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Sereno PC, Garcea EA, Jousse H, Stojanowski CM, Saliège JF, Maga A, etal. (2008). "Lakeside Cemeteries in the Sahara: 5000 Years of Holocene Population and Environmental Change". PLOS ONE. 3 (8): e2995. Bibcode: 2008PLoSO...3.2995S. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002995. PMC 2515196. PMID 18701936.

Deserts can hold economically valuable resources that drive civilizations and economies. The most notabledesertresource in the world is the massive oil reserves in the Arabian Desert of the Middle East. More than half of the proven oil reserves in the world lie beneath the sands of the Arabian Desert, mostly in Saudi Arabia. The oil industry draws companies, migrant workers, engineers, geologists, and biologists to the Middle East. See also: Environmental monitoring, Environmental management system, and Unmanned aerial vehicle This image reveals how the forest and the atmosphere interact to create a uniform layer of "popcorn-shaped" cumulus clouds.English-Arabic online dictionary". Online.ectaco.co.uk. 28 December 2006. Archived from the original on 9 March 2009 . Retrieved 12 June 2010. This seed combines multiple biomes in close proximity, including dark oak valleys, desert, jungle, Nether, and badlands. There’s also a Jungle Temple village with a ruined portal and a Desert Temple not too far away. Wade, Lizzie (2015). "Drones and satellites spot lost civilizations in unlikely places". Science News. doi: 10.1126/science.aaa7864.

South Saharan steppe and woodlands". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund . Retrieved 29 December 2007. Community-Based Ecotourism in the Mamirauá Reserve: evaluation of product quality and reflections regarding the economic and financial feasibility of the activity" . Retrieved March 19, 2022. Most xerocoles are nocturnal. They sleep through the hot days and do their hunting and foraging at night. Deserts that seem desolate during the day are very active in the cool nighttime air. Foxes, coyotes, rats, and rabbits are all nocturnaldesert mammals. Snakes and lizards are familiar desert reptiles. Insects such as moths and flies are abundant in the desert. Most desert birds are restricted to areas near water, such as river banks. However, some birds, such as the roadrunner, have adapted to life in the desert. The roadrunner, native to the deserts of North America, obtains water from its food.The sky is usually clear above the desert, and the sunshine duration is extremely high everywhere in the Sahara. Most of the desert has more than 3,600 hours of bright sunshine per year (over 82% of daylight hours), and a wide area in the eastern part has over 4,000 hours of bright sunshine per year (over 91% of daylight hours). The highest values are very close to the theoretical maximum value. A value of 4300 hours (98%) of the time would be [ clarification needed] recorded in Upper Egypt ( Aswan, Luxor) and in the Nubian Desert ( Wadi Halfa). [20] The annual average direct solar irradiation is around 2,800 kWh/(m 2 year) in the Great Desert. The Sahara has a huge potential for solar energy production. Sand dunes in the Algerian Sahara West Saharan montane xeric woodlands". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund . Retrieved 29 December 2007. Desertification is not new. In the 1930s, parts of the Great Plains of North America became the “ Dust Bowl” through a combination of drought and poor farming practices. Millions of people had to leave their farms and seek a living in other parts of the country. Animals that have adapted to a desert environment are called xerocoles. Xerocoles include species of insects, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Some xerocoles avoid the sun by resting in scarce shade. Many escape the heat in cool burrows they dig in the ground. The fennec fox, for example, is native to the Sahara Desert. Fennec fox communities work together to dig large burrows, some as large as 93 square meters (1,000 square feet). Dew can collect in these burrows, providing the foxes with fresh water. However, fennec foxes have adapted so they do not have to drink water at all: Their kidneys retain enough water from the food they eat. Several deeply dissected mountains, many volcanic, rise from the desert, including the Aïr Mountains, Ahaggar Mountains, Saharan Atlas, Tibesti Mountains, Adrar des Iforas, and the Red Sea Hills. The highest peak in the Sahara is Emi Koussi, a shield volcano in the Tibesti range of northern Chad.

Boissoneault, Lorraine (24 March 2017). "What Really Turned the Sahara Desert From a Green Oasis into a Wasteland?". Smithsonian. Archived from the original on 28 December 2021 . Retrieved 15 August 2017. At times the wind was so intense that it almost forced us to retreat, or into the shelter of barriers raised against the sea, but soon there was no shelter left. Ahead lay only pebbles. The emptiness seemed immense and we became extremely small. Distances were hard to gauge, proportions misaligned. The landscape’s sheer outlandishness was briefly enough to jolt me free from time and place. It made my country foreign The people of the Sahara are of various origins. Among them the Amazigh including the Tuareg, various Arabized Amaziɣ groups such as the Hassaniya-speaking Sahrawis, whose populations include the Znaga, a tribe whose name is a remnant of the pre-historic Zenaga language. Other major groups of people include the: Toubou, Nubians, Zaghawa, Kanuri, Hausa, Songhai, Beja, and Fula/Fulani ( French: Peul; Fula: Fulɓe). The archaeological evidence from the Holocene period has shown that Nilo-Saharan speaking groups had populated the central and southern Sahara before the influx of Berber and Arabic speakers, around 1500 years ago, who now largely populate the Sahara in the modern era. [111] The world’s largest hot desert, the Sahara, is a subtropical desert in northern Africa. The Sahara Desert is almost the size of the entire continental United States. Other subtropical deserts include the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa and the Tanami Desert in northern Australia.The Tanezrouft is one of the Sahara's most arid regions, with no vegetation and very little life. A barren, flat gravel plain, it extends south of Reggane in Algeria towards the Adrar des Ifoghas highlands in northern Mali.

a b c MacDonald, K.; Vernet, R. (2007). Early domesticated pearl millet in Dhar Nema (Mauritania): evidence of crop processing waste as ceramic tem Forest Pulse: The Latest on the World's Forests". WRI.org. World Resources Institute. April 28, 2022. Archived from the original on April 28, 2022. ● 2022 Global Forest Watch data quoted by McGrath, Matt; Poynting, Mark (June 27, 2023). "Climate change: Deforestation surges despite pledges". BBC. Archived from the original on June 29, 2023. Ziolla Menezes, Fabiane. "BNDES to join anti-deforestation effort from banks". The Brazilian Report . Retrieved June 1, 2023. Adams, Jonathan. "Africa during the last 150,000 years". Environmental Sciences Division, ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Archived from the original on 1 May 2006. Air transportation and the development of air conditioning have made the sunny climate of deserts even more accessible and attractive to people from colder regions. Populations at resorts like Palm Springs, California, and Las Vegas, Nevada, have boomed. Desert parks, such as Death Valley National Park, California, attract thousands of visitors every year. People who migrate to the warm, dry desert for the winter and return to more temperate climates in the spring are sometimes called “ snowbirds.”Kutzbach, J.E. (2 October 1981). "Monsoon Climate of the Early Holocene: Climate Experiment with the Earth's Orbital Parameters for 9000 Years Ago". Science. 214 (4516): 59–61. Bibcode: 1981Sci...214...59K. doi: 10.1126/science.214.4516.59. PMID 17802573. S2CID 10388125. One thing all deserts have in common is that they are arid, or dry. Most experts agree that a desert is an area of land that receives no more than 25 centimeters (10 inches) of precipitation a year. The amount of evaporation in a desert often greatly exceeds the annual rainfall. In all deserts, there is little water available for plants and other organisms. The Thar Desert, often called an 'ocean of sand', covers a large area of western Rajasthan. The fragile ecosystem of the Thar supports unique and varied wildlife. In this vast ocean of sands lies the famous Desert National Park, which provides an excellent example of the ecosystem of the Thar Desert and its diverse wildlife adventure. After our week in Dungeness, the experience stayed with me. It had been like falling into the clear light of another world, a place that was “altogether elsewhere”, like the line in that Auden poem that had always tugged at me. But it was not elsewhere, not far away at all. What was it about the thought of a desert – even a not-really desert – nestled in the south-east corner of England that was so exhilarating?