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In July 2019, the Ecuadorian court forbade the government to sell territory with forests to oil companies. [98] The Chinkara or Indian Gazelle (Gazella bennettii) is a common antelope of this region. The national park's other notable inhabitants are the desert fox, wolf and desert cat. Birdlife in this sandy habitat is vivid and spectacular. Birds such as sandgrouse, partridges, bee-eaters, larks, and shrikes are commonly seen. In the winter, the birdlife is augmented by species such as the demoiselle crane and MacQueen's bustard. One evening at sunset, with crimson light pouring over a scene of wind-whipped marram grass and the skeletons of boats, I experienced a moment of dislocation; suddenly I was not in England but in a North American wasteland, some time in an imagined future that felt dreamily familiar, surrounded by the flotsam and jetsam of a collapsed culture. The light; the rusted metal cables; the plants like disfigured cabbages; the presence of the power stations with their blinking lights; the landscape’s sheer outlandishness: it was briefly enough to jolt me free from time and place. “Outlandish” comes from the Old English ūtland, which means foreign country, and that was this desert’s uncanny effect. It made my country foreign.

Many deserts have no drainage to a river, lake, or ocean. Rainwater, including water from flash floods, collects in large depressions called basins. The shallow lakes that form in basins eventually evaporate, leaving playas, or salt-surfaced lake beds. Playas, also called sinks, pans, or salt flats, can be hundreds of kilometers wide. Sereno PC, Garcea EAA, Jousse H, Stojanowski CM, Saliège J-F, 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.Prospect Cottage, the home and garden of the film-maker Derek Jarman. Photograph: UrbanImages/Alamy The Beni Ḥassān and other nomadic Arab tribes dominated the Sanhaja Berber tribes of the western Sahara after the Char Bouba war of the 17th century. As a result, Arabian culture and language came to dominate, and the Berber tribes underwent some Arabization. North Saharan steppe and woodlands". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund . Retrieved 29 December 2007. The name "Sahara" is derived from the Arabic word for "desert" in the feminine irregular form, the singular ṣaḥra' ( صحراء /ˈsˤaħra/), plural ṣaḥārā ( صَحَارَى /ˈsˤaħaːraː/), [4] [5] [6] [7] ṣaḥār ( صَحَار), ṣaḥrāwāt ( صَحْرَاوَات), ṣaḥāriy ( صَحَارِي). Spain captured present-day Western Sahara after 1874, although Rio del Oro remained largely under Sahrawi influence. In 1912, Italy captured parts of what was to be named Libya from the Ottomans. To promote the Roman Catholic religion in the desert, Pope Pius IX appointed a delegate Apostolic of the Sahara and the Sudan in 1868; later in the 19th century his jurisdiction was reorganized into the Vicariate Apostolic of Sahara.

a b c Nicholson, Sharon E. (27 October 2011). Dryland Climatology. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-50024-1. Archived from the original on 30 July 2023 . Retrieved 20 November 2020. The deserts of Patagonia, the largest in South America, are expanding due to desertification. Patagonia is a major agricultural region where non-native species such as cattle and sheep graze on grassland. Sheep and cattle have reduced the native vegetation in Patagonia, causing loss of valuable topsoil. More than 30 percent of the grasslands of Argentina, Chile, and Bolivia are faced with desertification. According to the World Wide Fund for Nature, the combination of climate change and deforestation increases the drying effect of dead trees that fuels forest fires. [122]Dean, Warren (1976). Rio Claro: A Brazilian Plantation System, 1820–1920. Stanford University Press.

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.The North Saharan steppe and woodlands is along the northern desert, next to the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub ecoregions of the northern Maghreb and Cyrenaica. Winter rains sustain shrublands and dry woodlands that form a transition between the Mediterranean climate regions to the north and the hyper-arid Sahara proper to the south. It covers 1,675,300 square kilometers (646,840sqmi) in Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia. [45] The second seed is for the latest Minecraft 1.20 Trails and Tales update. So, to make this seed work, you’ll need to load the latest snapshot of Minecraft (including some beta features).

Plants and animals adapt to desert habitats in many ways. Desert plants grow far apart, allowing them to obtain as much water around them as possible. This spacing gives some desert regions a desolate appearance.

Williams, M. (2006). Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis (Abridgeded.). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-89947-3. The Sahara is not the only desert to have dramatic climate change. The Ghaggar River, in what is now India and Pakistan, was a major water source for Mohenjo-daro, an urban area of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization. Over time, the Ghaggar changed course and now only flows during the rainy monsoon season. Mohenjo-daro is now a part of the vast Thar and Cholistan deserts. a b c Mori, F. (1998). The Great Civilisations of the ancient Sahara: Neolithisation and the earliest evidence of anthropomorphic religions. Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider. ISBN 88-7062-971-6.