The first plant is to be built in the desert region of Mathania, near Jodhpur.
There are several hotspots of linguistic activity across much of northern Australia and in the central desert region around Alice Springs.
Sonoran cuisine, which originates from Mexico's Sonoran desert region south of Arizona, comes closest to New Mexican cooking in its spiciness.
Six French soldiers have been killed since France launched an operation in Mali in January to drive Islamist rebels from the northern desert region.
The Israeli team sprayed acacia trees in an oasis in the southern desert region of the country with a sugar solution containing the insecticide Spinosad.
France, Mali's former colonial power, is leading the offensive after militants captured the vast northern desert region, raising fears they would turn it into a haven for terrorists.
Mali's March 22 coup precipitated the fall of the country's north to a mix of secular and Islamist rebels, who now control a desert region the size of France at the heart of the Sahara.
The French-led operation in Mali has ousted the Islamist groups, including al-Qaeda's North African branch, from cities and town in the vast desert region they had captured a year ago in the wake of a coup.
In this desert region of flat-topped mountains, russet hills, gravel plains and swathes of scrubland, the black rhino are not tagged or tracked by satellite, nor are their movements restricted by the boundaries of a huge game reserve.
Yet there is speculation that it could be retaliation for France's recent intervention in Mali, where Islamist groups and members of al-Qaeda's North Africa branch - al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) - had taken control of the country's vast northern desert region.
But the first suicide attacks in Mali's history in Gao at the end of last week, followed by fierce fighting in the northern town have led to fears it may be a long battle to bring security to the vast desert region.
In December 2012, the Libyan Congress declared the southwest desert border region a closed military zone.
The flare-up in Iraq's sparsely populated, desert northwestern region marks a troubling turn for a country that sits on the edge of sectarian conflict.
The northern third of the country is dominated by the Atacama Desert, a spectacular region of salt flats, geysers and volcanic peaks.
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Qasr Al Sarab is in the Liwa Desert, in a region evocatively called the Empty Quarter, and the name is not an instance of poetic license.
Islamist rebels are believed to have retreated to the Ifoghas mountains - a desert area in the Kidal region near the border with Algeria - after being forced from northern population centres in recent weeks.
The ground and air campaign has sent Islamist fighters who had seized the northern region fleeing into the desert and rugged terrain nearby.
Huge swathes of the Sahel region south of the Sahara Desert have been rendered off-limits to foreigners.
The ground-and-air campaign has sent Islamist fighters who had seized the northern region fleeing into the vast desert.
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This book fascinatingly weaves in the history of dogsledding (dogs were to this region what camels are to the desert), the native populations and the impact of the 1890s Gold Rush on them.
Intelligence sources in the region say it has makeshift camps in remote desert bordering Algeria and Mauritania.
Thanks to its strategic location between the Andes, the Atacama Desert and the Pacific Ocean, the Arica and Parinacota region was once the home of three major empires -- Tiwanacu, Inca and Spanish.
While smuggling has been taking place into and out of Iraq ever since Operation Desert Storm (just as it historically flourished in the region for thousands of years before, ) air delivery is particularly appealing insofar as it permits these transactions to take place in a relatively secure and timely fashion.
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One muscular dystrophy patient, Steve Ledbrook, described his local region, the south west, as a "desert" for treatment.
In addition to being a vast petroleum repository, the desert nation was also the heart of the most potentially productive region on the planet for harvesting power from the sun.
El Obeidi said that al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb treated the whole region as one theater and was oblivious to the desert borders that divided the countries of the Sahel.
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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Based a few kilometers outside the historic town of Timbuktu, on the fringes of the Sahara Desert, the festival is inspired by the traditional gatherings of the region's Tuareg nomads.
In a hot region, that means paying a 40% premium for refrigerated trucks when delivery routes cross desert areas.
Scattered elsewhere around the country are even smaller micro breweries such as Asif in Ramot Haftali and Malka in Kibbutz Yechiam, both in the Galilee region, Lone Tree in the Judean Mountains and Negev in Kiryat Gat in the southern desert.
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