several other companies are employing similar technologies in other arid corners of the world.
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To those who find Stravinsky's music arid, his "Scherzo Fantastique" comes as a surprise.
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It is arid for long stretches, seldom dealing with actual matters of the war.
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At the other extreme, the continent's hot, arid areas are highly vulnerable to drought.
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Each is responsible for a section that divides arid land, where humans rarely tread.
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The researchers said it apparently inhabited arid shrubland near a river delta and lake.
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Harsh winter months mean harsher heaters and arid conditions, which means alarmingly dry skin.
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The damage is expected to worsen in the coming weeks amid extremely arid conditions.
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Those include the vast majority of waterways in arid states like Arizona and Nevada.
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Most of Israel is arid; the Negev spans more than half of the country.
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Arid conditions became the perfect fuel for firestorms that set more records this decade.
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But preventing predicted future droughts in an already arid region will also benefit them.
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Arid conference rooms started to fade from memory, as I pictured the Hudson, the Ganges.
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The population essentially arrived there before the area became as arid as it is today.
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Extremophile organisms, accustomed to arid conditions, were unable to cope with the influx of water.
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The five license applications under review are for exploration in the semi-arid Karoo basin.
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In 2012 Apple announced that it would open a data centre in Reno's arid outskirts.
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Notably, it doesn't need water, which allows it to operate in the arid American West.
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The landscape feels lifelike and vibrant, whether it's the swampy forests or the arid desert.
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Profile view of Warratyi Rock Shelter, a Pleistocene Aboriginal settlement in southern Australia's arid zone.
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The Sahel, the arid region that borders the southern fringe of the Sahara, is hungry.
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Arid conditions contributed to the exquisite preservation of the remains, dated to 400 years ago.
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Earlier this year, a rare winter storm peppered the usually arid Sahara Desert with snow.
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That triggered a new round of diplomatic scrambling over the future of the arid territory.
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Others described their visit on Wednesday to the arid farmland where the passenger jet crashed.
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" She said that Mr. Wilson had "rendered palatable a moment that can feel distinctly arid.
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Cleveland National Forest is a refuge of mountainous arid land surrounded by millions of people.
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Australia's arid interior combined with rapidly heating ocean currents makes it a global hot spot.
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Faced with unfriendly neighbours and an arid climate, Israel has had to innovate to survive.
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Mr. Mulherin often plays with an arid electric guitar tone redolent of lonely folk music.
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But with the turn of the last century came hydroengineering across the arid American West.
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They work in factories and lush, irrigated fields in an area that is otherwise arid.
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One in every 10 met his end on the arid battlefields of the Spanish meseta.
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The island is very dry, arid even, Mr. Carrión said, but to Diego, it's home.
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Mnyamawamtuka lived in a warm, semi-arid setting in what is now southern central Africa.
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Families moved further inland to the arid Shawqaba camp that lacks the most basic services.
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His report's arid language, gummy syntax and thick riddles dulled its findings of awful conduct.
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His report's arid language, gummy syntax and thick riddles dulled its findings of awful conduct.
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Tasting menus can be arid and sterile when a chef doesn't have much to say.
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In addition to India, Symphony's core markets are arid countries in the Middle East and Africa.
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Arcadia is an arid locale, especially in the summer, so treating the surface can be tricky.
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The design team was inspired by the auburn palette and arid vegetation of the Mojave Desert, !
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Increasingly arid climes would likely mean that drier grassland savannah would replace rainforest, the research concluded.
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It grows locally in the northern Chinese province of Gansu, which has a generally arid climate.
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Many of these, long adapted to arid conditions, could help feed the world despite climate change.
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It has deployed troops as part of a regional operation in West Africa's arid Sahel band.
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The Negev Desert in southern Israel is one of the most arid places in the world.
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To the north or east the crops soon give way to arid bush and then desert.
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Yet its farmers have been able to revive vast tracts of arid land with minimal investment.
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In neighboring Rajasthan, a usually arid state, six people were killed in three flood-hit districts.
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Just one project, the Kenya Arid Lands Disaster Risk Reduction, directly benefitted more than 21625,2900 people.
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I already mentioned that the water-saving benefits of solar are overwhelmingly concentrated in arid California.
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Less than 3 percent of that arid, bleached-white land, Powell said, was suitable for farming.
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The women themselves, however, are thankfully not arid in any sense, though frequently starved for tenderness.
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I wouldn't think of a polar location like Antarctica, with all of the snow, as ARID.
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Not finding what he's looking for, he drives on, into the arid hills outside the city.
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Did Hammond finally locate a sense of belonging in the vast arid plains of the Southwest?
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Instead, the hard-packed dry earth of arid Beijing was raked by crews every few days.
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It lived in Belize, which was then arid, rather than the lush forest it is today.
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Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Kenya's arid, gullied Lothagam Valley is a throwback to a very distant past.
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The arid desert was home to numerous hippie communes at the peak of the counterculture movement.
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So it may seem strange to see flocks of the bright-feathered birds in arid California.
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This was not the arid steppe or brown hills that dominate much of the Afghan landscape.
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The arid west has a different bat ecology than the more humid regions of the East.
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The harder part of the brew process is being environmentally conscious in such an arid climate.
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Since then, union members have picketed the Gebze factory every day in Turkey's arid summer heat.
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And up until now, they thought it was because it was such an arid and infertile area.
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In general, flaky, sweaty, or diseased skin is thought to shed more DNA than healthy, arid skin.
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Oviraptoridae fed primarily on the types of tough, low-growing plant life that thrives in arid climates.
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The arid climate means that volcanic features are preserved for millions of years in nearly showroom condition.
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Researchers believe the salt is evidence of the crater's lake evaporating in the Red Planet's arid environment.
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There are many arid towns throughout Northern China that use the local vegetation to enhance their noodles.
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China has a vast scheme to divert water from its damp southern provinces to the arid north.
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The Murray-Darling basin, which is larger than Ethiopia, gives life to Australia's arid interior (see map).
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Also, Scotland was located closer to the equator back then, and it featured a semi-arid environment.
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It's an arid and harsh climate, where the weather easily drops to below-freezing during the winters.
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He was actually a reluctant but fastidious ruler, obsessed with monitoring the rainfall of his arid nation.
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In the arid north, underground supplies provided about two-thirds of water for domestic needs, it said.
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No matter how impressive the blueprint, if the ground, or base, is arid, the project is doomed.
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Now, it is decidedly inland, 22020 miles northwest of Sydney on the edge of Australia's arid outback.
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Death Valley, with its arid vistas and scorching temperatures, isn't renowned for containing large bodies of water.
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Opponents worry the development will pollute and crimp already scarce water resources in the country's arid north.
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The men on the cliff greeted us with stares, and we set out across the arid land.
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It also causes an earlier snowmelt in the spring, leading to more arid conditions in the summer.
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It is hot and arid, and at 2140 miles west of Adelaide it is difficult to reach.
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And for a while, it was thought the area was too arid for travel by early hominins.
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The building means to set itself apart from the arid glass and steel towers in its proximity.
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But his latest obsession is combarbalita, a mottled red volcanic rock found exclusively in arid Central Chile.
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The Mojave Desert is arid and desolate, but its temperatures are much higher than the red planet's.
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They tested these approaches in both humid and arid conditions in a group of young, healthy volunteers.
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It also contains newer plans like modernizing the electricity grid and storing water underground in arid areas.
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Australia is more vulnerable than most: It is arid and expansive, with large cities sprawling toward wilderness.
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Scores of the kings like Tutankhamen and multiple Ramses were buried in the arid hills of Luxor.
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If a budget can be a portrait of a soul, then this president's is arid and shriveled.
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Many patients lived on the city's margins, others in settlements dotted across the sertão, northeast Brazil's arid hinterland.
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Formalism and conceptualism seemed arid and dogmatic; the rules had been written from a narrow point of view.
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The normally arid lake has come back to life, with birds and other small mammals enjoying the wetland.
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The key to hitting that target is the vast, arid western part of the country known as Chaco.
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Power lines could be knocked down, potentially igniting fires among arid trees and vegetation, according to earlier forecasts.
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We have overheard their arguments, eavesdropped on their secrets, endured their arid stretches, weathered their short sharp shocks.
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In the US, most autonomous driving tests are conducted in dry, arid environments like California, Arizona, and Texas.
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This, along with the dry, arid conditions of the area, allowed for the excellent preservation of the animals.
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This makes it a particularly promising technology for harvesting water in arid or desert regions of the world.
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The Islamic State pocket marks the last militant foothold in the arid hills along the Syrian-Lebanese frontier.
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The lush green grounds teeming with native trees and scrub were once arid, encroached by a neighboring village.
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From trickles of meltwater in arid Qinghai, the river grows quickly as it passes through Tibet and Yunnan.
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Dadaab now sprawls over more than 50 square kilometres (33 square miles) on the arid Kenyan-Somali border.
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There's even a jolly American hiker who sings songs about peace and harmony while roaming the arid desert.
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Some ask for images of greenery, since they are unable to grow much in the arid desert conditions.
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Source: ARUP - The Cities Alive: Rethinking Cities in Arid Environments Reporting by Adela Suliman; Editing by Robert Carmichael.
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As a result, the LP's dozen tracks emit arid, decaying sounds left to bake under the unforgiving sun.
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His wife, he said, has to walk two hours each day to fetch water in the arid area.
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Throughout the 20th century, enormous government development projects, from Australia to Africa, have diverted water to arid land.
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Dehydrated skin lacks water and is more common in winter because the air is arid — indoors and outside.
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Cape Town needs to plan for a future that could be even more distinctly arid than its present.
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The southern Moroccan mountains, known as the Anti-Atlas, are arid and rarely receive rain in the summer.
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The land is too arid to sustain the kinds of vast agricultural projects underway in Mozambique and Brazil.
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Flora and fauna in these photographs indicate that my ancestors lived in an arid climate, probably the desert.
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Conditions are generally too arid for the dead wood to rot; instead, it erodes, sanded down like rock.
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The snowmelt will trickle down to irrigate crops, fill glasses and help sustain life in an arid state.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Coachella Valley, CA — A luxuriant oasis and an arid No Man's Land.
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The many mountainous, arid and difficult-to-reach tracts of land in the West simply weren't attractive to farmers.
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"In six years, they will leave after this area becomes arid and is turned into a desert," she said.
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It predicted that "inhospitable arid climates" would lessen available food and water for the more than three million inhabitants.
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Located in West Nusa Tenggara, one of Indonesia's poorest provinces, Lombok is less developed, arid and prone to drought.
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Starting under British rule, irrigation canals and groundwater-extraction turned the arid lands of Punjab into India's agricultural powerhouse.
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Copper, lead, phosphate and zinc are mined in Queensland's vast, arid outback and shipped to the city for export.
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But as rainfall became erratic in this arid region, he started growing betel leaves, a less thirsty cash crop.
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All these rich greens usually mean vegetation, but this is an arid, salty land almost totally inhospitable to plants.
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The semi-arid region is home to the annual Burning Man Festival, the beloved rustic networking event of entrepreneurs.
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The discovery of a black leopard in an open, arid habitat in Kenya raises questions about that theory, however.
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Some environmentalists say it's not a dry spell, but the start of an arid era created by global warming.
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"Peacekeeping" is a politically sophisticated novel that plants, like pushpins, a handful of memorable characters into Haiti's arid soil.
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The landscape had changed from a stark moonscape to humid deciduous brush to bleached rocks and semi-arid plants.
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No forest greens in the arid deserts of Afghanistan during the day; no whites anywhere but in the snow.
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Their descendants today number about 2400,215 and are scattered around southern Africa, principally in arid areas like the Kalahari.
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The arid flatlands became the casus belli that claimed tens of thousands of lives over the next two years.
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"We have this vision of solar panels out in the desert, in these really open arid areas," Higgins said.
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The arid heated air we breathe in winter can cause nosebleeds and make us more susceptible to respiratory infections.
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We have seen tremendous growth in water recycling in our traditional recycling centers of the arid west and south.
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The prospects of retrieving Owen, as it were, or of assuaging his condition in any substantial way, were arid.
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At the same time, species more adapted to the arid Great Plains the Southwest may push into its borders.
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In arid Petorca, every cultivated hectare of avocados requires 100,000 liters of irrigated water a day, according to WaterAid.
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Where normally there was an arid patch of windswept, rocky dirt, there was now a clear pool of water.
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We first see images of starry skies, then follow a group of surfers riding in a van across arid plains.
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As biologist Mor Salomon told New Scientist, prey is quite scarce in the arid African landscapes where this animal lives.
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Scientists have developed a way to pull water out of air in arid settings, powered by nothing more than sunlight.
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From arid deserts to lush forests, mountain peaks to gorgeous valleys, America's landscape is as varied as it is stunning.
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Fenced in by arid hills, one is sure to witness an assortment of shades of blue in the lake's waters.
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Euphorbia lactea 'Ghost': For the true arid plant collector, the Ghost euphorbia is like the unicorn of the Euphorbia specie.
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Today, it is grown in Colorado, Idaho, the Pacific Northwest, but even arid patches of California are adding the crop.
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But this production still takes place in that bleak, arid prison that is the usual milieu of Chekhov's discontented souls.
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Cyclone Mekunu has blown into the Arabian Peninsula, drenching arid Oman and Yemen with rain and cutting off power lines.
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According to FAO, over 10,000 small-scale farmers in Kenya's eight semi-arid counties are already practicing low-till farming.
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Several were taken aside and made to kneel on the ground, an arid steppe green in places from recent rains.
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A decline by half, combined with the sun drying the land, would almost certainly transform it into an arid desert.
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Much of the 4 percent of the arid country that is arable land now lies untilled because of the war.
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The logging also adds to desertification, which, in turn, causes conflict across the Sahel, an arid belt below the Sahara.
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The whole system is powered by solar energy—an abundant source of energy in the arid deserts of northern Arizona.
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Thursday was the second day of a storm that, in the usually arid south, flooded riverbeds with sudden, lethal effect.
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The Fongoli chimps, by contrast, required daily drinking water and anchored themselves to reliable water sources in the arid landscape.
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The Salicornia plants themselves (known as halophytes, or salt-resistant species) need only the seawater and grow on arid land.
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Every few years, the current is unusually intense and reaches further south, bringing heavy rains along the normally arid coast.
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Bad Batch takes place in an unspecified future, where criminals are ejected into the arid badlands outside of Texas' borders.
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Grain-growing areas around Beijing have about as much water per person as arid countries such as Niger and Eritrea.
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Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou was re-elected in March having promised to boost security in the poor, semi-arid state.
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They complain too about infrastructure, saying the area is becoming arid because money to build an aqueduct has been stolen.
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In the hot and arid Middle East, white is a popular color of car as they reflect the sun better.
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On the other, innovations like this proposed mountain could mean a new frontier for improving living conditions in arid climates.
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The Plain is the largest arid stretch of limestone in the world and all its water systems are entirely underground.
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The cows have been kept away from some streams on the monument, where they naturally congregate in this arid environment.
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In Hawija, a small town in a flat, arid valley in southwestern Kirkuk Province, the head of civil defense, Col.
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Yumbe hosts Bidi Bidi camp, a sprawling, semi-arid stretch of red, stony earth home to 270,000 South Sudanese refugees.
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The normally arid region of Inner Mongolia, which had suffered weeks of drought, also issued a flood warning on Friday.
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Out of 3 gigawatts in projects awarded, most in Brazil's arid northeast, only 19 of 111 solar parks started construction.
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Wild fires are raging and the damage is expected to only get worse amid extremely arid conditions in the country.
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The last act of "Manon Lescaut" absurdly takes place in what is described as a vast arid plain outside New Orleans.
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So as climate change brings hotter summers, cattle are becoming less well suited to arid regions of the country, he said.
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That arid worldview is refuted by the joyful families picnicking in Sunder Nursery, and the devotion of pilgrims at Nizamuddin baoli.
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But Rajasthan has geographical advantages: it is arid in an otherwise humid country, so furniture made there doesn't warp so much.
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Security has deteriorated over the last few years across the remote and arid Sahel region just south of the Sahara Desert.
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The government hopes oil exports will reduce poverty in marginalized, arid lands and help Kenya attain middle-income status by 2030.
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Mauritania, located on the Atlantic Ocean in Western Africa, encompasses the western boundary of the Sahara Desert, and is mostly arid.
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The hot, arid climate of Scottsdale, Arizona, might seem an unlikely setting for a modern version of the fountain of youth.
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They settled alongside thousands of other migrants on the streets of Maicao, an impoverished and arid region near the Caribbean coast.
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But there were no Superchargers at all in the entire state of New Jersey, which made it an arid electricity desert.
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In eastern and southern Arica, hominins moved into open habitats, eventually reaching arid grasslands — places as daunting for survival as Fongoli.
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Still an arid plain, tufts of beige grass punctuating the dusty ground, surrounded by the black scaffolding of the various stages.
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A tender to build and operate a motorway through the semi-arid Chaco region attracted a single bid (which was accepted).
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In response to the layoffs, workers have blocked the access road to Escondida, located at high-altitude in Chile's arid north.
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Such severe storms is surprising in late April when the region usually is prepping for the beginning of an arid summer.
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About the only thing that feels of today is that its lush and arid environments and padding paws were digitally created.
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Its concrete wall was erected to control floods and capture a water supply for the booming, but arid, Southwest and California.
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As the vegetation turns from semi-arid scrublands to temperate rainforest and the route enters the fertile farming region, opposition intensifies.
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Growing up in the remote, arid terrains of Dapaong in northern Togo, Lalle Nadjagou was always fascinated by technology and design.
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Conventional wisdom would hold that time spent by a Democratic politician in Whitfield County is a seed tossed onto arid soil.
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Issoufou has positioned himself as an ally of Western nations in the fight against Islamist insurgents in the arid Sahel region.
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It may seem counterintuitive that groundwater aquifers in arid regions, which are by definition parched, are less sensitive to climate change.
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Cochrane Journal COCHRANE, Chile — An eagle soared over the lone house atop an arid hill in the steppes of Patagonia Park.
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Last year, Germany witnessed the highest average temperatures since record-keeping began and the most arid summer most citizens could remember.
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This is particularly true in the arid Western United States, where many waterways are ephemeral and no longer would be protected.
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Groups based in the neighboring country seek to extend their influence over the Sahel, the arid scrubland south of the Sahara.
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Eventually, I emerged at the edge of an arid wasteland, spat out the other end of the wrinkled, sky-reaching mesas.
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THE BACK STORY A sort of tequila rickey, this cool drink is used to beat the arid heat in West Texas.
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The district agronomist -- plants specialist -- owns 27 hectares of land in the Mwenezi area of southern Zimbabwe, a particularly arid location.
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The result is extreme water scarcity in an already arid climate, with steep prices and instability for the city's poorest residents.
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Western Sahara, an arid territory slightly bigger than Britain along the Atlantic Ocean, has about half a million people, the Sahrawis.
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On the civilian side, Israeli advances in drip-irrigation, desalination and water-purification technology promise to enhance agriculture in arid regions.
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Salty water formations seemed to increase on the Martian surface as the planet transitioned to an arid climate 3.5 billion years ago.
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Proximity to water helps keep some cities cool, particularly if it allows the planting of trees in an otherwise arid, desert landscape.
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Commodity Weather Group estimates Brazil probably lost as much as 10 percent of the crop yield potential due to the arid conditions.
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Camel herders in the arid scrubland east of Addis Ababa report many more such incidents over the previous year of trial operations.
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Cyclone Mekunu blew into the Arabian Peninsula early Saturday, drenching arid Oman and Yemen with rain, cutting off power lines, officials said.
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Cyclone Mekunu blew into the Arabian Peninsula on Saturday, drenching arid Oman and Yemen with rain, cutting off power lines, officials said.
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To the ngangkari, the outback's semi-arid landscape is a rich kitchen and pharmacy—a medicine chest to heal body and soul.
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It's one of many structures that, from a distance, stand in the arid high winds as missives from the man-made world.
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In truth, the farmer from Gavu, a village in arid Hwange District, about 450 km north of Bulawayo, can't control the weather.
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The Navajo Nation covers over 27,000 square miles of arid and mountainous land, taking in the vast deserts of three southwestern states.
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For agricultural producers, shallow federal coal seams are also the source of vital groundwater essential to ranching in the semi-arid region.
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One day, they heard about a wasteland, near the deserts of the Mongolian Plateau, whose people struggled to work the arid soil.
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A growing population, changing weather patterns, and displacement caused by conflict are all crowding more people and livestock into their arid scrublands.
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Athens is arid at this time of year; yet, plump, fleshy stalks of corn tower over beds of artichokes, pumpkins, and asparagus.
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This period, known as the Eocene, was characterized by an ice-free Earth and an arid climate across most of the planet.
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It was a cheerful moment in an otherwise arid production that found its pulse intermittently, but rarely with exacting power and flow.
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In the 764,000-acre Patagonia National Park, the arid Patagonia steppe meets wetter forests, making for a rich diversity of wildlife habitats.
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Yet a genre as persistent and enduring as death metal inevitably gets its tendrils into even the most arid and harsh landscapes.
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The Arabian Desert abounded with the houbara bustard, a migratory, partridge-like fowl found in arid habitats across Asia and northern Africa.
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The journalist Meera Subramanian has reported on the restoration of arid Rajasthan's water supply through an ecologically sensitive series of small dams.
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That explanation would need to be tested with DNA samples, which are difficult to collect from fossils found in the arid Levant.
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In this arid central African country, the long global struggle to eliminate a horrifying human parasite has encountered a serious setback: dogs.
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Along the way, you'll drive right through Camp Pendleton, where helicopters buzz the arid terrain and Marines practice maneuvers on the sand.
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For arid regions, there are proven ways to replenish dry or overgrazed land, including spreading new types of grass seeds by airplane.
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His great-great-grandfather was William Mulholland, credited with engineering the Los Angeles Aqueduct, which brought water to California's arid southern region.
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It's a precious permanent stream in arid country, an Edenic landscape of waterfalls and springs in a maze of sinuous sandstone canyons.
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The remote outpost on the arid La Guajira peninsula on Colombia's Caribbean coast marks a frontline in Latin America's worst humanitarian crisis.
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