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And this animation, this shows photosynthetic activity over the course of a number of years, and what you can see is that the boundaries of those deserts shift quite a lot, and that raises the question of whether we can intervene at the boundary conditions to halt, or maybe even reverse, desertification.
And if you look at some of the organisms that have evolved to live in deserts, there are some amazing examples of adaptations to water scarcity.
And the kind of synergies I'm talking about are, firstly, both these technologies work very well in hot, sunny deserts.
Sometimes when I'm on a long plane flight, I gaze out at all those mountains and deserts and try to get my head around how vast our Earth is.
Where deserts freeze and waters boil.
Concentrating solar power in deserts delivers larger powers per unit area, because you don't have the problem of clouds.
Of course, Britain doesn't have any deserts.
And a fourth supply-side option: concentrating solar power in other people's deserts.
We'd had 10,000 years of extremely knowledgeable pastoralists bunching and moving their animals, but they had created the great manmade deserts of the world.
Coming the other day from Atlanta, here, two days ago, I was flying over deserts that we made, we provoked with our own hands.
We start our journey in the central deserts.
Now we talk about food deserts, places in our cities, neighborhoods that have no grocery stores.
The very farms that used to sustain bees are now agricultural food deserts, dominated by one or two plant species like corn and soybeans.
The other condition is in societies living in marginal or fluctuating environments, such as the Arctic or deserts, where there are periodic food shortages, and occasionally there just isn't enough food to keep everyone alive.
These are sometimes referred to as the deserts of the oceans, but they're not deserts at all.
It's on the line of deserts.
These colleagues propose that, yes, we can save other areas, including deserts.
It would lead to changing deserts, changing rivers, changing patterns of hurricanes, changing sea levels, hundreds of millions of people, perhaps billions of people who would have to move, and if we've learned anything from history, that means severe and extended conflict.
With the help of the family, they cross oceans, they cross deserts, they cross rivers, they cross mountains.
But though these Martian vistas resemble the deserts of our own home world, places that are tied in our imagination to ideas about pioneering and frontiers, compared to Earth Mars is a pretty terrible place to live.
Consider the extent to which we have not colonized the deserts of our own planet, places that are lush by comparison with Mars.
A few bones of this animal have been found in the deserts of Egypt and were described about 100 years ago by a German paleontologist.
Each is a different habitat for microbial communities: from the arid deserts of our skin, to the villages on our lips, and the cities in our mouths.
Its focus on innate racial differences in disease diverts attention and resources from the social determinants that cause appalling racial gaps in health: lack of access to high-quality medical care; food deserts in poor neighborhoods; exposure to environmental toxins; high rates of incarceration; and experiencing the stress of racial discrimination.
And they're in diverse biomes including deserts, ice sheets, the sea, fresh water, rainforests, and the highest mountain peaks.
It's not that dinosaurs particularly lived in deserts; they lived on every land mass and in every imaginable environment.
So, you always find dinosaurs in deserts or badlands, areas that have very little plant growth and have flash floods in the spring.
And if, for example, they were nomadic pastoralists, they were pastoralists, people living in deserts or grasslands with their herds of camels, cows, goats, odds are they would have invented what's called a culture of honor filled with warrior classes, retributive violence, clan vendettas, and amazingly, centuries later, that would still be influencing the values with which you were raised.
I'd heard warnings of massacres in the country's jungles and deserts, but no one could locate these massacres or tell me who was killed, or when.
Forests disappearing, deserts where once there was forest.
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