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Superstitions and Matfias threaten Morocco's largest lizard species
The Desert Monitor, Morocco’s largest lizard species, is increasingly endangered due to superstitious beliefs, traditional ...
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How North Africa’s Berbers Have Preserved Their Way Of Life For Millennia
The history of the Berbers goes back more than 10,000 years, to a time when the Sahara Desert was lush and green. They left behind cave drawings and rock art, and appeared in early Roman, Greek, ...
Interesting Engineering20d
Sahara’s solar revolution: Can desert sun power Europe’s future?
As the world grapples with the urgent need to transition to clean energy, scientists, policymakers, and entrepreneurs have considered harnessing the immense solar potential of the Sahara Desert to ...
DNA India23d
This is world's largest desert, answer will you SHOCKED, not Sahara, it is...
Internet users woke up to an interesting revelation when Google's campaign ruled out ‘Sahara’ as the best possible answer to the world’s largest desert. Desert, technically, is a land area that is dry ...
The Straits Times26d
China completes 3,000-km green belt around its biggest desert, state media says
BEIJING - China has finished a 46-year campaign to encircle its largest desert with trees, part of national efforts to end desertification and curb the sandstorms that plague parts of the country ...
The Daily Telegraph26d
Scientists built a great wall to keep out the ‘man devourer’ – but now it’s fighting back
The others are malarial mosquitoes, the trematode worm that causes Schistosomiasis and the desert locust. For locusts, “we could just ‘turn off’ swarming and keep them as harmless ...
Interesting Engineering26d
China tames ‘sea of death’ desert’s shifting sand with giant solar wall, trees
Similar efforts include the Great Green Wall initiative, a 4,970-mile (8,000-kilometer) project across Africa’s Sahara Desert. According to Lei, now that the Taklamakan Desert green belt is ...
中国日报网26d
Afforestation efforts bear fruit in Taklimakan Desert
The county is located in the southern edge of the Taklimakan Desert. MAO WEIHUA/CHINA DAILY The Taklimakan Desert, known as the "Sea of Death", has been completely encircled by a sand-blocking ...
Reuters27d
China completes 3,000-km green belt around its biggest desert, state media says
BEIJING, Nov 29 (Reuters) - China has finished a 46-year campaign to encircle its largest desert with trees, part of national efforts to end desertification and curb the sandstorms that plague ...