Residents live in rows of tightly packed, dilapidated homes, and wind-blown garbage clutters the streets and open fields.
Dune: accumulations of wind-blown sand in ridges or mounds that lie landward of the beach and usually parallel to the shoreline.
The women wear an array of ballet dresses with fitted bodices and softly hued skirts that suggest wind-blown confections of shredded tulle.
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There is the rubbish that comes from the land, delivered by run-off, storm water drains and the wind-blown rubbish that people leave behind.
This devastation dates from 1974, when Mitsubishi shut down an 84-year-old coal mine on the wind-blown, storm-swept island of Hashima, 12 miles (19 kilometers) southwest of town.
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Cornell's laboratory research suggests that wind-blown pollen from the Bt corn could disrupt the monarch caterpillar's feeding -- often killing them before they metamorphose from caterpillars to butterflies.
The story of the former Soviet Union's disastrous policy of cotton-growing in Uzbekistan, of the wind-blown salt that its depletion of the Aral has left, and of the pollution remaining, makes for very depressing reading.
"Ron Greeley was a valued colleague and friend, and this scene, with its beautiful wind-blown drifts and dunes, captures much of what Ron loved about Mars, " said Steve Squyres of Cornell University in Ithaca, N.
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They will need calm seas to launch and recover the sub - but while in the harbour, a strong wind has blown in, white caps topping the waves.
From the top looking down, we could see that the wind had blown all the snow off the face of the bowl, leaving it hard-packed, icy and very steep.
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