Sentences with phrase «arid northern»

Lake Turkana is the largest desert lake in the world: It sits in arid northern Kenya and is part of a water system that communities in Kenya, Ethiopia, and South Sudan depend on for survival.

Situated in the town of Dambulla, 150 km east of Colombo and located in the arid Northern Plains, these caves form the best preserved and biggest cave temple complex in Asia.

Located high up in the remote town of Upington in South Africa's arid Northern Cape, near the banks of the Orange River is the Upington Golf Course.

Accommodation in Hartswater Hartswater is one of two main towns in the Vaalharts Valley; an oasis on the edge of the arid Northern Cape border with North West.

Hartswater is one of two main towns in the Vaalharts Valley; an oasis on the edge of the arid Northern Cape border with North West.

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.

Before the Spaniards arrived, inhabitants of the arid northern Peruvian coast clad massive sand dune — like ridges with an accidental form of «armor»: millions of discarded mollusk shells, which protected the ridges from erosion for nearly 4700 years and produced a vast corrugated landscape that «is visible from space,» says archaeologist Dan Sandweiss of the University of Maine, Orono, one of the paper's authors.

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The northern sub-species, for its part, is likely to encounter more extreme arid conditions that could shrink its overall distribution area during remissions.

Natural dust is the main source of PM10 in the Middle - East and Northern African countries, likely due to their vicinity to arid areas.

Today, camels inhabit arid regions stretching from northern Africa to the interior of Asia.

ONE of the grandest ground - based astronomy projects of the coming decade is taking shape in the arid desert of northern Chile.

The region known as the Lower Pecos is an arid 21,000 - square - mile expanse of southwest Texas and northern Mexico surrounding the confluence of the Pecos River and the Rio Grande.

Arid land communities like those in northern Nevada get essentially almost no rain.

Scimitar - horned oryx once lived in the arid plains and deserts of northern African countries of Egypt, Senegal and Chad.

As evening blankets Cerro Pachon, a remote and arid peak in northern Chile, a giant eye begins its vigil.

Allred et al. (2013) suggest that native grazers may be better suited in the northern Great Plains than domestic cattle, citing different grazing behaviors in arid conditions.

Although many parts of west Africa are experiencing increased rainfall as a result of global warming, in northern Ghana, which is mostly arid savanna, it's diminishing or becoming unpredictable.

The slowly rotating version of Earth has climate zones very different from actual Earth — the Sahara desert has turned into a rain forest, and the northern U.S. and Canada have become more arid like Los Angeles.

The ability to identify and access sustainable sources of water from deep underground will be critical for developing northern Australia and other arid regions of the country.

From the lush grasslands of Western Europe to the arid deserts of Northern Africa, from the first Crusade to the fall of Constantinople, expand your influence and secure your reign as you build a dynastic empire to stretch across four centuries.

I've lived my entire 60 years in Idaho, first in the more arid southern part of the state, then in verdant Northern Idaho where we live now on our Almost Heaven Ranch.

They originated in the arid steppes of northern China and Mongolia, though some people believe they came from the Siberian regions of Asia.

John Woinarksi: Australian mammals did suffer a wave of extinctions initially in semi-arid then arid Australia leading up to about the 1960s, and we thought that might be the end of the problem but in fact over the last two to three decades in northern Australia, the same sorts of species that went extinct elsewhere in Australia seem to be disappearing rapidly from that northern Australian landscape as well.

You can expect hot dry summers nationwide from April to October, but northern and coastal areas typically have cool, rainy winters in comparison to the arid climate inland in the south and east.

Overlooking the Nyiro River, this purpose built lodge is in the heart of Samburu National Park, in the hot and arid fringes of Kenya's vast Northern Frontier District.

The terrain varies dramatically, stretching downward from the green and lush northern parts to the southern arid desert.

These arid periods showed a clear pattern in the relationship; in the millenia - long California dry period from 6,000 to 1,000 B.C. there was a slight shift in the planet's orbit contributing to the increased amount of solar energy directed to the Northern Hemisphere.

Mohamed, Issam A.W. (2010): The economic and environmental factors of water in arid regions: Study of the rural water use in Northern Darfur Region, Sudan.

It is expected that elevated temperatures will benefit agriculture in the northern latitudes, while large parts of the arid and semi-arid tropics will face declining rainfall and runoff.

This smaller decline is driven mainly by patterns in arid regions (e.g., northern Africa, Australia, and the Middle East), where losses in suitable plant growing days due to higher temperatures are reduced because those locations are already limited by water availability (compare yellow - and white - colored areas in Fig 2A and 2D).

So, go all around the globe, northern and southern hemisphere, and erase 2 - 4 degrees latitude of agriculturally productive regions per degree C of warming, where they are poleward of any arid regions centered around 30 degrees north or south.

During the last century, mean precipitation in all four seasons of the year has tended to decrease in all the main arid and semi-arid regions of the world, e.g., northern Chile and the Brazilian North - East, West Africa and Ethiopia, the drier parts of Southern Africa and Western China (Folland et al., 2001).