The Vegetable Lamb is a thirsty beast, and much of the Uzbeks' land is desert.
It has 4, 000km of land, desert border and 1, 700km of sea, maritime borders.
But apart from discovering the majesty of the Sahara, Jibunoh also witnessed how drought, deforestation and human intervention were turning fertile land into desert and condemning people to acute poverty.
Sekem, an Egyptian food producer, set itself the task of reclaiming desert land through organic farming.
Soil degradation could be worsened by increased erosion caused by higher rainfall, while elsewhere more land could become desert.
In the new movie, Tintin and Haddock crash-land in the desert, and the propeller of their little seaplane keeps turning, wreaking havoc before it finally dies.
The lakes cover 59, 000 hectares of rock and desert land.
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Utility-scale concentrating solar power (CSP) systems that produce electricity using lenses or mirrors to focus radiation on thermal collectors or photovoltaic cells draw criticism from environmental groups for taking up too much desert land, thus displacing certain animal and reptile species.
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De Soto's team, along with the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies, found that to acquire and legally register a lot on state-owned desert land in Egypt requires dealing with 31 public and private agencies and red tape that can stretch from 5 to 14 years.
De Soto's team, along with the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies, found that to acquire and legally register a lot on state-owned desert land in Egypt requires dealing with 31 public and private agencies, and red tape that can last from 5 to 14 years.
Authorities have long warned of the dangers of illegal border crossings, often focusing on perilous desert treks by land.
To test their new weapon, the scientists chose a desolate stretch of uninhabited, government-owned land in the New Mexico desert.
They travelled into the desert in a Land Cruiser, with a guide, following a map that Prokopi had of known dinosaur sites.
America is blessed with open space, wilderness areas, mountain vistas, diverse wildlife, austere desert and bountiful farm land.
Between 2007 and 2009, a solar land rush in California and the desert Southwest resulted in scores of developers putting lease claims on more than a million acres of property controlled by the United States Bureau of Land Management.
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Victoria Police sent an e-mail to Apple on Monday morning Sydney time, asking it to fix the flaw, but a check on the location on Apple Maps at 10pm Pacific time on Sunday shows the app is still showing the city as incorrectly being in a pocket of land in the middle of the desert park.
It can be used everywhere, on sea, land, in mountains or on the desert.
In 1984 the United Nations asserted that the desert was swallowing 21m hectares of land every year.
In west Africa, the land along the southern fringe of the Sahara desert is particularly fragile, and every year the growing population puts more pressure on the environment.
Relations between Korea and China have been soured by the murder of a Ming envoy to Korea and a group of exiled Koreans hope to restore ties between the two countries by returning to her native land a Chinese princess they have rescued in the desert.
Land is cheap: just east of Reno lies the vast desert wilderness.
Whether grown in bioreactors or in desert ponds, algal oil mostly sidesteps the food and land conflicts that potentially can limit other biofuels.
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This time there's hope he'll create a revival on the dreary north end of the Strip, where the Desert Inn is located, a no-man's-land of aging dowagers and low-roller joints.
From this traditional ranching land, the road follows the Sierra Nevada Mountains northeast through the baking Mojave Desert to a place where no ranching actually takes place, yet the most famous cowboys of them all have come to strut their stuff.
Ron Finley, an activist in South Central Los Angeles, is leading an effort to counter the neighborhood's "food desert, " by growing fruits and vegetables on city owned and private land.
The absence of tight oversight has allowed makers of herbal products to flourish, particularly in Utah, where the dry desert air helps keep raw materials and pills and capsules fresh, and where land and skilled labor have been relatively inexpensive.
The safari, included with the room rate, started as a caravan of Land Rovers carrying about 15 hotel guests into the Great Sand Sea, a vast swath of desert that dominates northeastern Africa.
Man battled the elements in Mesopotamia, and the desert and its ways of plunder and raiding pushed against urban life, but the land gave rise to powerful kingdoms: the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Sumerians, the Abbasids.
Solar Wind Energy (which used to be called Clean Wind Energy Tower, Inc.) is negotiating for a lease from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for a 1, 700-acre parcel of flat, empty desert on the Mexican border, right next to an Air Force bombing range.
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After years of wandering in the "biomedical desert, " Mr. Greenberg writes, how happy psychiatrists will be to reach the promised land, where they will not have to talk to patients at all, just scan their brains with a costly fMRI!
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