Sentences with phrase «across sahara»

I'll drive my snowmobile clear across the Sahara Desert in the Great Race before CREA hires me for anything, except as target practice for their hit person.

Rock art across the Sahara abounds with vanished game.

The last time so much greenhouse gas was in the air was several million years ago, when the Arctic was ice - free, savannah spread across the Sahara desert [continue reading...]

Damian Carrington at The Guardian notes that «the last time so much greenhouse gas was in the air was several million years ago, when the Arctic was ice - free, savannah spread across the Sahara desert and sea level was up to 40 metres higher than today.»

The disease tends to move around the world when birds migrate in the fall out of Siberia, Mongolia, North China and head for warmer climes — southern China, Southeast Asia, but also westward toward the Middle East and western Europe and for some birds, garganey ducks, for example, as far as Egypt and even across the Sahara into west Africa, the Niger delta, etc..

From motorcycle tours across the Sahara Desert, cage diving with great white sharks in South Africa, free falling down the swing in the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban, or sand boarding down Swakopmund's large sand dunes, Africa is a one stop shop for anything adventurous.

Do you want to trek across the Sahara desert, or spend time in the Amazonian jungles?

One of the only ways across the Sahara, the Toyota Land Cruiser is 52 years on the road.

«Whether it be a weekend warrior looking to go camping in the mountains or a non-profit group looking to send doctors across the Sahara desert, we build the vehicle to order,» Bollens said.

The Darien Gap success was followed in 1974 by the successful completion of an epic 7,500 - mile trek across the Sahara Desert in 100 days.

The original Paris - Dakar was basically a race across the Sahara, and although the route varied year - by - year, it usually ended in the Senegalese capital and so became known simply as «the Dakar».

08, ran 155 miles across the Sahara Desert to benefit the Gardner Pilot Academy in Boston, the school at which she teaches.

Andy Pag and John Grimshaw set off from Poole Harbour to start their 4500 mile, 3 week expedition across the Sahara to Timbuktu.

Other highlights in this section include: Pablo Larraín's THE CLUB, a mordant morality tale set in a sleepy Chilean coastal town, which won Berlin's Grand Jury Prize; CHRONIC, Michel Franco's uncompromising study of grief and isolation, featuring a revelatory performance by Tim Roth; brothers Tarzan and Arab Nasser's feature directorial debut, DÉGRADÉ, a smart drama that moves seamlessly between humour and despair, set in a women's hair salon in Gaza; the European Premiere of George Amponsah's intimate documentary THE HARD STOP, revealing the story of Mark Duggan's friends and family following his death after being shot in a «Hard Stop» police procedure in 2011; Jonas Carpignano's engrossing feature debut, THE MEASURE OF A MAN which won Vincent Lindon Best Actor at Cannes Film Festival, MEDITERRANEA, an ultra-topical tale of two young African men from Burkina Faso who, in search of a better life, make the difficult and dangerous trip across the Sahara desert and Mediterranean Sea to reach Italy; the drama MUCH LOVED, Nabil Ayouch's searing, no - holds - barred look at the world of prostitution in Morocco; David Evans» thought - provoking documentary MY NAZI LEGACY, which raises the harrowing question, «What if your father was a Nazi?»

At sites across the Sahara, cattle images appear in rock art.

It's crispy as of course the salt has acted like a sandstorm across the sahara and ripped out the moisture, although i can imagine some ovens might screw with that.

Better proof could come with archaeological finds documenting a human migration across the Sahara, he says.

Three of the swifts returned the following summer, with data showing that they had remained airborne throughout the winter in West Africa and while migrating across the Sahara.

Painted lady butterflies» migration may take them across the Sahara.

The resulting turbulence creates atmospheric waves — some of which can stretch 1,500 miles — that race across the Sahara and over the Atlantic.

Three ancient river systems, now buried, may have created viable routes for human migration across the Sahara to the Mediterranean region about 100,000 years ago, according to research published September 11 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Tom Coulthard from the University of Hull, UK, and colleagues from other institutions.

Interacting with journalists on the sidelines of sitting of the ECOWAS Parliament Wednesday, the lawmaker said the unpleasant political situation in some African countries compels the youth to «opt to walk across the Sahara to Libya.»

Algeria said on Sunday it expected heavy hostage casualties after its troops ended a desert siege, but Western governments warned against criticizing tactics used by their vital ally in the struggle with Islamists across the Sahara.

Not exact matches

The G5 Sahel, whose members include Burkina Faso, Chad, Mauritania, Niger and Mali, has been tasked with fighting jihadists and transnational crime groups across a large swath of West Africa south of the Sahara desert.

The attention of the Nigeria Police Force has been drawn to an - online news credited to Sahara Reporters captioned «VILLA POLICE PROTEST UNPAID ALLOWANCES SINCE 2015» The Force wishes to categorically state that salaries and allowances of Police Personnel across ranks throughout Police Formations, Departments and detachments including those attached to the Presidential Villa are -LSB-...]

We have three numbers of twin flyovers that are built across the African Tran Sahara Road running from Enugu to Cameroon passing through Ebonyi state, so we have to build three twin flyovers to decongest traffic on that road, each of the twin flyovers is 700 - metre length.

«Basically, we were able to show that dust and biological aerosols that were lofted from deserts all the way across the world in the Sahara and Asia were airlifted all the way across the world to make ice crystals in clouds in the western United States,» Creamean said.

Durant, working with staff from the Office du Parc National de l'Ahaggar (OPNA), says the photographs were taken as part of the first systematic camera trap survey across the central Sahara, covering an area of 2,800 square kilometres.

In the Sahel, a semi-arid belt across West Africa south of the Sahara Desert, at least 100,000 people perished and millions of cattle died for want of pasture.

«It's exciting to think that 100,000 years ago there were three huge rivers forcing their way across a 1000 km of the Sahara desert to the Mediterranean — and that our ancestors could have walked alongside them» said Coulthard.

The Sahel region of Africa — a strip across the southern edge of the Sahara from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea — is a semi-arid landscape between the desert to the north and the savannah to the south.

Water molecules are hopping across the lunar surface, which is still about as parched as a mummy sunbathing in the Sahara

By comparing the genetic signatures, he will learn how similar plants growing across the U.S. southwest are to each other, and to populations in Sahara mustard's native range.

In recent years, water shortages have been most severe in the Sahel — a band of semi-arid land situated just south of the Sahara Desert and stretching coast - to - coast across the continent, from Senegal and Mauritania in the west to Sudan and Eritrea in the east.

Other climate records point to a sometimes - green Sahara around this time, and Osborne thinks that seasonal monsoons could have supported a patchwork of life - saving oases across the desert.

This is the first paper published that examines rainfall trends in the Sahara across a century.

Came across my newest fave Clay Crush 656 when I was purchasing a depleted Stormy Sahara 945.

Pastoralism gradually spread west across the southern Sahara, and then south... London.

Even the other extras, the behind - the - scenes doc, «Across the Sands of Sahara,» «Visualizing Sahara» (on the design), and «Cast and Crew Wrap Film,» showing how much everyone liked each other, find ways to get to it.

Of the latter, the most noteworthy was the very last car across the auction block, a 1961 2CV Sahara, one of fewer than 700 2CV built with a motor in the front and another in the back (a total of four air - cooled cylinders!).

In 1974, a Range Rover made it across the brutal landscape of the Sahara Desert.

From the Sahara Desert to Shanghai, the all - new Range Rover was tested in more than 20 countries, proving itself in some of the most beautiful and some of the most inhospitable locales across the globe.

Across the parking lot and all the way into the Sahara, it can do it all.

He and his crew were captured by wandering Arabs and turned into slaves, forced to care for the camels, sleep on the rock hard desert floor and live on practically nothing except camel's milk as the caravan made a nine - month trek across the burning Sahara.

Set out from our tented camp at sunset to ride a camel across the magnificent sculpted dunes of the Sahara.

We were working with the Government of Nigeria to complete the first phase of the federal «shelter belt» project, which involves creating a forestry barrier across the north of the country as a buffer to the encroachment of the Sahara desert.

«For several years now, scientists have had evidence that dust from storms across the vast expanse of the Sahara Desert drifts out over the Atlantic where it reflects some solar radiation back into space, thus cooling the ocean waters that fuel hurricanes.

Covering the uninhabited land of the Sahara with solar panels, for example, might provide 50 times the power used currently across the globe.

Longer - term studies suggest that temperatures could become dangerously high for southern Europe, in effect bringing the Sahara across the Mediterranean.

«ETOM» was produced in High Definition and taped in Beijing and Tianjin (China); São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, (Brazil); Marrakesh and the Sahara (Morocco); Seville (Spain); Copenhagen and Samsø (Denmark); Edinburgh (Scotland); the Algodones Dunes, near Yuma, Arizona, at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in Livermore, California; Roscoe, Texas; Baltimore, Maryland; Kodiak Island and Chena Hot Springs, Alaska; Portland, Oregon; Fort Worth, Texas and in communities across Kansas.