Because water is usually free, thirsty crops like alfalfa are grown in arid California.
This process—subduction—typically creates volcanoes, but the volcanoes that rise from this arid landscape are not the typical kind.
The long-term studies by Hossain and his colleagues suggest that dams have particularly altered extreme precipitation patterns in arid or semiarid areas.
Overall, the landscape appears greener in the later image, indicating that greater precipitation in 2010 spurred plant growth in the normally arid region.
Therein lies a crucial part of the solution, water experts say, one much simpler and closer to home than a massive plumbing patch: learning to live within the water resources of an arid landscape.
Ascension was an arid island, buffeted by dry trade winds from southern Africa.
Asked to describe "Israel house", one focus group imagined it as arid, all-male and surrounded by barbed wire.
A farmer treks through arid farm fields in Yunnan amid a devastating drought that raised unease about food prices, climate change and cross-border water management.
Now I realize: even though we had enough water to keep the manicured lawns just so, I was experiencing a personal drought, an arid lack of culture of all kinds, especially music.
He began to season the arid climate in the Middle East.
Tell her what Heathcliff is: an unreclaimed creature, without refinement, without cultivation: an arid wilderness of furze and whinstone.
Quinoa, domesticated thousands of years ago on Bolivia's arid high mountain plains and now often misrepresented as a grain, is actually a chenopod, related to species like beets and spinach.
A lingering drought has pushed this already arid region to a water crisis.
Precipitation is a key determinant of plant productivity in forest, whilst in arid regions there is an approximately liner increase in primary productivity with increasing precipitation.
The next battle will be rehabilitating more arid areas of China.
From the rain forests of the northeast to the arid high plateau that runs like a spine through the south Peru is blessed with incredible biodiversity-a bounty that is clearly reflected on its plates.
Their tastes lay stress on thick, arid and peppery food, mostly using seasoning like hot peppery, shallot and capsicum.
With no outlet, the water that flows into the Dead Sea evaporates in the hot, arid air, leaving the minerals.
Some 22 percent of degrading land is in very arid to dry-subhumid areas, while 78 percent of it is in humid regions.
There are extreme arid regions where only the fittest survive.
curious plant of arid regions of southwestern Africa having a yard-high and yard-wide turniplike trunk with a deep taproot and two large persistent woody straplike leaves growing from the base; living relic of a flora long disappeared; some may be 700-5000 years old.
