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The snow comes across the Great Salt Lake Desert, hits the Wasatch mountain range and gets pushed up and turned into light, but consistent powdery snow.
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Interestingly, rainfall patterns in the Sahel region, an arid landscape just south of the Sahara Desert where Darfur Lake is located, mirror global temperature patterns.
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But that old world charm comes with modern perks like free wi-fi, flat-screen TVs and lake or desert views.
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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.
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Sitting on his bass boat on the lagoon portion of Castaic Lake, a reservoir in a desert some 45 minutes north of L.A., Crupi bakes under a merciless southern California sun from 6 a.m. until 5 p.m.
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An image from Mr. Ritts's last project is in the show, a 2002 photo of actor Ben Affleck posing in a dry lake bed in California's Mojave Desert.
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"We all admire the beaver for the way it can turn a linear river into a lake with a dam, but the termites turning the desert into a pattern of oases that allow permanent life even in drought periods for hundreds of years - that's much more fascinating, " he told BBC News.
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Lake Chad sits on the border of the Sahel, a grassland which divides the Sahara Desert to the north and the more humid savannah to the south.
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The desert estate, which is on 1.56 acres, has panoramic mountain views as well as a private lake and multiple waterfalls.
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