He and his crew put out a natural gas fire in the Sahara Desert in Algeria.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

This design was influenced by the shape of a desert flower that grows in the area.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

The area is really a desert, receiving only about thirty-five centimeters of rain a year.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

A major reason is that the dunes bury any plants in their way as they move across the desert.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

In recent years, a shining city grew in the desert of Dubai on and even off -- the Gulf coast.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

The area has been described as a kind of oceanic desert, with light winds and slow moving water currents.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

Huge amounts of water ran into a low area in the dry, waterless desert that had once been an ancient lake.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

He performed the one-man play called "The King of the Desert" at a small historic theater in Hollywood.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

Americans know about them mainly from a history of use as pack animals in Arizona and other areas of the desert Southwest.

VOA: special.2010.02.16

A watercolor by the Saudi artist Fahda Bint Saud shows three women sitting in the desert.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

Canyonlands National Park is a wild, lonely area of rocks, rivers and desert plants.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

He enters a cave deep in the desert in the state of Arizona.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

Ladakh,situated more than 11,000 feet above sea level, is a high altitude desert where rainfall is usually very small.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

This woman named Artemia was abandoned by her smuggler in the desert and now she faces a dilemma.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

In bad times, the desert turns into a barren wasteland, challenging the survival skills of even the hardiest of people and their animals.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

It was on a bus trip through an Afghan desert that she first encountered the faith that would come to define her spiritualism.

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

"It's a biodiversity hotspot." About three million people will have a chance to visit the desert landscape on their way to or from the Museum.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

The group calls parts of Chicago, a "food desert", meaning healthy food is not available.

VOA: standard.2010.03.15

In the shadow of London's British Museum, is a bit of South Africa's desert.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

The vast reddish desert that covers much of Somalia's central Mudug region has always been a source of wealth, as well as calamity, for thousands of pastoral families.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

Mr.Obama got a warm welcome in this university in the desert.

VOA: standard.2009.05.14

With flags that read "Don't Tread On Me", Tea Party supporters gathered in a windswept dusty lot in the desert in Searchlight,Nevada, the hometown of Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid.

VOA: standard.2010.03.28

"I make every two years a big festival in the desert. We bring maybe 5,000 persons to the desert to make African fashion true and to help African fashion to grow and to give human face for African fashion."

VOA: standard.2010.01.31