: Unlike most birds, ostriches have loose, soft feathers for temperature regulation in arid climates.
Antarctica's high plateau, extreme cold, and arid conditions make it one of Earth's harshest environments and a vital region for scientific research.
The dust lay thick in the arid gutters, and in drifts across the pavement; as the night-wind had blown it.
Paul would not stand any prolonged experience of this sort of dialogue I knew; but he certainly merited a sample of the curt and arid.
I often walked all day, through the burning noon and the arid afternoon, and the dusk evening, and came back with moonrise.
Tell her what Heathcliff is: an unreclaimed creature, without refinement, without cultivation; an arid wilderness of furze and whinstone.
They were obliged to ascend the south-western spur, and re-descend on that arid plateau terminated by the strangely-wild basalt cliff.
Beyond, on the left bank, a few scattered trees appeared, and three miles further even these dwindled into solitary groups among the western spurs of the mountain, whose arid ridge sloped down to the shore.
This woody islet did not offer the varied aspects of Lincoln Island, arid and wild in one part, but fertile and rich in the other.
The sailor's great idea was to make a voyage of discovery to Tabor Island, although Harding could not approve of a voyage simply for curiosity's sake, for there was evidently nothing to be found on this desert and almost arid rock.
As to the interior of the island, its general aspect was this, very woody throughout the southern part from the mountain to the shore, and arid and sandy in the northern part.
Most recently, in a paper published Thursday in Science, chemical engineers in China used pattern generation described by Turing to explain a more efficient process for water desalination, which is increasingly being used to provide freshwater for drinking and irrigation in arid places.
5 billion people, would become more arid and droughts and wildfires could be widespread.
One thing is clear though, the switch between humid and arid can be abrupt.
5 billion people, would become more arid and droughts and wildfires could be widespread.
Yet, since 1978, China has planted at least 66 billion of them across its arid northern territories, hoping to transform its sandy steppes and yellow dunes into a Great Green Wall.
Yet, since 1978, China has planted at least 66 billion of them across its arid northern territories, hoping to transform its sandy steppes and yellow dunes into a Great Green Wall.
The UAE's weather service, the National Center of Meteorology and Seismology (NCMS), reported that the usually warm and arid region experienced temperatures as low as -5 degrees Celsius (23 Fahrenheit) last Friday evening.
The researchers, led by Dr Maigeng Zhou, of the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, suggested this was because China is affected by large amounts of natural dust blown by the wind from arid areas, while most pollution in the West comes from industry.
According to Miscellany of the Western Capital written by Liu Xin in the Han Dynasty, as early as in the West Han Dynasty,the practice of wearing zhuyu and drinking chrysanthemum wine on Double Ninth Festival was popular, arid it was considered beneficial to people's health and conducive to longevity.
