Desert News
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In a cloud of dust and diesel fumes, a souped-up 4x4 roars through the silence of Pakistan's Cholistan desert, cheered on by tens of thousands of spectators.
In the Media
by Khurram Shahzad (AFP)
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The project is being called the largest "mountain-moving project" in Chinese history. One of the country's largest construction firms plans to flatten 700 mountains.
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Once you leave Cairo and head into the desert it becomes a barren wasteland, nothing to see but the parched earth covered in sand ranging in colour from a golden beige to a dark brown and black with no vegetation visible as far as the eye can see.
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The hulk of a parked Boeing 747 performed a seeming death dance ritual on Wednesday in an aircraft boneyard in Mojave, California, as desert windstorm blowing at over 70 miles per hour, forced it into a last demonstration of the fluid dynamics of flight.
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A company has built a solar energy farm near Newark in record time, but the true potential of this wonderful resource is being sadly neglected.
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A bold team is about trek 1,000 miles across the largest desert in Asia. The expedition called Gobi2011 will see the team walking across the Gobi Desert in Mongolia visiting indigenous people along the route.
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Explorer Jeremy Curl will this summer attempt to cross the Danakil Desert in Ethiopia by foot. If he succeeds he would be the first man alive to do so.
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Two locations, a world away from each other, experienced strange animal-related events recently. In Somerset, England about 75 starlings just fell to the ground while a village in northern Australia had fish plummet from the sky.
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Europe’s electricity needs could be met by solar panels in the Sahara desert, according to a scientist at a major climate change conference in Copenhagen. Thus North Africa could become the main exporter of electricity to Europe.
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One of my favorite pastimes is to surf You Tube and watch videos people make to great songs. Tonight my journey wound its way around the videos made to the song Desert Rose by Sting.
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How to turn desert into garden.
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Pentagon holds off on plans to detonate a 700-tonne explosive charge in the Nevada desert due to environmental protests and lawsuits.
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Three ultra-endurance athletes have just done something most would consider insane: They ran the equivalent of two marathons a day for 111 days to become the first modern runners to cross the Sahara Desert's grueling 4,000 miles.
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National Guard forced to flee after armed group approaches check point
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Los Angeles agreed in December to expand efforts to control toxic dust storms that erupt from what is left of Owens Lake, a 110-square-mile body that emptied when the river was diverted to Los Angeles through an aqueduct opened in 1913.
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DUNHUANG, CHINA (dpa) - Flying asparas, the Buddhist equivalent of angels, are back in vogue in China. They decorate everything from T- shirts to ice-cream wrappers and have even inspired fashion designers and theatre producers.
The popularity of th...
In the Media
by Bill Smith
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PERTH - After the service, the priest sprinkles the boats with holy water - a ritual aimed at ensuring a good catch and a safe return.
Only then does the festival begin in Two Rocks, 70 kilometres (43 miles) north of Perth, Western Australia. The ba...
In the Media
by Fred Krueger
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YERINGTON, NEVADA - Barron Hilton, president of the Hilton Hotel Corporation and one of the most successful and wealthiest Americans, has a spectacular hobby.
The man who rules over an empire of 2,000 luxury hotels around the world has also, since ...
In the Media
by Karl Morgenstern, dpa - 1 comment
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Tunis (dpa) - The former power enjoyed by its rulers seems to come to life for
a few hours when the lights in Tunis illuminate the legendary city of Carthage.
The Tunisian capital is the cradle of a 3,000-year-old civilisation which was
not only ...
In the Media
by Susanne Borchert
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Desert Image
Lionsgate
Rachel Weisz in 'Agora'
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Photo courtesy of Ripley Davenport
Gobi Desert, Mongolia
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Pic. taken by me on 20th May 2007, Dubai desert.
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Namid desert beetle
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A camel pack animal transporting nomadic materials in Eyl, Puntland, Somalia
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Pic taken by me, Dubai desert.
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YouTube
The Mongolian Gobi Bear, shown here in the wild, is one of the world's most endangered animal species. (Carlos Alperin/YouTube)
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Courtesy of Jeremy Curl
Camels crossing the desert.
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Photo courtesy of Ripley Davenport
Mongolia
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Lionsgate
Rachel Weisz and Michael Lonsdale in 'Agora'
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Wikipedia
The Libyan desert
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Pic taken by me, Dubai desert.
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Florence Devouard
The Sahara Desert is the world's largest tropical desert, covering well over 9.4 million sq. miles.
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A convoy of Range Rovers took our group through the desert.
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