Over the next few decades, as the irrigation policy continued, fishing villages that had once been situated right on the coastline found themselves in the middle of a desert landscape.

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Wadi Rum is a varied desert landscape consisting of a range of narrow gorges, natural arches, towering cliffs, ramps, massive landslides and caverns.

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There was a great contrast between desert landscape, lush farmland and urban development.

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It'll take a few more wet years to reduce the fire danger on this high, desert landscape.

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Under a desert sun, to a backdrop of the Andes Mountains, scientists teach sponsors to read a landscape that is 100 million years old and to recognize, via texture and colour, fossils in the prehistoric rock.

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Twenty miles outside the small town of Taos, New Mexico, the dry, flat landscape is interrupted momentarily by a small brown-colored dome that appears amid the low, desert scrub.

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