Comparative activity and functional ecology of permafrost soils and lithic niches in a hyper‐arid polar desert.
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Synthetic mutualistic firewall
In semi-arid and arid ecosystems, the goal (of EFW) would be a synthetic design that can improve community conditions leading to a healthy state while preserving diversity.
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Vines dominate the arid summer landscape east of San Miguel until the grapes give way to his 850 acres of grain, cattle, and untouched open space.
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That's because the Treasure Valley is a semi-arid desert climate that gets around 11 inches of rain a year.
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There are neon lit bars, an arid slum, underpass shootouts.
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The spectrometer was built primarily to identify the mineral composition of dust blown into the atmosphere from Earth's deserts and other arid regions by measuring the wavelengths of light reflected from the surface soil in those areas.
Source: Reuters
Like Curiosity, the purpose is to learn more about the periods when Mars had flowing water on its surface so scientists can get a better idea of how (and when) it transitioned to the cold, arid planet it is today.
Source: Universe Today
image: Northeastern Tibet Plateau uplift and impact on precipitation
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The uplift of the Tibet Plateau is considered to be the main driving force behind evolution of the Asian monsoon-arid climate as well as biodiversity in the region.
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Water, after all, is expensive in the Southwest and other arid environments where golf is popular; course owners say they spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on water, and some California courses reportedly spend up to $2 million annually, giving course owners plenty of impetus to integrate low-water landscaping.
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7: Desert Botanical Garden - Phoenix, Arizona
A must-see in Phoenix, the Desert Botanical Garden includes 140 acres – 55 of them cultivated – showcasing more than 50,000 plant specimens in one of the world's most important collections of arid flora.
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Most succulents come from very arid climates where water is in short supply, so they need to be able to suck up that water quick and store it for later.
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Most people probably think of Arizona as a hot, arid desert, but nestled in the Coconino National Forest lies the temperate city of Flagstaff.
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The bulbous, fleshy, prickly, often phallic native of the desert and arid land was finding a place in the aesthetics and principles of Modernism.
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Internal public spaces play an important social role in a region where the climate is characterized by dramatic changes: short summers alternated with long, arid winters devoid of green and daylight.
Source: Global Design News
This could be explained by the unsuitable conditions of Les Bordes forest, where superimposed layers of clay and sand lead to a temporary perched water table in winter, and the low soil water storage capacity leads to arid soil conditions in the upper parts of the soil profile during summer months with low rainfall.
Source: Nature.com
Over its mission, EMIT will collect measurements of surface minerals in arid regions of Africa, Asia, North and South America, and Australia.
Source: NASA Climate Change
These cold pulses and periods are known to have triggered the development of more arid and more heterogeneous environments and habitats, especially at mid-latitudes44,45,46.
Source: Nature.com
History
“Around 400 million years ago the landscape here would have been largely arid like the Australian desert, with flash floods,” he explains.
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In sharp contrast, from 100°E to the west, many regions have no urban lakes at all, or the number of urban lakes is very small, which is consistent with the arid climate and low economic level.
Source: Nature.com
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The research project will use NASA’s Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) high-altitude Earth remote sensing platform and NASA's MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator (MASTER) to collect hyperspectral data over large regions in the arid and semi-arid western United States.
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7°FMost people probably think of Arizona as a hot, arid desert, but nestled in the Coconino National Forest lies the temperate city of Flagstaff.
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Likewise, environmental sensors can determine the exact moisture levels required to render arid urban environments arable while also reducing water waste.
Source: TechTalks
“Whenever someone buys from us, they are also supporting 40 farmers’ groups from which we source our grains,” says Mwebia of the more than 400 farmers in Arid and Semi-arid Land (ASAL) areas whose lives and livelihoods he says have been positively impacted by the 50 tons of grains that they sell to Jufra for its ugali mix.
Source: Forbes
Cacti and other succulents are important pollinators for birds, moths, and insects, and their roots are important in arid environments to maintain healthy soil and reduce erosion.
Source: Vox.com
Discovered and named by Wilson, the Lilium regale, which originated in the arid valley of the upper Minjiang River in western Sichuan, is the most important one and also known as the Regal Lily.
Source: China Daily
The construction of the ornate Casino de Monte-Carlo, completed in 1863 on an arid plateau where citrus trees had previously grown, changed the course of Monaco's history, turning the Grimaldi's small principality into a resort town for royalty and nobility.
Source: BBC
Eucalyptus pilularis (blue lines and squares) typically occupies warm and humid coastal areas in eastern Australia, whereas Eucalyptus populnea (green lines and triangles) typically occupies semi-arid interior regions of eastern Australia.
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Bond’s attempts to reveal the truth behind the conspiracy and its personal machinations against him will take him from the alpine peaks of Austria, to the arid desert of Tangiers, and finally to the rain-slicked streets of his London for a final confrontation within the bombed-out husk of M16’s former headquarters.
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Becoming Xerophile highlighted how desert plants can live without water in arid citiesOne example is Becoming Xerophile, an installation by the pair that was part of last year's Sharjah Architecture Triennial exploring how desert plants could be used in place of water-dependent greenery in arid cities.
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BLM, by contrast, manages large swaths of mid- and low-elevation ground that the federal government hung onto because it was too arid to parcel out to homesteaders.
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The arid aspect of experimentation, if we accept it, then becomes in a way the engine of the atypical ghost film, which with its unpredictable character manages to give us a handful of downright terrifying scenes…” Horreur Quebec
“Ball has made a DIY nightmare look effortless, thanks in part to his brilliant cinematographer Jamie McRae.
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At that time, the world was much warmer and wetter, and these hothouse conditions meant there were palms at the North and South Pole and predominantly arid landmasses like Australia were lush and green.
Source: Corning Leader
We saw a forested area, a large arid desert pocked with greenery, and finally a deep-red volcanic landscape, although each was marked by otherworldly rock formations tearing them apart.
Source: Pocket-lint
The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is a semi-arid country with distinctive natural features including valleys, mountain ranges and desert plateaus.
Source: UNEP
But as it heads into the arid north, the highway is as much a conduit for water as an artery for fossil fuels.
Source: InsideClimate News
The sea level is expected to be lower, and the vast interior of the supercontinent will be very arid with high daily temperature ranges," says geoscientist Zheng-Xiang Li.
Source: ScienceAlert
Climate change plays a role in the increased number of forest fires in the Pacific Northwest because the area is getting increasingly arid and dry.
Source: CNBC
The state is arid and hot.
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Ilze Kitshoff/Sony PicturesA fertile land mass of American moviemaking has gone arid — has been allowed to go arid — in order to plumb the depths of so-called intellectual property.
Source: The New York Times
Taking place in the arid climes of Tucson, Arizona, the festival’s setting is hot, dry and blossoming with life in the form of its local community.
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The samples show the Kap København Formation – now an arid patch of polar desert – used to harbor poplar, birch, and thuja trees surrounded by various shrubs and herbs.
Source: The Register
Over half of India’s terrain is sunny and semi-arid, receiving 1,000 mm of rainfall or less every year.
Source: The Hindu
Distribution of semi-arid open natural ecosystems in India in relation to protected areas (red outlines), and semi-arid “wastelands”, as designated by the Indian government (inset map).
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“protection” of remote wilderness in Alaska and Australia’s extensive designation of protected areas in its remote arid interior.
Source: Yale Environment 360
Accordingly, using basin-wide erosion rate, topographic, and precipitation data, we find that precipitation possibly influences erosional efficiency in semi-arid Andean landscapes but falls short in explaining the variability of erosion rates in regions of high orographic precipitation.
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We find that aDNA extracted from hair preserved in this extremely hot and arid environment features unusually short DNA fragments and unusually high interior aDNA damage patterns.
Source: Nature.com
This balance was disrupted by a series of land acquisitions and engineering projects devised to bring water to the residents of Los Angeles, a city in a semi-arid climate with an uncertain supply of rain that had been targeted for greatness.
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This method requires an arid climate to allow for efficient evaporation.
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Could this reduce the day - night variation in temperature?
Soil moisture does reduce variability in semi-arid regions by evaporation feedbacks, and by thermal inertia.
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Among these, in the official competition, is Mohammed Alatawai’s “Within Sand”, a breathtaking thriller – based on real events – set in the Neom desert and depicting the quest for survival of a man ambushed in the middle of the arid Saudi dunes.
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Egypt, with its arid landscape and low-lying cities scattered along the Mediterranean and Nile River, will see severe consequences of climate change if sustainability is not prioritized worldwide.
Source: ARTnews
Ants were also particularly abundant in forests, and surprisingly, in arid regions.
Source: The Conversation
Once affixed to the outside of the ISS, this experiment will scan Earth to study how dust from arid regions travels on winds and affects the climate.
Source: Livescience.com
A window into the distant past
During the Triassic, this part of Wales was hot and arid with wadis, flash flooding and scree slopes (Mercia Mudstone Marginal Facies) surrounding the hills and cliffs.
Source: British Geological Survey
The rocks also bore evidence of alteration through exposure to water, another sign that cold and arid Mars long ago was warm and wet.
Source: Reuters
Ants were also particularly abundant in forests, and surprisingly, in arid regions.
Source: Mint
But that work is likely to also shed light on many other prehistoric beasts that swam central Queensland during the Cretaceous period, when the now arid grasslands formed part of the supercontinent Gondwanaland and were submerged beneath a vast inland sea upon whose shores dinosaurs roamed.
Source: The Guardian
The northeast, a region of semi-arid savannahs, thick forest and floodplains, once was known as the breadbasket of the nation.
Source: Reuters
The Grand Canyon is in Arizona, an often arid desert state with a similar climate to Las Vegas, meaning the park can get dangerously hot.
Source: Travel2Next
With more than 1,000 miles of Pacific Ocean coastline, California appears to have access to a wellspring that other arid states lack.
Source: The Hill
In dry, arid conditions, ground tent campers risk dealing with deadly critters like snakes and scorpions.
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The watery Eiram and the arid E'ronoh played a role in phase 1, but this is our first time exploring them fully.
Source: CNET
Russia needs that water for the local population, the irrigation of the peninsula's arid land and for numerous military facilities.
Source: Reuters
Integrated water and nutrient management for sorghum production in semi-arid Burkina Faso (Wageningen University and Research Centre, 2003).
Source: Nature.com
“A rocket motor in Afghanistan, for example, is in a hot, arid climate so propellant stabilizer depletion is faster at elevated temperatures,” said Chris Marshall, supervisory chemist for the lab.
Source: United States Army
Cropping up in a nondescript horse pasture in the arid farmland north of Mack, Colorado, the bright plumage of the Thick-billed Kingbird seems out of place next to many of the native species.
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In nature, the red rocks found in the arid climes of the southwestern United States and elsewhere similarly owe their color to the iron oxide mineral hematite, whereas in wetter environments, iron ore minerals like hematite weather to form the iron oxide-hydroxide mineral goethite (FeOOH).
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Our freshwater stress calculation differs from other freshwater stress studies which consider water sharing rules between upstream and downstream basins15 and treat arid regions separately60.
Source: Nature.com
In an arid press release, deputy team principal Rod Ellingworth announced the end of an era: “we pride ourselves on working with the most forward-thinking, agile and performance-driven partners – that’s why we’ve chosen SunGod as our new, long-term eyewear partner.
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(Eduardo Contreras / The San Diego Union-Tribune) The inspiration
Cathy, who recently retired from a career in human resources, and Mike, an electrical engineer, decided to create a theme of succulents and arid plants — the more Dr.
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Desert plants, for example, are suited for dry, arid ecological niches because they have the ability to store water in their leaves.
Source: The Hindu
“You can clearly see that the models underestimate the evapotranspiration increase during droughts for arid and semi-arid regions,” Zhao said.
Source: Stanford University News
The first portion was completed during the summer of 2021 when two temporary physical installations were set on a private piece of land within the arid landscape of Marfa.
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Despite their relatively small footprint in urban areas, botanical gardens are important hotspots for butterfly biodiversity in the arid Southwest, according to a new study by University of Arizona scientists.
Source: University of Arizona News
The arid north provides pristine views for astronomy, while a launch facility in the south could give access to the hard-to-reach polar orbit.
Source: SpaceNews
Arches National Park is an arid wonderland of red rocks that form some of Utah’s most amazing geologic constructions.
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