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The Story of the Weeping Camel--National Geographic World Films
Mongolia's Gobi region who face a crisis when the mother camel unexpectedly rejects ... different way of life and the universal terrain of the heart. The arid Gobi region is harsh—but habitable. Terrain: Land of Steppe and Sky Climate ... Weeping Camel Land of Steppe and Sky Living Traditions The Camels Gobi, little girl, camel, and woman photographs ...
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The Story of the Weeping Camel--National Geographic World Films--Photos, Maps
Gobi region. Once part of an inland sea basin, the Gobi—that's Mongolian for "desert"—now features a mix of terrains, all quite arid. Gobi habitats include rugged semidesert grasslands and the arid Gobi Altay Mountains as well as the ... mountains and arid plains of the Altay Mountains, endangered animals such as the world's only desert-living bear, the Gobi ...
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March 10, 2004: China's Shrinking Grain Harvest
In the competition for scarce water, China's cities and industry ... double cropping. China's farmers are also losing land to expanding deserts, such as the Gobi, which is consuming an additional 4,000 square miles each year. Paying farmers in the ...
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The Regional Impacts of Climate Change
IPCC 1996, WG II, Chapter 3). For comparative purposes, deserts in adjoining regions (e.g., the Gobi desert from the Temperate Asia ... Others Adjacent to the Region Gobi (China, Mongolia) (2) Semi-Arid/Extreme Arid Biseasonal /-40 /+45 42-47°N 900-1,200 50-200 1050 Ordos (China, Mongolia) Arid/Semi-Arid Summer /-21 /+42 38 ...
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Global Warming Crisis Council
Saharan Africa or the Gobi Desert in China, where people are already struggling to eke out ... said Stuart Marsh of the University of Arizona's Office of Arid Lands Studies. "That might have an effect on the biodiversity surrounding ... the Dry Areas : www.icarda.org/ University of Arizona Office of Arid Lands Studies: ag.arizona.edu/OALS/oals/oals.html (In ...
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Earth and Space Foundation 1997 Awards
Gobi Desert's saline lakes indicates the country was a cross-roads ... imaging and GPS systems to navigate the featureless tracts of the Gobi Desert. A novel use of space technology to help farmers Category : ... on areas of snow-melt to feed their herds in the arid conditions of Mongolia. Direct measurements of snow depth at different field ...
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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 ... separates the great Taklamakan desert in Xingjian, western Chinese province and the western high and arid Tibetan plateau, where most of the water to be found is salted. The inhabitants of ...
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2 YAK BREEDS
Qinghai province where the grasslands are predominantly semi-arid and consist of meadow pasture and neighbouring areas consist of dry Gobi and semi-Gobi pastures. It is believed that herds of this ...
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Atkinson: The Upper and Lower Amoor
Genii of the Gobi. Around this spot there are several smaller tombs and numerous ... of grass, intermingled with flowers. What a change from the arid and desolate scene of yesterday! Herds of antelopes were feeding, ... in the different regions of the Tarbagatai, the Barluck, and the Gobi. They frequently ravaged the nations or tribes subject to their ...
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Climatic determinants of global patterns of biodiversity - MarineBio.org
The Great Basin Desert owes its existence largely to its geographic position in the ... (constituting much of the country of Argentina), and much of inner Asia such as the Gobi Desert, which lies in the rainshadow of the Himalaya Mountain Range. Fig. 9. Average annual ...
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