By, Uwe Paschen. An Old saying states, “that forests came before human beings, deserts followed them.” Desertification is becoming a major problem as more and more of the world's land surface is turned into...
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By, Uwe Paschen.The History of the Sahel Desert is a very long and fascinating one as well! Human have lived, hunted and farmed here for the longest time of all areas on this Planet Earth! The first Humans lived...
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By, Uwe Paschen.Energy, our main focus since the Oil crisis of the 1970 has been Nuclear, yet, once the Oil crisis was over we focused once again on Oil!Now that we are in the middle of a new Oil crisis much worse...
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Kinda like those wake up lines at the side of the road... .. only more musical." Local officials say it was a mistake to allow a television commercial company to grind grooves into a stretch of desert roadway near Lancaster to enable car tires to play a song -- "The...
Evan Tanner, the former UFC Middleweight and USWF Heavyweight champion was found dead in the desert mountain area near Palo Verde, California, he was 37. His body was found 2 miles from his campsite in a remote...
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To the candidates - further proof that being all Talk and No action is going to result in remarkable climactic changes. To those in the McCain Camp, please read the article about what Palin is supporting -...
Well, this sounds incredible; combining sun and seawater to make deserts yield food:" The Sahara forest project will use seawater and solar power to grow food in greenhouses across the desert. Photograph: Exploration Architecture Vast...
A dust storm late Saturday night chased some participants away from the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert, before the traditional climax of the whole event."Roger Farschon, incident commander for the federal...
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"A tiny rectangle superimposed on the vast expanse of the Sahara captures the seductive appeal of the audacious plan to cut Europe's carbon emissions by harnessing the fierce power of the desert sun. Dwarfed by any...
"A couple days ago we drove with Mike to a jobsite to check on the progress. He called me out of the van to look at a clump of caterpillars hanging from a bush. As we looked around, we noticed that they were...
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From my personal blog:"July 31st marked the end of a battle for the air permit needed to progress plans to build a 1500 megawatt coal burning power plant in the middle of Navajo Nation territory. The EPA has signed...
Travellers who are bored of the streets of Paris, the canals in Italy or the sunny beaches of the Bahamas have something new to look forward to: space trips. Virgin owner Sir Richard Branson and a team of engineers...
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This was in the news last year and it's really good to know that she is doing so well. I just wanted this to share with everyone. I am also putting the original news below, so you can see the amazing journey this...
source: BBC News World!(BBC article follows UP Article)Niger army admits civilian deathsBy, Uwe Paschen.Niger has admitted that the army killed seven Tuareg civilians at the weekend.The Government finally does admit...
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The Iranian government has fudged pictures to show more missiles at the time of launch. The Pictures were altered to add a fourth missile lifting off from a desert range "An Iranian photograph showing a cluster of missile launches was apparently altered to add a fourth...