• Two landed in rural desert areas without causing any injuries, and at least one landed in the Persian Gulf.

    CNN: Missile hits Kuwait City mall

  • In a hot region, that means paying a 40% premium for refrigerated trucks when delivery routes cross desert areas.

    FORBES: How A California Chocolatier Is Going National

  • While Libyan forces have some presence in the country's main population centers, large desert areas are controlled by a patchwork of tribes.

    WSJ: Militants, Chased From Mali, Pose New Threats

  • Desert areas are expanding by 3, 000 square miles each year and farmers are being paid to plant trees to halt this advance, thus further reducing the grain-growing area.

    ECONOMIST: Covering George Bush

  • "The saltwater going out of the greenhouses will go to the CSP to cool it -- which makes it more efficient -- and then it will go to the evaporator 'hedges' which create good growing conditions for crops outside and revegetate areas of desert, " he said.

    CNN: Project to turn desert green trials in Qatar

  • Across all of Africa the impact of human activity is clear - whether in the newly irrigated areas created by the waters of the Nile, turning huge areas of the desert around Egypt's lake Nasser green, or the urban sprawl of Dakar, across the Cap Vert peninsula in Senegal.

    BBC: Atlas shows vanishing landscape

  • The project was carried out in 3 villages in the outskirts of Bahawalpur City (Village Dingarh and DB 80) which are the drought affected areas of Cholistan desert where 150 women have been engaged through capacity building in crafts making and focused on providing opportunities for income generation and decent livelihoods.

    UNESCO: CULTURE

  • He said the technique had particular potential in areas of limited plant growth, such as desert and savannah regions, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, where malaria is becoming a bigger threat.

    BBC: The malaria parasite is spread by mosquitoes

  • Its frontier areas are largely wild and barely inhabited stretches of desert and jungle.

    ECONOMIST: Old Bolivian customs

  • America is blessed with open space, wilderness areas, mountain vistas, diverse wildlife, austere desert and bountiful farm land.

    ECONOMIST: Letters

  • Mostly semi-arid, arid or desert, the country depends for its water on scattered catchments in highland areas.

    ECONOMIST: The Kenyan regime��s destructive policies

  • But, you know, obviously, the food desert issue of people having access to grocery stores that is both in rural areas and urban areas, there is not much difference in that.

    NPR: Child Hunger: Nutritious Food Tough To Afford

  • Second, a movement from the highly subsidized locations in Europe (particularly Germany and Spain) to very sunny areas such as the Southwestern US, Western China, and the high desert of Chile and Peru.

    FORBES: U.S. Army Dedicates World's Largest Low-Concentration PV Facility

  • Yet, except in areas like that, bordering the Sahara, where blacks were traditionally enslaved by lighter-skinned desert peoples, slavery and the slave trade left no social stratification, and they figure little in popular consciousness today.

    ECONOMIST: Millennium issue: Slavery

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