Sentences with phrase «as the desert area»

A broader definition of East County exists that includes the Cuyamaca Mountains, Laguna Mountains, and Palomar Mountain, as well as the desert area of Anza - Borrego State Park.

Areas with the most greenhouse gases (tropics) have maximum temperatures that are no where near as high as some desert areas with the lowest amount of GHEs (yeah, yeah, it's the water evaporation and clouds; but that is precisely the point on Earth).

Not exact matches

Some scholars believe that South Arabian merchants involved in the incense trade used camels to transport their goods northward through the desert, heading to such areas as Egypt and Syria and thereby introducing camels to these areas.

Bonton is one of dozens of areas around Dallas classified by the FDA as «food deserts.»

Moses as well was Egyptian and on the exudes him and his people were turned to wander the deserts... those all from the area are descendants of those that were moving for centuries between reigns surrounding the area and they have every right for the holy land as any one else... Just remember that the ottoman army & leaders were all brought on their childhood from East Europian countries and then they got them educated and trained to lead the empire interests... So the people whom you call wanderers are decedents of such as those and Arabs of the Arabian Penisuler whom are known to trade between areas in what is called the Summer and Winter trade movement...

The area of grassland has shrunk since the mid-seventies, as overgrazing converts it into desert.

We know from evidence gathered all over the productive lands around the fast Arabian desert (long ago the historian J. H. Breasted designated this area as the Fertile Crescent) of a widespread eruption of desert peoples, Semitic nomads, into the more sedentary areas.

«Food deserts are defined as parts of the country vapid of fresh fruit, vegetables and other healthful whole foods, usually found in impoverished areas,» the USDA says.

To help address the issue of getting healthy, local food in food deserts, Metropolis Farms will operate two buses year - round as food trucks that offer prepared meals in those areas.

While serving on the faculty at Arizona State and establishing a horticulture teaching program, one of my Afghan students with whom I had become friendly suggested I consider working in his country, as it too was a desert area.

«We started out as a small café in an old neighborhood on Route 66 in Albuquerque, feeling that the area needed a low key place focused on coffee, desert and light food,» CEO Jean Bernstein says.

If you are in a hot location such as the southwestern desert area of the US, you should choose 2nd day air or overnight to be sure your order arrives frozen.

It is no doubt appropriate that, since the golf cart has been slowly coming into its own — and even creeping inexorably into the hardier climates of the North — it should attain full flower in Palm Springs, that burgeoning California desert resort area that refers to itself as The Winter Golf Capital of the World.

In her piece on the initiative, Nestle greets the news about Walmart's product changes with the same skepticism as other commenters, and wonders whether the «food desert» issue is just a way for Walmart to shoehorn new stores into areas where they've been unwanted in the past.

I say «most everyone» because, unfortunately, millions of Americans live in what are known as «food deserts» (vast areas in low - income neighborhoods that are absolutely saturated with fast food chains and severely lack access to fresh produce and basic healthful foods).

Because HUMAN Healthy Vending co-founders Sean Kelly and Andy Mackensen know that there is a link between low access to nutritious foods and childhood obesity, they are on a mission to place these machines in areas where people need access to healthful meals the most, including in areas designated as food deserts.

According to Michelle Obama's Let's Move campaign, there are 23.5 million Americans — including 6.5 million children — who live in rural and urban areas across the country who lack access to convenient and affordable nutritious foods known as «food deserts.»

The Chairman of Agaka Traders Association, Alhaji AbdulRahman Mohamned said the violence has paralysed business activities as most shop owners have deserted the area.

The area being developed has been described as a «food desert» for decades and the grocery store is meant to give people access to healthy and affordable fresh food.

Mike served around the world: the DMZ in Korea, defending the German border in the Cold War, commanding an infantry company in Desert Storm with the 1st Armored Division, serving as a European foreign area officer, earning two masters degrees from Indiana University, teaching at West Point and the Command and General Staff College, leading logistics units in Hawaii, and commanding two training battalions after the attacks of 9/11.

«As I speak with you, the affected villages have been deserted and the invaders have taken over and are razing the ancestral homes of the people who have fled from the areas to other towns in their thousands, for fear of being killed.

A resident of the area, who gave his name as Malam Umar Sani, said many people have deserted their homes at the moment.

Elsewhere many smaller ice sheets and glaciers grew, vast areas turned into tundra and deserts expanded as the planet became drier.

Unlike this one, significant fossil sites tend to be found in exotic locales such as the searing hot Gobi Desert or the windswept pampas of Patagonia, areas remote from the kind of urban development that can ruin them.

«Representation,» for example, is one large - scale strategy, focused on preserving representative areas of every identifiable ecosystem, such as savannah, tropical moist forest, tundra, desert, coral reef.

It is also clear that ecological tipping points can be crossed if we push this process too far, with potentially irreversible consequences as overgrazed grassland tips into desert, or as degraded tropical forest dries out and burns over vast areas of Indonesia and Brazil.

In areas that resemble Mars, look for the telltale signs of the Mars Society, a non-profit group that encourages research into exploration of the Red Planet and has built Mars Desert Research Stations in Australia, Iceland, the Canadian Arctic, as well as this one, near Hanksville, Utah.

These areas generate 100 times as much dust as desert covered with vegetation.

But in dry areas — his is the driest non-polar desert in the world — the difference can be extensive, as it is in this case.

Swirling columns of sand and dust, known as dust devils, are a feature of desert areas on Mars and on Earth.

In its creation of the monument late last year, the Obama administration pointed to concern over vandalism in the area, much of which had previously been designated as areas of critical environmental concern for the desert tortoise and bighorn sheep.

Increasingly, bank branches are headquartered in distant urban areas — and in some cases, financial «deserts» exist in towns with few or no traditional financial institutions such as banks and credit unions.

and towns or aid exploration in remote areas, such as Egypt's Western Desert, which might link the archaeology of the African continent together more coherently from the Paleolithic to the pharaonic past.

«If they move another two to three degrees poleward in this century, very dry areas such as the Sahara Desert could nudge farther toward the pole, perhaps by a few hundred miles.»

To prove his point, Hillenius did an experiment on five types of mammal — rats, squirrels, ferrets, rabbits, and opossums — that are native to the area around Oregon State University, where he was earning his Ph.D. (Western Oregon, he notes, is about as far from desert conditions as a mammal can get.)

But as the water dried up and the area turned to desert, the pupfish became isolated in a smattering of springs.

Kevin F. Sloan Washington, D.C. Kevin Sloan works as a systems engineer in the Washington, D.C. area and serves as Director of the Mars Society's University Rover Challenge, held annually at the Mars Desert Research Station in southern Utah.

The Atacama Desert is considered as one of the driest areas in the world with the annual rainfall below 100 mm.For travelling from Japan, it takes 40 hours to get to the ALMA site in Chile including connection time.

Melons are typically found in desert climates, acting as organic water vessels for the oft - parched areas and, as such, are some of the most water - dense produce around.

After the truck in which he's riding breaks down, Moises and his crew have to cross a desolate area of the Sonoran Desert known as The Badlands.

if anyone remembers the area in TP when you go into a hole in gerudo desert and fight monsters on different levels and it kept getting harder as you went down until you reach the bottom and got fairy tears.

These places are large maps made up of several smaller interconnected areas, and cover a variety of terrain types such as snowy mountains, volcanoes, deserts, and jungles.

I love the different areas that you explore with some being quite lush and green, whereas others such as the ruins that you explore are darker and more mysterious or Spartan like the deserts.

Places known as food deserts are an immediate cause of unhealthy living, and the danger only increases in areas where most families incomes are low.

An interactive map shows the charter deserts in each area of the country, as well as pinpoints for where charter elementary schools are located.

By merely overlaying the map of Opportunity Zones onto Fordham's Charter Desert map, you find areas that are both Charter Deserts and Opportunity Zones (represented as the areas shaded in blue in the map below).

A charter school desert is defined in the report as an area with three or more contiguous census tracts with moderate or high poverty and no charter elementary schools as of the 2014 - 15 school year.

Other regions are seeing significant growth as well, including the Palm Desert area.

But as we transitioned from the lakebed's smooth, almost pavement - like texture, the squishy cadence withered away in the desert heat as we made our way onto the OHV area's rocky and rolly terrain.

Stylistically, Toyota has thrown out their old color options save Black, and offers this year's vehicle in Natural White, River Rock Green Metallic, Champagne Pearl, Mahogany Pearl, Desert Bronze, Imperial Jade Mica and Atlantis Blue Mica.It seems the newest version of the Land Cruiser is expanding its reputation as a luxury sport - utility vehicle in all areas, and this year, it's got the power to prove it.