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concerned with the formation of deserts (areas receiving very little precipitation) and processes occurring specifically within deserts

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Egypt is planning to create a new delta on the left of the old one by building an artificial river that redirects agricultural waste water into the desert. The water should gradually turn the desert ...
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Its normally said that deserts cool planets because they reflect more radiation back to space. According to this logic if all the land mass in the world was desert the world should be colder. Is it ...
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Thinking about the movie Dune (this is not a sci fi question) got me to wondering. In the theoretical situation where you had a desert of sand with an unlimited depth here on Earth. At what depth ...
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Note: I know this question sounds fit for aviation stack exchange, but other aspects of this question like cloud formation, atmospheric behavior, precipitation and overall water cycle can be better ...
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I'm interested about this rock formation in Arabian desert. The rock looks like melting chocolate. Not sure where the exact Location, the source says it around Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia. Here the image ...
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Desert greening is the conversion of deserts into moister environments with more vegetation. This could be used to combat desertification and (by sequestering CO2) climate change, and also to increase ...
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Let's say at some point in the future we have an abundance of fresh water (for example because we have enough energy to power many desalination plants) and we can turn the Sahara into green land by ...
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I am wondering if there are any theories about the formation of oases, and I am also curious about why an oasis can even last for a very long period of time. I have heard that fresh water exists on ...
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So I was recently watching this video regarding desalination efforts around the world and the viability of desalination as a means to provide humans with freshwater. I had a few questions: 1 - They ...
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This answer pointed me to the Wikipedia page for Farouk El-Baz in which the desert research and theories subsection says: During the past 20 years in his research at Boston University, El-Baz has ...
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In the Wikipedia article for the Simpsons Desert in Australia in the first paragraph it says: It is the fourth-largest Australian desert, with an area of $\small\mathsf{176,500}$ $\small\mathsf{km^2}...
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What is this big black dot on the satellite view of google maps, located in Syria at about 4:00 from Damascus?
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On my random explorations of google maps, I came across this interesting terrain: (link to map here) Apparently, this is part of the so-called Hamad Plateau, in the Syrian desert. If so, the rock ...
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What will be the effect on a desert-like area if it is covered with millions of umbrella-like structures like the following one? Would it play any positive role in reversing the desertification?
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Building off of another question I recently asked (Is there sand in Antarctica?) I want to ask a broader question coming from the same motive described there. Are there desert sands that experience ...
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