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Sven Hedin in the Gobi Desert
Gobi Desert Sven Hedin's Account Of the Takla-makan desert, 1895 On February 17th, 1895, Sven Hedin the explorer set out ... River, and thence into the deep sand desert called the Takla-makan: the western stretch of the Gobi desert. At first, he and his party ... the two camels abandoned amidst the sands: "thrown upon the desert" in the phrase used by Gobi caravan-men. They would lie down, stretching out ...
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The Regional Impacts of Climate Change
WG II, Chapter 3). For comparative purposes, deserts in adjoining regions (e.g., the Gobi desert from the Temperate Asia region) are included. Deserts are classified as cold deserts (e.g ... . Table 7-2: Geophysical characteristics of deserts in the Middle East and Arid Asia region. Desert (Country) Aridity Main Rainy Season Temperature of Coldest Month/ Absolute Min (°C) Temperature of Warmest ...
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MA Desertification Synthesis
Thick storms rising out of the Gobi Desert affect much of China, Korea and Japan and even reduce air quality over North America ... (fever, coughing, sore eyes) during the dry season,” says the report. “Dust emanating from (the Gobi desert) and the Sahara has also been implicated in respiratory problems as far away as North ...
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Global Warming Crisis Council
World's land turning to desert at alarming speed, United Nations warns - CHRIS HAWLEY, Associated Press Writer ... to dust, with lands the size of Rhode Island becoming desert wasteland every year and the problem threatening to send millions ... edges of deserts -- places like sub-Saharan Africa or the Gobi Desert in China, where people are already struggling to eke out ...
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Earth and Space Foundation 1997 Awards
Gobi Desert's saline lakes indicates the country was a cross-roads for many people's from ... are dependent on spaceborne imaging and GPS systems to navigate the featureless tracts of the Gobi Desert. A novel use of space technology to help farmers Category : Use of space technology to ...
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Reports - Eco Friends [ecofriends.org]
I crossed part of the Gobi desert in south Mongolia during summer. There you will find no rivers, scarce rain and barely ... water from wells. The Kun Lun is a mountain range that separates the great Taklamakan desert in Xingjian, western Chinese province and the western high and arid Tibetan plateau, where most ...
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EDGE of Existence :: Evolutionarily Distinct & Globally Endangered
Bactrian camel is superbly adapted to life in the harsh Gobi Desert, where vegetation is sparse, water sources are limited and temperatures ... largest population of Bactrian camels lives in the Gashun Gobi (Lop Nur) Desert in Xinjiang Province, China, which was for 45 years ... camels. It is superbly adapted to life in the harsh Gobi Desert, one of the most hostile and fragile regions on earth. ...
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Gobi legend: The Origin of Camels
Gobi legend: The Origin of Camels The Origin of the Wild Camel (A legend of the Gobi desert shepherds, circa 1900 AD) Long ago . . . The one true ... change shape. They fled headlong into the most desolate quarters of the desert, and every time a camel leaped a river, the gold upon ... did not stop till they were in the deepest part of the desert, on the flat land they love, far from any rivers or greedy ...
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Huw Cordey - National Geographic Adventure Magazine
Huw Cordey - National Geographic Adventure Magazine VIDEO: Tracking Wild Camels in the Gobi Desert /news/resources.html Adventure Travel Companies Rated! Search through 158 top travel companies that specialize ... a crew into the Gobi Desert to track camels for the groundbreaking BBC/Discovery series Planet Earth (BBC DVD on sale today), he was unruffled. But this was the Gobi in upper-Mongolia ...
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Chinese Desert Cat,Chinese Brown Desert Cat,Dark Brown Desert Cat of China
Desert Cat,Chinese Brown Desert Cat,Dark Brown Desert Cat of China Tigers Around the Globe Wild Cats White Tiger Bengal Tiger Wildlife Conservation Eco Tourism Indian Tiger » Wild Cats » Chinese Desert ... Leopard Tiger Chinese Desert Cat Clouded Leopard Cougar Chinese Desert Cat The Chinese desert cat which is a ... recognized: F. b. bieti, F. b. chutuchta (the Gobi cat), and F. b. vellerosa (the Long- ...
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