Sentences with word «arid»

In the wild, Robos live in small family colonies in arid regions in Mongolia and Northern China.

Did we mention Moringa trees thrive in arid climates with little water and restore essential nutrients back to the soil to help other crops around them grow better, mitigating risk to farmers?

The truck breaks down in the middle of arid land and the crew members desert the vehicle, leaving the passengers stranded.

What I love about travelling in South Africa are the limitless options — from arid desert landscapes to lush forests and pristine, rugged coastlines.

In Iraq, war and ongoing political instability have magnified the problems besieging marshes worldwide, particularly in arid landscapes: pollution and too many demands on the water that sustains them.

The millions who raise livestock in more arid areas of Africa are particularly vulnerable to extreme weather, as the current drought affecting Somalia and Kenya demonstrates.

All but 18 states have some utility - scale solar PV capacity, but only three states (California, Arizona, and Nevada) have utility - scale solar thermal resources, as these systems often require large, contiguous tracts of land in arid environments.

The next installment will signal our departure from the Heartland as Aloy and I journey into the more arid desert region of the game.

Warmer temperatures evaporate critically important snowpack, convert snow to rain, and dry out soils, which increases the frequency and severity of arid conditions in California.

While Jibrell focuses on arid zones, she has not overlooked the importance of the marine environment.

The results indicate that salmons were neither part of the diet of cave bears (they were purely vegetarian, like their European counterparts) or cave lions (they were predators of herbivores from arid areas).

Mid adult couple riding motorcycle on arid plain, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy.

Any man who wanders in a scant span of 15 miles from rain forest into arid plains of cactus and algarroba and sees snow crests standing over tropic water naturally comes to wonder about the excitements of this varied land.

The 100th meridian west (solid line) has long been considered the divide between the relatively moist eastern United States and the more arid West.

With arid landscape and traditional architecture, Folegandros offers a relaxing environment for summer holidays.

Its spread along the eastern border over the past couple decades has turned lush pastoral grazing lands into arid desert, forcing these nomads to seek land elsewhere.

The Empty Quarter is also one of the most arid climates with no safe water sources present, making the challenge all the more difficult for both the driver and the vehicle.

«Using treated graywater for irrigation is better for arid environments.»

As Wired points out, «The researchers also found that so - called biological soil crusts, a little - studied layer of lichen and bacteria found in arid western regions, play a surprisingly large role in preventing erosion.

Don't let their fur fool you; a dog's skin can be affected by external factors, such as arid climates, dry heat, cool or snowy weather, chafing winds or even excess swimming.

But the southern Negev is the most arid place where both species are known to occur.

Here the Ponderosa Pine forest transitions into the high desert, characterized by arid land, junipers, sagebrush, and bitter - brush.

The wind blows over arid environments creating a fresh canvas at the light break of the sun.

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A changing climate seems to be intensifying the long - standing cycle of drought and flood — a state of affairs that could magnify the gap between the continent's soggy coasts and arid interior in the future.

***** Climate change could transform gardens (RHS 2017 report) Artificial lawns, plants from arid countries and flower beds designed to cope with floods are among future features of UK gardens outlined in a major new report.

During the last ice age (which peaked about 21,000 years ago), he suggested, most of the forest became arid grassland.

Large rivers in which upstream dam activity has led to water shortages downstream include the Yellow River in arid northern China; the Ganges, where upstream activity in India has damaged livelihoods in downstream Bangladesh; the Euphrates, where Turkish dams cause shortages in Iraq; and the Colorado river, where US abstractions leave little water for Mexico.

The ecosystems of tropical forests possess an enormously complex biodiversity which is almost impossible to appreciate fully, yet when these forests are burned down or levelled for purposes of cultivation, within the space of a few years countless species are lost and the areas frequently become arid wastelands.

It nests in loose scattered colonies on arid islands, typically in small crevices and caves and under dense bushes.

Albuquerque cleaning services may bring to mind visions of dusting from the hot air and other arid conditions that exist in New Mexico.

The colonial town of York, set in the lush Avon Valley, tiny wheatlands townships and other strange rocks protruding from arid soil show the real Australia, ever waiting for life giving rains.

The United States could see a 10 - degree temperature rise by the end of the century and a more arid south and west, Overpeck said.

This plant is native to hot arid areas of the U.S. including southern California and Arizona, as well as some parts of Northern Mexico.

Arid Recovery is a conservation project in remote South Australia dedicated to innovation in the protection of endangered species.

According to the study, the salt content would have increased during more arid periods, when the parched Dead Sea was drying up and its depth was decreasing.

• Kibwezi Green Crescent was formed some years ago by small scale farmers in a semi arid region of the lower eastern province in Kenya with a common goal to make poverty an history by concentrating on the innovation and application of

The state's normal strategy for water management calls for keeping the reservoirs low in winter, to provide protection against floods, and keeping them as high as possible in summer, to ensure an adequate supply for the giant farming operations in the Central Valley (one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world) and for arid southern California.

In this study paleontologists have been able to infer that the centre of the Iberian Peninsula witnessed a very arid tropical climate with a high precipitation seasonality.

Indeed, it is surrounded by low, arid hills with no view of the wonderfully blue Caribbean Sea.

The team excavated 10,000 stone tools over three years from what is now a desert in the northwest of Jordan, but was once a wetland that became increasingly arid habitat 250,000 years ago.

The crater is in such pristine condition because it is geologically young (current estimates put the age at less than 5000 years) and because it escaped significant weathering, as it formed when extremely arid conditions were already prevalent in this remote part of Egypt.

Home to some of Australia's most spectacular and arid mountain landscapes, Arkaroola has something for everyone.

Franziska Lantz: Expanding Arid Zones at Rodeo hosting Supportico Lopez My favourite exhibition from the international project Condo involves found objects from the Thames suspended from the ceiling.

The title's selection of nine campaign missions bring a nice variety of environmental complications, from arid terrains unsuitable for food production to more monstrous types of adversity.

Recently published paleoclimate data show that conditions in the Near East became more arid during the latter half of the 7th century BC.

But if you remain within the framework of critical thinking decade after decade after decade, and you can stay in it your whole life, it becomes a very arid place in which to live when it's wedded to the framework of modernity, and it becomes a desolate place, T.S. Eliot's wasteland.