Sentences with phrase «most arid»

The US Southwest, already by far the hottest and most arid region of the country, is set to enter what experts are diplomatically calling a «drier climate state.»

They found that the drought conditions of the future American west will be more severe than the hottest, most arid extended droughts of the 12th and 13th centuries, which are thought to have played a role in ending the once - flourishing Pueblo culture of the American Southwest.

Once again water vapor (H2O) does exactly the same thing; only moreso than carbon dioxide; and it is also much more abundant in the atmosphere; even over the most arid deserts.

Consider that most arid land is degrading.

The first version of this installation was set in the most arid desert of Atacama (Chile) and echoed the configuration of the stars as seen in the skies of the Southern Hemisphere on the night of Boltanski's birth: September 6, 1944.

The southern part, Bukit peninsula is the most arid area of the island, but boasts the most beautiful hidden beaches and waves for brave surfers.

While they do not replace the need for vitamins and calcium supplementation, UVB bulbs stimulate more natural behavior and engender a more aggressive feeding response in most arid species.

The Empty Quarter is also one of the most arid climates with no safe water sources present, making the challenge all the more difficult for both the driver and the vehicle.

By any standard, The Horse's Mouth shines as an outstandingly personal work from a decade that often seems the most arid in British cinema.

It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of 983,482 square kilometers (379,725 sq mi), it is the fourth largest of Australians six states and two territories.

After 23 hours, the viruses in the dampest conditions were all dead, while 60 % of those under the most arid conditions were still alive.

With the flexibility to use air cooled condensers, SMR - 160 can be deployed in the most arid regions of the world.

The baboons» home is the Namib desert, the most arid environment known to be inhabited by a nonhuman -LSB-...]

And in all but the most arid conditions, refuse becomes wet no matter what the dump's design.

Finding water in the desert is a relatively easy task for a species of moss that seems to flourish in even the most arid regions.

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

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

A new study chronicles how central Asia dried out over the last 23 million years into one of the most arid regions on the planet.

Restate what they did, and it sounds like the worst sex life you could aspire to: frantically trapping people in a room, people who are disgusted to be there, while you engage in the most arid form of sexual pleasure possible.

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The radical secularization that has transformed Christianity's heartland into the most religiously arid half - continent on the planet has at least as much to do with the craven surrender of ministers of the gospel to theological and political fads, and their consequent loss of faith, as it does with the impact of urbanization, mass education, and the industrial revolution on Europeans» understanding of themselves.

Most groups have arid periods.

One of the most influential and dramatic illustrations of this integration is the case of Phineas Gage, recently republicized by Antonio and Hanna Damasio arid cited by Ash - brook and Albright.

And, although the five classical proofs may seem abstract and arid in these days, when we have grown unaccustomed to the language of metaphysics, they are neverthelessa reasoned statement of the conviction most men either hold, or wish they could hold; namely that things seen are the work of an invisible Creator.

As Holloway himself frequently said, theology is no arid discipline, but a meditation and contemplation of the fullness of the Mystery of God revealed most fully in Jesus Christ and living among us in the Church.

Unlike their Florida counterparts — which are said to be more suitable for juices — most believe California navels are the best for eating by hand, partly because the warm, arid climate in which they are grown tend to produce more blemish - free fruit.

Maca (Lepidium meyenii) is a finicky root, similar to a turnip or radish, that only grows well in the cold, arid climates of high mountain plateaus, and in soil that is inhospitable to most other crops.

Most people associate Arizona with hot arid desert, cacti, and the Grand Canyon.

Borax exists most commonly in arid climes, which implies that the environment that spawned life on the ancient Earth might have been far drier than previously envisioned.

The islands are notable for their distance from the Ecuadoran mainland and for their arid volcanic terrain, which produced the Galápagos's most striking and fortuitous distinction: the relative absence of people (and other predators).

On arid Mars, where most of the surface is desert - like and the dust content is much higher, the impact is even larger.

The few young soils, the volcanic ones, are very porous and occur most often in arid and semi-arid regions.

The area is arid during most of the year, but there is a fair head of game.

The state's normal strategy for water management calls for keeping the reservoirs low in winter, to provide protection against floods, and keeping them as high as possible in summer, to ensure an adequate supply for the giant farming operations in the Central Valley (one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world) and for arid southern California.

In arid Utah, a marshy wetland, teeming with aquatic life and migratory birds is among the most cherished natural resources in the state.

Arid zone bandicoots are amongst the most vulnerable mammals in Australasia today, with multiple species having gone extinct within the last 100 years.

The DESERTEC group seeks to bust the logistical barriers to green energy by generating solar and wind power in the warm, arid locations where it is most abundant and transferring it to dense population centers farther north.

Most of the rest of the continent was fairly arid, making an ideal habitat for spiders.»

During the last ice age (which peaked about 21,000 years ago), he suggested, most of the forest became arid grassland.

Ancient Rome indeed feels like modern history compared with the finds for which this arid, dusty site in rural central Turkey is most renowned.

Almost 9 percent of the state — a swath stretching from Monterey on the central coast to Bakersfield in the Central Valley — is in the most - arid category, as defined by the National Drought Mitigation Center, a project of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, that works with federal agencies.

Avian predators most probably procured the much rarer squirrels and gerbils from drier scrub or arid settings at a distance.

Over the past 200 years, almost half of all extinctions worldwide have occurred in Australia, most in the arid zone.

Australia's arid outback has one of the world's most erratic and unpredictable climates.

The Convention addresses specifically the arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas, known as the drylands, where some of the most vulnerable ecosystems and peoples can be found.

It is the most common cause of neurological fungal infections in arid regions of the...

««The arid lands of southwestern North America will imminently become even more arid as a result of human - induced climate change just at the time that population growth is increasing demand for water, most of which is still used by agriculture,» said Richard Seager, Senior Research Scientist at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory and one of the lead authors of the study.

During the ensuing Holocene (10000 y ago until the present), cereal grains were rarely consumed as year round staples by most worldwide hunter - gatherers (32,33), except by certain groups living in arid and marginal environments (32,34).

Winding beneath the world's highest peaks and visiting some of the most remote communities on earth, it passes through lush green valleys, arid high plateaus and incredible landscapes.

A harsh coming - of - age story set in a dreamlike, re-imagined, post-modern wild west, McLean's film manages to sidestep the arid ironies of most modern westerns on its way to far more interesting territory.

The Green Belt Movement's experiences in Kenya have shown how women are the most vulnerable to these effects of climate change and are at the centre of the climate change challenge, especially those from marginalised arid and semi-arid areas.