The desert's extremely windy as well as being very cold.

The perfect desert machine.

So, there it is architectural anti desertification structures made from the desert itself.

The Drone in the Desert

A camel is to the desert what a ship is to the sea.

In the desert, I think.

Jaisalmer. This is heart of desert.

Consequently, programme administrators will need to be sufficiently flexible in the negotiations and in determining annual funding levels, in order to obtain maximum acceptance and participation in the programme.

The desert is there, sand dunes, some small field.

The Niger Penal Code establishes penalties for and criminalizes certain forms of violence to which women and girls are subjected (rape and the like).

The threat is desertification.

The Dubai Festival of World Deserts The second Festival of the Cultures and Civilizations of World Deserts was jointly organized by the World Desert Foundation and the Zayed International Prize for the Environment and was conceived to serve, among other things, as a unique platform for the launch of the IYDD.

Keith Bellows on the camel's hump

In the same framework, the Government of Italy has positively responded to the General Assembly call by supporting the UNCCD secretariat in the organization of an International Film Festival on Deserts and Desertification, Desert Nights .

Just south of the Sahara we find the Sahel.

So, welcome to the Golden Desert.

This was like a biological desert.

We depend on water, forests, deserts, oceans.

Adopting an interactive approach, the exhibit will portray the unique fauna and flora of desert ecosystems, as well as the adaptation strategies developed by their respective communities.

There's no roads into the Sahara. It's an enormous place.

So, this is the message of desert.

The sea levels were dropping. And Africa was turning to desert.

When it rains in the summer, it floods in the desert.

In the same framework, the Government of Italy has positively responded to the General Assembly call by supporting the Convention secretariat in the organization of an international film festival on deserts and desertification, entitled Desert Nights.

I'm here to look at the ultimate desert machine.

The name means edge of the desert.

And quite frankly, we're putting our heads in the sand.

(b) Television and radio clips, films, documentaries and interviews on deserts and desertification.

The reason why you have to build these telescopes in places like the Atacama Desert is because of the high altitude desert.

We can start harvesting condensation, and start greening the desert from within.

The Berlin Wall falls. We do Desert Storm.

And this is the region most closely associated with desertification.

In the burning jungle, and the desert plain.

A camel is, so to speak, a ship on the desert.

(iii) encourage further the organization of special activities to ensure the successful Year of Deserts and Desertification in 2006.

Staff participated in the Dubai Festival of World Deserts, organized jointly by the World Desert Foundation and the Zayed International Prize for the Environment, which served, inter alia, as a unique platform for the launching of the IYDD.

The Sahara was much bigger then than it is now.

This is a little critter that's in the Namibian desert.

The desert was advancing by a mile or two a year.

That's the kind of forced migration that desertification can lead to.

This is the desert to the west. Near the Pakistan border.

Adopting an interactive approach the exhibit aims at portraying in an interactive manner the unique fauna and flora of these ecosystems as well as the adaptation strategies developed by its communities.

I mean, I've got a mouth as dry as the Kalahari Desert.

And legend has it that Alexander trekked through this desert.

Forests disappearing, deserts where once there was forest.