Recently we showed that at biparentally deserted nests the male and female desert on the same day [ 23].
What brought us to the desert was the same thing that attracted the Umayyads (and before them the Romans, the Nabateans, and neolithic people): an oasis, the desert's only water source.
In case anyone doubted the authenticity, in the morning a caravan of 20 camels walked by, nomads taking goods from some far-flung place to another, traversing the desert in the same way they had done for centuries.
As the report puts it: "The amount of heat gained by a Bedouin exposed to the hot desert is the same whether he wears a black or a white robe.
By contrast, when a competitor, BrightSource Energy, filed plans for an even bigger solar plant that would affect the imperiled desert tortoise, the same union group, California Unions for Reliable Energy, raised no complaint.
While it's true that illegal immigration numbers are down overall, migrants are dying in the desert at the same rate that they have been for years (roughly between 150 and 250 deaths a year), according to statistics compiled by the Arizona Recovered Human Remains Project and the human rights group No More Deaths.
Go to see Antonioni's The Red Desert on the same bill with Fellini's 8 1/2, as I once did, and you will feel the difference instantly: Antonioni, so studied, so self-conscious, so painstaking about his plans, creates a movie we can appreciate intellectually, but it bores us.
Gary Mulgrew's mother had always taught him, when he was grappling with a particularly knotty dilemma, to scribble down his concerns, so he decided to approach being sent to a notoriously violent, gang-dominated jail in a Texas desert in the same way.
Mojave is a small town on the edge of the desert of the same name.
