As I peer through the heavy calibre bullet belt of the door gunner, suddenly lush, green fields appear and then out of this wilderness, sparkling in the sun rises the Helmand river bringing life to this barren land.
This can be distracting, but it does illustrate how life along the river has changed.
By the middle of the 20th century the river was almost devoid of life.
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They received some financial underwriting for the Granite Falls endeavor from Minnesota organizations devoted to the betterment of life along the river, but on the subject of making enough money doing this to support themselves, "we're still kind of trying to figure that out, " Gaylord said with a laugh.
All life in the Marcal river, which feeds the Danube, has been "extinguished".
The city's sewage system was so overwhelmed that human waste, sent straight into the water around New York, decayed on the river floor and choked out most life.
The project A River's Dream came to life as an idea in the year 2010, celebrated as the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures by the United Nations system.
Clint Eastwood and Martin Scorsese worked hard to bring Boston to life in "Mystic River" and "The Departed, " respectively, but "Gone Baby Gone" feels more intimately grounded in the dirty streets and scummy bars, and the aggressive pride that comes with them.
After his goalscoring exploits last season, Bellion has featured slightly less frequently this term, thanks to Blanc's squad-rotation system, but he is content with life on the Garonne river and feels his maturity off the pitch is reflected by his play on it.
In Greek mythology drinking from the river Lethe erases memories of a past life.
Sitting in the control tower on a recent weekday, Ron Anderson, the dispatcher, and Pete Falotico, the tower operator, pointed to a screen that showed blinking, malfunctioning symbols indicating where damaged signals in the station and the river tunnels were slowly sputtering back to life a few more after each overnight shift of repair work.
Mississippi River is changing as the flooding is rearranging life on land and overrunning parts of the bayou.
But vintner Santos says the life force of the San Francisco River that runs past his land, quenches his fields, and makes them bloom.
The UKNC in Scotland supports the activities of the Centre, such as an interactive online event focused on Hydrology, Environment, Life and Policy (HELP) river basins in Scotland.
Nor is it just marine life that stands to benefit from removing river impediments.
The Yangzi River flood has soaked up all the clamor of life in the towns around the lake.
And as fish stock increases, so too will wildlife connected to the river system, including otters, water voles and bird life.
She oversees a critical juncture in the Colorado River Valley, stewarding the very essence of what makes life possible in the arid American Southwest.
He gave new life to the downtown area with the ambitious River Relocation Project, which uncovered and redirected three rivers to form Water Place Park.
According to Bosse, there is scant proof that egg-to-smolt survival, which occurs during the first year of life, has decreased since the four lower Snake River dams were constructed.
The family lives a life of rural self-sufficiency that makes the River Cottage look like a microprocessor plant, raising pigs, keeping bees and growing tomatoes, corn, figs, beans, apples, medlars and pears.
As you walk down to the river banks from the temple you may catch a glimpse of local life at its colourful best.
The second reason is these fish occur in an extremely large, deep, muddy, river and you will never see them unless you can dedicate your life to trying to find them!
Some argue that he could have found out about life in Italy by talking to merchants who arrived at the River Thames.
Today the Hawkesbury River valley is home to those wanting to escape a busy, urban life, as well as legions of tourists.
Schurz Sr. is a father who had his life turned around by a fatherhood program promoted within the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community in Arizona.
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At the border of life and death, said a folktale, there was a river called the River of Forgetting, and on the bridge an old woman called Mrs.
River levels have subsided and now just one "severe" flood warning - meaning a threat of "extreme danger to life and property" is posed - applies to parts of the River Eamont in Cumbria.
My life became violent and I ended up living in a boat on the river.
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