Sentences with phrase «desert air of»

The dry desert air of northwest China has exquisitely preserved over 100 mummies, ranging in age from 4,000 to 2,000 years old.

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And speaking of, there are also the unique nuances of Las Vegas to deal with: the vast distances between everything, the over-priced everything, the desert air that dries out your nose and lungs and virtually guarantees some sort of illness when combined with the giant plague of exhausted attendees.

His research is partly inspired by a type of beetle found in the Namib Desert in southwest Africa, which collects moisture from the seemingly dry air on its shell and drinks the condensed water as it rolls into its mouth.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

If the world continues to accept disappearing tree - cover, land degradation, the expansion of deserts, the loss of plant and animal species, air and water pollution, and the changing chemistry of the atmosphere it will also have to accept economic decline and social disintegration... such disintegration would bring human suffering on a scale that has no precedent...» 7

In the pure air of the desert, they were making a protest against the worldliness of the Jerusalem hierarchy.

In Isaiah 34 God ruins the glory of the nations, turning fertile places into deserts inhabited b a zoo of wild animals who fill the air with a cacophony of noise.

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.

The desert outside the facilities is cool and dry, and despite having a waiting area between the desiccating Vegas air and the gym, the wet warmth of that hallowed ground still hits like a brick to the face.

«I should have continued to coach,» Walsh says, his words hanging in the air of the country club's nearly deserted dining room.

Barreling across the desert straightaway, air horns no doubt at the ready, Miller and Lange's Liberty Belle broke just about every record for such behemoths: in seven runs they smashed various standing - start and flying - start marks at a quarter mile, a half kilometer, a full kilometer and a mile — 14 in all, each of which has been certified by the U.S. Auto Club as a national record.

A new device the size of a coffee mug can generate drinkable water from desert air using nothing but sunlight.

When he moved his laboratory from England to the University of Utah a decade ago, his entire louse collection perished in the dry desert air.

We don't hear too much about natural dust, the kind that the winds loft from deserts and dry lakebeds into the air and carries for hundreds of kilometers, crossing oceans and continents, but we should.

The paper presents «an interesting historical review of the issue of aerosols in the air and snow and in Arctic haze,» says snow hydrologist Joseph McConnell of the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada.

Other threats such as extreme weather, farms turned to desert and choking smog are all exacerbated by climate change that results from rising concentrations of carbon dioxide in the air.

In the final years of his nearly 30 - year career in the U.S. Air Force, Slim spent 10 to 12 hours a day in a cool, dark room in the Arizona desert, stationed in front of monitors that beamed back aerial footage from Afghanistan.

Continually exhaling this humid breath into the bone - dry air of the deserts they inhabit, kangaroo rats ought to become quickly dehydrated.

Rather I am standing alone upon the insane red Martian deserts (Martian in the utterly legitimate sense of Mars - like; you can look it up) of southern Utah, thumping periodically and in vain upon the Perspex porthole set into the outdoor air - lock door of a grubby white structure known as the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS).

A confluence of factors, including abundant sinking air and dry air, and possibly dust flowing out of North Africa's Sahara desert, kept a lid on hurricane formation in 2013, according to many cyclone experts.

They used a new analytical method perfected in collaboration with Joe McConnell at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada, to make extremely detailed measurements of the air trapped in the ice.

The telescope will be built at the Carnegie Institution for Science's Las Campanas Observatory in the dry, clear air of Chile's Atacama Desert, in a dome 22 stories high.

These storms result from the vertical circulation of water in the top layers, leaving large areas where air descends and becomes dry like the Sahara desert, and other areas where water rises to form the thunderstorms.

The dry air of the Atacama Desert and the flat land and high mountains offer the perfect place for building these giant telescopes.

After it rains, some of the rainwater evaporates back into the air, but much of it trickles down into the ground and stays there - even in the desert.

We know that warmer air holds more moisture than cold air, in fact, to the point where the Antarctic is one of the driest deserts on the planet.

On Mars, a similar process stripped away the water and most of the air, leaving behind a cold desert (presumably Mars» greater distance and lower gravity led to the very different end result).

Under its clouds, Venus is a desert with rolling hills formed from lava squashed under the extreme pressure of the thick, hot air above it.

AMARGOSA VALLEY — In the Nevada desert one mountain range removed from Death Valley, four divers strapped air tanks to their backs and slipped beneath the surface of a water - filled cavern for one of world's most exclusive scuba expeditions.

The story is what keeps us stuck in the dry Desert of Guilt with no water or air.

Then theres the unexpected: Though I never get carsick, on a recent trip a colleague drove maniacally through the back streets of a desert city on a really hot day (with no air conditioner), and I kicked myself for forgetting to carry my favorite nausea remedy.

The Cosmopolitan is one of the few hotels that bucks the trends; built originally as condominiums, most of the rooms feature balconies (many of which directly overlook the Bellagio's famous dancing fountain show), allowing cool, clean desert air to breeze through your room.

In just a few days, my feet go from silky smooth to dry and rough, thanks to the desert air and the friction of my sock-less feet on my flip - flops.

I just spent the weekend in the blazing heat of the desert for the festival craziness that is Coachella, and came back to early mornings in LA surprised to find that there is still a chill in the air!

My boyfriend and are staying in a cute little air stream smack dab in the middle of the desert.

Trying to make sense of life while driving, working, living and breathing in the desert air.

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About Blog I am a US Air Force combat veteran of Desert Shield / Desert Storm, childhood sexual abuse survivor, and full time college student who deals with PTSD.

There's a breath - stopping visit to a deserted ghost city of a planet, so evocative you can almost smell the sulfur in the air and feel the temperature drop when it comes on the screen.

He manages to charm Bob, his receptionist Dorothy and Bobs patients, who desert Bob in droves for the air conditioned splendor of Dr. Steinways office.

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Three newcomers hit the charts this month; Nicole Kidman in Queen of the Desert (although it's up in the air if her film will debut in 2014 or not), Jennifer Aniston in Cake and Hilary Swank in The Homesman.

And he has a permanent air of world - weary resignation that suggests the good roles have deserted him rather than vice versa.

The opening sequence has an impossibly large spacecraft, though not doing the exact same thing that the Millennium Falcon did in its first screen appearance, a scene in a cantina where many strata of society and species meet while music fills the air, and a sun (only one) that sets with the same desolate glow on a desert planet that we first saw on Tatooine when Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) lived there.

What the developer couldn't mask are how the cars are practically dropped onto roads from a thin air, as well as police vehicles appearing out of nowhere on deserted roads during escape missions.

After six tours of duty, Air Force pilot Tom Egan (Ethan Hawke) now fights the Taliban from an air - conditioned bunker in the Nevada deseAir Force pilot Tom Egan (Ethan Hawke) now fights the Taliban from an air - conditioned bunker in the Nevada deseair - conditioned bunker in the Nevada desert.

The Air I Breathe (2008 USA, dir Jieho Lee, stars Kevin Bacon) Bad Lieutenant (1992 USA, dir Abel Ferrera, stars Harvey Keitel) Conan the Barbarian (2011 USA, dir Jason Momoa, stars Marcus Nispel) Descent (2007 USA, dir Talia Lugacy, stars Rosario Dawson) The Desert Fox (1951 USA, dir Henry Hathaway, stars James Mason) Driven to Kill (2009 USA, dir Jeff King, stars Steven Seagal) Far from Heaven (2002 USA, dir Todd Haynes, stars Julianne Moore) Incendiary (2008 UK, dir Sharon Maguire, stars Michelle Wiliams) Into the Woods (1990 USA, dir James Lapine, stars Bernadette Peters) Permanent Midnight (1998 USA, dir David Veloz, stars Ben Stiller) Rob Roy (1995 USA / UK, dir Michael Caton - Jones, stars Liam Neeson) Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008 USA, dir Marina Zenovich) The Rules of Attraction (2002 USA, dir Roger Avary, stars James Van Der Beek) Under the Same Moon (2007 USA, dir Patricia Riggen, stars America Ferrera) Undertow (2009 Peru, dir Javier Fuentes - León, stars Cristian Mercado) The Vicious Kind (2009 USA, dir Lee Toland Krieger, stars Adam Scott)

The horse, meanwhile, grows weary of being cooped up in a trailer in the hot desert, lending its fate an air of inevitability.

Here in Italy's landlocked Lombardy region there was no sea whatsoever, nor even a telltale hint of a breeze in the air and, drenched under an intensely blinding noonday sun, the square felt spookily deserted.

Tornadoes debut in Super Mario Bros. 3, only appearing in World 2 - of Desert Land, where they can trap Mario in an air pocket and throw him backwards if he gets too close.