where they were. They were on the border with Pakistan. Absolutely arid . And the only thing-- they had the sweetest watermelon. And I think that I want to really celebrate produce.
the days started getting dark earlier and although it was still unusual to see people wearing white sweaters or jackets the arid cold noticeably with the first carve pumpkins appearing in Windows the boy was just old enough to disdain trick-or-treating but still was young enough to covet bags of candy and
And we used to have all these battles. When through your arid , parched drought, never ever think that the rain will not come.
And then we also think about the children going to that school. think it's very arid and dry.
there's actually a program in sub-saharan Africa that looks a lot like our CPS in the country of Botswana and it's thought of as a big success Botswana is an arid country in southern Africa and since the 70s they've implemented what's called the drought relief program and what they do is early on in a drought year they ramp up food aid to rural areas they create Public
Africa's also a place where we all eat lots of meat, because meat's about the only thing there is to eat. Now when you live in an arid environment and there's not very much water, and most of the rural people carry their water miles on their donkeys or on their own backs to try to get their water to their villages.
snow covered. You start moving down south and you hit jungle. Then you hit sort of the arid lands, and finally you're in the delta, the rice growing area, which is the lowlands. This is a very, very rich country.
the Amazon rainforest, the rainforests of the Congo and Central Africa, the rainforest archipelago of the East Indies. Apart from this weird little corner of aridity, East Africa is dry. It should be wet.
Let's go to Kenya. A herder has kept his cattle on the same semi-arid land for generations. And livestock to pastoral families is not just their income, it's their savings, their insurance, the
oh, the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia or the Indus Valley and so forth. And they are all these wonderful places that tend to be arid , dry places. Because European society and European Western civilization came from these early experiments in urbanization and complexity.
So it was getting cold. And then the third terrain was-- it was arid . And it was a semi-desert kind of thing, where it was completely dry, and these dried plants which were there.
Ice floes off the coast of Canada, early spring 2016 last year. Here you see irrigation circles in a river bed in the arid land around it in the state of New Mexico. The southern tip of South America and the Patagonia ice shelves and the beautiful glaciers that occur there in the rugged landforms around it.
A little map at the bottom tells you roughly the geographical-- although that's, again, read-- instead of left or right, that's really south to north. But it shows that as you go from merely extremely arid to hyper arid , the markers, like cyclopropane, the second chart down, go to zero.
While spreading across the globe, this species of primate entered a vast diversity of habitats. So, arid deserts in Australia. The malarial swamps in Melanesia.
It's about 2 and 1/2 times the size of California. Very, very arid where we're very prone to drought cycles. And with this, it's now the last large habitat for cheetahs.
The land was not exactly fertile. In fact, it was pretty arid and barren. There were other city-states that were wealthier.
The conflict mostly happens in rural environments, not in the cities. It happens in this land locked, mountainous arid , not very heavily populated environment. And most importantly, it's a very low bandwidth, low conductivity environment.
going. They call this project hyper-arid because the areas we've been going to are the driest areas on our planet.
course, in a nice, arid region where he can play golf every single day, he might turn this duplex into a single family
felt like hell to me, because it was a very arid landscape without trees.
Because European society and European Western civilization came from these early experiments in urbanization and complexity. And so we know about places that are pyramids and ziggurats and other places that are very arid and had their own ways in which humans would have adapted to these environments. The tropical zones like this one, where I work-- this is what it looks like today, and thank goodness it looks like that today, still,
And people have asked, is humanism just too tepid or arid or flat to get people's hearts pumping?
When you have a super continent, you get these crazy arid interiors.
You know, Texas can be a kind of dry and arid place in all ways, intellectually as well as the land area.
hottest June to July period on record, resulting in wildfires, arid fields,
And in "The Martian," he's like, oh, at the time I wrote it, it was believed that Mars was almost completely arid ,
And if you think about it, if you live in an extreme environment, like a desert, that's incredibly arid -- intense heat, intense cold-- your eyes
Because if you're a poor, starving farmer, you really don't want to have cheetahs or other predators coming in. And I always like to ask people, how many people really would like to be a poor, starving farmer in an arid -type area in Africa? Anybody? Usually I find nobody.
We have a generator. We have to make our own water, which means we have to pump it from nowhere in the ground because we're in a very arid area. So our bore hole's about 200 meters deep.
enough. It gets more than ten centimeters and if you're gonna be strict to the rule hyper-arid it's too wet down there.
told that Jacob Scherr actually, one of the lawyers, got a call from Homero Aridjis, who is a poet from Mexico that Mitsubishi was planning to build a big salt plant down in