1. Arid semi arid

34. The ESCWA countries are predominantly arid and semi arid.

You make my creed a barren sham

Additional irrigation from hyperarid land

Ought to be good, because it's so dry.

Is it easy to break that land?

More than 40 Parties mentioned having arid and semi arid regions that would be affected by the adverse effects of climate change.

The Sahel is an arid region just below the Sahara Desert.

Some 70 per cent of the Australian continent is arid or semi arid, receiving less than 500 millimetres of rainfall annually.

The majority of the country area is desert and contains little or none of the land classified as arid, semi arid, or dry sub humid that makes up drylands.

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

But the land was arid, and the work backbreaking, and it took hours..

She talks with the women and explains that the land is barren because they have cut and sold the trees.

Can you believe that only four years ago, all this was barren desert?

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.

Similarly, no system is infinitely sustainable.

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

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.

For all their travelling, many people think that these slabs of ice are barren of life, but these seemingly sterile ice slabs also harbor their own complex ecosystems and they shape the ecosystems that they pass through.

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

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

There are already appreciable indications of semi aridity in the north western region of the country.

In addition, Djibouti is in an arid zone, with a climate of extremes, recurring drought and rampant desertification.

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 .

Areas prone to desertification are generally semi arid areas of low economic productivity, which therefore do not justify intensive monitoring and intervention.

Many of the displaced were squatting on previously abandoned property being reclaimed by lawful owners or were living in makeshift huts on wasteland.

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.

So it's a real desert for not only for the penguins and the sea lions and the marine iguanas ... things die when there's no food.

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.

The National Desert Research Institute at Ben Gurion University in Israel is engaged in research and development on arid zones and, in particular, on the conversion of the desert into a productive environment.

While Española Island is one of the oldest of the Galapagos Islands, this island is dying, slowly becoming a rocky, barren land with little or no vegetation.

37. An alternative route, through the eastern Iranian towns of Zahedan and Mashhad to Ashkhabad, is being used, though this is also a very difficult route which passes for long distances through arid deserts without amenities.

The forest is situated at a relatively high altitude (between 400 and 850 metres above sea level) in a semi arid region with an average yearly rainfall of 300 350 mm and low humidity.

Almost three fifths of the land area consists of desert landscapes and steppe, largely semi arid terrain, with the rest comprising fertile valleys around two major rivers at the foothills of high mountain ranges.

Lending money at interest was identified with usury, or making money from money rather than from goods and services a distinction that goes back to Aristotle, for whom money was barren.

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.

God sends down water from the skies and quickens the dead earth to a new birth . Here is a sign for those who listen .

And Allah sent down water from the sky and with it revived the earth after its death indeed in this is a sign for people who keep ears . ( That listen to the truth . )

And it is God who sends down out of heaven water , and therewith revives the earth after it is dead . Surely in that is a sign for a people who have ears .

And Allah hath sent down from the heaven water , then he reviveth the earth thereby after the death thereof verily therein is a sign for a people who hearken .

And Allah sends down water ( rain ) from the sky , then He revives the earth therewith after its death . Verily , in this is a sign ( clear proof ) for people who listen ( obey Allah ) .

God sends down water from the sky , with which He revives the earth after its death . In this is a sign for people who listen .

Allah sends down water from the heaven , and thereby He instantly revives the earth after it lay dead . Verily there is a sign in it for those who have ears .

Allah sendeth down water from the sky and therewith reviveth the earth after her death . Lo ! herein is indeed a portent for a folk who hear .