With no outlet, the water that flows into the Dead Sea evaporates in the hot, arid air, leaving the minerals.
Tell her what Heathcliff is: an unreclaimed creature, without refinement, without cultivation: an arid wilderness of furze and whinstone.
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.
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.
The next battle will be rehabilitating more arid areas of China.
A lingering drought has pushed this already arid region to a water crisis.
The long-term studies by Hossain and his colleagues suggest that dams have particularly altered extreme precipitation patterns in arid or semiarid areas.
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.
There are extreme arid regions where only the fittest survive.
This process—subduction—typically creates volcanoes, but the volcanoes that rise from this arid landscape are not the typical kind.
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.
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.
Asked to describe "Israel house", one focus group imagined it as arid, all-male and surrounded by barbed wire.
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.
He began to season the arid climate in the Middle East.
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.
Some 22 percent of degrading land is in very arid to dry-subhumid areas, while 78 percent of it is in humid regions.
Their tastes lay stress on thick, arid and peppery food, mostly using seasoning like hot peppery, shallot and capsicum.
Overall, the landscape appears greener in the later image, indicating that greater precipitation in 2010 spurred plant growth in the normally arid region.
Because water is usually free, thirsty crops like alfalfa are grown in arid California.
Ascension was an arid island, buffeted by dry trade winds from southern Africa.
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