Sentences with phrase «arid place»

It is a hot and arid place dotted with cactus and spiny plants of great variety.

The couple's fragile love somehow blooms in this arid place, and for the moment, it seems enough.

The Al Wusta site in Saudi Arabia's Nefud Desert is a dry, arid place today, but it sat on the lush banks of a lake 88,000 years ago.

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

Way back when, Niger was an arid place (like some of it is today) where plants and water sources might well have been few and far between.

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.

The polar regions are the coldest, windiest, and most arid places on Earth.

Shortly afterward, the Neandertals were mostly gone and people like us were the only hominid species left on earth, even spreading into cold, arid places where the Neandertals never lived.

By mapping a key indicator of droughts, pests and wildfire in arid places, scientists offer hope for spotting — and addressing — drought before it sets in.

Before modern infrastructure or European settlers only a few thousand people could survive in these arid places.

Not exact matches

Perhaps carefully placed wind farms could boost rainfall in arid regions, for instance.

That's a growing problem, because in many places, finding water for energy isn't easy - and it's bound to get tougher as energy demands soar and climate change alters hydrological cycles in already arid regions.

The combination of arid land, temperature and sunlight makes places such as California and southern Italy a paradise for growing wine grapes — at least for now.

I always take inspiration from the place I am going to when choosing the palette, and in this case was inspired by the water and the arid landscape.

We're put in an optimum mood for the macabre, even if this depressing city is awfully rainy for a place so close to an arid desert.

Fury Road takes place in an arid, apocalyptic wasteland, where the big bad Immortan Joe keeps people in line using his vile brand of tyranny, until Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) helps Joe's five wives escape.

Global - scale distribution of cold and high altitude environments (polar, glacial areas, periglacial areas, high mountains in non-polar places) and hot arid environments (hot deserts and semi-arid areas)

I'm not saying feral cat predation in the arid areas of Australia isn't a major threat to specific species in specific places.

The landscape changes fast: arid plains with now and then trees and cows by watering places.

This is one of the last places on earth that black rhino roam free, and it's the only home of the desert elephant, and 25 % of the world's cheetah stalk the arid plains.

Peanut - shaped, with a brackish seawater lake towards its western coast, this arid island is ringed by a good selection of places to stay and is the most affordable of the three islands.

You can hike through the arid landscape of a volcanic crater or visit the wettest place on earth.

Horizon takes place in a world that transitions suddenly, jarringly, between geographic extremes: arid deserts, lush jungles, snowy mountains.

Missions take place in ten different environments, with settings that range from a jungle planet thick with strange vegetation and dangerous creatures to an arid desert world spotted with the ancient ruins of forgotten civilizations.

It's a long and mesmeric film, and at times it seems as if the motorcyclist is staying in one place while the arid hinterlands roll past on a backdrop.

It comprises 51 human figures in patinated metal placed 750 metres apart across arid Lake Ballard.

The hottest places on Earth — arid tropical deserts — have the thinnest blanket of so called GHG (H2O).

The hottest places on Earth near sea level are arid tropical deserts, distinguished by a lack of the supposedly most important GHG, H2O.

There are a lot of large antelope species that live in such places, and until you learn how to gather grains and bake bread, humans in arid lands likely thrived by being able to eat meat on the hoof.

Epstein points out that humanity owes its current ability to survive harsh winters, arid deserts and other naturally dangerous environments to the same fuels activists now condemn: «We have the luxury of being able to absorb a certain amount of climate - related damage so we can live in all of these cool places.»

I stepped into the highlands of Namibia and saw the desertification of the place, the arid environment reminding man of the loss of water in places once considered the source of water, and a looming submerging of the coastal areas in the event of a large scale heating of the outer planet leading to the accelerated melting of the ice caps.

You should also have a look at the work of Geoff Lawton on greening the desert http://goo.gl/68Yc or how China transformed a desolate arid valley the size of Belgium into a lush fertile food producing place http://goo.gl/qEAr

«Places like the U.S. Southwest — or the Mediterranean, or the mountains of Mexico — that are fairly arid and already warm, if you increase temperature in any of these places, then you really change the atmospheric conditions in a major way,» WilliamsPlaces like the U.S. Southwest — or the Mediterranean, or the mountains of Mexico — that are fairly arid and already warm, if you increase temperature in any of these places, then you really change the atmospheric conditions in a major way,» Williamsplaces, then you really change the atmospheric conditions in a major way,» Williams says.

After a twirl of the ocean pool, we headed to DD's place, where I cooked him a Penang chicken curry for dinner before donning my specs for the dark drive home to my arid piece of suburbia.