desert

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

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

It’s a small individual resistance to the impending destruction of the desert.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

"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

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

On Sundays, however, iron curtains roll shut, turning city centers into eerie, echoey deserts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

There was below-normal precipitation in interior areas like the Sierra Nevada and southeastern California deserts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 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

Through Laila’s window, the landscape shifted from snowcapped peaks to deserts to canyons and sun-scorched outcroppings of rocks.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

Skies over Le Porge turned orange as smoke rose from charred and crackling pine trees, while helicopters made repeated runs over deserted neighbourhoods.

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

Let’s not even talk about the “three-hour tour” that left Gilligan and friends stranded on a deserted island for 98 episodes, or how Jack Dawson’s voyage ended aboard 1997’s “Titanic.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

Her father deserted the family early on, leaving her mother to raise two daughters at a time when women were at a significant disadvantage in the job market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

The centre isn't quite deserted, but it's not busy either.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

She climbed a hill at the edge of the deserted village.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

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

But that’s the way it’s been as my third and final child draws ever nearer to deserting the nest, as the role of “mother” becomes less CEO and more consultant emeritus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2024

“And the moms that we help — I can’t imagine deserting any of them.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2023

They even build institutions for deserting elders out of sight.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas