Tag: Deserts

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  8 Awesome Airstream Hotels, From the California Desert to the French Pyrenees

  A drive-in movie theater in the wilderness and an urban rooftop are just a few of the innovative spots from which stylish trailer hotels are popping up.

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  Modern Oasis Design Provides Shade, Makes Energy

  Artist/inventor Michael Jantzen's new concept for a Solar Winds Desert Power Plant envisions a large public gathering place, inspired by the shape of a flowering plant, to be located in a public park in a hot, dry climate.

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  Planting Trees in the Mongolian Desert to Fight Dangerous Dust Storms in Seoul

  Korean activists are spearheading efforts to plant trees in Mongolia, hoping to improve both the lives of nomadic desert herders there and the air quality their families are exposed to back home.

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  eBay's Desert Data Center Gets Into Hot Water

  Cooling a data center in one of the hottest parts of the USA can be done by using hot water, as eBay's Phoenix facility finds.

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  Arabian 'Unicorn' Back from the Brink in Middle East Thanks to Captive Breeding Program Success

  A bright white antelope with long thin horns, the Arabian oryx is thought to have inspired early stories of unicorns. (Its two horns appear as one when viewed from the side.) And until

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  Threatened Tortoises Slow Down Desert Solar Project

  The building of the massive 5.6-square mile Ivanpah solar project in the Mojave Desert by BrightSource Energy has been suspended in the midst of

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  Big Squirreltail Evolves to Fight Off Fiery, Invasive Cheatgrass

  Nicknaming plants. Now there's a good job to have. The invasive plant in this tale, called "cheatgrass," is being fought off by a native

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  The Man Who Stopped the Desert - How One Man Saved the Soil (Video)

  From Wangaari Maathai's Billion Tree campaign to lush permaculture landscapes in Jordan, we've seen how individuals and communities can reverse desertification and bring life back to arid soils. Now a new dramatized documentary

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  Footballs To Be Made from Feral Camel Leather

  Australia has a feral camel problem. The Australian Feral Camel Management Project estimates that 1 million of rogue dromedaries roam outback Australia, annually causing over $14 million AUD worth of damage to infrastructure and

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  The Global Battle to Conserve and Rebuild Soil

  The literature on soil erosion contains countless references to the "loss of protective vegetation." Over the last half-century, clearcutting, overgrazing, and overplowing have removed so much of that protective cover

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  Mideast Nations to Work Together to Fight Sandstorms

  Though conflicts over sparse water supplies have created rifts between Turkey and its neighbors, the sandstorms they exacerbate have brought countries in the region

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  Desert-Dwelling Animals in Strange and Stunning Photos

  Deserts are hot, dry, and unforgiving -- which makes them difficult environments for most creatures to survive in. But desert residents who have adapted to the temperatures -- by learning to survive without water, developing their own cooling systems, and

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  Africa's Great Green Wall Hopes to Stop the Spreading Sahara - If It Ever Gets Planted

  It's been a couple of years since the still-planned and so-called Great Green Wall of Africa graced the pages of TreeHugger, so here's a quick update and overview: As the BBC reports, African leaders are meeting in Chad to further push the

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  Australia's Invading Camels Soon to Be Croc Food

  Locals in one region of the Australian Outback have been terrorized of late by a roaming band of feral camels. Drought conditions and a recent heat wave are being blamed for driving some 6,000 camels into residential areas near

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  Climate Change Puts the Reality in This TV Show

  At first it sounds like any other reality show: "Candidates will be put through a series of tough physical

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  Arizona Art Museum Seeks to Define Sustainability

  From a painter's satirical take on 1950s images of a bucolic world to

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  Bustan Builds a Model of Desert Sustainability

  After a volunteer accidentally burned down its office, Bustan, an environmental justice organization based in Israel's Negev desert, decided it was time to

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  Could Bacteria-Filled Balloons Stop the Spread of the Sahara? Architect Magnus Larsson Thinks So

  Nearly a year ago a "Great Green Wall" of trees was proposed to run across the entire southern border of the Sahara desert in an attempt to stop expanding desertification. At the TED Global conference in Oxford, England,