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China flexes military muscles with rare, large-scale missile test in Gobi Desert
In a quiet demonstration of its technological prowess, China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has conducted a missile defence test in the Gobi Desert where as many as 16 ballistic missiles ...
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Gila monsters may struggle to survive climate change
The Mojave Desert may lose and gain suitable habitat for Gila monsters. But the unathletic reptiles might be mostly stuck in the waning oases.
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Ancient DNA pulls back curtain on the Sahara Desert’s greener past
Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Picture the Sahara, and an inhospitable landscape of ...
How salt became the white gold of Sichuan’s Zigong city and helped shape a cuisine
The spiciest city in spicy Sichuan, Zigong was once home to an empire of salt and has a history of high- and low-end cuisine, ...
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Sahara desert, once lush and green, was home to mysterious human lineage
A view from the Takarkori rock shelter in southwestern Libya ...
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Sit Still - Streams in the Desert - April 7
"Their strength is to sit still." (Isaiah 30:7) In order really to know God, inward stillness is absolutely necessary. In order really to know God, inward stillness is absolutely necessary. I remember ...