Desert News
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Researchers have accidentally created nanorods with incredible water holding potential. These rods could be used to help those who need to work in hot climates or travellers through desert regions.
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Ants found in the Sahara have a novel way of keeping cool from the intensity of the sun’s rays. The small, silver-colored hairs on the ant’s body are able to reflect heat back, stopping the insect from becoming too hot.
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Tiny water-repellent spines on a gecko’s skin help keep the lizard dry in humid conditions. This property, similar to the way rain drops react on a waxed car, was recently found by scientists.
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Individual tickets for this year’s Burning Man event, an annual counterculture art festival that attracts tens of thousands to a temporary city in the Nevada desert, are scheduled to go on sale beginning Wednesday.
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Although Google typically captures its Street View images by mounting its Trekker on top of a car, Google soon realized they needed to "hire" a camel if they wanted to capture photos of a remote desert area.
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A lake which has mysteriously appeared in the middle of a Tunisian desert has authorities concerned and searching for an explanation.
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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.
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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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Newark -
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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Desert Image
The Libyan desert Wikipedia
Pic. taken by me on 20th May 2007, Dubai desert.
Gobi Desert, Mongolia Photo courtesy of Ripley Davenport
Two Israeli F-16 flying on the Negev Canyon near the city of Mitzpe Ramon in South of Israel.
A camel pack animal transporting nomadic materials in Eyl, Puntland, Somalia warsame90
Gobi Desert, Mongolia Photo courtesy of Ripley Davenport
Rachel Weisz and Michael Lonsdale in 'Agora' Lionsgate
Rachel Weisz in 'Agora' Lionsgate
Pic taken by me, Dubai desert.
Pic taken by me, Dubai desert.
Triops australiensis Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife
The Sahara Desert is the world's largest tropical desert, covering well over 9.4 million sq. miles. Florence Devouard
The Empty Quarter, Saudi Arabia LandRoverMENA
Tunisian residents seek relief from the heat in a lake that mysteriously appeared in the middle of the desert. Screen Capture
Explorer Jeremy Curl in the desert in Ethiopia. Courtesy of Jeremy Curl
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