The Gobi Desert (Mongolian: Говь, ᠭᠣᠪᠢ, /ˈɡoʊbi/; Chinese: 戈壁; pinyin: gēbì) is a large, cold desert and grassland region in northern China and southern... 38 KB (4,846 words) - 05:42, 28 March 2024 |
Desertification (redirect from Desertization) Geographic areas most affected are located in Africa (Sahel region), Asia (Gobi Desert and Mongolia) and parts of South America. Drylands occupy approximately... 69 KB (7,181 words) - 13:53, 21 April 2024 |
grassland and temperate desert. The Gobi jerboa was discovered in 1925 by Glover Morrill Allen. It is found in the Gobi Desert located in northern and... 9 KB (1,295 words) - 15:00, 22 February 2023 |
Mongolian death worm (redirect from Gobi Desert Death Worm) olgoi-khorkhoi, "large intestine-worm") is a creature alleged to exist in the Gobi Desert. Investigations into the legendary creature have been pursued by amateur... 9 KB (1,041 words) - 01:10, 19 April 2024 |
Pamir Mountains to the west, the Tian Shan range to the north, and the Gobi Desert to the east. While most researchers agree on makan being the Persian... 27 KB (2,361 words) - 18:57, 1 March 2024 |
The Eastern Gobi desert steppe is a deserts and xeric shrublands ecoregion in Mongolia and northern China. It is the easternmost of the ecoregions that... 7 KB (609 words) - 13:00, 9 March 2024 |
rare in regions with this climate. The Gobi Desert in northern China and Mongolia is one example of cold desert. Though hot in the summer, it shares the... 14 KB (1,584 words) - 12:27, 25 April 2024 |
Han–Xiongnu War (section Southern Gobi Desert) and Western Regions, eventually pushing the Xiongnu north beyond the Gobi Desert with a decisive campaign in 119 BC. After the death of Emperor Wu in... 85 KB (10,494 words) - 20:11, 10 April 2024 |
Great Green Wall (China) (category Gobi Desert) (shelterbelts) in China, designed to hold back the expansion of the Gobi Desert, and provide timber to the local population. The program started in 1978... 15 KB (1,521 words) - 00:04, 16 March 2024 |
Wild Bactrian camel (redirect from Gobi camel) "Deserts" shows footage of wild Bactrian camels from a two-month trek in the Gobi desert. It includes a "diary" section, explaining the difficulties in obtaining... 23 KB (2,713 words) - 14:11, 24 April 2024 |
The Gobi Desert (French: Le Désert de Gobi) is a 1941 adventure novel by the French writer Pierre Benoit. Set in 1928, the plot revolves around two Russian... 1 KB (90 words) - 23:59, 25 November 2023 |
The centre has desert steppes. In the south, there are semi deserts as well as the hot Gobi desert in the south, the fifth-largest desert in the world.... 21 KB (2,396 words) - 18:23, 8 August 2023 |
the accumulation of wind-blown dust. It is located southeast of the Gobi Desert and is surrounded by the Yellow River. It includes parts of the Chinese... 39 KB (4,150 words) - 14:39, 11 March 2024 |
Look up Gobi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Gobi is the largest desert region in Asia. Gobi may also refer to: GOBI, a selective primary child... 904 bytes (157 words) - 11:09, 15 January 2023 |
The Arabian Desert (Arabic: ٱلصَّحْرَاء ٱلْعَرَبِيَّة) is a vast desert wilderness in West Asia that occupies almost the entire Arabian Peninsula with... 15 KB (1,582 words) - 06:10, 8 February 2024 |
desert greening in Asia occurred in China in the 1970s, the "Green Great Wall" program, aimed at planting trees along the border of the Gobi Desert to... 51 KB (5,750 words) - 10:15, 9 April 2024 |
The Sahara desert, as defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), includes the hyper-arid center of the Sahara, between latitudes 18° N and 30° N... 8 KB (1,071 words) - 03:00, 21 March 2024 |
Barkol), plying the routes connecting those two regions through the Gobi Desert by way of Inner (or, before Mongolia's independence, Outer) Mongolia... 23 KB (3,276 words) - 11:01, 14 February 2024 |
Radford (21 June 2014). "Mongolian Death Worm: Elusive Legend of the Gobi Desert". livescience.com. Retrieved 22 October 2023. Simpson, George Gaylord... 23 KB (1,228 words) - 06:59, 30 March 2024 |
Gobi Desert shaped one man's life". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2019-12-01. -Also at MSN. "Weijian Shan on his journey from the Gobi Desert to... 6 KB (825 words) - 22:49, 25 February 2024 |