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Desert in sentence

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Well, in the 1950s, the Soviets decided to divert that water to irrigate the desert to grow cotton, believe it or not, in Kazakhstan, to sell cotton to the international markets to bring foreign currency into the Soviet Union.
Look at the Aral Sea, now turned to desert.
So this project was punctuated by a really amazing event, which was held in the desert outside Albuquerque in New Mexico at the Jemez Pueblo, where for three consecutive nights, the contents of the capsule were projected onto the sides of the ancient Red Rock Canyon walls, which stand about 200 feet tall.
You can see the orange line leaving the desert floor at about a 45 degree angle there.
When it rains in the summer, it floods in the desert.
And when Qatar has been assigned to the World Cup all, many people around the world have been wondering, how would it be possible that football players show spectacular football, run around in this desert climate?
There are beetles that roll little balls of dung great distances across the desert floor to feed to their hatchlings.
And as jobs continue to leave my community, and energy continues to come in, be exported in, it's no wonder that really some people refer to the South Bronx as a desert.
And legend has it that Alexander trekked through this desert.
And then, I stood on the pile, and threw all of those rocks out again, and here is rearranged desert.
How were ancient peoples able to make ice in desert climates?
But you could ask, how could these large mammals live in this desert environment?
Now, this perfect storm that we are facing is the result of our rising population, rising towards 10 billion people, land that is turning to desert, and, of course, climate change.
Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert, and this happens only when we create too much bare ground.
And I intend to focus on most of the world's land that is turning to desert.
I began helping a family in the Karoo Desert in the 1970s turn the desert that you see on the right there back to grassland, and thankfully, now their grandchildren are on the land with hope for the future.
The vast grasslands of Patagonia are turning to desert as you see here.
When you first start this and you bring in a flock of animals, it's desert.
Just like 26.5 million other Americans, I live in a food desert, South Central Los Angeles, home of the drive-thru and the drive-by.
This is the desert to the west.
Five years ago, for instance, I found myself waking each morning in misty Seattle to what I knew was an impossible question: What actually happened one desert night, half the world and almost half of history away?
In 1999, a little place called Cabo Pulmo in Mexico was an underwater desert.
This is the Saharan desert of Titan.
At the end of its breeding cycle, the Great Basin Spadefoot toad digs itself down about a meter under the hard-panned desert soil of the American West, where it can stay for many seasons until conditions are just right for it to emerge again.
That is, until 1998, when one Yale professor John Coleman Darnell discovered these inscriptions in the Thebes desert on the limestone cliffs in western Egypt, and these have been dated at between 1800 and 1900 B.C., centuries before Mesopotamia.
But what if I lived in a food desert?
We need to plant flowering crop borders and hedge rows to disrupt the agricultural food desert and begin to correct the dysfunctional food system that we've created.
It's full of panic and fear, and I'd heard the women wailing and crying in the desert.
I study ants in the desert, in the tropical forest and in my kitchen, and in the hills around Silicon Valley where I live.
In the desert, operating costs are high because water is scarce, and the seed-eating ants that I study in the desert have to spend water to get water.
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