Upland NERICA varieties (NU) exhibit agronomic traits of value for the harsh eco-geography, including shorter duration, higher yield and stress tolerance, compared to local African varieties.
A harsh, even weird geography -- the vast barren outback, Martian rock formations, rivers that narrowed instead of widening seaward and sometimes disappeared altogether -- resisted settlers who pushed beyond the narrow coastal belt.
The US desire to control Greenland, however, was complicated by the island's isolated geography, harsh climate and barren landscape.
It was difficult to recover remains and conduct burials in Korea, due to the rugged geography and harsh climate, and the threat of unexploded ordnance and booby-traps.
In 2012, her massive installation at MASS MoCA brought an uncanny glacial geography to the wide open museum space, combining acidic color and texture in harsh, jarring amalgamations that offer up new ways of seeing.
The particularly harsh legacy of apartheid as it was carried out here has left especially deep scars that still demarcate the geography: whites in the city center and its mountainside inner suburbs, nonwhites in the distant townships on the Cape Flats.
