The Cascade Range in the northwestern U.S. acts as an orographic barrier to the easterly movement of humid air masses from the Pacific Ocean, producing a massive rain shadow with arid to semi-arid climate conditions on the leeward side of the range.
Even before he became the longest-serving commissioner of the federal Bureau of Reclamation (1959 to 1969), Mr. Dominy, as a rising bureaucrat, showed a knack for persuading senators and representatives to push ahead with massive dams in the arid West.
Niggle matters in a country like Australia partly because the very existence of life on the continent – isolated and arid – figures as a massive up yours to the basic laws of ecological viability.
Dry, hot weather and strong westerly winds over the Sahara desert combined to create an intense dust storm thatlifted massive amounts of dust from the arid soils and carried it many hundreds of miles across the Mediterranean Sea on 10 May.
Called Otto and Lore, they look like massive mechanized centipedes making their way across the arid landscape.
On a recent day, a squad of community scouts near Archer's Post, in Kenya's arid north, were guarding Matt, a massive, treetop-high bull with enormous tusks — six feet long and as thick as paint cans, a poacher's dream.
OO Great Wall Of Trees Keeps China's Deserts At Bay a new study says of the massive belt of trees being planted across China's arid north.
SIRUSERI, India — A massive futuristic office complex is rising from a patch of spare, arid land here near the southern Indian city of Chennai.
During surveys of the Victoria River in the semi-arid tropical region of the Northern Territory, we documented massive mortality of freshwater crocodiles (Crocodylus johnstoni) at the toad invasion front.
Extending as it does across a massive swath of southern Africa, KAZA is home to unprecedented ecological diversity: salt pans and arid grassland, woodland and scrubland, seasonal wetlands and permanent marshes, among other biomes, are all found within its borders.
