Sentences with phrase «desert areas on»

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

Not exact matches

The video of the executions, entitled «Until there came to them clear evidence», switches between a scene on a beach in eastern Libya, where an estimated 15 men in orange boiler suits are beheaded by masked militants in camouflage, and a scene in a desert area in southern Libya where similarly dressed Daesh members execute a similar number of men in black boiler suits...

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...

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.

Please watch this video and educate yourself on the conditions in many vulnerable communities about what you can do (beyond leaving comments on blogs) to help transform these areas from «first food deserts» into First Food Friendly neighborhoods.

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.

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.

Desert locusts are a major pest on numerous crops and pastures throughout a vast area of almost 30 million km2 covering Africa north of the equator, the Near East, the Arabian Peninsula and the Indian subcontinent.

On patrol one day last fall in Blythe, another California town along the Colorado, Matuska drove his SUV looking for large green lawns in rural areas that he hadn't noticed before — a new farm field or some other sign of small - scale irrigation bringing life to a red desert.

«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.

On Wednesday, May 16, I spent several hours on a hot bus in a neon desert called Las Vegas with a merry band of British conspiracists during their journey around the Southwest in search of UFOs, aliens, Area 51 and government cover - ups, all for a BBC documentarOn Wednesday, May 16, I spent several hours on a hot bus in a neon desert called Las Vegas with a merry band of British conspiracists during their journey around the Southwest in search of UFOs, aliens, Area 51 and government cover - ups, all for a BBC documentaron a hot bus in a neon desert called Las Vegas with a merry band of British conspiracists during their journey around the Southwest in search of UFOs, aliens, Area 51 and government cover - ups, all for a BBC documentary.

The results suggest that climate change will convert much of the area currently occupied by temperate grasslands and deserts to subtropical vegetation with effects on associated wildlife and human populations.

One of the hottest and lowest areas on Earth, it is a landscape of baking desert and barren lava flows.

Plate tectonics determines the location of oil and gas reservoirs and is the best key we have to understanding why deserts and arctic areas seem to hold the largest hydrocarbon reserves on earth.

The researchers have now drawn together research on climate change, energy, housing and transport to provide an analysis that spans disciplines of how Australia's desert region could become a highly livable and prosperous area for existing and new residents.

It employs reclaimed water for its cooling and was built near existing transmission lines on what used to be farmland rather than the pristine desert areas nearby that have provoked opposition to some other planned solar power plants.

Given the difficulty of impacting change in small stores, much of the policy focus has been on decreasing food deserts by increasing the number of supermarkets in these areas.

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.)

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.

On paper, El Mar La Mar sounds simple: a documentary about life in the Sonoran Desert, specifically for the border control agents stationed near the U.S. - Mexico border and the undocumented immigrants who've survived the daunting trek across the area's rugged terrain.

I am the 2015 Galpin Ford GTR - 1 that prowls deserted freeways, sleepy industrial areas, and department store parking lots crowded with onlookers and I have but one phrase on my lips — «Here kitty, kitty.»

Supercharged Bowtie Vehicle: 2009 Chevy Suburban Z71 Owner: Robert Carrillo Location: Las Vegas, Nevada Chassis: Stock Engine: 5.3 L V - 8, Vortech Twin - Screw Supercharger, K&N air filter, Magnaflow Exhaust with 4 - inch black exhaust tip Drivetrain: 4L80E, NQF T - case, IFS front differential, 10 - Bolt rear Suspension: 6 - inch Fabtech lift with Dirt Logic coilovers Steering: Stock Brakes: Stock Tires / Wheels: 35x12.5 R20 Toyo Open Country Mud Terrains on 20 - inch BMF SOTA wheels Interior: DVD and Navigation system, black leather interior Favorite Off - Road Area: Deserts around Las Vegas and Mt. Potosi Canyon

Subtle Sub Vehicle: 1989 Chevy Suburban 2500 Owner: Scott and Julie Paine Location: Phoenix, Arizona Chassis: Stock frame Engine: TBI 350ci V - 8 with cold - air intake kit Drivetrain: TH400 transmission, NP208 T - case, 10 - Bolt front axle, 14 - Bolt rear axle Suspension: 4 - inch Rough Country lift springs at all four corners, sway bar drop brackets, Rough Country shocks Steering: Raised steering arm Brakes: Factory front disc, rear drum Tires / Wheels: 35x12.50 R16 Interco M - 16s on Mickey Thompson Classic II wheels Interior: Custom - covered dash matches paint Favorite off - road area: Desert trails around Black Canyon City, Arizona

It has an interior fan filter to which is nice for people that live in dusty desert areas like we do, really cuts down on cabin allergens over other cars we have owned.

Johannesburg cop Albertus Beeslaar has transferred to a post on the edge of the Kalahari Desert, hoping to escape big - city violence but finding instead that brutal crimes are being committed on small farms in the area.

We're hoping, within the next 12 months, to be able to take a number of funds to the Central Desert region to help people on the ground to access their superannuation benefits, and also to run a series of education sessions so that we can help consumers in that area better understand what superannuation is and how it can benefit them.

(No treatment was sought for an entire month, the poor injured animal was penned up alone outdoors in unforgiving Utah desert winter conditions, and there was no available orthopedic treatment in the area, so the pup's leg did its best to heal on its own.

In mid-January, a man who was on an off - road adventure discovered an ailing dog who was all alone in a salt desert area of Utah known as Salt Flats.

Located on 65 acres in the heart of the Sonoran Desert, this luxury hotel is one of the premier spots to rest your head in the area.

By taking part in this adventure through Sun Buggy — which does ATV tours and rents out dune buggies — you will be reinforcing what most people think the desert - rat locals do anyway: chase around the area's sand dunes, dry creek beds and trails on four - wheelers.

Drink spiking remain a considerable problem in heavily touristed areas as does sexual assault in more isolated areas, deserted beaches and so on.

Thanks to the Generalitat Valenciana, the Desert de les Palme Natural Park was declared to be a protected area on the 16th October 1989.

Guiding scuba expeditions through the wonders of the Blue Hole and the Great Barrier Reef — or jaunting guests off on day - trips to snorkel the area's deserted islets and coves.

On the Outback and Camel Safari, your guide will show you the area and educate you about the area's towering cardon cacti, ironwood trees and desert flowers.

Interested to learn more about the town's mining history, and to explore its traditional villages and deserted mining hamlets, we signed up for a tour (on which we were the only tourists) of the local area through Huancavelica's only travel agent — its Tourist Information office.

also you will discover a wide variety of fauna and flora, like foxes, eagles, hares, iguanas and squirrels; a plentiful vegetation, consisting of cactus, choya, torotes, cardon and ciruelos, and on top of the hill you can admire spectacular views of the sea of cortes and aspire the mountain pure air after rains, it's not a desert area anymore now, it's paradise!!

Activities on the island include banana boating, beach games, snorkeling and diving as well as opportunities to walk down some of the most scenic and deserted beaches as well as experience the traditional towns and markets of the area.

Reflecting the surrounding Phoenix - Scottsdale area's serene desert landscapes and rose - colored vistas, the Tempe Mission Palms Hotel invites guests to relax whether traveling on a family vacation or important business trip.

Totally private desert home on quiet cul - de-sac in the heart of the Tamarisk area of Rancho Mirage.

Rolling beaches, lush jungles, and desert dunes are all included and almost all of them are a pleasure to race on, mixing nice wide areas where you can just hold the throttle with tighter, trickier areas.

There are 6 main «metarooms» on the ship; the Norn Terranium, Grendel Jungle, Ettin Desert, Marine area, Bridge, and Engineering Room.

By dividing into Springfield and desert areas it feels almost like two separate levels, and it should take you a little under an hour to beat on your first playthrough (as long as you don't rush through it).

This is all based on that early footage we saw, which shows areas with lots to see and do (like in Mario 64 and Sunshine) as well as suspicious traces of ice and snow in what should otherwise be a desert environment.

I'm really pleased with how much enviromental variety there seems to be, as early on it looked like it'd mostly be brown and desert - like — clearly that's not the case, with beautiful snowy and jungle areas.

Today's set of videos gave us a ton of info on the third dungeon for Skyward Sword and the area surrounding dungeon in these trailers for the Lanayru Desert and its Mining Facility.

The levels include two areas that take place in the Agrabah Market, a trip through the desert, exploring the Cave of Wonder (and subsequent escape, including riding on the magic carpet as you fly from a wave of lava), a goofy area that takes place inside the Genie's lamp, and then two stages in the palace, where you face off against Iago and Jafar.

There is the sense that a border - town desert aesthetic has happily made its mark on the hats cum skull masks made out of Big Bend - area newspapers, the abstracted gut or rattlesnake forms of the reliefs, and in the art brut concoctions of dirt and glue on scavenged black plastic.

Now settled in Palm Springs, CA since October 2014, his eye is on the surrounding desert... the off - the - grid and outlier areas... that yield an extraordinary beauty he captures with his artists» eye and his trusty Canon.

In the desert, he made a prescient foray into elements that would be integral to Land Art, with works including large areas of mystifying lines raked in sand and sculptures that would grow or recede in size depending on conditions.