desert

"While camels remain the livestock herders' last line of defence against the desert, the unprecedented intensity of current heatwaves directly threatens their vital functions, turning this historically resilient animal into a climate victim," he said.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Summers are usually a low season for tourists in the United Arab Emirates, a mostly desert country where temperatures can reach 50C.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

Sweetly, and with little hope, they make a small community of people who understand each other and the desert landscape that others see as a blank space on the map.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

Camels are famously known as the ships of the desert, but even these hardy animals are not being spared from the extremes of rising temperatures in Africa.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Led by a physicist named Robert Oppenheimer, the team succeeded, testing the world’s first atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert in July 1945.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

From the bustling labs of the Northeast to the remote deserts of the Southwest, American ingenuity can be found everywhere.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

They then used machine-learning models that incorporated environmental data from deserts, tundra, forests, and other ecosystems to predict fungal network density in regions where direct measurements were unavailable.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 2026

The solar panels and wind turbines that have popped up over swathes of sun-soaked land, from the Tibetan Plateau to Xinjiang's deserts, are part of this vision.

From BBC ● May 31, 2026

The recent snowfall comes amid a “May Gray” weather condition that is expected to bring lower temperatures across Southern California through Thursday, with mountains and deserts potentially experiencing temperatures up to 25 degrees below average.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026

Theology has changed, over the years: just deserts used to be what everyone could expect to get, in the end.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Adalberto Maypora, a well-known character around town, inspects his fishing boat on a deserted beach nestled between cliffs.

From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026

Streets were largely deserted in Taiwan's port city of Keelung, which is expected to be one of the hardest hit areas on the island, as Bavi whipped up strong winds and dumped heavy rain.

From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026

In “God Knows Where I Am,” Linda Bishop, diagnosed variously as having “bipolar disorder with psychosis” or schizoaffective disorder, drifts “between shelters, hospitals, and jail” before finding refuge in a deserted farmhouse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

With regard to the French Revolution and its aftermath, Forster’s good sense deserted him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

The cafe was deserted at this hour, with the chairs on the tables.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

He was arguing defiantly he would carry on, but that defiance drained away as it became clear his capacity to viably govern was deserting him.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

But a major reason for voters deserting the party in past elections was inflation, an unwelcome phenomenon for households after several decades of stable or falling prices.

From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026

But the Syrian army collapsed with surprising ease, with many troops deserting the battlefield, in the face of the HTS rebels’ onslaught.

From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2024

He treats his troops abominably, whether he’s deserting them in Egypt, condemning them to a death march through a Russian winter or sending them into the hopeless onslaught of Waterloo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

Was he actually considering deserting all the things he loved?

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman