The sandy and rocky terrain of the Sahara desert in central Algeria was captured in this image by the Sentinel-2A satellite.
Earth Sciences
Jul 10, 2015
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This satellite image was captured over southeastern Algeria in the heart of the Sahara desert.
Earth Sciences
Nov 14, 2014
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The need for food, animal feed and fuel in the Sahel belt is growing year on year, but supply is not increasing at the same rate. New figures from 22 countries indicate falling availability of resources per capita and a continued ...
Environment
Oct 16, 2014
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This Landsat-8 image from 4 July 2014 shows Lake Chad in West Africa's Sahel region – a transition zone between the Sahara Desert to the north and savannahs and woodlands to the south.
Environment
Sep 5, 2014
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A research project which counts with the participation of the University of Granada has revealed new data on the climate change that took place in the Iberian Peninsula around the mid Holocene (around 6.000 years ago), when ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 2, 2014
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A giant, geological wonder in the Sahara Desert of Mauritania is pictured in this satellite image.
Earth Sciences
May 2, 2014
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Society today might think of science parks, technology centres, business incubators and knowledge precincts as being entirely modern phenomena, representative of the great advances of human endeavour sparked into the life ...
Social Sciences
Jul 18, 2013
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The Saharan cousin of Mediterranean olive trees remains largely unknown. However, this subspecies (called the Laperinne's olive tree) is of great interest for several reasons. IRD researchers and their partners showed that ...
Ecology
May 3, 2013
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The vast region of Africa known as the Sahel will descend into large-scale drought, famine, war and terrorist control if immediate, coordinated steps are not taken to avert the perfect storm of climate change and the most ...
Environment
Apr 10, 2013
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One of the driest spots on Earth—the Sahara desert—is increasingly responsible for snow and rain half a world away in the western U.S., a new study released Thursday found.
Earth Sciences
Feb 28, 2013
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