In the desert of Abu Dhabi, a novel experiment in sustainability is under way.
It has a desert of its own, and many depopulated villages, some without piped water at all.
The scene is like something from a Biblical epic: 2, 000 sheep are being driven across a desert of black lava.
You'd imagine that man could never quite stamp his mark on the vast desert of the Skeleton Coast.
The record breaking attempt is due to take place sometime between July and September in the desert of New Mexico.
Isolated by a desert of grass, their reservation is a bleak reminder that rural poverty can be much worse than urban.
Feeling a little frustrated, I snuck away to the desert of Fruita, Colorado this weekend for some late fall mountain biking.
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Out there in the desolate, lunar like desert of northern Chile is a mineral-rich ore called caliche -- once known as white gold.
In addition, Apache is the largest producer of hydrocarbons and natural gas in the Western Desert of Egypt and the third largest in all of Egypt.
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The U.S. military is trying to improve conditions for the nearly 20, 000 inmates it's holding at Camp Bucca, a prison camp in the desert of far-southern Iraq.
Filming started in the wintry peaks of New Zealand's South Island, then moved to Cape Town in South Africa, then further north to the desert of Namibia.
Recent highlights have included an appetizer consisting of crispy ham, egg, smoked rib risotto, leek and pine mushrooms and a desert of sorbet made with yerba mate.
T. bataar, as it is known, was a Tyrannosaurus rex cousin that lived some seventy million years ago, in what is now the Gobi Desert of southern Mongolia.
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.
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The 86-year-old Purifoy died March 5 at his sprawling "art ranch" in the desert of Southern California near Joshua Tree an arid sculpture garden where he created art from society's castoff junk.
They were not so sure about the more complex "Fat Man" plutonium bomb, so they tested it in the desert of Alamogordo, New Mexico, before dropping one on Nagasaki on Aug. 9.
David (David Wissak), who is some sort of location scout, and Katia (Katia Golubeva), a French-speaking Russian girl with no apparent occupation or interests, drive in a red Hummer through the sinister high desert of California.
Today, when he's not in Los Angeles, Mr. Nitze, 41, lives three hours away on an entirely different type of frontier: on the outer edge of civilization north from Palm Springs, off a 1-mile-long dirt road in the remote, rocky high desert of Southern California.
From the ancient ruins of Egypt, to the presidential palace in Tunisia, to the desert of Morocco -- after thousands of miles with Hillary Clinton, you come away with this: Every step is certain, every word is measured, and you know only what she wants you to.
The biggest solar thermal plant ever built is in the Mojave Desert of California and generates 80 megawatts. (The biggest single photovoltaic installation produces 12 megawatts.) Solar thermal power prices range from 11 cents to 15 cents per kilowatt-hour, making it more expensive than natural gas generation at its lowest price, around 7 cents, but less expensive during peak hours.
Mayor Sadou Diallo misses residents of his desert town of Gao, most of whom fled to Bamako when militants took over.
The warm, moisture-laden air brings heavy rainfall and flash flooding to Peru's northern coast, killing villagers and causing havoc to the fragile soils of the desert and of the arid Andean foothills.
Lawson is now fighting off a budgetary collapse of this high desert town of 2, 100, where the paved and gravel roads have no traffic signals, only stop signs -- and even those are so faded from the sun that the village would like to replace them if it had the money.
One important stop is Mansar Kheri, near the pink city of Jaipur in the desert state of Rajasthan.
The first day of the trail crosses the wide open desert panoramas of Euro Ridge, advancing to the breathtaking, unpeopled expanse seen from Brinkley Bluff on day four or five.
Just over the city limits of Palm Springs, the property has panoramic desert views of the San Jacinto Mountains and the Coachella Valley.
Injured and alone, he embarks on a brutal quest for vengeance into the squalid underbelly of the Regional Atlanta Metroplex, through the desert wasteland of the not-so-pristine wilderness, and to the peerless towers of elite society.
Driving around the damp hills of Lancashire is not quite the same as the desert heat of Peru, so to prepare himself Mr Poskitt went to Morocco to train.
Yasin Shahabuddin, 51, and his two younger brothers are among the more prosperous residents of Pipar, a small town in India's desert state of Rajasthan.
About 2, 700 homes were without power because of at least five downed utility poles in the remote desert area of Borrego Springs in San Diego County, according to Amber Albrecht, spokeswoman for San Diego Gas and Electric.
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