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"parched" Definitions
  1. very dry, especially because the weather is hot
  2. (informal) very thirsty

786 Sentences With "parched"

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In that parched nation, in one of the most parched regions in the world, a water crisis, long in the making, has fed popular discontent.
The parched land of Death Valley, California is seen above.
Hotter temperatures cause drier land, which causes a parched atmosphere.
And some of them find themselves lost, parched, in distress.
Narrator: Ever been stuck in an airport, parched and hungry?
But like flaky skin, parched strands suffer in the cold.
Reservoirs that were parched last year are close to capacity.
His skin parched and sore, stretched and gritty with salt.
While some places were inundated with water, others were parched.
In short, it's everything my parched winter skin has been craving.
Parched landscapes, in turn, lead to more frequent and destructive bushfires.
Overuse of water in upstream communities often leaves those downstream parched.
People walk on the parched grass in Greenwich on July 19.
In this parched part of the continent, enthusiasm is drying up.
Red Bull has brought elite football back to a parched region.
The act of scoring can be like water on parched tongues.
They are parched for understanding, hope, and purpose to their lives.
These parched trees will become more vulnerable to pests and fire.
To the east, the parched land vibrates in the golden light.
It had a metal fence and a smear of parched lawn.
With increased temperatures, there is increased evaporation, leaving some areas abnormally parched.
To reward our parched selves, we stop in at a local brewery.
Some curls are parched and require nourishing oils and butters for moisture.
All buyout firms are thirsty for deals, but 224G is uniquely parched.
By mid-June the monsoon rains should be quenching the parched ground.
"When your parched hair gets softer, you have more porosity," he explains.
The trees store water, which is useful in such a parched region.
So too does it dry up as his parched lips draw near.
Kangaroos, parched by drought, decimated the grapes on a vineyard in Canberra.
But mostly, the land is brown and parched, scarred by the fighting.
Along this stretch of frontier the Rio Grande River is parched dry.
Thirty-foot cliffs began to rise up and the landscape turned parched.
Eating sisig leaves you parched and depleted, and still you can't stop.
The rest of the developing world will find itself equally parched soon.
Scientists are testing techniques for growing vines in a hot, parched future.
And with thermostats cranked up, the air inside can be parched too.
Its frosting is parched, chalky, with the barest spray of white mold.
Many farmers were unable to plant crops last year because of parched conditions.
But for super-parched hands, it quickly became the leader of the pack.
I also use lubricating eye drops, so my eyes don't feel as parched.
It is a parched, open space with some trees and shrubs scattered around.
She looked casual in black, while Justin looked parched ... in a severe sunburn.
It was the end of the dry season and the land was parched.
This year's sustained dryness, however, is a foreshadowing of future parched, rainless falls.
That is also true of silos across the north, towering over parched land.
If it's parched, I'll use a hyaluronic acid serum or a heavier moisturizer.
Some of the parched city's other potential drawbacks are less apocalyptic in scale.
Some fields are parched with drought, others so flooded that they swallow tractors.
We welcomed it with the joy of parched desert-dwellers greeting the rain.
Or that the desert's arid climate can leave you feeling parched year-round.
A parched land that was once rich pasture surrounding the long-lost Aral Sea.
Remember Marco Rubio&aposs infamous parched moment during the State of the Union response.
The severe drought that parched the state between 2011 and 2017 made matters worse.
You'll find ants thriving in the deserts of Australia, and termites in parched Namibia.
A few hundred yards away, several huge cattle horns lay on the parched soil.
But when Washington's really feeling parched, she whips out the "luxurious" new Body Balm.
In parched Karachi, there is anger that the government cannot even keep water flowing.
There are plenty of new skin-care innovations to coddle your sun-parched faces.
I spent the ceremony parched, feeling like I could pass out at any moment.
Ideal for sun-parched or irritated skin, the watermelon will instantly cool and soothe.
North Korea relies on hydropower, and in 2015 it was parched by a drought.
Pastures in this dairy region are parched after Tasmania's lowest spring rainfall on record.
Between 1053 and 2017, the state of California was parched in an epic drought.
Relief from the parched and blustery weather won't be in sight for several days.
But once summer arrived, the record heat parched these plants and the dense vegetation.
Droughts also exacerbate wildfire risk, since parched soils and dry vegetation burn more easily.
And in the middle of the parched pitch, underneath a white gazebo, lay Mugabe.
In those conditions, water in the skin evaporates easily, leaving it parched (and ashy).
There was no bathtub, which I wasn't missing in this often drought-parched state.
The fires are fueled by extreme heat and parched vegetation from years of drought.
Your mouth is more parched than usual, and there is a faint, acidic sweetness.
Parched villagers are now looking to monsoon rains, which have started in Bundelkhand, for relief.
In this exhibition, his expanses of black thirstily drink in the light, like parched animals.
Lindo, who is currently running for San Francisco district supervisor, is frail, weak, and parched.
"No thank you," I said, my throat parched with thirst and rough from the smoke.
The city government has been drilling extra boreholes and sending water tankers to parched neighbourhoods.
The water shortage has also parched the country's hydroelectric dams, contributing to widespread power cuts.
Western media portrays the continent as parched tinder for digital currency, ready to catch fire.
Running away, forever if at all possible, from the parched, subjugated, defeated, sterile, sick Earth.
Heads bowed, the sheep slowly search for sparse vegetation poking through the parched, crunchy soil.
The problem is typically wind, which jostles electric lines, raining sparks onto parched vegetation below.
Chile uses some of river water in its parched Atacama desert to feed mine operations.
HIS village may be parched, but Balachandra Ambaji Payar's banana trees are a vivid green.
A patch of parched dirt in the drought-stricken Puruliya district of West Bengal, India.
In my haste I had forgotten to grab a water, and parched delirium set in.
One parched zombie has had his head through a wall for more than an hour.
They lived on the open prairie, which was parched by heat, impassable in the rains.
Researchers fear the trees are parched by drought and rising temperatures linked to climate change.
Years of drought have parched California's forests, killing more than 100 million trees this decade.
The baby, cradled in Mr. Rahman's arms, looked skeletal, parched skin pinched at his joints.
I climbed without feeling the effort, leaping from boulder to boulder, but growing more parched.
Although its softly matte colors last all day, lips don't feel parched or weighted down.
Drained of water, starved of light and scorched by leaf acid, the soil is parched.
The landscape is so parched, lightning strikes seem to be starting fires even within rainforests.
Each time, they leave the land more parched, with less water and grass for forage.
In Juliaetta, he wandered the parched grass of a cemetery, looking for those grandparents' graves.
Much of Kenya is parched as a regional drought dries up grazing areas and rivers.
Asha took a swig—the dust had parched her throat, and she welcomed the sparkling relief.
Eight years of fighting for the Iron Throne can leave you a bit parched, after all.
But when you're parched and on the verge of dehydrated, it can feel like a dilemma.
Fire has returned to California's wine country as the flames thrive on bounties of parched land.
Jean was 35, but he had the parched, worn voice of a man twice his age.
In Africa it often brings excessive rains to the east while the southern cone gets parched.
What looked from a distance like fertile fields actually contain parched bean plants or malnourished maize.
The horses congregate on vast stretches of land, once green and lush, now dry and parched.
The emollient formula imparts major pigment with a matte texture that won't leave lips feeling parched.
We could see the power of the parched air and scorching sun in our own yard.
And the state is truly parched: California has missed more than a year's worth of precipitation.
This year, however, conditions are even more parched than usual, putting a pinch on his business.
At first, hundreds of impatient and parched schoolchildren unharmoniously stampeded to grab free bottles of soda.
Since it began Thursday, the fire has swept through 36,810 acres of parched brush and timber.
Summer shortages are nothing new on the parched hills outside Nablus, in the northern West Bank.
Half of the plots were well watered and green; the other half were parched and yellow.
The rain has brought new life to our parched city on the southern tip of Africa.
When she finally gets to drink, we can feel the water trickling down her parched throat.
Lamont howls across the parched landscape as broken waves of radio static slowly swallow him whole.
So, he seeks fame as validation, like a parched buffalo seeks a reservoir of fresh water.
The lowest rainfall on record in 22016 has led to parched lands and soaring feed costs.
In the dry season, lakes shrink, rivers drop and the land becomes parched and sun-baked.
Drought parched California for years, leaving it littered with fuel in the form of dry vegetation.
The dry air left us parched, and in this small race, there were few fluid stations.
For weeks, Britain has seemed like another place, its parched fields more suited to southern Italy.
Her husband and grown sons have now vanished; Nora is parched and at her wits' end.
With their brains parched for vitamin C, sailors would find their perceptions muddled and emotions heightened.
I'd take my bucket, may I have a sip of you, river, I am so parched.
Driving around Bhiwani, one can see nothing but dry canals and miles and miles of parched farmlands.
While not always sexy, feeling parched for love and attention is part of what makes us human.
The first is the abandonment of farmland, especially in high, parched places where nothing grows terribly well.
But it was the craft beer tossed to a parched person after a lifetime of Bud Lights.
The terrain would vary, but the essentials would remain the same: parched earth, granules between your teeth.
Meanwhile, large swathes of California's wine country are too parched from drought to make wine production viable.
Only the Los Angeles area and some inland counties near the U.S.-Mexico border are overly parched.
Fortunately for Pakistan, pitches in the Gulf are among the most rigid and parched in the world.
Given all that has soured this tournament, it was as refreshing as water on a parched tongue.
Clinton's eyelids at times drooped alarmingly; at one point Mr. Sanders, parched, lunged for a water bottle.
Travel an hour outside Las Vegas and you will find yourself parched in an oven-baked moonscape.
On June 563, 256, a bolt of lightning sparked a cluster of parched brush on Yarnell Hill.
With the exception of a small station in the West Village, the West Side is similarly parched.
Mato Grosso has been parched by a cold front that hit earlier in the year, she said.
I also pick up a water bottle because I'm parched and didn't think to bring my own.
So here's a list of the 2019 moments when folks were respectfully, painfully left parched from lust.
The parched waterfall is perhaps the most visible effect of the drought that is hammering this region.
Long-awaited rains that swept the parched Prairies in the past week largely skipped the Ross farm.
Baligubadle has man-made boreholes, which keep them alive even as the sun beats the dusty, parched streets.
Horse owners fled with their animals Wednesday morning as a new blaze erupted on Southern California's parched terrain.
As one area grows parched, its inhabitants encroach on land traditionally farmed or used for grazing by others.
The wildfire made its relentless march down the central coast, helped by the heat and the parched conditions.
The rain bounces off the parched ground taking along the topsoil, straight back into the rivers and oceans.
Those scorching temperatures withered the land, creating profoundly parched forests primed to catch fire with just a spark.
This prompted a choir of #problematic jokes from Guy and I about Winnie being extremely parched and thirsty.
It looks like Parched could be a powerful film, and so far it's been getting some warm reviews.
But Democrats are still parched from their three-decade drought, and the rains seem a long way off.
Ash is once again raining down upon California's Bay area, as the parched land to the north ignites.
KATOWICE, Poland (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Farming in the Jacuipe Basin of Brazil's parched northeast has never been easy.
Parched by drought and disoriented by shifting monsoons, the mainland of India is sometimes burning and sometimes flooded.
This browning trend was finally reversed over the past year, as precipitation doubled and flooded the parched landscape.
Contrary to the word on the well-watered street, Americans are not stumbling around in a parched fog.
Eze gets scammed before he even passes through customs in Lagos and emerges into its parched, weedy cityscape.
But the parched prairies and old-timey saloons of the first two seasons feel like a distant memory.
The world is parched, we are thirsty, and there's likely nothing we can do to make it rain.
When many Americans think of famine, they might picture parched fields or dried-up riverbeds caused by drought.
It also gets rid of the need for so many wires running through dense underbrush and parched hills.
With relentlessly rising temperatures, already fire-prone California has grown increasingly parched, making it more likely to burn.
Start with the fact that in these parched environs, only splashes of vines are visible from the highway.
Their alliance came down to this: To parents parched for understanding, Mr. Trump was a gulp of hope.
In India, some farmers have replaced rice with millet, an ancient grain that thrives in parched, infertile soils.
More than 100 million trees have died in California since 2010, in large part because they were parched.
His tongue was hanging out, and his mouth was open like that of a parched man receiving rain.
A refuge from war Brown, rectangular houses constructed of handmade bricks sit on land that looks dry and parched.
Dust swirled in the parched valley, making it hard to fly on certain days, Yukon News reported last June.
Britain and the Netherlands look more parched than they did in 1976, one of the driest summers on record.
Right now, everyone's hair is completely parched, frayed, and half-tangled by months of winter winds and woolen hats.
Droughtlander may be over, but we're still parched for a proper sex scene between Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall.
Caring for summer-parched hair — or preventing it in the first place — can be easy with the right products.
Parched vegetation from unseasonably hot weather and low humidity was already igniting elsewhere, and firefighters scrambled to keep up.
These pine trees are tough, though, and have evolved to withstand parched years in the drought-prone Golden State.
But the good news is this: Reviving parched skin is nowhere near as difficult as rebuilding a bank account.
I am parched from talking to people for three straight hours and kick myself for forgetting my water bottle.
This line is specifically formulated for parched hair, and considering my seasonal woes, I'd say I'm a qualified candidate.
During every dry season, brush fires sweep across the parched landscape, leaving behind leafless trees and baked, orange soil.
It'll save you a few bucks every time you're parched and tempted to hit up the closest convenience store.
The city's harsh winters would leave her skin dull and parched, so beauty masks were of particularly high value.
The dead timber and parched soil have also enabled a wave of dangerous, sweeping forest fires in recent years.
Triple-digit temperatures and parched land have left much of California's expansive forests vulnerable to any spark or flame.
The 11-day-old Carr Fire, stoked by drought-parched vegetation and triple-digit temperatures, is the most fearsome.
But in a parched valley where water is effectively wealth, the flow also has kept economic development efforts afloat.
To them, the economic recovery was a fickle storm that brought rain to some parched farms while skipping theirs.
I assure you it's a compliment when I say that her voice, too, evokes the rock: dragged down, parched.
The threat of wildfires remained high in the U.S. Plains due to dry weather, strong winds and parched vegetation.
Famine looks like dusty fields parched from drought, distended bellies and emaciated frames, a bad harvest with no crops.
Opinion There I was, driving through a parched landscape on a pilgrimage to watch a single flower bloom. Why?
And in Sweden, record-high temperatures have left fields parched and farmers scrambling to find fodder for their livestock.
This season centers on a parched California vineyard, where a death is apparently the indirect product of corporate greed.
Along the Bisse de Clavau, Europe's tallest drystone walls, the highest at 72 feet, support the often-parched soil.
In this vial sit the parched remains of yet another species soon to be extinguished in pursuit of ourselves.
Her performance in Hustlers had a similar effect, leaving audiences parched for a full hour and forty-four minutes.
The drought that has parched the area for years, said Mr. Nichols, a former Harney County commissioner, is abating.
In exceptionally parched California, the state recently broke two all-time fire records in just an eight-month span.
Almost all of New South Wales, a state responsible for a quarter of Australia's agricultural output by value, is parched.
China's strategy could boost rainfall in a parched region that only sees about four inches (10 cm) of rain annually.
Her backpack loaded down, she stares at her phone and moves across parched, cracked earth into a post-apocalyptic landscape.
As the winter sky hung low over the fields, parched after years of drought, his anger over Ruiz's comments festered.
To get here, I have driven an hour along the parched perimeter of Death Valley without spying a human soul.
It's now well into November, and parched forests are at their seasonal records for dryness, with some setting new records.
The parched conditions have aided the spread of deadly wildfires this year, with woodland blazes killing more than 100 people.
It fed on the thick, parched brush, and engulfed an unknown number of homes and structures, according to fire officials.
Unless you're a fan of parched peas and Chorley cakes, then Manchester probably won't make your gastronomic must-visit list.
The Iberian peninsula endured some record heat last weekend, with temperatures exceeding 45 C (113 F), which parched large areas.
If your results are anything like mine, with continued use, your hair won't feel (or look) as flaky and parched.
Conversely, my co-pilot and I felt like we'd tumbled down the side of a mountain, dusty, achy and parched.
Livestock farmers will also be impacted as dry weather parched pastures used to feed animals for a second consecutive year.
Check out the clip ... Steve-O's hosting game is on point ... for starters, he helps quench our parched photog's thirst.
In 2013 Xi Jinping, the president, said cities should be more like sponges, sopping up rainwater for reuse when parched.
The drought parched most of South Africa until early this year, but ample rains helped the summer rainfall regions recover.
After the second go-round, she collapsed to the ground and crawled, like a parched man in a desert cartoon.
In years when California is parched by drought, high-elevation terrain covered by dry timber is susceptible to large conflagrations.
It's mostly of concern for those with curly and tightly coiled strands — whose manes are notorious for being persistently parched.
For super-parched skin, richer formulas deliver higher doses of hydration and coverage but still glide on without feeling heavy.
There were all these red barns — that special red, and parched grass, and the dusty, gray-black of macadam asphalt.
In some formidably parched places across 10 Western states, including Nevada, the horses prove their hardiness by surviving and reproducing.
In September, 2014, she was pulled from the Mediterranean, parched and delirious, with two small children clasped to her chest.
Across the state, reservoirs that were alarmingly parched last year are close to full and in some cases, over capacity.
Wildfires raged in parched forests, farmers battled drought conditions, and fire warnings were issued for large swaths of the country.
In her parched village on the Red Sea coast, impoverished residents have long struggled to put food on the table.
The more aspirational narrative concerns Eric Marsh (Josh Brolin, whose craggy face has never better blended with a parched setting).
But if you leave rice in a bucket in the sun, the result is nothing more than warm, parched rice.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A sprawling Southern California wildfire that has been burning through rugged, drought-parched coastal terrain since Dec.
In total the fire has scorched 272,000 acres (110,1503 hectares) of drought-parched chaparral and brush since igniting on Dec.
I tried to say, "Well done, James Bay, well done," but I croaked and nothing emerged but a parched wheeze.
That means swapping out stripping cleansers for creamy, hydrating ones, and incorporating oil-based formulas that won't leave my pores parched.
The West's fire season is now well underway, and it has been further stoked by heat waves and especially parched land.
Most, however, are combating fires in the super-parched West, where the record-breaking Mendocino Complex promises to spread even more.  
Then, shaded her slightly and I did this drying effect on her lips so she looked parched and dirty and dry.
Swathes of farmland in Vietnam, the third-biggest supplier, are also parched as irrigation fed by the Mekong river runs dry.
The drone let him quietly capture images of farm animals, such as cattle gathered in parched paddocks, without scaring them away.
Farmers in parched places like California grow thirsty cash crops such as avocados, which could easily be imported from somewhere wetter.
Created by Perth-based Stirfire Studios, the game's challenge is to solve puzzles and bring rain back to a parched world.
On one side of the road flows the Truckee River; on the other bands of wild horses forage for parched grass.
By Thursday morning, the monstrous blaze had spread another 9 square miles of land that's been parched by years of drought.
The parched terrain is strictly no-entry to humans, though herds of long-horned cattle and spry ruminants still roam there.
Poor rainfall has left parched, cracked soil, fields of withered maize and bean crops, and empty water wells in these areas.
The scant rains that fell on parts of the Pampas did little or nothing to relieve parched soy and corn fields.
The world's fourth largest wheat exporter is set for its smallest crop in a decade after hot, dry weather parched fields.
They came to praise Bill Callahan, master of the parched country ballad, who performed an afternoon set full of casual gloom.
A standout is the Nutrive Masque Magistral, which was designed for thick locks but can help smooth any hair that's parched.
I desperately wanted a single product to satisfy the parched zones of my face while helping with softness, elasticity, and tone.
Named after Buddhist monuments, they are each 19943 meters tall and can provide millions of gallons of water to parched residents.
It may seem counterintuitive that groundwater aquifers in arid regions, which are by definition parched, are less sensitive to climate change.
As commissioner for irrigation there in the 1840s, Cotton brought water to Andhra's parched lands, turning them into India's rice bowl.
To the east a raspberry-hued haze settled over the parched flats of the Lechugilla Valley and the Cabeza Prieta range.
So if you find yourself with parched summer skin (thanks a lot, sun), pick up this mask from your nearest EWC.
Swapping your everyday lotion for a rich body butter is a great first step to soothe, hydrate, and protect parched skin.
Severe weather hit Southern California, too, with record-setting rainfall that helped restore parched reservoirs — accompanied by damaging winds and flooding.
Here, the embers will blow onto roofs, onto parched lawns and bushes, and begin burning thousands of buildings, block by block.
Swathes of forest, grass, and brush are just sitting there, parched by a series of record or near-record heat waves.
ITUGURURU, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Kenya's often parched Tharaka Nithi County might seem an unlikely place to take up fish farming.
The eroded, lumpish plateau that rose from the valley floor on either side was, in late October, parched bare and tan.
Harper's swift, dazzling debut thriller is set in a desperately parched part of rural Australia, where nothing is what it seems.
Their new music video for "Oh, Mama" is sweet, sweet elixir for our snappy sci-fi reference and violence-parched eyeballs.
But recently—as the land has gone from parched and on fire to a complete deluge—things have gotten out of hand.
Other impacts, like a parched Colorado River, would directly affect people who depend on the river as a water and food source.
What if everyone just hung on to their cup for refills instead of getting a new one every time they felt parched?
Any spark could turn into a nasty conflagration due to the exceptional amount of parched vegetation, or fuel, just waiting to burn.
The delay sparked frustration from fans and concern for the parched models waiting in 80-something-degree weather for a couple hours.
In return for its share, Israel agreed to pump an equal amount to parched northern Jordan, where most of the population lives.
They will be like streams of water in a dry country, like the shade of a great rock in a parched land.
The heat is ever more intense, he said, and the parched grass crunching underfoot so sparse it is hardly even noticeable anymore.
A comedy with buttery flavoring, "Popcorn Falls," at the Davenport Theater, is the story of a parched town saved by a show.
And, as on the album, while Mr. Costanzo's Glass often has lunar purity, his Handel, if effusive, sounded sharp-edged and parched.
According to dermatologist Hadley King, MD, cocoa butter is rich in fatty acids, which help thoroughly nourish parched, cracked, and ashy skin.
In the steep fields of Ethiopia's highlands, when rain falls on the parched, overworked land it runs downhill, carrying soil with it.
That is particularly true in small towns and cities in what is already one of the most parched regions of the world.
One would think that Pastor Bolz-Weber's shame-free ethic would be a tall glass of water for a grace-parched soul.
It was a relief for many, putting out fires and watering parched cattle paddocks, but the downpours triggered disaster in the creek.
It is then, as the sun's punishing glare ends, that the firefighters can comfortably approach the flames hurtling across the parched savanna.
The cause of the collapse was not yet clear but the effect has been immediate: A large expanse of farmland is parched.
In the tiny two-seat propeller plane, I sat surrounded by cameras and computers, flying only 500 feet above the parched ground.
Books of The Times Jane Harper's "The Dry" is set in a parched Australian farming community within a day's drive of Melbourne.
Bringing the bride water when she was dance-floor parched, generally posting up as the amazing guy everyone always knew my friend deserved.
I'm luckily not feeling hungover from the event the night before, but my skin is feeling parched and is breaking out a little.
It covers more than 3,500 square miles of Australian outback, a vast expanse of parched earth and shimmering salt stretching toward the horizon.
By Tuesday afternoon, the Mati fire was contained, but the risk remained of it reigniting in scrubland parched by Greece's searing summer heat.
But as entertaining and easy as the gameplay is, our love story lacked substance — a major disappointment for me, a romantically parched soul.
Peaceful transition to democracy is a rare flower in the Arab world's political desert; but it could just flourish in Algeria's parched soil.
In September, however, the news team managed to convince Zuckerberg to start administering ice water to the parched executives of the news industry.
Siberia reached 90 degrees earlier this month (40 degrees above normal), Scandinavia is burning, and California's parched land has been turned to tinder.
The next day, the water conservation minister, Pankaja Munde, showed up, and tweeted photographs of herself grinning in front of a parched riverbed.
The spring of that year gave way to summer, a heat wave of parched days that went on until the rains of October.
The company imposed power shut-offs across vast areas in recent weeks as high winds elevated the fire hazard in the parched state.
Gardens, ghostly mansions and even grenades have all emerged from Europe's parched landscape as the sun scorches the continent's lawns, fields and scrubland.
In the pit, the prospectors cut the generator in order to take a water break: the heat was ferocious, and they were parched.
Which is a pity, because at the heart of "Parched" is a story of women and their kinship, which is a universal theme.
While many people with straight or wavy hair swear by it, it can leave the dryness-prone curly-haired among us ultra parched.
The minute that goo hit my parched pout, my lips sucked it in like they had been waiting for it all their lives.
There is little more to him than parched, papery skin stretched across brittle bones and giant eyes -- brown and unblinking -- gazing up blankly.
Parched landscapes can increase fire size and duration, said Scott L. Stephens, a professor of fire science at the University of California, Berkeley.
Dry Winter Hair Is the Worst Pros like the Paris stylist David Mallett share some super-practical tips for salvaging your parched strands.
Each time the water recedes, Hyder's characters are left parched with nostalgia, to be quenched only when the river is next in spate.
Regions that tend to be dry, by contrast, are expected to grow even more parched as higher temperatures dry the soil and air.
The novel's emotional world is as flat and parched as the desert in which Ellie crashes; the monologues inefficiently repeat information and action.
The production designer Richard Sylbert talks about the film's palette, which uses parched, arid colors except for when the rich and powerful appear.
Hot, dry winds rush through mountain slopes, fan flames over the parched land, and break old, corroded electrical lines, which can light fires.
As its population has grown, crop farmers have moved onto parched soils that used to be seen as fit only for cattle ranching.
Exceptionally warm, dry weather has left grain belts parched around the Baltic Sea, including parts of Germany, the EU's second biggest wheat grower.
The heatwave in the British Isles has revealed a host of long-hidden historical sites that have suddenly become visible through the parched earth.
As ever-lengthening drought becomes the new normal, Bundelkhand, a parched region split between India's Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh states, is clearing out.
Gale-force winds drove flames through drought-parched scrub and trees into the town with little warning, forcing residents to flee for their lives.
A parched and stony stretch of plateaus and savannah, Pagirinya hosts some 35,000 refugees about 30 km south of the border with South Sudan.
There is a vulnerability and ordinariness to him: in one picture, he helps to change a tyre on the sun-parched streets of Kingston.
The Carr Fire alone has charred 95,368 acres (38,594 hectares) of drought-parched vegetation since erupting last Monday - an area the size of Detroit.
Its remnants promise wind gusts above 40 mph across Appalachia tonight, followed by welcome rains in coming days over parched portions of the Northeast.
The parched earth of Australia's longest waterway, if tributaries are included, is in the grip of the continent's most severe drought in a century.
The answer to this piece of the skin puzzle, whether you suffer from parched skin or dry skin, is opting for hydrating face makeup.
Here the scents are more domestic: parched cow dung, acrid but pleasant, and the sickly-sweet spice of chai, cooked on an open fire.
If there's any hope of preventing California from shriveling into a parched wasteland, the state will have to figure out some simple things first.
Other crop observers have also lowered their expectations for EU crop production due to parched field conditions in countries like Germany, Denmark and Sweden.
On the day when he and his hair move into the White House, "unbelievable" blessings will rain down on this parched land of ours.
Even with the presidential race tightening, one issue in a drought-parched region of California has remained constant — water and the lack of it.
The die-off, meanwhile, that's created so much fuel is a symptom of the years-long drought that has parched the Western United States.
Over the weekend, storms carrying about 2-4 inches of rain caused flash flooding in areas parched from drought in Tennessee and southwestern Virginia.
A rescue worker offered this parched snake water from the bottle almost immediately upon rescuing it and the snake very calmly drank its fill.
On top of hydrating skin (which typically gets parched as we age), rose oil balances out menopause-related hormone changes women face as well.
You're hungry, you're parched, you're terrified of the outside world, and the prospect of moving off of your bean bag is a true impossibility.
Megadroughts, persisting for decades at a time, parched the Southwestern U.S. centuries ago between 1003 CE and 2100 CE. Then, the extreme droughts stopped.
About 36,000 acres (14,103 hectares) of drought-parched grasslands and timber have gone up in flames since the Ute Park blaze erupted on Thursday.
The Roosevelt fire has scorched nearly 40,000 acres of drought-parched landscape and destroyed at least four structures, including two dwellings, since erupting Sept.
Despite the appalling circumstances and events it depicts, the movie's plain and unstinting affection for its lead characters gives "Parched" a frequently buoyant tone.
In the drought-parched village of Vuna, talks have led to water being trucked in, bath-water being shared - and plenty of thirsty animals.
If you're stranded in the middle of nowhere, parched with nothing but bottled water to choose from, then maybe consider drinking glass bottled water.
A parched brown landscape is bisected with red-and-white caution tape, and hills have been eroded so badly they appear like wrinkled skin.
Meanwhile, the parched and mountainous country is in danger of running out of water, leaving its 28 million mostly impoverished citizens facing another crisis.
Whether any of that went through President Trump's mind or not during an address to the nation on Wednesday afternoon, he clearly was parched.
Scientists believe that prolonged droughts and increasing temperatures may have parched the trees, leaving them unable to support the weight of their massive trunks.
"The wildfires and broiling heat, the parched droughts and bizarrely violent twists in climate are the new normal," writes The Daily Beast's Tanya Basu.
Since its formulated with hydrating kiwi seed oil and mild coconut-derived cleansing agents (no sulfates, here!) it doesn't leave skin feeling parched either.
Many of these commenters have said the product sat on top of their lips, and left their skin more parched than it was before.
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"Omaggio a Burri" (1995) was written in honor of the painter Alberto Burri, whose parched, cracked canvases have a resemblance to Mr. Sciarrino's music.
Reservoirs were parched, and the snowpack that helps feed the state's rivers and streams with its spring thaw had been nearly nonexistent at times.
Across New South Wales, the state where the drought that began in 2017 has hit hardest, plots of abandoned, parched land stretch for miles.
Steep, mountainous terrain as well as hot, dry conditions have hampered efforts to quell the fire tearing through drought-parched chaparral, grass and timber.
Ahead, we've broken down the best hydrating face masks that your parched skin will take in like an IV drip for a bad hangover.
Summer is coming, which means that the Game of Thrones fandom is parched and thirsting for any hints about Season 7 (where is our trailer???).
As for any long-term benefits, well, the machine might be better for those treat-as-needed moments — like when you're extra parched, for example.
But rumours have been swirling online that dam managers initially allowed reservoirs to fill, hoping they could profit from selling the water to parched farms.
Those prices come as Australian farmers are forced to plant wheat crops in some of the driest soil in years after scorching weather parched fields.
Skyrim, the various cities of Assassin's Creed, GTA V's Los Santos—even the lethal, parched landscape in Fallout 4 boasts its own kind of luster.
When my skin felt a little parched during the day, I used The Seaweed Bath Co.'s Citrus and Vanilla Body Cream to stay hydrated.
This summer's heatwave in the British Isles has revealed a host of long-hidden historical sites that have suddenly become visible through the parched earth.
Among the parched landscapes of Lusaka, shot with the unflinching eye of cinematographer David Gallego ("Embrace Of The Serpent"), it seems inevitable that disaster awaits.
The conflagration is one of two dozen major wildfires across the drought-parched U.S. West that have all together charred nearly 300,000 acres (120,248 hectares).
The rains have finally come to Southern California after months of bone dry weather and multiple wildfires, but they're not helping the previously parched state.
Burning Man didn't start in the desert, but there's a reason it has thrived there: Miles of parched earth make for a perfect blank canvas.
" And sometimes he's reflective about the parched circumstances he grew up around: "It's very rare for young black men to come up out of here.
The two-hour drive from Chania took us over parched mountains on windy roads — Crete, locals like to point out, has more mountains than beaches.
Depleted groundwater sources and other dried up lakes within 60 km of Chennai - including Pulicat, Puzhal, Sholavaram, Kaliveli and Maduranthakam - have left the city parched.
Coming as it does on the heels of "Pink" last week, "Parched" seems a little too contrived to be a memorable tale of women empowerment.
The El Nino weather pattern has brought poor rains to already-parched southern Africa, hitting crops, including in South Africa, the region's biggest maize grower.
Parched grazing lands and soaring feed costs have forced farmers to slaughter cattle, which has contained price rises for processed products but not fresh meat.
Instead, the land is parched and the grass is withered, forcing him to dip into his winter stock of hay to keep his herd fed.
Notably, the Group of Five conferences, whose football programs are more parched for resources, have been ahead of the Power Five leagues in doing this.
That's grim news for Australia's farmers, plagued by the prolonged drought that has parched cattle and sheep farming regions as well as grain growing areas.
Cut down the trees and you cut down on rain, which means less water to support agriculture and more parched vegetation, which means more fires.
"Tinder-dry" is how firefighters on the ground have described the parched land in the area, seared by a lack of rain and increasing heat.
White workers migrated here, too, fleeing their own parched fields in the middle of the country that had dried out during the Dust Bowl era.
Should the government declare Day Zero has arrived, faucets will cease to deliver water to the parched city until the skies open and rain falls.
The sun beat down, meanwhile, returning the backyard to its normally parched condition, and for whatever reason, the water did not reappear until that morning.
Cowpea thrives in parched soils and drought-prone areas where its roots can grow with as little as 300 mm (11.8 inches) of rainfall per year.
During the campaign, Newsom touted the value of tech solutions for wildfires as the danger from a year-round fire season and drought-parched land grew.
In the Colorado mountains, a wildfire destroyed more than 100 homes, while blazes across the parched U.S. West kept hundreds of other homes under evacuation orders.
IGLAS, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Khuba Chand increasingly finds himself alone in Iglas, a drought-parched village in the Bundelkhand region of India's Madhya Pradesh state.
Perilous winds that stoked the fire through drought-parched brush and chaparral abated on Saturday, giving firefighters a chance to gain some ground against the flames.
The dam would supply enough water to irrigate 1,000 hectares (2,470 acres) of parched land around it, including Kshirsagar's 2.5-hectare family farm in Kondhane village.
When pastures are parched, as now, they stay greener and grow taller—as seen in the photograph below of a prehistoric settlement near Eynsham, in Oxfordshire.
The worst drought in living memory is sweeping through Australia's east, the country's main food bowl, decimating wheat and barley crops and leaving grazing land parched.
He goaded the crusaders into a summer march through parched land, then choked them with bush-fires and taunted them by spilling water on the ground.
The difference with 2016 is stark, when the main white maize contract scaled record peaks over 5,000 rand as an El Nino-triggered drought parched lands.
Unusually hot and dry summer weather parched land, dried up rivers and ravaged crops across France, parts of Germany and Scandinavia, leaving water levels extremely low.
Last month, in a last-ditch effort to save lives, trains carried millions of litres of water to Latur, a parched district 400km east of Mumbai.
The company also operates a 24/7 delivery service within the nightlife heartlands of Lagos, supplying parched partygoers at exclusive clubs, corporate events, and private parties.
Showers forecast next week in France and across central and southern Europe are expected to improve growing conditions, notably in parched Romanian and Bulgarian grain regions.
Affected by the same drought that has parched the Southwestern United States, they are victims of climate change, made worse by our overuse of fossil fuels.
An asa branca (white wing) is a dove believed to be the last bird to leave during the droughts that periodically strike Brazil's hot, parched northeast.
We docked on a sandy grove and hiked inland and uphill to see the mangroves from above, like canyons of green cut into the parched island.
And on Wednesday, the Bombay High Court banned Indian Premier League cricket matches in the parched state starting in May in the hope of conserving water.
In the summer months, parched residents looked to the mountain peaks, wondering why the glacial melt they relied upon for fresh water had dried up completely.
He certainly seems up for marketing the film and arrived in New York for yet another screening (which I successfully sat through all the way, parched).
Summer fires are a common occurrence in the region and elsewhere in southern Europe, where blazes spread rapidly through forests and scrubland left parched by droughts.
CreditCreditHeidi Levine for The New York Times MITZPE RAMON, Israel — In the Negev Desert, the sun beats down on a parched landscape of brown, undulating hills.
The countryside is suddenly parched because a century-old tunnel that carries irrigation water across more than 100 miles, from Wyoming to Nebraska, collapsed this month.
It uses pop music ironically — "I Love a Rainy Night" by Eddie Rabbit as a character struggles across the parched Australian Outback — and with odd poignancy.
The road heaved, and the bus emerged from a gap in an escarpment into a parched emptiness of plain that stretched to the end of vision.
The parched wasteland of the planetary hours, it stretches on and on, and in its stinking heat the precious seedlings of Monday's hopes wither and perish.
It now will have burned through several different ecosystems: coastal sage scrub, chaparral, oaks, and conifer trees, all of them parched by drought and hot air.
Perilous winds that stoked the fire through drought-parched brush and chaparral abated on Saturday, giving firefighters a chance to gain some ground against the flames.
In the parched terrain just south of the United States border, the prices of food and other necessities follow the dollar, whose value has been climbing.
And it all started because a hammer, used to drive a stake into the ground, tossed either sparks or bits of hot metal onto the parched land.
Some ranchers in parched areas of the Central Plains and Southern regions have relocated cattle herds to lands with greener pastures or where water is more available.
Several major earthquakes in September severely damaged the pipes in Iztapalapa, causing about 800 leaks, leaving the area parched for weeks and causing chaos on the streets.
Op-Ed Contributors DESPITE the four-year drought that has parched California and led to mandatory restrictions on water use, farmers there have kept feeding the country.
Since then, Argentina has been hit by a heat wave that has benefited flooded areas while raising concern about parched conditions on other parts of the country.
Fire crews also have battled numerous small brushfires this summer, most charring only a few acres but still threatening homes in built-up areas along parched foothills.
Even in the parched interior of northeastern Paraiba state, where conditions are far less favorable for mosquitoes than in tropical Rio, poor infrastructure allows them to flourish.
Read MoreCalifornia farmers shore up for El Nino For agricultural regions, a big concern is four consecutive years of a drought that have created extremely parched land.
The blaze, which started last Friday, has roared through nearly 2783,000 acres (13,000 hectares) of drought-parched chaparral, grass and timber into the Los Padres National Forest.
The construction of a reservoir and irrigation system means he no longer worries the soil will become parched and the crops his family depends on will shrivel.
Dry conditions parched soils across much of the Canadian Prairies for three years, raising fears about this year's crops surviving, until rains fell in June and July.
For an island centered around community and commonwealth, this aid is essential to first secure a starving, traumatized and parched population; then to rebuild what was lost.
Weather whiplash from wet to dry can make for explosive fire conditions, as enhanced vegetation from above-average rainfall years becomes parched during an exceedingly dry year.
After five to 10 minutes, the color got a little darker than before and it felt dry on the face without my skin feeling parched for water.
" On the path to Mordor, stronghold of Sauron, the Dark Lord, the air is "filled with a bitter reek that caught their breath and parched their mouths.
On the horizon the parched moonscape met a wall of black smoke from the oil wells the Islamic State has set ablaze as a cover from airstrikes.
The question is whether it's all used up, as parched as a post-apocalyptic desert, as barren as an old woman, as addled as an old man.
Eventually the water ran out, and the increasingly frantic Hagar ran back and forth from hill to hill seven times searching for water for her parched child.
Yet this parched Outback western, awash in noirish mannerisms and a sunstroke-inducing palette, harbors a robust social conscience beneath its hotbed of bribery and sex trafficking.
Mr. Hajori, whose lips were parched, would stop by each car pulling over at a public park and raise his right hand in an appeal for help.
The forecast provided little relief to Australia's farmers, hit by a prolonged drought that has parched grain growing areas, as well as cattle and sheep farming regions.
He is entrusted to protect the Trevi Fountain, one of the world's most cherished and visited monuments, from the scourge of parched, overheated and advancing tourist armies.
But in the dry season, they also dig for tubers and eat lots of meat, because it is easier to hunt for animals on a parched landscape.
His flamethrower is his graphs, displaying the recent extreme weather patterns and the oscillating beat of parched and drenched soils from which Matador and his followers emerged.
The plan to build a 120,000 barrels per day refinery near a national park in parched Fars Province drew opposition from residents and environmental activists, IRNA reported.
Saturday was one of the worst days yet in a stretch of dangerous fire weather — blazing heat, parched brush and winds that topped 60 miles per hour.
Recent rain has brought relief to parched west European grain belts and improved conditions for cereal sowing and for earlier-sown rapeseed crops, analysts and traders said.
It's suitable for all skin types but is particularly great for people with dry or combination skin as it can just be applied to the parched areas.
It's cold enough for snow to stick around in the winter, but that snow has to be blasted out of machines over a land parched by droughts.
On Thursday, a police officer, tears in her eyes, noticed memorial flowers growing parched and placed them in a bucket of water before she resumed her post.
It's hard to overcome the season's moisture-depleting elements — biting winds, extreme cold and overactive indoor heating systems — all of which can leave skin parched, she explains.
California has been parched from drought for years, so there isn't a "massive amount of readily available water," and what little moisture is available is closely tracked.
CORDOBA, Spain (Reuters) - The parched olive groves and tranquil towns of Spain's southern Cordoba province are an unlikely backdrop for a political upset that could reverberate across Europe.
Clear Lip Gloss: In middle school, slicking on the mirror-like shine of a sticky-sweet lip gloss was *so cool* but our pouts were often left parched.
The tireless churning of one herd on Lantau, the largest island in Hong Kong, has turned a parched field into a swamp full of lush green floating plants.
But, satisfaction aside, the pore-flusher has one very big drawback for me: It tends to dry out my skin, leaving it parched and worse off than before.
Once the fire exploded, it was fueled by already unusually parched timber and grasses and driven quickly, burning 70,000 acres in is first 24 hours, by excessive winds.
The dried-out ground exacerbates the already-parched conditions caused by natural cyclical weather patterns and a staggering lack of rainfall in recent years, the Columbia researchers found.
Most face washes leave my sensitive, dry skin parched — while the more moisturizing options give it a gross, slimy residue (not exactly what you want from a cleanser).
Nineteen members of the elite Granite Mountain Hotshots died in the lightning-caused, wind-whipped blaze that roared across drought-parched land northeast of Phoenix in June 2013.
A long-term drying trend (also known as desertification) is evident in the decreasing levels of Cape Town's parched reservoirs, which are intended to supply the city's water.
While some foaming face washes tend to leave my skin feeling parched, this one feels like what I imagine washing my face with a cloud must feel like.
As the shadow of the setting sun spread across the parched sea of blackbrush before me, my footsteps and breath fell into pace with the warm canyon winds.
Roll down the windows and, as you approach the mountain, the oppressive heat of the island's parched interior gives way to the shady, dank feeling of a forest.
DENVER (Reuters) - Heavy thunderstorms and widespread rains expected on Saturday in the U.S. Southwest could help douse the numerous unrelenting wildfires crews are battling in the parched region.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Parched cities should do more to get wetter and cooler, according to a report published on Tuesday by Arup, a design and engineering consultancy.
Then, there's the sheer amount of water used to produce jeans, often in parched areas of the world where water access is a matter of life or death.
But if you eat it every night, you'll probably gain weight, feel parched and lethargic the next morning, and maybe even experience some mood or concentration-related issues.
Many of the grass fires grew rapidly on Monday due to dry weather and parched prairie land in the Texas Panhandle, north and western Oklahoma and southern Kansas.
The fires, which began on Tuesday, have erupted throughout the country, blazing through parched forests, incinerating scores of homes and forcing tens of thousands of people to flee.
Had her business taken off, a white-truffle facial masque and Dom Perignon toner would surely have followed: populist ablutions for the parched skin of the little people.
It is not a midday luminary, but a corpse-candle to the intellect; at best it is a second-hand lunar light, error-breeding, sand-blind and parched.
He also frequently raised the issue of Mr. Rubio's parched-mouth moment when the two of them were running against each other for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.
It's still too early for a definitive answer on whether this will be the miracle March that compensates for the parched weather we had in January and February.
These fires are typically started by farmers and ranchers to clear land, but a severe drought last year caused them to spread rapidly, particularly in the parched southeast.
From the parched northern border with Niger to the Sambisa Forest in the south, the insurgency seemed to know no bounds — Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria were not safe.
CAPE TOWN (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In the parched, mountainous hills of Leliefontein, in South Africa's northwest Namakwa district, farmers have long made a living raising oxen and goats.
Enter the lobby, make a left, trot up the stairs, and you come to the American Bar, a longtime shrine at which many parched pilgrims have sought relief.
Sweltering days and poor rains so far this year have left Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Ethiopia and Tanzania parched and on the edge of a major food crisis.
Such were the wages of settling a parched continent on the far side of the Missouri River — America's first adventure in nation-building in a hostile physical environment.
Cheap, clean power ran irrigation pumps that kept the community's wheat, maize and vegetable fields a sea of green even as climate change-fueled droughts parched the surrounding landscape.
So when all that holiday shopping gets you sweaty and parched, but you're still in the mood for a seasonally inspiring cup of cheer, Starbucks is here for you.
Still, that doesn't mean you have to sacrifice a dip in the pool just to avoid spending the rest of the season with parched skin and straw-like hair.
In vulnerable areas, residents keep gasoline tanks filled, sniff the dry, autumn air for smoke and look warily at the parched, wind-swept hills for any signs of ignition.
With Britain having enjoyed a tropical heatwave for more than a month, the par-103 Carnoustie seaside layout has been baked into an oasis of parched, straw-colored fairways.
Nowhere is the disparity felt more than in parched Los Angeles, with its short winters and its overwhelming reliance on water imported from Northern California and the Colorado River.
The blaze is one of 11 large wildfires in the state, where high temperatures and parched conditions brought on by a five-year drought have raised the fire danger.
In both the north and south of the parched Golden State, the rapidly-evolving circumstances are similar: profoundly dried-out land with the arrival of persistently dry, gusty winds.
Robert McBride, whose parched sheep station in the state of New South Wales depends on its flow, estimates that 600km of the lower Darling will run dry this year.
My pores looked instantly tighter, thanks to the collagen-boosting retinol, but not in a parched, dehydrated way; instead, the stretchy texture made my skin feel nourished and plump.
Faucets are running dry and the lakes that once nurtured the southern city of Bangalore and its nearly 10 million residents are either parched or fetid with toxic effluents.
In New Mexico, the Ute Park wildfire was 30 percent contained by Wednesday morning, having burned 36,800 acres (14,892 hectares) of drought-parched grassland and timber since last Thursday.
LISBON/MADRID (Reuters) - At least 36 people died in wildfires raging through parched farmlands and forests in Portugal and another three in neighboring northwestern Spain on Sunday and Monday.
PARIS (Reuters) - Parched soils have hampered late-summer rapeseed sowing in Europe, raising the prospect that farmers will shift toward attractively priced wheat for next year's harvest, analysts said.
Such a Sisyphean solution is unlikely to beat pumped storage in places where that is possible, but in parched landscapes like Nevada's it has every chance of doing so.
As if flat, staticky hair and chapped lips aren't annoying enough to deal with this time of year, most of us also have to cope with parched, lackluster skin.
"Wildfires are sparked and spread not only in forested areas but in populated areas and open fields fueled by parched vegetation, high winds, low humidity and geography," he added.
Turpan, he noted, occupies one of the world's hottest locales: a parched depression, devoid of rivers, that receives an average of just over a halfinch of rainfall a year.
But wet weather propelled by the El Nino ocean warming phenomenon filled many reservoirs, packed the northern Sierra Nevada mountain range with snow and began to replenish parched aquifirs.
Still to be built is a 10-acre public park with a lake and 500 new trees: a symbol of rebirth, turning the parched earth into a verdant landscape.
In Ranjani Shettar's installation "Seven Ponds and a Few Raindrops," looping, delicate steel forms covered in tamarind-stained muslin sway ominously in midair, evocative of parched flora or exoskeletons.
But in a parched environment, the Bryans — Mike the right-hander, and Bob the lefty — have managed to carve out a rich niche with their winning ways and personalities.
Firefighters had worked through the night battling the blazes in Knysna and surrounding areas in the province of Western Cape, which were aggravated by strong winds and parched terrain.
Vaseline Intensive Care Essential Healing Body Lotion, available at Target, $5.89I'm Irish-American, a heritage that betrays its people in the form of parched skin, especially during the winter.
And while Northern California has seen copious precipitation since the fall, other parts of the state — notably, in the San Joaquin Valley and the Central Coast — remain severely parched.
These bushfires have been amplified by profoundly parched forests, brush, and grasslands — dried-out by a triple-whammy of record-breaking heat waves combined with drought and unrelenting winds.
What's left is a parched landscape that's primed to burn, and winds of 60 or 70 miles per hour can speedily turn a spark into a fast-moving wildfire.
It was the perfect find for a parched bicyclist, but for Greenfield it was also perfectly illustrative of the problem he was trying to bring attention to: food waste.
With the country's driest spring on record just concluded and another hot, parched summer likely to be ahead, the challenge of keeping Australia hydrated is only becoming more urgent.
The verdant, V-shaped tableau, as absorbing as it is disorienting in this metropolitan context, evokes the fantasy of being a parched desert traveler stumbling across a fecund oasis.
The three of them hop in their van and drive out of the parched field, dust devils eddying in their wake, toward the road that will take them south.
Jiayuguan Journal JIAYUGUAN, China — The fortress stands watch in a parched land with snow-encrusted mountains beyond, a lone rook on the empty chessboard of western China's Gobi Desert.
The garden, into which Jean-Jacques had poured so much of his energy since retirement, was, in stark contrast to the parched dryness elsewhere, fresh and colorful and alive.
How and why Vaseline Lip Therapy worksVaseline seals in moisture and nourishes parched lips with petroleum jelly, a gooey-like substance comprised of a mix of oils and waxes.
Welcome to Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum of Assemblage Sculpture—a Junk Dada electronic wasteland set on a ten-acre stretch of parched land in Joshua Tree, California.
The latest blazes follow a spate of other wildfires that have burned this month in drought-parched Florida, which prompted Scott to declare a state of emergency on April 11.
To the list of things seemingly on the verge of going up in flames—parched forests; LeBron James's second go-round in Cleveland; the American Experiment—add Cleveland's FirstEnergy Stadium.
SHIRAZ REFINERY 2 The plan to build a 120,000 barrels per day refinery near a national park in parched Fars Province drew opposition from residents and environmental activists, IRNA reported.
While a warming climate doesn't cause fires — like sparks from an electrical tower might — hotter climes set the stage for vegetation that is increasingly parched and susceptible to spreading flames.
Parched Southwest looks closely at turning salt water into fresh water Farmers have already started looking to underground springs to feed their crops, so the windfall may be welcome news.
While most liquid lathers are free of drying agents (we're talking about you, sulfates) and full of nourishing ingredients, some of them can leave your hair feeling (and looking) parched.
Parched desert surfaces cannot cool by the evaporation of groundwater, and since the balance of surface energy is controlled by heat radiation, this makes the greenhouse gas effect even worse.
Natalie Sullivan, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Boulder, said the parched region could get rain starting Saturday as remnants of Tropical Storm Bud arrive from the south.
It's the time of year when winds really kick up in California, and firefighters on Tuesday night captured footage of relentless gusts driving a new blaze over the parched terrain.
That now, forever, she'll swim like she did in those old parched dreams—faster and faster, waves rippling behind her, her beautiful scales winking as she disappears into the deep.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Relieved farmers in Australia's export-focused west are celebrating good rainfall at the end of the winter wheat-planting window, although conditions remain parched in the eastern states.
Though the nation's fire woes are a complex confluence of potent culprits, Smokey's modern world, parched by heat and dryness, is increasingly aflame, and climate change is making it worse.
Sea water is also desalinated to generate salt and fresh water for irrigation, while vapor from greenhouses is used to humidify surrounding patches of parched land so plants can grow.
We either end up stuck somewhere parched and with rumbling stomaches, OR we find ourselves impulsively blowing just a little too much of our budget on packaged and bottled goods.
It's a climate perfectly suited to the island's primary inhabitants — bright green lizards that scatter over the parched landscape, scampering from one prickly bush to another whenever we walked past.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Recent rainfalls in China's northeast region have provided relief to the parched fields after drought threatened to cut crop yields in one of the world's top corn producers.
New organic brands are finding all-natural ingredients to treat pigmentation, aging skin, acne, and parched complexions; their products aren't just as effective as the mainstream chemical alternatives — they're better!
The parched sea, now shrunk to around 10 percent of its original surface area, is 95 feet shallower and so brackish that it no longer supports fish or much life.
But after seven years of war, the river that has fed life in Syria's parched east has become a hostile front, separating warring sides as it travels north to south.
You're in the desert, surrounded by cracked and parched ground, with little shelter from the sun, and all you've got to your name is a baseball hat and a sandwich.
Several fires along the coast had residents on edge, including the Alamo fire, east of Santa Maria, which grew to more than 43 square miles in steep, parched canyon land.
Certain images from the black-and-white film, directed by Cláudio Assis and Ms. Colker, stand out: a parched river bed, smoke billowing from burning cane fields and mangrove trees.
Medical centers are full, said Traore, and the sick and elderly go untended, resting where they can out of the hot sun that sucks moisture from the parched surrounding farmland.
Medical centers are full, said Traore, and the sick and elderly go untended, resting where they can out of the hot sun that sucks moisture from the parched surrounding farmland.
Our favourites from this extensive range include the hydrating and tasty Vanilla lip balm, the very convenient Intuition solid perfume and the Revelation body oil that's a treat for parched skin.
Heavy rains in the country's normally parched northern desert, home to many of its mines, labor strife and a blistering drought in its central agricultural region have also taken their toll.
It is an aerial view of the border delineating Haiti and the Dominican Republic; on one side are parched "bare-skinned" mountains and on the other a blanket of verdant forest.
The whole of Paradise is drained, so much so that the needling going on between Shushanna, Kamil, Annalise, and Jordan feels like the futile squeezing of one very, very parched lemon.
But the isolation of the Xibe in this parched, far-flung region near the Kazakh border helped keep the language alive, even if its existence was largely forgotten until the 1940s.
Firefighters from all over the country have been helping California battle a series of deadly and devastating wildfires in recent weeks that have spread through drought-parched forests and rural communities.
HAMBURG (Reuters) - A big barley harvest in France has rescued Europe's beer brewers from supply shortages after parched conditions across the continent this summer ravaged crops elsewhere, traders said on Friday.
Ahead, we tapped some skin-care professionals to get tips and product recommendations that will give us the mid-winter pick-me-up our parched faces, bods, and scalps are craving.
In their parched homeland, dotted by rusted-out tractors and sun-bleached billboards for debt relief and fast-cash loans, Toby and Tanner rob banks as a way out of poverty.
Raging waters filled streets and flooded stores and homes in videos and photos posted on social media, while videos from the desert showed the parched landscape suddenly inundated with torrential waters.
On the wheat market, traders were assessing chances that heavy rain in eastern Australia over the weekend may bring late help to parched wheat fields in the run-up to harvesting.
By the end of the day, I'm normally considering going into the bathroom and applying whatever moisturizer is currently on my desk over my makeup because my skin feels utterly parched.
The teen was reportedly dicking around with some friends near Eagle Creek Canyon on the Columbia River Gorge last September when his illegal fireworks sparked a blaze in the parched forest.
The facial spray includes aloe, cucumber, and green tea to instantly hydrate parched skin and the lip balm leaves behind a demi-matte finish that's great under lipsticks or worn alone.
It is the centerpiece of Luma Arles, a $210 million arts complex built on a 2500-acre plot of parched earth and defunct rail yard, known as the Parc des Ateliers.
MILDURA, Australia (Reuters) - A conservative stronghold for a century, Australia's hinterland is now cracking like the drought-parched earth, voters say, with once-safe districts in jeopardy ahead of Saturday's election.
The 56-acre Liberty Square project, opened in 1937 as part of the New Deal, is a maze of dilapidated, faintly pastel-colored buildings on a treeless landscape of parched grass.
But the wild ground cover is so dry now that it crackles when I walk on it, and little puffs of dust lift from the parched soil with my every step.
The Carr Fire, the deadliest and most destructive of nearly 21.7 wildfires burning from Texas to Oregon, has charred 23.7,21.5 acres (36,095 hectares) of drought-parched vegetation since erupting last Monday.
And that's no easy thing when the cardinal rule of digital living is to conceal your parched behavior by avoiding exposure in the in likes and comments on your main account.
The fires, about 2416 miles (210 km) apart in the drought-parched Four Corners region of the southwestern United States, have consumed nearly 32,000 acres (12,000 hectares) between them, officials said.
In increasingly parched southern Africa, worsening water shortages in 2017 led South Africa's Cape Town to launch a public countdown to "Day Zero" when it feared the city's taps would run dry.
" They also include a quote from Kate Sheppard, a prominent member of the women's suffrage movement in New Zealand: "The rain that refreshes the parched ground, is made up of single drops.
The fires are being fueled by unusually strong Santa Ana winds and large amounts of dry vegetation—ironically caused by heavy rainfall earlier this year—which are now parched and dried out.
In Southern California, two fires rolled along the parched foothills north of Los Angeles, forcing at least 2900,244 people to flee neighborhoods where thousands of homes have sprung up in recent decades.
Which means you can be tanning your legs, exfoliating your elbows and back, whitening your teeth, softening your feet, and healing your parched strands all while watching Jon Snow be Jon Snow.
TSIHOMBE, Madagascar (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Like many people in Madagascar's parched south, Ranotongae had been hoping for the heavens to open up and ease the country's poorest rainy season in 35 years.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Thirsty city slickers are pitching in to help farmers in Australia's parched interior by eating a pub delicacy called a "parma," with some of the proceeds marked for drought relief.
California, with 17 large active blazes reported, has been one of the hardest hit, with a volatile mix of triple digit-temperatures, erratic winds and drought-parched vegetation fueling intense wildfire activity.
This is how I entered the market for a nude lipstick that actually moisturizes my poor, parched lips — a shade that masks imperfections while still making me look and feel put-together.
Along with the rail line, Brown's administration is trying to build a series of tunnels that would channel water from the San Francisco area to the parched southern half of the state.
That means when the season ends in Harrisburg, Pa., next Monday, he will have traveled approximately 272,260 miles, all by bus, throughout this year's hot, parched and long summer in the Northeast.
Parched after years of drought, the rainfall officially brought the dry spell to an end as floods inundated hundreds of homes, landslides buried roads, and high water levels threatened to burst dams.
She advises sufferers to look for gentle exfoliation with products such as Skin Inc's Pure Revival Peel, which restores cell turnover — meaning it cleanses clogged pores — without leaving skin red or parched.
Even the roots have been pulled out, leaving nothing to hold the parched soil together as rainwater washes downhill, potentially taking tents and people with it and quickly inundating low-lying settlements.
Wildfires have burned across tens of thousands of acres of parched terrain in Colorado, spurring thousands of evacuations and compelling officials to seal off a national forest from the public on Tuesday.
"Precipitation is welcomed in parched areas of the Four Corners region but some localized totals in excess of an inch could lead to flash flooding concerns in south central Arizona," it said.
Here observation gives way to imagination — the surface of Deimos, the outer Martian satellite, appears as parched clay — but these too relied on models and calculations of atmosphere, shadow and light refraction.
Like many Capetonians, we've endured months of quick 90-second showers, bucket washes or baths that are only centimeters deep and grey water to flush the toilet or water our parched garden.
"Some EU wheat was on a knife-edge as spring weather suddenly turned very dry and soil is still unusually parched after last summer's historic drought and heatwave," one German analyst said.
His motorcade crossed hundreds of miles of parched mountain landscapes broken up by acres of neatly planted grapevines and bushy berry plants as he traveled from rally to rally on Saturday and Sunday.
The parched fairways should allow Spieth to play to his strength, which is precision iron play and a deft short game, and he spent last week honing his technique at home in Texas.
After decades of promises and years of delays, the government says the rerouting of Brazil's longest river, the São Francisco, will soon relieve Campina Grande and desperate farmers in four parched northeastern states.
Yet the parched yellow grass in this corner of east London got an accidental deluge this week when a leaking pipe sent a torrent gushing over the scrub and down the high street.
The blaze, which erupted Sunday morning, had blackened about 1,500 acres and was still burning unchecked over steep terrain and drought-parched vegetation by evening, San Diego County Fire Captain Kendal Brotisser said.
The massive Asian country will spend 1.15 million yuan ($168 million) to modify weather in its parched northwestern provinces, in one of the country's biggest such programmes, the South China Morning Post reports.
The high-minded positivists who ran the Brazilian republic were humiliated by a rebellion in the 21990s by a monarchist preacher at Canudos, in the parched interior of Bahia in the north-east.
"The vineyards were in a big old mess, the soil was parched, the land was very dry, but through it all we saw that it wanted to come back to life," says Trudie.
The IPO window that never closes After years of drought and parched conditions, the U.S. tech IPO market could see a number of well-known players push forward with their debuts in 2018.
In January PG&E, a utility facing billions of dollars in liabilities over its possible role in sparking wildfires in California, which proliferate as the state grows more parched, filed for bankruptcy protection.
As more people crowd into neighborhoods next to dry brush and parched forests, the likelihood of an ember from a barbecue grill or a spark from a lawnmower triggering an inferno shoots up.
"Record warm temperatures created an early and below-average runoff that was in large part absorbed by parched soil before ever reaching the State's reservoirs," the state water department stated in a release.
First, the Trump Administration, enacting its "zero tolerance" policy regarding migrants , forcibly separated children from their parents and detained them in a tent city and in a repurposed Walmart in parched South Texas.
In 2014, during the peak of the "drought," the state was pouring hundreds of billions of gallons of fresh water into San Francisco Bay, rather than giving it to its parched citizens. Huh?
Dystopian novels and movies predict a future in which people fight it out for every last drop of water to quench the thirst of expanding cities, parched agriculture, and wasteful suburban grass lawns.
In this mode, the composer's changes can come slowly — as with the steady movement from a parched, dry violin tone to something more conventionally lovely — yet their culmination often ends up feeling voluptuous.
My road trip began in Melbourne, continued on to Sydney and then took me west to the land of Angus cattle and Merino sheep in the vast, parched countryside of New South Wales.
It is in the same parched region of the state where the Carr Fire killed eight people this summer, destroying more than 1,000 homes and consuming 229,651 acres, according to California fire officials.
A lot of women, warned by beauty editors and websites that shampooing too often was the culprit for their parched strands and out-of-whack scalps, have cut back on their shampoo regimen.
Although it shows some signs of weakening, the heat dome may intensify again by early next week, raising the possibility of a prolonged hot and dry weather pattern in an already parched region.
I found myself quaffing it greedily, parched from the past few weeks, when Trump's Senate trial confirmed how unbound the president is and how completely Republican lawmakers have surrendered their integrity to him.
Utilities in Northern and Southern California have cut power from hundreds of thousands of customers as strong winds and parched conditions created a high risk that overhead power lines would spark disastrous wildfires.
Authorities in California have reported levels of fire intensity and unpredictability they have seldom seen before, as a result of a volatile mix of drought-parched vegetation, triple-digit temperatures and erratic winds.
The broader context: Fire season is now running year-round in California, and studies show that warmer, more parched dry seasons that last longer into the fall are consistent with expectations from climate change.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A late start to corn planting, excessive rains in some key production areas and parched soils in others did not jar the U.S. Agriculture Department's expectations for another bumper crop in 2017.
As fire experts pointed out before the blaze began, hot temperatures and heat waves had parched much of Northern California's vegetation to near-record levels of dryness, turning the land into fire-ready kindling.
And in a region rife with human activity, wind-whipped power lines, car fires, or the innocuous use of a hammer are readily available to throw a hot spark on the cracked, parched brush.
Benzoyl peroxide works by nuking all the acne-causing bacteria on your skin but in doing so, it also leaves the skin parched, like the roof of your mouth after a night of drinking.
This fast-absorbing dry oil redefines salicylic acid the way Luna does retinoids: by putting the typically drying ingredient in a well-balanced formula that keep skin smooth and hydrated, not parched and flaky.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The soy complex may be rallying on the Chicago Board of Trade, but the outlook for U.S. supply retains its bearish feel, despite significant losses to Argentina's soybean crop amid parched conditions.
Nervousness wasn't a feeling she was particularly acquainted with, but she thought that the fact her stomach was undulating and her mouth hangover-parched was a sign that she might just be experiencing it.
Still, over the last year, El Nino has parched fields in the Philippines and Indonesia, brought unseasonable rains to areas of South America and caused flash floods in Somalia that destroyed thousands of homes.
Ground crews raced to clear drought-parched vegetation along the southern flanks of fires, removing highly combustible fuels adjacent to populated areas before extreme heat and winds were forecast to revive over the weekend.
Other ministers speak of massive irrigation projects, and have dusted off an ambitious water-diversion scheme for parched regions that is priced at $165 billion and involves no fewer than 53 links between rivers.
ZHARI, Afghanistan (Reuters) - In Zhari, a parched district northwest of Afghanistan's second city of Kandahar, 13 year-old Naqibullah is working in his father's poppy field, preparing for the main harvest of the year.
The town has long been coveted for its rustic, riverine beauty, nestled among bands of orchards that overlook the parched Shomali Plain, and for its strategic location on the road to Kabul, the capital.
Why it matters: Depending on their intensity and exact location, El Niño events can alter global weather patterns — favoring above average precipitation in the parched state of California, for example, while inducing drought elsewhere.
Mr. Romero, dripping with sweat and flecked in ash, noted that many firefighters from coastal California were not accustomed to Redding's notoriously intense sun, its parched and radiating grasslands, or its warm downslope winds.
More than a dozen fires in Northern California across eight counties — including Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino and Yuba — were fanned by dry winds that gusted across a parched landscape faster than 50 miles an hour.
Beed lies in Maharashtra's parched Marathwada region where years of drought have ravaged crops, forcing farmers to migrate and fuelling a demand for brides to work alongside their men so the family earns more.
After six hours of tramping through stores, tired and parched, we gave ourselves over to flimsy plastic stools in the parking lot of a Pizza Hut, where a crowd milled about a chai stand.
Complex societies of bacteria, viruses and fungi live in these diverse habitats — from the oil fields of the face and back, to the damp caverns of the nose, to the parched and hairless palms.
Wildfires are common in the late spring and early summer in the Southwest, when it is hot and dry, and also when lightning from the first monsoon storms strikes — and ignites — the parched ground.
So PG&E is cutting off power in the particularly dangerous zones it has identified in Northern California, where high winds might rustle power lines and shower sparks onto the wind-parched vegetation below.
Parched one day in the Capitol, she turned to a member of her team and said, "I would trade three of you for a bottle of water," according to a person who witnessed it.
On the flight, as the parched tan expanse of the nation was fed slowly through the portal to his right, Collins scrolled through the posts, reading it all, ingesting everything, especially in friendly territory.
The rich cream is an editor favorite thanks to its potent blend of sea buckthorn extract, jojoba oil, and vitamin C. It seriously smooths and hydrates our parched, over-processed strands in just one use.
As I lay dying, the last words that fall from my cracked, parched lips will be "I never....I....never....went....to...the....PANNY PARTY" and my relatives will carry that burden with them forever.
But the whole ordeal was jarring for California, which had just been parched by a record drought that left lakes dry, lawns yellow, and restaurants not allowed to serve water unless it was specifically requested.
A warmer atmosphere holds more moisture (the water content of air rises by about 21994% for every 21914ºC of warming) increasing the likelihood of sudden heavy downpours that can cause flash flooding across parched ground.
Officials said rain expected in parched, fire-hit parts of the province on Thursday would bring some welcome relief although it also brought the risk of lightning, which has been blamed for starting several fires.
A previous drought in 2009 and 2010 parched a swathe of provinces from China's southwest to its northeast, coming a year after parts of the Yangtze River fell to their lowest levels in 150 years.
Anthony Uren, manager at the Congi farm in the north-east of New South Wales, said he was keeping his 36,000 merino sheep fed on parched paddocks by bringing in feed like hay and barley.
A previous drought in 2009 and 2010 parched a swathe of provinces from China's southwest to its northeast, coming a year after parts of the Yangtze River fell to their lowest levels in 443 years.
On a set (by Daniel Zimmerman) whose parched lawn spills over the lip of the Connelly Theater stage, it slip-slides through time in a brightly heightened reality that belies the haunting at its core.
Wildfires rolled across dry terrain in the Western United States and through a region of Canada, fueled by lightning, whipping winds and temperatures in the triple digits that have fanned the flames across parched lands.
Co-founders and frequent flyers Christine Chang and Sarah Lee were inspired to create the product after years of struggling with dry, parched lips on flights — a beauty dilemma their fans also shared with them.
DOUMBA, Niger (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hadjara Ali watched with displeasure as a tractor dug trenches through the parched earth in her remote Niger village, preparing ground for planting where grass has not grown in years.
The dry conditions may reduce yield prospects for upcoming harvests in Australia and Argentina, and parched conditions ahead of sowing in Europe and the Black Sea region have shifted attention away from high global inventories.
Dry conditions that are reducing yield prospects for upcoming harvests in Australia and Argentina, and parched conditions ahead of sowing in Europe and the Black Sea region, have shifted attention away from high global inventories.
It's one of few farming areas in the country able to provide grain to parched eastern states to keep cattle and sheep fed and flour mills grinding amid one of the worst droughts on record.
Carmel itself has remained largely out of harm's way, but the blaze has roared through more than 40,000 acres (16,190 hectares) of drought-parched chaparral, grass and timber in and around the Los Padres National Forest.
Much of southern Africa including Mozambique is still recovering from a devastating drought two years ago and the dry, compacted soil increases the potential for flooding as rainfall is less easily absorbed into the parched ground.
President Michel Temer was due to open the first of two canals next week, according to officials in the parched state of Paraíba, where the second largest city, Campina Grande, is fast running out of water.
During the tour, Rolling Stone's Kurt Loder wrote in 1983, Bowie would rent a Land Rover or some similar vehicle in each city and "clatter off into the outback, the parched and haunting bush" to explore.
I'd initially wondered if this was indeed a strong choice (it looks kind of parched), but the patty turns out to be a joy, the side of pickle a fitting complement, and the bun respectably moist.
This duty took wings in an opinion of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, writing that it had existed "from the inception of mankind", lest they "inherit nothing but a parched earth, incapable of sustaining life".
A narrow parapet above the cave looked out at the glittering sea; about twenty feet below was the opening—a dark vertical gash in the face of the rock, surrounded on either side by parched scrub.
BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Parched Cape Town, in South Africa, has managed to push back its "Day Zero" - an estimate of when taps in the city could run dry - to 2019 after successful water-saving efforts.
BEIJING, May 23 (Reuters) - Heavy rains this week have brought relief to parched fields in China's major grain producing regions, breaking a months-long dry spell that had slowed corn planting and hit winter wheat crops.
The lesson stayed with her, she later said, arousing in her a passion to help protect the earth and kindling a seven-decade career in environmentalism — in her case far removed from that parched Oklahoma soil.
But while arson is a factor in bushfires, scientists say they don't account for the unprecedented scale of the current crisis, and many, like the Gospers Mountain mega-blaze, were ignited by lightning striking parched scrub.
One wishes that, rather than let it all run into the ocean, we could attempt to capture and transport it, by a combination of barge and pipeline, to some of the parched areas of the world.
A year has passed since a church shooting torched the parched landscape of Riversend, where everyone talks about the punishing weather but few have the stamina to take it without boiling over into rage or despair.
The killer blaze had blackened 130,000 acres (52,600 hectares) of drought-parched scrub by Tuesday but crews had carved containment lines around a third of the fire's expanding perimeter, helped by diminished winds and high humidity.
DENVER – More than 22.7 homes in the Colorado mountains were destroyed by a growing wildfire, while hundreds of others across the parched U.S. West remained under evacuations Tuesday and the closure of recreation areas derailed holiday plans.
The state's historic drought isn't over but portions of Northern California have seen their parched lands relieved of the worst conditions and now are enjoying rainfall totals that are well above normal for this time of year.
In the arid Las Vegas desert and with hundreds of parched journalists watching, it publicly tested the propulsion system for its planned tube-based transportation network that could cut hours-long travel between cities down to minutes.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency also authorized the use of funds for firefighting efforts, fire officials said Since it began Thursday, the fire has swept through 35,711 acres — nearly 56 square miles — of parched brush and timber.
Conditioning as you color is particularly vital here: Even if you color with metallic-equipped dyes, that bling-y payoff that comes with, say, a bun drop will fall way short if strands are parched and stiff.
The so-called Soberanes Fire, which erupted on July 22 just south of Carmel-by-the-Sea, has already scorched 38,3503 acres (15,378 hectares) of parched chaparral and timberland in and around the Los Padres National Forest.
PARIS (Reuters) - Analysts at Strategie Grains made another steep cut to their estimate for this year's European Union soft wheat harvest, citing parched conditions in northern Europe that have led to "catastrophic" yields in Germany and Scandinavia.
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Parched pastures and crops in Western Canada are driving up cattle-feeding costs, and farmers and analysts expect the changing economics to stem a recent stampede of U.S. cattle being brought over the border.
A rare non-Cubist, non-Surrealist painting by Dalí of 1922–23, titled "Lane to Porttligat with View of Cap de Creus," is a straightforward, even vaguely impressionistic landscape showing the parched dusty roads and brilliant sunlight.
Every day brings news of exhausted rivers and wells, destitute farmers migrating to the cities or even committing suicide, water trains being dispatched to parched regions—and of leopards venturing into towns in search of a drink.
The so-called Soberanes Fire, which erupted on July 2200 just south of Carmel-by-the-Sea, has grown to 40,000 acres (16,187 hectares) of parched chaparral and timberland in and around the Los Padres National Forest.
The blaze, about 50 km (30 miles) southeast of Berlin, spread rapidly overnight to cover an area the size of 500 football fields, aided by the parched conditions after one of Europe's hottest summers in living memory.
TIKAMGARH, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Authorities in this drought-parched city in central India have deployed round-the-clock armed guards at a river-fed community reservoir to prevent farmers from siphoning the remaining water for irrigation.
One smoldering cigarette or lightning strike can ignite an entire hillside in the parched, fuel-filled forests across the West, and officials say the campfire galloped away and burned 20133 acres of canyons and forests around Nederland.
Played with mellow disbelief and sung with parched, wounded tone by the baritone Matthias Goerne, the title character doesn't start off, as he does in many stagings (and often by Mr. Goerne), as a wild-eyed lunatic.
When my skin feels this parched post-cleanse, I usually reach for an oil or a heavier moisturizer, but Dr. Hextall advised against this and actually sees it as a sign you could benefit from a skin fast.
Many leave our lips feeling parched and looking crusty, so when you find one that goes on smoothly and evenly, fills in the lines in your lips, and lasts all day, you better hold on tightly to it.
But a project to build dams and irrigation systems to bring water to parched fields is set to help – and could protect at least some families against the more frequent droughts climate change is bringing in southern Africa.
And to TIFF viewers, sweating their butts off in million-percent humidity as they trudge from packed theater to packed theater, films about parched, sun-baked characters panting through hostile environments may seem a lot more emotionally resonant.
In Atwood's novel, there's a sad little subplot in which Offred, desperate for moisturizer for her parched skin, steals pats of butter from the kitchen to use on her hands and finds herself smelling faintly of vegetable oil.
The same boxed, mass-produced versions that made panettone famous, and that took it from being a rare luxury item to one anyone could buy, gave it a reputation as nothing more than a parched, heavily perfumed sponge.
The play's parched-voice Elizabeth (an implacable, facially immobile Tara Fitzgerald) may glide about Jon Bausor's set with ease, but "The Secret Theatre" is about the restrictions that inevitably come in a society on guard against unnamed dangers.
Once home, my family and I scanned our social media feeds, horrified, witnessing live videos of residents fleeing down the Skyway, flames enveloping them on either side, as the especially parched brush fast-tracked the nightmarish, galloping embers.
A number of protests have broken out in Iran since the beginning of the year over water, a growing political concern due to a drought which residents of parched areas and analysts say has been exacerbated by mismanagement.
Parched in Extremadura—with people like Sarah and Martha howling, panting, and mewling—we saw across the plain a hilltop town, a mile or two from the highway, and we turned to go there and quench the thirst.
Though the novel does not name the parched country, Carrasco himself was born in Badajoz, Spain (he now lives in Scotland), and as you read you cannot help thinking of another pair journeying across an arid Spanish plain.
Bushfires are common in Australia but the fire season has begun much earlier than usual, with temperatures soaring above 40 Celsius well ahead of the start of the southern summer and high winds hitting the drought-parched landscape.
You realize it's drier now -- little creeks that used to twist between the trees have dried up, and the unirrigated grasses that used to cycle through a range of shades are now brown and parched all the time.
Emptied of much of its population, the old city in western Mosul remains a baking battlefield where parched and defenseless civilians vastly outnumber ruthless extremists, who have their backs against the Tigris River and seemingly nothing to lose.
Bushfires are common in Australia but the fire season began much earlier than usual, with temperatures soaring above 40 degrees Celsius well ahead of the start of the southern summer and high winds hitting the drought-parched landscape.
SACRAMENTO — The deluge of storms that soaked drought-parched California in the winter, filling reservoirs and packing snow on the Sierra Nevadas, also brought hope that the state would get some relief after years of devastating forest fires.
Other company leaders made trips to parched cotton fields, landfills covered with Walmart shopping bags and melting Arctic glaciers, all with the aim of gaining a deeper understanding of sustainability and engaging with environmental groups, journalists and critics.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - (The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a market analyst for Reuters.) Abnormal dryness has accelerated in the United States over the last several weeks and the parched conditions could linger into the springtime.
In much larger measure it was about supreme caution, the respecting of limits, and thinking tragically in order to avoid tragedy: that was the only psychology and strategy able to deal with a stupefyingly hostile and parched landscape.
Here's how those villagers concocted their nuoc mam: During the dry season, scarce water is diverted from one parched rice paddy to another, starting with the paddies at higher elevations where streams trickled down from the inland mountains.
Upon a field of parched and dirty bone-white, a blue-and-black-on-white portrait of a bearded man in a beret (Che?) rises to the center of the field from a mass of blood-red strokes.
Already the desert has gobbled part of the village, a barren outpost that sits about 50 km northeast of the parched bed of the Aral Sea in the south of this vast central Asian country bordering Russia and China.
By Tuesday, the killer blaze dubbed the Camp Fire had blackened 125,000 acres of drought-parched scrub, up 8,000 acres from the night before, but crews had carved containment lines around nearly a third of the fire's expanding perimeter.
The so-called Erskine Fire had blackened more than 45,0003 acres of drought-parched brush and grass by Monday morning on the fringes of Lake Isabella in Kern County, California, about 110 miles (180 km) north of Los Angeles.
Through the power of smart sensors and the magic of the cloud, children being parched is on its way to becoming a thing of the past — at least, if the Gulülu team has anything to say in the matter.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Rain has been falling across the U.S. corn and soybean belt this month but crop ratings have been low or declining, a sign that some farmers may be getting too much moisture while others have parched fields.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - The heaviest rain in years has fallen across parts of drought-parched inland Australia, bringing relief to struggling farmers but likely not enough water to break a big dry that has crippled the country's most productive farmland.
Similarly, each floor had a hydration station and plastic bottles to refill (and then recycle) for unlimited purified water, eliminating the need to dole out $10 a water bottle when you're parched and succumb to an expensive mini-bar.
But full exploitation would have sucked up vast amounts of water in the parched area, and risked polluting waterways that feed into the Lempa, one of the few uncontaminated rivers providing water to over half the population, said experts.
Every day there's some wild outfit, wilder problematic comment, and general celebrity messiness for us to feed on, and Ira Madison III, Kara Brown, and Louis Virtel are here to spoon that tea right into our gossip-parched gullets.
Here is an excerpt from the article: More than 700 have perished in transit through Brooks County over the last 15 years, claimed by heat and dehydration while trying to find their way along the parched tracts of ranchland.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A number of protests have broken out in Iran since the beginning of the year over water, a growing political concern due to a drought which residents of parched areas and analysts say has been exacerbated by mismanagement.
The Israeli military said that in that raid, it attacked three targets in a Hamas compound, calling it a response to the repeated launching of incendiary kites that have burned large tracts of parched farm fields and woodland in southern Israel.
The wind-driven blaze, dubbed the Camp Fire, erupted in the drought-parched Sierra foothills 175 miles (280 km) north of San Francisco in November 2018 and raced with little warning through the town of Paradise, incinerating much of that community.
This shea butter, coconut oil, beeswax, and California wildflower honey-packed hydrator is a win-win: It restores parched skin and helps the brand's own Planet Bee Foundation, which offers backyard beekeeping workshops and education to schools and community groups.
El Nino-fueled storms have brought some relief to drought-parched California this year, but the central and southern portions of the state, as well as the Sierra Nevada foothills in the north remain at high risk, according to experts.
The wind-driven blaze, dubbed the Camp Fire, erupted in the drought-parched Sierra foothills 175 miles (0.23 km) north of San Francisco in November 2018 and raced with little warning through the town of Paradise, incinerating much of that community.
The flames, driven to the outskirts of Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge overnight by hurricane-force winds and fed by drought-parched brush, forced 14,000 people to flee and sent three to hospitals with severe burns, the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency said.
In an effort to build affordable housing, developers and residents have continued to push into the state's wildlands, erecting homes encircled by dry brush, trees, and parched mountains, explained Kurt Henke, a retired chief with the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District.
Ample rains in August in major production areas brought relief to parched fields hit by drought earlier and as good weather is forecast to continue in September, output is likely to grow, the government grains centre said in a report.
Winter rainfall would be welcome to top up dam levels and restore moisture to grazing lands and farms parched by a drought that saw South Africa last year record its lowest annual rainfall levels since comprehensive records began in 1904.
As of Monday morning, the so-called Erskine Fire has blackened more than 45,000 acres of drought-parched brush and grass on the fringes of Lake Isabella in Kern County, California, about 110 miles (180 km) north of Los Angeles.
ROXBY DOWNS, Australia (Reuters) - A vast copper and uranium lode in Australia's parched outback, global miner BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam was long emblematic of the industry's boom year projects: complex, ambitious and - until 2200 - slated for a $2000 billion expansion.
And if what you really wanted to do was get yourself booked on television so that you could run for House speaker or a higher office for your home state, those parched shorthorns wouldn't mean much to you at all.
The so-called Soberanes Fire erupted last Friday just south of the upscale oceanside town of Carmel-by-the-Sea and has raged through nearly 2000,215 acres of drought-parched chaparral, tall grass and timber into the Los Padres National Forest.
The so-called Soberanes Fire erupted last Friday just south of the upscale oceanside town of Carmel-by-the-Sea and has raged through nearly 225,225 acres of drought-parched chaparral, tall grass and timber into the Los Padres National Forest.
Roaring through timber stands parched by a prolonged dry spell, the blaze was centered just 2 miles (3.22 km) from downtown Flagstaff, a city of about 70,000 people on the edge of the high Colorado Plateau southeast of the Grand Canyon.
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Forests are filled with fuel from the floor, where highly combustible, dry pine needles act as kindling to jump-start the tiniest spot fire, all the way up to the crown where beetle-killed and parched trees dot the landscape.
The CEC said 2.549 million hectares had been devoted to maize in Africa's top producer of the grain, up 31 percent from the 1.947 million hectares planted last year when an El Nino-triggered drought parched much of the soil.
This parched landscape was where he would set two early novels: "In the Heart of the Country" (1977), his prismatic portrait of a murderous rural housewife, and "Life & Times of Michael K" (1983), his minimal, Kafkaesque fable of the apartheid state.
Set in a near-future America parched and wilting from eight years of drought, the movie drops us into a car beside an anxiously fleeing Ruth (a perfectly fraught Gugu Mbatha-Raw), a recovering addict whose sudden seizures can ignite earthquakes.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hundreds of people were ordered to evacuate from a fast-moving wildfire burning through steep terrain near California's central coast on Saturday, after searing temperatures and parched land fueled dozens of blazes in the U.S. West and Southwest.
READ: The Australian wildfires are an ecological catastrophe Authorities issued emergency warnings in the area, following forecasts of a shift in wind overnight that fire chiefs worried could fan the fires unpredictably, potentially spreading them in different directions across parched bushland.
Parched conditions in the U.S. West and Southwest have led to a rash of wildfires this year, with about 40 major blazes burning as of the end of June in an area from Washington State to New Mexico, the agency said.
Gomez added that the mine was well-positioned "to take on new challenges" and said Collahuasi was asessing different possiblities to reduce the mine´s use of water - a critical though often scarce resource in Chile´s parched northern desert.
Bushfires are common in Australia, but this year's fire season has begun much earlier than usual, with temperatures soaring regularly above 40 degrees C (104°F) before the start of the southern summer and high winds scouring the drought-parched landscape.
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Unusually dry weather is making Argentine farmers nervous as they wait for October rains to revive parched corn crops, adding to uncertainty around next month's presidential election that could see business-friendly incumbent Mauricio Macri lose power.
Bushfires are common in Australia but the fire season has begun much earlier than usual, with temperatures soaring above 40 degrees C (104°F) well ahead of the start of the southern summer and high winds hitting the drought-parched landscape.
Nine months of mandatory conservation measures in California have saved enough water to supply nearly six million residents for a year, and officials in the parched Golden State are urging people to remain diligent as drier and hotter days loom.
CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When the thousands of water lorry drivers who shore up parched Chennai's overtaxed water delivery system went on strike for three days last month, to protest a ruling restricting their access to groundwater, a water crisis ensued.
Temperatures hit 101 degrees in the area and dried brush from the parched, drought conditions has helped to spread the fire to about 57 square miles -- a size that is bigger than the city of San Francisco (which is 47 square miles).
Regardless, such heavy snows will not only be a boon for previously parched ski resorts, such as Squaw Valley and Northstar, but will also mean good news for water resource managers who keep close tabs on the liquid water content in the snowpack.
The so-called Soberanes Fire ignited last Friday just south of the upscale oceanside town of Carmel-by-the-Sea and has roared through nearly 2000,215 acres (2783,000 hectares) of drought-parched chaparral, grass and timber into the Los Padres National Forest.
This parched patch of land, under which lies the largest oil-producing rock formations in the United States, is the epicenter of a growth binge that shows just how tight the link remains between low unemployment, rising wages, and upward pricing pressure.
Now vast stinking pools created in part by untreated medical waste accumulate at the pile's base, threatening to contaminate the water supply for the parched city which experts have long predicted will be the first capital to use up all its water.
ISLAMABAD (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Pakistan's water crisis has become increasingly visible in recent months: levels in the largest dams are low; parched irrigation canals mean farmers in the south planted less cotton; and the commercial capital Karachi has long queues at hydrants.
No one has been hurt by the fires, but some 2,250 acres (910 hectares) of fields and nature reserves, already parched after a dry winter, have been burned by flames stoked by Mediterranean winds, causing $2.5 million in damage, Israel's government said.
The companies, supporting an old tradition of planting a tree to mark a death, are distributing free seedlings and promoting planting in cemeteries and at homes as a way to help restore a parched country – and offset their own use of timber.
Game prices are mostly down as ranchers cut herds in the face of parched grazing and soaring costs for supplements like lucerne, a protein-rich hay-like crop which has almost doubled in price the past year to 290,2250 rand ($2500) a ton.
"Fired Up" (Stoney Creek) As country music has begun to extricate itself from the terror reign of the bro over the last year, it has become ever more clear what the genre has been drowning in and also where it has been parched.
Autumn in the region leaves the steppe parched, but a little higher, in protected mountain valleys, wild apricot trees turn spectacular orange and red, while wild apples and other trees turn yellow and brown, painting the hillsides with a warm, bright palette.
So on a recent visit to San Diego, I went to the Otay Mesa border crossing and drove around a maze of parched industrial alleys and postapocalyptic "Mad Max" landscapes trying to find these monuments to President Trump's vision of the future.
Mr. Washington plays a mysterious nomad traveling across a parched and rusty American dystopia; the cast also includes Gary Oldman, whom Manohla Dargis described as "a flinty presence that Mr. Washington can spark against" in her review for The New York Times.
In central California, crews had cut containment lines around 70 percent of the so-called Erskine fire, which was burning in the drought-parched foothills near Lake Isabella in Kern County, about 110 miles (180 km) north of Los Angeles, fire managers said.
The name of the Brazos River in Texas was derived from the Spanish Rio de los Brazos de Dios, meaning the "River of the Arms of God" — what the waterway appeared to be to early settlers in that parched part of the country.
Our strange attachment to the word is hinted at by the fact that a global water crisis is in full flower, the world is increasingly parched, World Water Day was commemorated just last month — and yet the word "thirsty" is doused in judgment.
How deep you're buried under deal emails depends on how many lists you've signed up for along the way; I've gotten over 70 Cyber Monday offers in the past 24 hours alone, including multiple from a few brands that seem especially parched.
When the El Nino rains fell last winter in California, thick and tall grass grew in the once-parched land, but now that those rains have passed, the grass turned into dry fuel for what could be the start of another tough fire season.
And the world of Blade Runner 2049 is gorgeously scopic: You'll see cautiously soaring spinners giving chase in the night sky; a parched, burnt-orange desert littered with garish statues; the slick, squirmy industrial birth-canal that Wallace uses to bring his replicants to life.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A fast-moving wildfire that has forced hundreds of people to flee from their homes in the drought-parched foothills northwest of Los Angeles had blackened some 20,000 acres by Saturday night and was threatening homes and commercial structures, fire officials said.
On Friday, the 37-year-old Border Patrol agent pleaded guilty to accidentally starting a massive wildfire that torched 47,000 acres of Arizona's parched grasslands, forcing residents from their homes, requiring 800 firefighters to extinguish the blaze, and, ultimately, costing authorities more than $0693 million.
Add that to the worst drought in history that parched the state from 23 to 2014, throw in some voracious bark beetles, and you get 129 million dead trees in California, drying out and magnifying the risk of yet another devastating wildfire for the state.
Sick of having our foundation stick to our scales and our lip color gunk up on our parched pouts, we went to Renee Garnes, a celebrity makeup artist and Posh Beauty ambassador, to learn how to wear makeup when our faces are staging a protest.
You can finally say goodbye to messy lotions, sticks and sprays (not to mention post-sunblock breakouts); this powder is formulated with green tea and honeysuckle flower extract, jojoba and safflower oil — all of which will nourish any sun-parched patches on your skin.
But if we are to take the work as a purely artistic statement (and a very popular one), it is nonetheless one that connects the private villa of an arms manufacturer to the mainland, drawing the parched masses to the Beretta family's closed doors.
KWAMUSI, South Africa (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A At the height of the 2015 drought that parched South Africa's eastern KwaZulu-Natal province, Julie Mkhize had to pull carcasses of dead cows from the dried riverbed near her village, after the desperate animals perished seeking water.
In regions like the parched Sertão of the northeast with scant prospects for private investment, there are growing fears that the cuts could stoke unemployment and worsen the gap between rich and poor in what is already one of the world's most unequal countries.
The Camp Fire incinerated some 13,000 homes in and around Paradise, mostly during the first night of the blaze when gale-force winds drove flames through drought-parched scrub and trees into the town with little warning, forcing residents to flee for their lives.
At home I took a shower, drank two liters of water, a green juice, applied a liberal amount of Kiehl's Crème de Corps on my body, Glossier hyaluronic serum to my face, Elizabeth Arden lip balm and still felt parched from the inside out.
Children can watch them in their spare time, and unlike cattle, who can often be seen picking at the parched grass by the side of the road, they can fit in almost any space, be it the backyard of a colonial mansion or a slum.
Areias has visited Alqueva and is talking to the government about water rights for potential U.S. investment, including his own, while encouraging farmers in parched Fresno county to diversify their business to Portugal, which is "uncongested and a lot like California was in the 22040s".
The snowpack level has raised hopes that a wet winter, fueled in part by the weather and oceanic pattern El Nino, will make a dent in California's four-year-old drought, which has parched the most populous U.S. state and cost billions to its agricultural sector.
But in sepia tones that reference the parched soil that flew all the way to New York City at the height of the Dust Bowl, Hayes offers a poignant narrative of how Guthrie rose from a directionless teenager in Okemah to the voice of the downtrodden nationwide.
So with our upcoming winter beauty woes (read: parched everything) in mind, we partnered with SheaMoisture and two top dermatologists, Dr. Jeanine Downie and Dr. Melissa Piliang, to help us find the most effective moisturizers for every hair type — from thin and fragile to kinky curly.
It cleanses effectively from root to tip and enlists coconut oil and coconut milk to hydrate parched strands from the inside out, while Paul Mitchell's Tea Tree Special Shampoo gently dislodges everything from product buildup to flakes, and leaves both scalp and strands feeling fresh, not frazzled.
With the ongoing drought in much of California and the fast-growing Southwest, it's not hard to imagine that the United States and Canada will need to undertake some massive cross-border hydrological engineering projects to channel abundant Canadian freshwater to the parched southern United States.
Cohen's singing changed over the years too, although here the transformation was more strictly physical — always monotonous, his deadpan was if anything bleaker in 1967, when his clear voice projected fey self-delight, than in 2016, when his deep, parched croak suited the melancholy more closely.
But if you're after a serious hyaluronic hit, there's SkinCeuticals' award-winning H.A. Intensifier, which contains ultra-high concentrations and has a cult following for the way it can transform skin that's parched and peppered with fine lines, bringing it back to its former toned glory.
When the sheep farmer likens his wife's body to "the thin run of a creek in the bed, a low creek that puts out the small noises of a comfort it can't deliver," we know the drought has extended from the parched fields to his own bedroom.
Often found as creams but also more recently in gel form like the pretty translucent pink of the Peter Thomas Roth Rose Stem Cell Bio-Repair Mask ($52 at Peter Thomas Roth), hydrating masks are generally straightforward: They offer a boost of moisture for parched skin.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two rapidly growing wildfires burning a few miles apart through drought-parched foothills northeast of Los Angeles prompted the evacuation of nearly 230 homes on Tuesday, as a heat wave continued to bake much of the U.S. Southwest for a third straight day.
The largest and most threatening blaze, a 230-day-old conflagration dubbed the 22018 Fire, has scorched more than 2003,2200 acres (2150,2400 hectares) of drought-parched grass, brush and timber at the edge of the San Juan National Forest near the southwestern Colorado town of Durango.
Believe me, I recognize the irony: There I was, driving through a parched landscape with a full tank of gas, on a pilgrimage to do nothing more than watch a flower bloom, while the hot winds from the 18-wheelers shook my whole car as they passed.
The Camp Fire, which, in addition to its death toll, destroyed more than 10,000 homes and businesses, began on a day of low humidity, strong winds and lingering drought, with soils and plants in some areas parched by more than 200 days with no significant precipitation.
LATUR, India (Reuters) - Haribhau Kamble, an unemployed laborer in India's richest state of Maharashtra, is forced to queue for hours in scorching heat to fetch water even as the government puts on trains to ship water to the region parched by back-to-back drought years.
Fires are still burning south and west of New South Wales, and to many, the recent rain near Sydney felt as biblical as the infernos the storms put out — some areas got more than two feet, flooding rivers and parched earth hardened by years of drought.
From that seat he was an advocate for food stamps, drought relief for parched farms, expanded markets for American products in Mexico promoted by the North American Free Trade Agreement, and price supports for homegrown commodities like sugar, cotton, mohair, honey and even Lone Star State wine.
Rolling the dice, I booked tickets on the train, found a promising family-style pension, the Hotel de l'Europe, in the nearby town of Le Monêtier-les-Bains — and immediately started worrying about the lack of snow, anxiously watching as webcams revealed a brownish, parched landscape.
Much of the heavy rainfall in recent weeks has soaked into the landscape left parched by four years of drought, and the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada has grown but hasn't started to melt off and replenish the critically low reservoirs, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation spokesman Shane Hunt said.
Though this particular fire (147 acres and well-contained), is quite small compared to the expansive Camp and Woolsey fires, it shows how persistent 50 mph gusts can whip fire over the land — land that has been parched by a confluence of dry winds and a long, scorching summer.
Sure, the makers of "The Colorado," a new eco-documentary, could have gone the easy route and used Barber's Adagio for Strings as the soundtrack for its elegiac shots of parched landscapes punished by drought and insufficiently fed by what they charge is an "overused, over-promised" Colorado River.
They came after a winter in which El Niño storms fell short of what meteorologists projected — particularly in the southern part of the state — but still partly filled parched reservoirs in Northern California and, more critically, partly replenished the mountain snowpacks that provide water into the spring and summer.
It is an alternately wrenching and exhilarating yarn of a childhood spent shuttling with her willfully shiftless parents from one parched Southwestern locale to another, and finally, when the family's resources dry out, settling in Welch, the dilapidated West Virginia mining town that was her father's childhood home.
In Mauritania — a vast, parched nation of about 4.5 million people at the western end of the Sahara that straddles the divide between largely Arab North Africa and black West Africa — playing host to this year's exercise underscored its commitment to combat Al Qaeda, diplomats and commanders said.
Cloud, "the biggest electronic retail and cloud computing company in the world," has taken over the American economy and climate change has rendered vast parts of the world unlivable; the Cloud campus ("MotherCloud"), where much of the novel's action takes place, sits amid ghost towns and blazing, parched heat.
It's hard to forget Catherine's parched Dust Bowl farm, where even the morning toast and eggs are coated with grit, and fans of futuristic fiction will be drawn to Anderson's vision of flooded cities, space travel and inventions like the KitchenLite, used to print edible eggs and bacon.
"Shops are out of fans, ice, sun cream, ice cream, and there's a water shortage that has left our beautiful, lush parks all parched and yellow," said Lucy Thornton, 36, an interior designer, as she walked into a west London cafe on Friday in search of cold water.
In fact, the pair get on so famously that they've very generously put together this ten-tone-heavy mix of fractured industrial, parched dub, and deep-space grime, and if you find something to enjoy within it's dark, dingy, and dank hour running time, then you're probably reading the wrong website.
Dealing with growing water security threats, however, has been difficult in a country financially devastated by years of war and by low oil prices, which have cut one of its main sources of income, said Janabi, who oversaw the restoration of Iraq's parched southern marshlands, now a World Heritage listed site.
With solar panels on every roof and a storage system in every garage, California would still be built in a state prone to long cyclical droughts, with power lines connecting its many dispersed and sprawling communities, strung across parched hilly landscapes that have burned at least since people have lived here.
If you find your skin is super parched from your busy holiday schedule, remember to pack a skin-care kit like Clinique's Great Skin Home and Away Set when you travel; and if you're planning on staying out way past your bedtime, don't even dream of skipping your cleansing ritual.
Debra Jaliman, MD, a New York-based dermatologist and author of Skin Rules, points to two popular actives that can bolster skin under normal conditions — but prove disastrous for particularly parched skin around the eyes: "Retinol can definitely worsen peeling and can even cause redness around the eyes," she says.
This past summer, as Austrian glaciers melted and Swedish forests burned, the Swiss Air Force, which exists to protect a nation that hasn't fought a war in five hundred years, was tasked with supplying tens of thousands of gallons of water to herds of parched cows stranded in Alpine pastures.
Be honest: How many times have you caught yourself wistfully staring into the stratosphere, dreaming of a future in which you are somehow able to put your parched lips to a wispy nimbostratus cloud and fill your belly with its sweet nectar, as if it were some sort of atmospheric teat?
At least 2000 people have been confirmed dead in the Camp Fire, which erupted a week ago in the drought-parched Sierra foothills 257 miles (2000 km) north of San Francisco and now ranks as one of the most lethal single U.S. wildfires since the turn of the last century.
The US Forest Service released a video Monday showing the exact moment when Border Patrol agent Dennis Dickey and his wife found out the gender of their baby and simultaneously started a large wildfire that tore through Arizona's parched grasslands, forcing residents from their homes and costing the state millions of dollars.
About 103 miles (400 km) to the southeast, the 1,110 residents of Cimarron, New Mexico, were allowed back into their homes after showers on Sunday helped quell part of a separate blaze, the Ute Park Fire, which has burned 36,664 acres (14,837 hectares) of drought-parched grassland and timber since erupting on Thursday.
SOC TRANG, Vietnam — When the rice shoots began to wither on Lam Thi Loi's farm in the heart of the Mekong Delta, a usually verdant region of Vietnam, she faced a hard choice: Let them die in the parched earth, or pump salty water from the river to give them a chance.
Residents of the neighboring area in the Bronx, among them cricket players from a wide range of countries, are upset that the park adjacent to the golf course, known as Ferry Point West, remains a wreck of parched grass, filth and trash-filled parking spaces while the Trump facility next to it glistens.
From drinking water contamination, to water scarcity that has parched much of California's farmland, to ports and waterways that can no longer accommodate commerce, the water crisis is one of the most critical issues facing the U.S. As Flint shows, the crisis raises moral questions, but there are major economic costs as well.
At least 303 people have been confirmed dead so far in the Camp Fire, which erupted a week ago in the drought-parched Sierra foothills 230 miles (216 km) north of San Francisco and now ranks as one of the most lethal single U.S. wildfires since the turn of the last century.
And that hulking, now-empty coffee plant is a hopefully temporary reminder of Second Ward's one time-importance in international trade: this was where the trains dropped off the beans the ships had brought in from Colombia and the Mexican highlands, there to be parched and roasted and delivered to a grocery store near you.
That's the case even as thousands of farmers migrate out of parched rural areas or commit suicide as their crops wilt, he said.. Water scarcity is expected to force 50 to 70 million people in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and China from their homes by 2050, according to research by the Strategic Foresight Group in Mumbai.
The forecast for abundant, timely rains across the parched Southern Plains over the next several days has maintained pressure on wheat futures in addition to the markets' memory of the harvest one year ago, during which outstanding yields all but negated the fact that total wheat acres in 2016 were the fourth-lowest since at least 1919.
His dried earth artworks are reminiscent of parched deserts, forgotten lava, and scorched dirt, yet they contain a colorful magic to them that alludes to opportunities for spiritual transcendence, like the oasis in the desert or the cave-covered cenote; a magic that happens only by spending time surveying the works and letting your thoughts go on an adventure.
Here's a show in which Kyle MacLachlan gets to apply his parched comedic skills to, at last count, three different iterations of Dale Cooper; in which an akimbo-limbed tree speaks via a fleshy, bobbing brain-maw-thingee; and in which Michael Cera lisps his way through an impression of a Wild One-era Marlon Brando.
" She describes the miraculous ability of a cactus to sit, under a blazing desert sun, waiting years for rain: It sheds "its roots to prevent the parched soil from sucking all the water back out of it," then begins to contract, until its spines "form a dense and dangerous fur protecting what is now a hard, rootless ball of plant.
So LeBron's sprinting out of the Air Canada Centre in an endless happiness tunnel, and he's trying to get at his locker room celebration, when all of a sudden some parched-ass motherfucker—we're talking Sub Sahara in July, no camel—who was talking shit to you all game from courtside wants to get dap just because he wants to give appearances of being cool?
Dorothy gave me a lot of vocabulary, but the words that stuck were those she used conversationally, in direct address, like the time I arrived panting and she asked, "Διψάς;" ( Dipsás ?) I knew that a dipsomaniac was someone with an insatiable thirst, but to hear Dorothy use the verb διψάω in the second-person singular present tense and match it with my parched throat felt like a revelation.
It means the worlds in Phantom, unlike those in the FX-cluttered and endlessly greenscreened Episodes II and III, hold up remarkably well: Naboo a verdant future Venice, its palaces inhabited by a luxuriously attired aristocracy; the Gungans' underwater world, a hive of enormous illuminated baubles and Vernean subs; Tatooine, a parched crook's paradise that's home to Phantom's podracing sequence, one of the few simple set-piece pleasures of the prequel trilogy; and Coruscant, a bustling, planet-size metropolis that's the shining capital of the universe.

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