• Before Levinton had planted thousands of oysters in steel cages in these waters last summer, they had long been barren of those same creatures that a hundred years ago almost entirely paved the bay and its creeks.

    FORBES: Oysters Are Back In New York City Waters

  • For example, multiple pipelines could go on one right of way, or wind turbines might go on land already barren because of old coal mining.

    NPR: Northeast Drilling Boom Threatens Forest Wildlife

  • For example, multiple pipelines could be placed on one right of way, or wind turbines might go on land that is already barren because of old coal mining.

    WSJ: Northeast drilling boom threatens forest wildlife

  • The modern world has not been kind to the tribes scraping a living from the barren fringes of the desert.

    BBC: The Islamists hijacking a rebellion in Timbuktu

  • The barren despondency of the place depressed him and challenged his resolution, arrived at during his recovery, to see the girl again.

    NEWYORKER: The Valetudinarian

  • Tabloids including The Sun and the Daily Mail have branded Mantel chauvinist, and of being fat, barren and jealous of the pregnant princess.

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  • Agnes DeWitt, a young Swabian nun living on a barren reach of North Dakota, discovers, on the convent piano, a sensuous love for Chopin.

    ECONOMIST: New fiction (2)

  • The loss of Aceh's natural wealth would certainly be a major blow to the capital, Jakarta, which sits on the populous but resource-barren island of Java.

    ECONOMIST: Indonesia

  • It is a journey that ascends through mountain pastures towards the barren heights of the range, peering deep into valleys and gorges and up to raw and rocky mountains.

    BBC: Spain��s mountains made of cheese

  • From a distance the pale scree slopes on the mountain-side look like barren fields of snow, but get up close and you'll be amazed by the diversity of wildlife that thrives on this reserve.

    UNESCO: Biosphere Reserves

  • Several hours from the South Pole, in the barren expanses of western Antarctica, a small team of American researchers has just finished their second field-season with the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide Ice Core project.

    ECONOMIST: The South Pole as location and metaphor

  • It gave Rooney an opportunity to score for the first time since 30 March and the England striker made no mistake, finding the bottom of the net with a low penalty that sent Green the wrong way and brought to an end the longest barren spell of his career.

    BBC: Manchester United 3-0 West Ham

  • It was out of this barren environment that the Paulista School of Architecture was born.

    BBC: Contemporary Sao Paulo takes shape

  • It would have spanned millions years of history, from the Precambrian Era when land was barren and devoid of life to the age when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

    BBC: Fragments of ancient continent buried under Indian Ocean

  • In the middle of the barren desert, Dubai has built one of the most impressive balance sheets of hard assets in the world.

    FORBES: The Arab World Needs (Entrepreneurial) Heroes

  • C. and A.D. 500 by brushing away the dark top layer of barren desert to reveal the light, sandy soil underneath, wrote Clive Ruggles, an archaeologist from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom, in an email.

    MSN: Peru's mysterious Nazca Lines form a labyrinth, says study

  • "Spring is a time for new beginnings and new life, yet the juxtaposition between a literally blooming world and the barren inner life of the clinically depressed is often too much for them to bear, " he said.

    BBC: NEWS | Health | Sunny May the month for suicides

  • This small town in the middle of an arid, barren region but right in the middle of Philip's Hispanic territories soon became the critical political hub not just of the peninsula but the rapidly expanding Spanish Empire.

    BBC: Eurozone crisis: Catalonia's place in Spain

  • And now Ike, this storm is likely to follow a very similar course to Gustav, again running over the Isle of Youth that was barren soil virtually, and the western part of the nation where they grow this very fine tobacco that got wet.

    NPR: Hurricanes Wreak Havoc In Haiti And Cuba

  • Beside the barren Zeya he heard of the Shilka, where peas, barley and buckwheat grew.

    ECONOMIST: The Amur River

  • In 2009 this loss of tens of billions of gallons of water left hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland barren and forced cities in Southern California to ration their supplies.

    FORBES: Let Them Drink Dust!

  • Martin had entered what technology transfer officers refer to as the valley of death, the barren gulf between the basic science and a prototype good enough to pique the interest of an established company or a venture capital firm.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Spewing volcanoes and forbidding lava fields make for a land of beautiful, barren expanses and infinite adventure.

    BBC: Mini guide to Iceland's activities

  • Land-locked Bolivia is the poorest country in South America and outside the main cities much of it is barren and inhospitable terrain.

    BBC: NEWS | Americas | Rains hamper Bolivia flood aid

  • He is adored in the Chukotka region that occupies the barren far north-east of Russia where he has been governor since 2000.

    BBC: Roman's Moscow homecoming

  • It felt very sort of flat and barren and stark.

    NEWYORKER: Curtain-Raiser

  • When it was cloudy - or when there were flurries of snow - the landscape appeared almost lunar and barren, and it was impossible to imagine any kind of animals enduring here.

    BBC: Threat to life on Arctic frontline

  • The course is beautiful, a jaw dropper at every turn, starting with a classic parkland section, featuring lots of water, tons of beautiful stone bulkheading, and a middle section that climbs into high, barren fields overlooking the lake and the rest of the course with a pronounced links feel, before returning to the lake for dramatic finishing holes including, oddly, a long par-3 over the lake for eighteen.

    FORBES: Rory McIlroy's Northern Ireland Golf Tour

  • Little lagoons, glassy blobs of brilliant blue water, punctuate the ride, pockets of sharp colour in barren nothingness.

    BBC: Patagonia��s historic cowboy ranches

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