In that case, the flat world could become a desert.

So it's a real desert for not only for the penguins and the sea lions and the marine iguanas ...

In fact, it was cataclysmic climate change which transformed a lush, green Sahara into a harsh desert that triggered the emergence of such lifestyles in East Africa 5,000 years ago.

Like Dayan before him, Barak believes that Israel, a villa in the jungle, is forced to go to war every few years to consolidate its deterrence in an unmerciful Middle East neighborhood, where there is no pity for the weak, nor a second chance for the defeated.

Sky Desert, ) is an arid natural region that covers about 36,700 km2 and is mostly in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in China.

Most of the peninsula is barren land with some salt lakes.

Moreover, the Ramsar Secretariat has added to its list of Ramsar sites several significant sites in arid, semi arid and sub humid areas in Algeria, Morocco, Mali and Niger.

In the great majority of regions featuring arid, semi arid and dry sub humid areas, one of the major weaknesses of the monitoring evaluation systems is that they are not always designed to make optimum use of the existing equipment.

Camels in the desert in the snow and what's more beautiful is this flock of sheep

I have as well abandoned the delusion of sauntering in an open desert without a compass in hand.

Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.

And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

Growing up in a hot Last Vegas desert, all I wanted was to be free.

Indeed, China is on the precipice of becoming an environmental wasteland.

To neo conservative ideologues, it is the democratic oasis in a desert of tyrannies.

Cut off from the plain by the ancient Aravalli Range lies the Thar Desert.

The following data refers mostly to the Bedouin community in the southern Israeli Negev desert.

And, at the same time, water from the surface, which is rich in oxygen, doesn't make it down and the ocean turns into a desert.

The presence of camels, mountains, desert wells and springs took me back to the year I spent wandering the Sinai Desert.

So I want to show you a clip of Aphaenogaster desert ants in Professor Stephen Pratt's lab carrying an object.

But to launch the really big stuff, you go to the middle of nowhere Black Rock Desert, where dangerous things happen.

Like an off road rally through a mountainous desert, it promises excitement and fierce competition.

and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert.

And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.

Two years later we started doing a project on developing mobile health clinics in sub Saharan Africa, responding to the HIV AIDS pandemic.

On one of my last visits to Pakistan, I asked Dr. Sono if he would take me to see some of the drip irrigation in the Thar Desert.

Teilhard wrote several essays, including La Messe sur le Monde (the Mass on the World ), in the Ordos Desert.

The forest floor, however, is far from a biological desert, as is often the case in tree plantations.

Gansu s challenges range from modernizing its heavy industries to resisting desertification and the encroachment of the Gobi desert.

CC BY 2.0 The practice of women wearing full face veils in northern India is not a trademark of any particular religion.

Botswana is dominated by the Kalahari Desert, which covers up to 70 of its land surface.

From a behavioral standpoint, one of the most valuable dinosaur fossils was discovered in the Gobi Desert in 1971.

They then moved to a house in the suburb of Norwood and in 1879 built a home in upscale Mount Auburn.

It lives in a region of the Chihuahuan Desert known as the Bolsón de Mapimí, which is located in north central Mexico.

Yahweh, when you went forth out of Seir, when you marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the sky also dropped. Yes, the clouds dropped water.

LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.

Historically, this included the vilification of Iran as an anti western wasteland, divorced from historical context, geopolitical significance and diversity.

More than 90 per cent of the land in the region is hyper arid or desert, while the remaining area is classified as dry .

The only places that remain green and that's not good news is, in fact, places like the Gobi Desert, like the tundra and like the Sahara.

Kress von Kressenstein was responsible for creating special boats for crossing the canal (pontoons) as well as organizing the crossing of the Sinai desert.

There are four main desert areas on the peninsula the San Felipe Desert, the Central Coast Desert, the Vizcaíno Desert and the Magdalena Plain Desert.

Samples of Greek tapestry have been found preserved in the desert of Tarim Basin dating from the 3rd century BC.

The Atacama Desert, one of the driest areas on the planet, lies to the southwest of the Altiplano to the east lies the humid Amazon Rainforest.

The region covers much of the western United States, extends into northwestern Mexico and is mostly desert, with numerous ecoregions.

So it was like a green inkblot spreading out from the building turning barren land back into biologically productive land and in that sense, going beyond sustainable design to achieve restorative design.