"It suggests that many of the adaptations that we currently think of, in terms of camels being adapted to warm desert-like environments, could have actually originated through adaptation to quite the opposite extreme... cold, harsh environments, " he explained.

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It is proposed that the cell might be used in applications which require relatively low power consumption, for example sensors of various kinds or emergency signaling units, and that the devices might be used best in desert or warm coastal regions where the water is readily evaporated from the cell, thus maintaining its concentration gradient.

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At sunset, with a warm wind blowing off the desert, we sail Jelal's felucca, the open boat that more than any other evokes the romance of the Nile.

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Mr Hollande received a warm welcome on Saturday as he visited the northern desert city of Timbuktu, recaptured by French and Malian troops a week ago.

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Mr Hollande received a warm welcome on Saturday as he visited the northern desert city of Timbuktu, which was recaptured by French and Malian troops a week ago.

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And as Autumn moves in to full swing, I begin to think of drinks to warm the chilly (chile??) nights of the high desert.

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Inland, in the desert, conditions are almost uniformly settled and sunny with very high temperatures in summer and warm days in winter.

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