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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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Desert Island Discs celebrates its 70th birthday
WW II fighter found almost intact in Egyptian desert
How the sun waters grapes in the world's driest desert
The Egyptian army says it has "lost contact" with a desert patrol close to its remote southern border with Sudan.
The extreme weather conditions in the Gobi desert in China are not stopping local red wine producers.
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Gobi Desert, Mongolia
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The U.S. Public Relations industry is one which is very high profile, but is a tiny, close knit industry, with only...
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Jewish communal leader Rabbi Avi Weiss speaks of how the Jewish community functions best as a symphony orchestra in...
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The TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) global conferences, owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation,...
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Forgotten, Forgotten, the way I used to write, the way that was felt to sense before say the way I had, to...
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Having watched the progress of the financial crisis over the last several years in America, I still remain breathless...
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