On the island, there are sand hills without any plants, but there are forests with old trees, beautiful flowers and over a hundred lakes, too.

岛上有没有任何植物的沙丘，但也有古老树木的森林，美丽的花朵和一百多个湖泊。

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Occasionally offerings come from the community of psammophiles (formally, plants that live in sand) — people who collect sand for fun.

有时沙柳（一种在沙里生长的植物）社区的人们也会给他寄来沙子。

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That's when an earthquake suddenly lowered the swamp 15 to 30 feet and mud and sand rushed in, covering everything with sediment and killing trees and other plants.

当时，一场突如其来的大地震使得这片湿地下降了15到30英尺（约4.6米到9.1米），泥沙随之奔流而至，沉积物淹埋了一切，所有的树木和植物毁于其中。

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They form when plants hold sand in the outer parts of the dune but the center of the dune continues to move.

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For example,some plants grow taller and their roots grow deeper into the sand.

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Yet,a few plants have developed techniques to avoid being buried by moving sand.

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It has allowed plants, such as early sand grass and various orchids, to pop their heads out of the soil for the first time in years.

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However, standing in one of the country's 30 solar plants -- overlooked by sand dunes on all sides, Dawoud tells CNN that he hopes that solar technology may eventually offer a viable alternative energy source to power the UAE's huge desalination needs.

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The holes twist through a phantasmagoric landscape of sand dunes thrown up half a century ago when phosphate mines worked the site, and which native plants and grasses have since overgrown.

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