Also show are agricultural land use and land surfaces with little or no plant cover - such as bare ground, urban areas and permanent snow and ice.

BBC: How Earth's land is used

Place a freshly cut, 2- to 3- foot long log upright on the bare ground, place a mound of dirt on the top end and cover it loosely with black plastic.

NPR: Excerpt: 'A Splintered History Of Wood'

He doubled back toward Cambridge on a roundabout and pulled into a lay-by off the highway, a place of oily, littered grass with a kiosk on worn bare ground which sold hot dogs and burgers to lorry drivers.

NEWYORKER: Hand on the Shoulder

Other culprits include the application of fertilizer in the fall, when the ground is bare, and the spreading of manure on the surface, instead of into the soil.

WSJ: Report predicts ever-bigger Lake Erie algae blooms

For eons nothing much changed as one generation after another scratched a bare existence out of the ground.

FORBES: Happy Father's Day

And with Australia barely getting beyond 300 - considered a bare minimum total on this ground, it looked like advantage South Africa between the two innings.

BBC: Australia end series on high note

As with any business venture, the costs can be quite low to get a bare bones operation off the ground or extremely high if all the bells and whistles are added immediately.

FORBES: The Cost Of Starting A Food Truck

At that moment my senses returned and I realized how cold the ground was under my bare feet.

CNN: Teen refugee: Prince Charming is dead

On aptly named Winter Street in a suburb of Boston, ice clings to bare trees and muddy snow mars the ground.

FORBES: Cool Heads

The Gaza crisis also triggered a round of name-calling within the world of British Islam that has laid bare a rapid diminution of the middle ground on which emollient types hope to stand.

ECONOMIST: Britain and its Muslims