| 单词 | scrubland |
| 例句 | Below this, a bit of open scrubland dropped sharply down into the forest proper. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Her voice-over imposes epiphanic plot points onto her journey that are reinforced by cheesy visual metaphors, as when she parachutes mysteriously into some scrubland or is shown diving into water in slow motion. ‘Born in Evin’ Review: No Place for a Baby, or Anyone Else 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z At nightfall, two men headed out of the city carrying a basket of meat-scraps, then crouched in a clearing and called out into a patch of scrubland. A Remarkable Rail Journey Into the Horn of Africa’s Past, and Future 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z There's the Mad Maldon Mud Race, a birthday picnic in some Grantchester scrubland, and golfers dwarfed by the cooling towers of Ratcliffe on Soar power station. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z He’s trying to discover the truth about the mysterious death of his son, a serving soldier, whose body was discovered in scrubland near his military base in New Mexico. Charlize Theron's 20 best film roles – ranked! 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z He beams at them before sauntering off into the scrubland, his purple robe shimmering in the evening light. Bombino: Niger's Tuareg guitar hero 2013-04-07T16:00:01Z The identikit apartment blocks and mousy-brown fields were as unremarkable as the pale scrubland. China's new high-speed train from Hong Kong to Guangzhou 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z The fictionalized American and Mexican world of "Red Dead Redemption" has its pockets of civilization — ranches, towns, forts, even cities — but the majority of the environment is scrubland and desert, cliffs and hills. Video game: 'Red Dead Redemption' is a shoot-em-up Western 2010-07-10T01:47:00Z “God Save Texas” is full of such commentary — affectionate and genial, yet dry as desert scrubland. In ‘God Save Texas,’ Lawrence Wright Ranges Far and Wide 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z I’d never been there and was expecting scrubland and oil wells. A father-son trek cross-country for a move from Atlanta to Los Angeles 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z The work is surrounded by scrubland filled with indigenous plants. In Mexico City, a Battle Over a Building and the Art in Its Shadow 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z This book takes us on a journey, through red-orange scrubland and ochre deserts, where Fox flickers through the trees like a tongue of fire. Fox by Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks - review 2011-08-20T08:00:00Z The other day, looking from a great distance on Interstate 15 toward the same lake bed, a few pinpoints of brightness were visible, neon anomalies against the dun-colored scrubland. Building an Artist’s ‘Magic Mountains’ to Draw Visitors to the Desert 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z So often, we were the only vehicle on the road for miles, accelerating along on a single lane of tarmac separating vast plains of forest, desert or scrubland. My mum only had a few months to live. So we rented a van and took a road trip 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z We could see a tiny splotch of white in the otherwise unbroken sea of green scrubland: a patch of flat gravel that would serve as our makeshift airstrip. Explorer : Mud, Leeches and Stunning Beauty in Tasmania 2013-01-25T17:51:24Z Colossal redwoods dominate Muir Woods National Monument, while fog-shrouded grassland, maritime chaparral and coastal scrubland adapted to the distinctive Mediterranean climate accommodate a remarkable assortment of endangered plants. The U.S. Issue: Endangered Species: A Coast-to-Coast Guide to Endangered Species 2011-05-13T20:22:51Z A 20-yard walk from our airy, teak-filled cabana, the beach felt remote and wild, its shallow curve backed by driftwood and scrubland. With civil war and a tsunami behind it, Sri Lanka’s east coast is opening up to tourism 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z The dry scrubland looked like crumpled construction paper, the swirling ridgelines thrown into relief by the late afternoon light. Confused in California 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z It was a strange mix of verdure and inhospitality, this scrubland, and I asked what it was called. In France, a Visit With the In-Laws (Finally) Becomes a Vacation 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z In this otherworldly place of subalpine scrubland, black, orange, red and silver lava flows form the walls. Forgoing Sunrise for Sunset on Maui’s Volcano 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Young tried heroically to turn flat scrubland into a planned community and a second film capital based on the Los Angeles original. Visiting Hollywood, Fla., while it still has its funky charm 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z The all-encompassing quiet was interrupted by the muffled thuds of the horses’ hooves against the frozen scrubland, sounding like drumsticks against a pillow. On a Remote Siberian Island Asking, Was It Just a Dream? 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z It’s 1885 in the scrubland of Queensland, Australia, and Tommy has come home with his older brother, Billy, to find his parents murdered and his sister grievously wounded. Review | Two Australian boys seek revenge for their parents’ murder in this blood-soaked tale 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z As you climb, the tree canopy thins and then disappears until you emerge on a vast plateau of scrubland scattered with Mars-red chunks of volcanic rock. Why Hiking Beats Surfing on Réunion Island (Hint: Sharks!) 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Worldnet’s offices are far from the Fashion District, in a neighborhood of low brick warehouses and marshy scrubland in Queens, five minutes from Kennedy Airport. Worldnet Is FedEx for the Fashion Crowd 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Here, much of the action of the story is confined to the cabin, while the scrubland surrounding it represents both danger and liberation. This Week in Fiction: Lauren Groff on the Cult of Motherhood 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z This is open low scrubland, interspersed by big messy thorn bushes. Returned to the wild: A 3,500-acre estate outside London is ruled by nature 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z I met him near a collection of derelict buildings in the scrubland on the Serbian side of the Hungarian fence. Migrants to Europe dying in gun battles and car crashes 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z Historians and ethnographers say the Wintu were the predominant tribe around the site proposed for the casino complex, an expanse of meadow and scrubland that locals dub the Strawberry Fields because of its agricultural history. A 19th century massacre, mostly forgotten, clouds plans for a shimmering tribal casino 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z She then added climate data from up to 6000 years ago and asked the model to predict which species could have slithered through ancient Egypt’s savanna and scrublands. Serpents that bit ancient Egyptians slither into focus 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z But decades of widespread hunting and habitat loss have winnowed their numbers in the United States to fewer than a hundred individuals, which now roam the thorny scrublands of South Texas. Ocelots once roamed the U.S. Can we bring them back? 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z It also deals a huge blow to French influence in the Sahel and could allow Russia to expand its sway over the region's vast, insecure scrublands. France to begin troop withdrawal from Niger this week 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z Two wildfires that ravaged different parts of Spokane County on Friday afternoon destroyed 300 structures, including homes and outbuildings, and torched 18,000 acres of homes, scrublands, farm fields and forests. Two Spokane County fires destroy over 18,000 acres 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z “That means that the ecosystems on western slopes are often brushy scrubland more than lush forests,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA. How a perfect storm of climate and weather led to catastrophic Maui fire 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z Native to Australia’s eastern seaboard, rainbow lorikeets dwell in forest and scrubland and in leafy coastal suburbs. The Mystery of Australia’s Paralyzed Parrots 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z In 2014 the British police, who also opened an investigation, known as Operation Grange, examined scrubland near the resort where she disappeared for several days but found no evidence. The Madeleine McCann Case: Here’s What We Know 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z Unlike Egypt or Mesopotamia, there were no great rivers feeding fertile soil, just mountains, hills, and scrubland with poor, rocky soil. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z This desert scrubland extends down the center of Mexico to the tip of the Central Mexican Plateau. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z "As far as we understand, they planned to demand a ransom for him but on finding they'd killed him, they just abandoned him in nearby scrubland." The young men of Mexico risking their lives to be Catholic priests 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z In this month's exercises, soldiers patrolled barren scrubland dotted with thin bushes. As Russia looms, US seeks influence in West Africa's fight against Islamists 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z Native to coastal scrublands, dunes and riverbanks near California's Pacific ocean, the pocket mouse's range once stretched from Los Angeles to the US-Mexico border. Tiny mouse named after actor Sir Patrick Stewart takes age record 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z The drought has laid waste to the Somali countryside, leaving crops shrivelled and the scrublands dotted with the corpses of emaciated livestock. Somalia not at famine levels between October and December - U.N. agencies, aid groups 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z The men trooped to a bus stationed in a nearby piece of scrubland that doubled as a parking facility. A migrant’s desperate day chasing work at the World Cup 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z He said the strength of the quake means it likely caused damage in the remote oil patch and scrubland, but none had been reported so far. Strong earthquake rattles remote West Texas desert 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z Trees give good protection from surveillance planes, World War Two bunkers are ideal accommodation for passengers, and sand dunes and scrubland hide boats and slow patrols. Can the UK-France crackdown on Channel smugglers work? 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z In the middle of the 20th century, this flat peninsula was a swampy, mosquito-infested spit of mangrove and palmetto scrubland inhabited by a handful of cattle ranchers. After Hurricane Ian, a low-lying Florida city starts to rebuild. Should it? 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Within seconds the unit have piled into a special buggy, also provided by the UK, and are bouncing across the sandy scrubland towards the site. Calais migrants: Smugglers cause fresh problems for police 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z A video shared online showed people scrambling to retrieve goods from at least a dozen blazing trucks and a plume of smoke stretching across the scrubland. Several feared dead, trucks destroyed in Burkina Faso convoy attack 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z Coups in Mali, Chad and Burkina Faso have weakened France's alliances in its former colonies, emboldened jihadists who control large swathes of desert and scrubland, and opened the door to greater Russian influence. France says its troops have left Mali, remains committed to helping Sahel 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z One lived in the grasslands while a smaller species lived in a colder scrubland. Miller & Levine Biology 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z The city was encircled by an endless blue sky and seemingly infinite desert scrublands. Art is at the heart of Marfa, Tex. 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z They navigated woodlands, grasslands, scrublands, farmlands, scrambled over steep escarpments, skittered down mud-slicked gorges and traversed the legendary East African Rift three times. The Incredible Journey of Three African Wild Dogs 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z "We have a goal of 3-5 years for improvement of each trait," Hao said at the farm, where red-roofed buildings are perched on a hill, surrounded by scrubland and mountains. China pig breeders go high-tech in self-sufficiency push 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z They guard the presidential palace, officials say, and are tasked with tracking extremists in the scrubland. Civilian killings soar as Russian mercenaries join fight in West Africa 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z Signs still proudly announced the plantations' existence, but scrubland plants were taking over. How phantom forests are used for greenwashing 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z In the last month, about 60 firefighters tackled two large scrubland blazes in Surrey and homes were evacuated after a large fire was started deliberately at Canford Heath in Dorset. Wildfires: Firefighters on high alert and warnings issued 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z The Gossi base, which housed between 300 and 400 troops, is little more than a walled compound surrounded by scrubland. French army watches for bombs and potholes as it withdraws from Mali base 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Forests in the American west are already turning into scrubland because wildfires have become more common than they once were. The Australian wildfires were so big that they punched a hole in the ozone layer 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z In its place will come homesteads, followed by consolidated properties, followed by denuded scrublands with dirt roads that turn muddy among mines that scar the earth. The War for the Rainforest 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z ZARANJ, Afghanistan — The smuggler barreled down the narrow dirt road, bouncing into craters and over rocks that jutted out from the scrubland. The Smugglers’ Paradise of Afghanistan 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Uncounted bone fragments were spread across 75,000 square feet of desert scrubland. Mexico’s efforts paltry in face of nearly 100,000 missing 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z Aerial footage taken nearby showed vast dusty scrubland strewn with cattle carcasses. Millions facing severe hunger in Horn of Africa - U.N. food agency 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z In October, a San Diego judge struck down the approval of a community of more than 1,000 homes and businesses in that county’s dry eastern scrublands because of wildfire risk. In California, a New Fight to Stop Building in the Path of Fire 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z Sometime around 2018, a teenager in a blazer and bluejeans stood in desert scrubland near Las Vegas and made a pitch for U.S. Trump’s Dream of a Border Wall, Twisted Into a Sci-Fi Nightmare 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z It is an industry that is sophisticated enough to commission specially-made boats and transport them across EU borders, but crude enough to hide clients for hours in scrubland before packing them on board. Migrant crisis: The windswept beaches of opportunity and fear 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z But on a recent Saturday morning, a sailor unlocked a gate and permitted a group of volunteers to drive down a windy road past scrubland studded with cactus and earth-covered ammunition bunkers to the site. Those Buried at Guantánamo Graveyard Never Found Their Way Home 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z Apostolic groups generally have no formal church premises and members, striking in the long white robes they wear to services, worship outdoors in open scrubland or hillsides, in locations widely spread across the country. ‘It’s not Satanism’: Zimbabwe church leaders preach vaccines 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z With megafires in recent years plaguing California, where forests and scrublands remain extremely desiccated by drought and other effects of climate change, the arsonist’s match is an especially potent threat. An Expert on the Criminal Mind, Now He’s Suspected in an Arson Spree 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z The path was guarded at key points by the partisans, known as the maquis, after the French word for the southern scrubland where many such groups operated. In love with the Resistance: My mother-in-law's war 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z The wildland-urban interface — where human development intermingles with wild places such as forests, grasslands and scrublands — is the fastest-growing land-use type in the United States. A state park plan draws attention to population boom in some of California's most fire-prone areas 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z Opposite the main hospital in Calais, a stench of urine hung in the air and soiled tissue papers littered the narrow sandy paths that twisted through the scrubland. 'We have no choice': migrants undeterred by UK threat to send boats back to France 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Armed gangs operating from camps in remote areas of scrubland have been taking people for ransom. Phone blackout, crackdown on kidnappers reported in northwest Nigeria 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z Makeshift camps have been established on scrubland on the outskirts of the capital, while many of those seeking safety in Kabul have been sleeping on the streets. Afghanistan: Diplomats hasten exit as Taliban near Kabul 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z The scene is set in the sparsely populated west Texas desert scrubland for a celebrity event. Bezos, three others set to blast off into space this morning 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z That’s because Slab City has more than its share of people who think this patch of scrubland is impervious to disease. Slab City offered quirky isolation, but there's no escaping a pandemic 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z When Chad began pumping oil from its southern scrublands in 2003, the government hailed it as a new dawn in one of the world's poorest countries hit by perennial drought and insecurity. The real threat to Chad's military rulers: unemployed youth 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z Hundreds of them escaped across the scrubland into Colombia. Armed Groups Step Into Venezuela as Lawlessness Grows 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z Most of the area around the abandoned nuclear plant is a wilderness of empty buildings, scrubland and rubble. Abandoned plant and wasteland: Ukraine eyes UNESCO World Heritage tag for Chernobyl | Reuters Situated less than 50 miles south of Nevada's border with Oregon in Humboldt County, the Thacker Pass region is a sea of sagebrush, scrublands, and grasslands that serves a wildlife corridor connecting two mountain ranges. A showdown in Nevada could determine the future of electric vehicles in the U.S. 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z A witness told Reuters the smell of burning and chemicals lingered in the air at the site of the crash, in scrubland just outside the airport perimeter. Seven die in Nigerian Air Force plane crash near Abuja airport 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z In scrubland just outside the airport perimeter, dozens of military and airport officials picked through the charred remnants of the airplane. Nigerian air force passenger plane crash kills 7 people 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z It cost him his life in an area of scrubland in the violent border region between the states of Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon. US-Mexico border: The gruesome attack that shocked a village 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Brigades searched mile after mile of barren scrubland for signs of him. She Stalked Her Daughter’s Killers Across Mexico, One by One 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z A deforestation tipping point is nearing where the Amazon may flip from rainforest to dry scrublands. A strategic natural-carbon reserve to fight climate change 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z It's not visible in historic satellite imagery from 2015, but appears in October 2016 when scrubland in the vicinity also appears to have been cleared. Utah monolith: Internet sleuths got there, but its origins are still a mystery 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z They also bore the brunt of a horrific 1998-2000 conflict with Eritrea that saw tens of thousands die in battles over scrubland that drew comparisons with the attrition and trench warfare of World War One. Battle-hardy Tigray back in spotlight as Ethiopia conflict flares 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z In the town of Matamoros, across the border from Brownsville, Texas, hundreds of people set up one such camp in 2018 near the entry point, in the scrubland on the banks of the Rio Grande. Trump wall: How much has he actually built? 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z Off the motorways, dirt roads in the scrubland provide a web of smuggling routes ideal for traffickers. She Stalked Her Daughter’s Killers Across Mexico, One by One 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z People seeking an affordable, or more bucolic and spacious, life have moved a rash of newly built houses carved into the scrublands and pine forests of what’s known as the wildland-urban interface. 'Too late to stop it': California's future hinges on managing megafires 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z It was five days before Parisi's decomposed body was found below a high-voltage pylon in scrubland near the town of Caronia. Child's remains found in Sicily mystery search 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z The United States has a significant presence in the Sahel, a vast sub-Saharan scrubland that stretches from Senegal to Sudan. Mali’s President Resigns After Being Arrested in Military Coup 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z “God willing, this summer we will start to build here, where we are standing,” he said, surrounded by scrubland filled with chirping crickets at the edge of Ateret. 'Annexation will suffocate us': Jericho's Palestinians fear being cut off 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Turkana is a vast, dry scrubland in northwest Kenya that borders Uganda, South Sudan and Ethiopia. Swarms of locusts devastate parts of northern Kenya 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z The video shows officers running across scrubland, having abandoned their vehicles, to try and find the injured teen. Father's warning after son 'nearly died' at rave 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Surrounded by scrubland and deep water wells, the house is now vacant. In Town Where Madeleine McCann Vanished, Residents Weary of the Case 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z But in Africa, the time frame for evacuating injured American troops is much longer, particularly in the expanse of West Africa’s Sahel region, a vast sub-Saharan scrubland that stretches from Senegal to Sudan. U.S. Military Cutting Medevac Flights for Troops in West Africa 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z For the next hour, Route 33 changes again, passing scrubland, fruit orchards and prisons before landing in Coalinga, a town of 13,300 set in a dewy valley. Along a scenic highway, a road map of California's hope and anxiety 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z Some have warned that the forest will soon reach a tipping point that could turn much of it into dry scrubland. When will the Amazon hit a tipping point? 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z It is an allegation the Guardian heard repeatedly during a recent visit to the thinly populated scrubland that surrounds Calub gas field, though it was not able to independently verify its veracity. The mystery sickness bringing death and dismay to eastern Ethiopia 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Home to valuable oil facilities, the swath of scrubland and farms became a focus for U.S. operations after a Turkish invasion into northern Syria pushed U.S. troops from bases there. In Syria, U.S. steps up Islamic State operation, but for how long, no one knows 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z The camp consists of hundreds of tents clustered together on a spit of sidewalk and a stretch of scrubland along the Rio Grande. In squalid Mexico tent city, asylum seekers are growing so desperate they're sending their children over the border alone 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Burkina Faso is struggling to combat surging Islamist violence in remote eastern and northern scrubland areas. Anger grows as families bury the dead after Burkina Faso attack 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z When the term was first introduced, a tipping point referred to an abrupt change of state: in the Amazon’s case, when the rainforest biome becomes unstable and regions swiftly transform into dry scrubland. When will the Amazon hit a tipping point? 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z The identity of the assailants was unclear, but Burkina Faso is struggling to combat surging Islamist violence in remote eastern and northern scrubland areas of the West African state. Australia's Perenti says 19 of its employees killed in Burkina Faso attack 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The assailants’ identity was unclear, but Burkina Faso is struggling to combat surging Islamist violence in the remote eastern and northern scrubland areas. Many still missing after deadly attack near Canadian-run mine in Burkina Faso 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z “He’s not alive, no. They don’t leave people alive,” the 62-year-old said as he slalomed through the parched scrubland of tumbleweed and cacti where they had played as kids. ‘The disappeared’: searching for 40,000 missing victims of Mexico’s drug wars 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z “These are scrublands and grasslands and a discussion of forest management is completely not applicable.” As wildfires burn across California, President Trump lashes out at the state on Twitter 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z The privately held Circuit of the Americas is several miles from downtown Austin and was built into the rolling hills and scrubland of Central Texas. Expanding US footprint is like walking in quicksand for F1 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z He was last heard from in April, a month after a U.S.-backed campaign seized the last chunk of ISIS-controlled territory, in Baghouz, in the oil-rich scrublands of Syria bordering Iraq. ISIS’s Leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi—the World’s Most Wanted Man—Is Dead 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z Ms. Lindsey’s husband, Charles, said the fire, known as the Tick Fire, started near their home and moved quickly through scrubland. In Fire-Scarred California, ‘If You’re Told to Go, You Go’ 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z The UK-based monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, put the number of escapees at 100, publishing pictures of men, women and children running through yellow scrubland. Syrian troops enter Kurdish fight against Turkish forces 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z An Australian man who kidnapped a child from a shopping centre and molested her in remote scrubland has been jailed. Australian jailed over 'parent's nightmare' kidnap 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z The prince walked through dusty scrubland, marked with red warning signs showing the skull and crossbones, with the Portuguese words “Perigo Minas!” Prince Harry follows in Diana's footsteps in fight against landmines 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z The South Texas Family Residential Center sits off a vast stretch of scrubland in a tiny former oil-boom town, an hour south of San Antonio. ICE’s chief called family detention ‘summer camp.’ Here’s what it looks like inside. 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z Champagne, caviar and seared tuna will be on the menu for Virgin Galactic astronauts in training when they arrive at the company's new home in the desert scrublands of southern New Mexico. Deere shares increase despite profit drop; early Lyft investors can divest from Monday 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Leaving scenic Virginia, some engineers found their new setting otherworldly enough, with scrublands flat as graph paper. Celebrating the Engineers behind the First Moon Landing 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Residents cowered in their homes or fled down the highway through mountainous tropical scrubland. Toxic mix of gangs, vigilantes fuels rising Mexican violence 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Outside the walls of the Paterna Cemetery, a walk through scrubland leads to a wall in which bullet holes from the Francoist firing squads that executed people like Miguel Galán still are visible. Mass graves from Franco era become Spanish election issue 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z Only 350 people lived in the area covered by the concession - some 447 square kilometers of hilly scrubland on the northern bank of the Orinoco River. Special Report: How Russia sank billions of dollars into Venezuela... 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Erysimum incanum is a demure variety of wallflower that grows in the scrublands of Spain and northwest Africa. Watch this shy plant engage in some ‘self-love’ when it can’t find any pollinators 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z As they evolved through time, these species developed specific characteristics to thrive in the ecologically diverse landscapes along the border, ranging from extreme desert scrublands to rain-heavy wetlands. How Trump's Wall Would Alter Our Biological Identity Forever 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Millions of Americans want to live in what experts call the wildland-urban interface — quiet, scenic realms where towns and cities end and forests, grasslands or scrublands begin. How Wildfires Are Making Some California Homes Uninsurable 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z It is the transition zone between wildlands — such as forests, grasslands and scrublands — and human development. Americans Are Moving Closer to Nature, and Into Fire Zones 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The model represents one bleak square mile of ruined scrubland and concrete tower blocks. Shrinking the world: why we can't resist model villages 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z When the family reached the scrubland of southern Texas, U.S. The Five-Year-Old Who Was Detained at the Border and Convinced to Sign Away Her Rights 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Heading south from downtown, past the industrial scrubland of Fruitvale, then up 66th Avenue with the Raiders and Warriors arenas alongside, you eventually reach Acts Full Gospel Church. As stakes rise in Nia Wilson case, simmering racial tensions intensify in Oakland 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Some records do not list a specific location within the camps, which sprawl for nearly 100 square miles of northern Uganda scrubland. In Uganda’s Refugee Camps, South Sudanese Children Seek the Families They’ve Lost 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z In one effort researchers moved about 600 animals to a lake area in the arid scrubland between Los Angeles and San Diego. Saving Animals by Scaring Them 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z The flight crashed moments after taking off, skidding to a halt in scrubland near the runway, a wing in flames. Passengers recount escape from burning Mexican plane 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Growing up in Southern California, I lived for the hours that I spent hiking and exploring nearby chaparral scrublands, oak-covered hills, and rocky intertidal environments. Why Don't the Geosciences Have More Diversity? 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z He had ridden with destitute families through Central America on the roofs of anarchic freight trains and followed U.S. border patrols as they chased men through Texas scrubland. ‘I wanted to stop her crying’: The image of a migrant child that broke a photographer’s heart 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z Authorities are struggling to cope with where to place the bikes, many of which clutter pavements or are thrown into rivers and scrubland. Uber launches electric bike-sharing service in Germany 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z The venomous but docile tarantula is native to Mexican deserts and scrublands, and is named after its red-orange leg joints. A Tarantula Sheds its Skin in New Time-Lapse Video 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Some suggest relocating the Palestinians to distant scrubland. Syria is erasing the Palestinians’ largest refugee camp 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z The region covers 39,731 square miles of diverse topography including dense scrublands and agricultural fields. Yearning for Zion Ranch in Texas empty 10 years after raid 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z Most lie in India's northern deserts and southern scrubland, where state and local authorities are racing to fulfill Modi's agenda and foreign companies are vying for pieces of perhaps the last great solar market. The biggest solar parks in the world are now being built in India 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z A boom in house-building in forests, scrublands and grasslands of the United States is exacerbating wildfire risk. The housing trend feeding wildfires’ flames 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z “That could swing the whole Senate,” Arpaio said at one point in a car driven by an aide, as he sat without a seat belt, watching the scrubland spotted with saguaro cactuses whiz by outside. In Arizona, Joe Arpaio’s Senate bid tests the strength of Trumpism 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z The South Texas Residential Family Center sits atop a former camp for oilfield workers in the remote, sloping scrubland of the Rio Grande Valley. Their daughters were held at the border – then the blackmail from fake Ice agents began 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z On Sept. 2, they were taken to scrubland near a graveyard, Buddhist villagers said, where they were photographed again. Myanmar forces and Buddhist villagers torched Rohingya homes, then kil 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z On Sept. 2, the men were taken to scrubland north of the village, near a graveyard for Buddhist residents, six Buddhist villagers said. Special Report: How Myanmar forces burned, looted and killed in a remo 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z Camel herders in the arid scrubland east of Addis Ababa report many more such incidents over the previous year of trial operations. Camel trains are holding up Ethiopia’s new railway line 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z From the scrubland opposite him, a group of wiry young fighters in tattered fatigues gathered, cradling Kalashnikovs. Two Bags of Cash for Boko Haram: The Untold Story of How Nigeria Freed Its Kidnapped Girls 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z It was a physical struggle both in desert and scrubland, Mr Jones said. Trekking across the outback with a toddler 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z On Sept. 2, they were taken to scrubland near a graveyard, Buddhist villagers said, where they were photographed again. Myanmar forces and Buddhist villagers torched Rohingya homes, then kil 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z On Sept. 2, the men were taken to scrubland north of the village, near a graveyard for Buddhist residents, six Buddhist villagers said. Special Report: How Myanmar forces burned, looted and killed in a remo 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z Inside, vintage Italian sofas and armchairs in muted tones of green and gray complement the polished concrete floors and scrubland surroundings. Where to Relax (and What to Eat) in Formentera 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z Mesquite, population 18,000, is a quiet desert city along the Utah and Arizona border, surrounded by desert mountains and creosote scrubland. Nevada town where Vegas suspect lived catered to gamblers and gun lovers 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z The views — of enormous cloud-capped mountains, distant buttes and unblemished scrublands — are predictably stunning. Red Dead Redemption 2's Second Trailer Looks Incredible 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Summer fires are a common occurrence in the region and elsewhere in southern Europe, where blazes spread rapidly through forests and scrubland left parched by droughts. Wildfires Force Thousands to Evacuate in Southern France 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Gathering together in a patch of scrubland outside Sinjar, they phoned her uncle. Slaves of Isis: the long walk of the Yazidi women 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z She and her husband have built a small park alongside some scrubland on their 30 acres, and they enjoy a panoramic view of the Rio Grande Valley. Trump’s wall faces a barrier in Texas: landowner lawsuits 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z In September, police investigating a wave of killings in the northern Rio de Janeiro suburbs followed a tip to the isolated scrubland near the massive Duque de Caxias oil refinery. Brazil's black market pipeline: Gangs hijack Petrobras' oil, fuel 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z More than 50,000 of them now live in Rhino camp, a sprawling expanse of huts and tents scattered across dusty scrubland near the town of Arua. Trucking water to Uganda's refugee camps - BBC News 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Lyon Group partner David Green says the system, financed by investors and built on privately owned scrubland in Morgan, will be a “significant stimulus” for South Australia. South Australia to get $1bn solar farm and world's biggest battery 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z According to the map, he would cross the border in twenty-one hundred feet, pass through about a mile of scrubland, and then reach a small road in Canada. The Underground Railroad for Refugees 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z American officials, citing possible security threats, keep most personnel confined to the 570-acre rectangle of scrubland, which is a 10-minute drive from the center of Djibouti city. U.S. Wary of Its New Neighbor in Djibouti: A Chinese Naval Base 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z Buried four feet below ground, the Trans-Pecos pipeline will carry natural gas 143 miles from a hub in the dry scrubland of west Texas to the waters of the Rio Grande. Trump wants to ding imports from Mexico. What happens to stuff we send the other way? 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Zama, a former military hero renowned as a “pacifier of Indians,” has been dispatched to Asunción, in the humid scrubland of what is now Paraguay. A Neglected South American Masterpiece 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Most of this is composed of "fynbos" - scrubland plants - the majority of which do not grow anywhere else in the world. South Africa's scrubland plant entrepreneur - BBC News 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z The ones who made it disappeared into the scrubland. The Soccer-Star Refugees of Eritrea 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Some of the fields alongside are used for tobacco and sugar cane crops, but most is scrubland. Fidel Castro's last journey maps story of leader's triumphs and shortcomings 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z At the height of the fighting and the famine in Somalia, Dadaab, with its sprawling stretch of refugee camps in the flat, dusty desert scrubland of north-eastern Kenya, was home to half a million people. Can Kenya close Dadaab, the world's biggest refugee camp? - BBC News 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z For about an hour, they moved across the scrubland, tackling flames that popped up even before the ones they were fighting were extinguished. Indonesia Tries New Tactics to Douse Annual Firestorms 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Al-Shabab was reduced to roaming around Somalia’s vast, arid scrubland, and staging deadly suicide bombing attacks in Mogadishu and other centers. Somalia's al-Shabab in comeback, as Ethiopia pulls troops 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z When hit with fire like this, many forests return only as scrubland, with trees no bigger than shrubs. Like Tens of Millions of Matchsticks, California’s Dead Trees Stand Ready to Burn 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z The fighters deposited the migrants at an abandoned hospital perched in a scrubland near a desert town called Nawfaliyah. Special Report: Enslaved in Libya - One woman's extraordinary escape from Islamic State 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Around three hectares of scrubland are alight on Tottenham Marshes in Lee Valley Park. Tottenham grassland 'size of three football pitches' ablaze - BBC News 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z The facility in Dilley — built in the middle of sunbaked scrubland, in what used to be a camp for oil workers — now holds the majority of the country’s mother-and-child detainees. Inside the administration’s $1 billion deal to detain Central American asylum seekers 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z We walked along a narrow strip of scrubland, above the flood line, scattering the seeds left and right. What It Takes to Clean the Ganges 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z However, the massive arachnids camouflage themselves well in the rain forests and scrublands where they live. Love in the Time of Tarantulas: New Spider Shocks Scientists He found allies in the Gujjars, a tribal community that raises sheep and goats in the scrubland ringing the park. 10 years ago India’s tigers were vanishing. Here’s how a few villagers with cameras are helping to save them 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z The capsule parachuted down to a remote spot on the vast scrubland of the Kazakhstan steppe. Tim Peake nursing 'world's worst hangover' after six months in space 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z The somewhat bottle-opener-shaped Peninsula de Guanahacabibes biosphere reserve sits at the westernmost tip of Cuba, and is known for its diverse vegetation of mangroves, marshy grasslands, forest, and coastal scrublands. Satellite Eye on Earth: April 2016 – in pictures 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z They hid the items in scrubland - but then apparently forgot where. Museum raids gang: How police caught £57m heist masterminds - BBC News 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z THE desolate hills east of Jerusalem seem insignificant, a barren stretch of scrubland with few buildings or residents. The doomsday settlement 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z But the police and federal agencies charged with law enforcement in this high-desert scrubland in the shadow of Steens Mountain are trying to write a new script for dealing with an occupation. In Oregon standoff, local sheriff embraces the spectacle 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z Rosewood burning Where Rosewood once stood is now little more than a rural scrubland along state road 24, a lonely highway in central Florida bordered by swamp, slash pine and palmetto. Rosewood massacre a harrowing tale of racism and the road toward reparations 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z The owner of a hundred and sixty acres of scrubland, designated for flooding, refused to sell; after Bush threatened eminent-domain proceedings to force a sale, the state ended up paying nearly five million dollars. Jeb Bush’s Everglades Fight 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Investigators noted a flurry of telephone calls and texts began as soon as the items stolen from Durham were apparently "lost" in the scrubland. Museum raids gang: How police caught £57m heist masterminds - BBC News 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z And the road to the border through Somaliland’s desert scrublands is a pitted stretch of asphalt cut in several places by sandy river beds. How a breakaway region of Somalia hopes to build a new country 2015-12-26T05:00:00Z Three months later her body was discovered in scrubland nearby. The best of the Long Read in 2015 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Camels amble and makeshift canvas dwellings dot the scrubland outside Garissa; officials scan traffic at a bridge checkpoint on the edge of town. Ahead of pope visit, Christians and Muslims in Kenyan town hit by militants work toward peace 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Having done so, each enters his cockpit and is soon looking down on dusty hills and scrubland. The new front line 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z The blaze burned less than an acre of scrubland and did not destroy any property or threaten life. British citizen, in Australia for 50 of 51 years, faces deportation for scrub fire 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z A poor coal region wedged below Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, with its hilly, arid scrubland, is ill suited for most agriculture. China’s Winemakers Seek Their Own Napa Valley 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z The Expo was built on scrubland outside Italy's financial capital and it is still not clear what will happen to the site once the last visitor goes home. Milan Expo defies naysayers, proves unexpected success 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z In the Jungle, set in flood-prone scrubland within sight of the English Channel, whiffs of salty sea air mix with the scents of human waste and burning trash. Tighter security in French port breeds growing defiance among refugees 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Landscapes like the scrubland in New Mexico absorb far less carbon than the forests they are replacing, said Mr. Falk of the University of Arizona. As Fires Grow, a New Landscape Appears in the West 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z He peers through binoculars, concentrating intently on two land surveyors working about 15 yards in front of him and, beyond, the scrubland extending to the horizon. Jeff Wall’s Unique Photographic Vision 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z The rockets set fire to scrubland but did not cause any casualties. Islamic State in Syria demolishes al-Qaryatain monastery - BBC News 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z The tally of property losses from California's largest and most destructive wildfire this year nearly doubled on Wednesday as the week-old blaze raged through dry scrubland north of Napa Valley wine country. Property losses from northern California wildfire nearly double 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z The tally of property losses from California’s most destructive wildfire this year nearly doubled on Wednesday as the week-old blaze raged on through dry scrubland north of Napa Valley wine country. Property losses from California wildfire nearly double as week-old blaze rages 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z As the sun rises, he begins his 3-hour walk back to the dusty scrubland on the outskirts of Calais, to the makeshift camps known as “the Jungle” to its 3,000 residents. Migrants Wait With Hope, Resignation at Camp Called 'The Jungle' 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z That is likely to apply to grassland and scrubland. Can we save forests and produce palm oil? Scientists seek answer 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Over the past century many remains of man’s ancestors have been found well preserved in windswept scrubland far from paved roads and modern interference. A glimpse of Africa’s future 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Its order and tidiness is all the more striking in the barren scrubland that surrounds it. Dry run 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Thousands are now living in tents on scrubland on the frontier between the two countries, wanted by neither. UN concern at Bangladesh plan to move thousands of Rohingya to flooded island 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z Searches continued at the park on Monday, with specialist officers scouring scrubland metres away from families playing frisbee and cricket. Didcot murders: police find body of Jed Allen 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z A sudden mirage rises on a stretch of lonely scrubland; kaleidoscopic stained-glass windows and ivory-white columns are topped with a giant pearl dome that rises 158 metres above the bush. Yamoussoukro's Notre-Dame de la Paix, the world's largest basilica - a history of cities in 50 buildings, day 37 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Last June, British police conducted searches of scrubland around where Madeleine went missing but announced no new evidence. Madeleine McCann's parents win Portuguese libel case 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Earlier this month, the Pakistani military took The Washington Post on a rare public tour of the 2,500-acre facility, which opened in 2009 and resembles a hunting ranch on the scrublands of Texas. To fight the Taliban, Pakistani military turns to unorthodox but simple tactics 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z Walker played his second shot from scrubland 265 yards into the greenside bunker, but was left with an awkward sidehill lie to a pin 25 yards away. How He Hit That: Jimmy Walker's prime bunker touch: The Loop 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z This remote coastal scrubland, a haven for wild elephants and migratory birds that is several hours away from the nearest city, seems like an odd place to attempt to create a major commercial hub. Former Sri Lanka president's pet projects under review 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Smugglers are now quicker to abandon their groups in the river or scrubland, according to Felix Cantu, the Border Patrol agent in charge of McAllen station. Drownings along Rio Grande spike after enforcement surge 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z Earlier this year detectives from London flew to the Algarve to assist with searching scrubland near the resort where Madeleine disappeared when she was nearly four years old. McCann probe interviews to conclude 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Travelling through the middle of Sri Lanka and into the dry zone brings you miles of flat, thorny scrubland and bamboo forest. Where will Sri Lanka's new roads lead? 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z Then the road tilts upward, through the chaparral, a scrubland of coyote brush and sweet-smelling redbud, and up into the pine and oak woodlands before reaching the mountains. The Call of the Wild, Partly Answered 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z Video footage released by Isis shows what appears to be one of its fighters for in desert scrubland with a stack of boxes attached to a parachute. Isis claims it has US airdrop of weapons 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z The developments around Zumpango sit in a desolate expanse of open scrubland, with high perimeter walls that contain stark lattices of identical houses. They Built It. People Came. Now They Go. 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z The recent American intervention—more than a hundred and twenty air strikes since August 8th—has destroyed a few dozen armed pickup trucks, mortar positions, and roadside bombs in the dusty scrubland of northwest Iraq. NATO’s Difficult Trifecta 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z More curiously, that house is in a part of the city more scrubland than neighborhood, and appears to be directly under the flight path of McCarran International Airport. Hey, Here’s an Idea for a Show 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z In 2012, exploratory drilling on Texas scrubland that had been in the Meador family for years, mainly used for camping and hunting, tapped into natural gas, Ross said. Deep debt and erratic income pose a challenge for Fullerton family 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z We find him walking through flat scrubland, peppered with trees, past broken fences and wooden huts. The Indian workers punished with an axe 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Determined to finish in red figures, he made a hash of his second shot from the scrubland down the right of the hole. 'You can't ever write yourself off' 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Far better to be in the spot -- maybe a few yards from the edge of the scrubland -- from where an approach can be struck straight down the throat of the distant green. This is as close to 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z British police are expected to join their Portuguese counterparts on the patch of scrubland later on Wednesday as the search for clues in Praia da Luz on the Algarve enters a second week. Madeleine McCann search switches to new area at Praia da Luz 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Their search of a 15-acre piece of scrubland in Praia da Luz, which started last Monday, was due to last five days but an extension was granted. Madeleine police to search new sites 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z Police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann are expected to spend a final day searching scrubland before moving on to new locations. Police's 'last day' at scrubland site 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z Detectives using sniffer dogs have begun a fourth day of searches in dense scrubland a short walk from where Madeleine McCann was last seen alive seven years ago. Madeleine McCann: police begin fourth day of Praia da Luz scrubland search 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Officers started digging up scrubland for the first time in Praia da Luz on Tuesday as they prepared to expand significantly the search operation in the resort where she went missing in 2007. Madeleine McCann search enters third day on Praia da Luz scrubland 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Portuguese police are also involved in the search, which is taking place on scrubland in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz. Sniffer dogs join Madeleine search 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z Four officers from the Metropolitan Police joined their Portuguese counterparts in searching the section of scrubland in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz. Madeleine police use sniffer dogs 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z The police activity is happening now because Portuguese authorities recently accepted a Metropolitan Police request to search the area of scrubland near where Madeleine, then three years old, went missing in 2007. Worry in Luz at new Madeleine search 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z Residents fled into the scrublands surrounding the town. Special Report: The rifts behind Nigeria's mass kidnap 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z In it, more than a hundred girls, draped in hijabs, huddle in a clearing of scrubland and recite verses from the Koran. Alexis Okeowo: Rage and Grief in Nigeria 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z They are praying and seated cross-legged in the type of scrubland that is pervasive in this region, not far from the Sahara Desert. Boko Haram Video Appears to Show Kidnapped Nigerian Girls Praying 2014-05-12T15:04:45Z They are also expected to use "ground penetrating radar" to search the scrubland, looking for signs of disturbed earth. Madeleine police use sniffer dogs 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z The centre of one of the world's oldest Christian traditions, some 80 monasteries, most in ruins, dot the landscape of dry scrubland and outcrops. Generations on, Christians fleeing Syria return to Turkish homeland 2014-02-28T07:14:00Z The water shortage has placed extra scrutiny on usage here in the Coachella Valley, where intensive irrigation has transformed the desert scrubland into lush lawns and golf courses. Syria Is Expected to Be Main Topic as Obama Meets With King of Jordan 2014-02-15T04:49:39Z It was Dan who, when the trio were growing up in Devon, started making small jumps on patches of scrubland. Rows, crashes and World Cup wins 2013-09-30T14:16:19Z The 10-sq-km block in the eastern suburbs of Shanghai currently contains a few bonded warehouses, some factories and the odd patch of open scrubland. Shanghai's free trade zone raises hopes 2013-09-26T23:33:32Z Herds of goats and sheep roam freely through wild olive groves and rocky scrubland baked brown in the Aegean sun. Turkey revives Greeks' hopes by re-opening primary school 2013-09-18T17:47:34Z All of it was manufactured at the Hanford Engineer Works, a vast industrial complex built on 586 square miles of remote desert scrubland in south central Washington State as part of the Manhattan Project. The Plutonium Gang: CH2M Hill Dismantles the Hanford Nuclear Site 2013-08-01T19:26:01Z "When jatropha was introduced it was seen as a miracle crop, it would grow on scrubland or marginal land," she said. Desert 'carbon farming' to curb CO2 2013-08-01T14:45:47Z Near the Mexican border at Carrizo Springs, this arid scrubland is now the scene of frenetic activity as several major energy companies have moved in. US to begin exporting 'fracked' gas 2013-07-16T00:52:57Z As jihadists battle regional governments from the deserts of southern Algeria to the scrubland of north Nigeria, Mauritania Attacker says the hacking collective which he founded, AnonGhost, is fighting for Islam using peaceful means. Insight: From remote Mauritania, hacker fights for Islam worldwide 2013-06-28T12:43:48Z The authors of the paper suggest that O. chaktomuk inhabits a small area, made up largely of dense scrubland in the floodplain of the Mekong river - at the edge of which Phnom Penh lies. New bird species spotted in big city 2013-06-26T06:44:40Z About a third of an acre of scrubland at Bredhurst, near Maidstone was cleared by contractors working for the National Grid last week. Clearance of wildlife habitat probed 2013-06-15T11:17:23Z Meanwhile, young men on motorbikes from as far as Soroti, hundreds of miles away, arrive to buy the day's finds at a makeshift market of a few wooden stalls at a crossroads in the scrubland. Gold rush could help transform Uganda's wild west 2013-06-05T23:22:46Z Most of the practical training takes place in scrubland on a hill above Koulikoro. Europe steps in to train Mali forces 2013-05-02T23:53:06Z The fighting in Baga began Friday and lasted for hours, sending people fleeing into the arid scrublands surrounding the community on Lake Chad. Civilians Are Killed in Nigerian Battle 2013-04-22T00:43:12Z French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said French and Malian joint patrols were searching the scrubland outside the desert trading towns of Timbuktu and Gao. French battle Mali Islamists as Tuareg problem looms 2013-02-06T19:45:47Z Always remote, the city remains dangerously isolated: the dusty tracks and rivers leading here wind through forbidding scrubland territory that could still provide refuge for the Islamist fighters who melted away from the cities. Timbuktu Endured Terror Under Harsh Shariah Law 2013-02-01T02:25:10Z He is being questioned in connection with the murder of a mother-of-three whose body was found on Thursday in scrubland on the outskirts of Nimes. Briton held in France murder hunt 2013-01-29T10:29:51Z Most of the training takes place in scrubland north of the capital But it adds that it considers the issue of the trainees' past records to be a political matter, irrelevant to their military training. Europe steps in to train Mali forces 2013-05-02T23:53:06Z UK soldiers were clearing an area of scrubland early on the morning of 10 June last year in preparation for a live-fire exercise. Sergeant stranded in Kenya-UK row 2013-01-24T04:41:30Z "The two sites ... were only accessible by foot and required police to trek through tick, leech and snake-infested scrubland to reach them," NSW police said in a statement on Monday. Australian wildfires spare observatory, uncover bush drug lab 2013-01-14T05:27:44Z But these are vulnerable in open desert and scrubland to attack from French Gazelle helicopters and Rafale fighters. Analysis: French early strike shakes up Mali intervention plan 2013-01-13T19:09:10Z In a scrubland beside a block of flats, under a looming billboard with a portrait of two mullahs, a number of ordinary people are standing, walking, waiting. Arabian Images 2012-12-10T05:00:00Z "We face a slow death here, or a fast death over there," says Hussain Ayish, pointing towards the border at the other end of the scrubland. Syrians choose war over refugee camp 2012-11-01T13:35:25Z Its sights point across 100 metres of scrubland towards the border. Turkish town scarred by Syria conflict 2012-10-13T00:10:56Z At the scrubland scene of the killings, a woman carrying a baby on her back said she was looking for a missing miner. South Africa Police Say They Killed 34 Miners 2012-08-17T06:08:22Z That takes seeds away from the parent plants, ensuring they don't compete, and shields them from predators and scrubland fire. Ants 'sow the seeds' of the Cape 2012-08-16T00:50:12Z He used to have to enter the site through a hole in the perimeter fence, and heft sacks of compost across several hundred yards of scrubland. London 2012: The hidden Olympic legacy 2012-07-30T19:30:01Z And curiously, that vision is already taking partial shape in a field just outside Dolo - where a livid green expanse of corn, onions and other crops form an unexpected contrast with the surrounding scrubland. Somalia's famine: One year on 2012-07-20T12:24:28Z At the end of which, England's depleted travelling campers find themselves in an unlikely scrubland enclosure to the south of Ukraine's main eastern city that has a tang of hospitable back-to-basics necessity. Coal not goal: Donetsk doesn't feel the need to woo travelling supporters 2012-06-10T19:37:15Z In one big area of scrubland outside the zone, workers are clearing the land and knocking in support pillars for two-storey cement houses that villagers will be relocated to. Myanmar mega-project may be on a road to nowhere 2012-05-17T05:31:40Z But for anyone with an eye to the future the most interesting mall is one that few tourists visit: 20 minutes’ drive from downtown, through scrubland and past abandoned building projects. Schumpeter: Mall of the masses 2012-04-12T15:07:08Z Military helicopters ferried elite troops to the pirate camp in scrubland close to Haradheere, a major pirate base in central Somalia, Germany-based U.S. U.S. commandos free two pirate hostages in Somalia 2012-01-25T16:16:35Z There are several golf-courses, an air-conditioned enclave for penguins at the zoo and a scattering of immense government ministries marooned amid scrubland. The Road to Naypyidaw: What Hillary Clinton Will See in Burma 2011-11-14T14:10:00Z Agrifirma, based in Sao Paulo, buys scrubland and transforms it into farmland to plant soybean, corn and cotton. Rothschild-Backed Agrifirma Mulls Brazil IPO For Investments 2011-09-06T16:04:02Z He said the fire, fanned by erratic winds, was burning through a wide variety of vegetation in the area, ranging from grass to scrubland and old-growth timber. Brush fire from plane crash menaces California homes 2011-09-05T20:57:38Z Consequently, unglamorous scrubland that no one highly values but that is important from an ecological standpoint is being set aside and protected. Green: A Comeback for Blue Iguanas 2011-07-21T20:12:29Z According to Ferreras, the lynx uses Mediterranean scrubland more than any other habitat, and relies on the presence of both rabbits and shrubs to thrive. Deadly Rabbit Disease May Have Doomed Iberian Lynx 2011-07-12T11:45:01.997Z When military historian Jeremy Banning stepped on to a patch of rough scrubland in northern France four months ago, the hairs on the back of his neck stood up. Miners' war 2011-06-10T04:27:25Z And, too, out of the hundreds of creeks running through the scrublands, I only saw one that had gone dry. From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush 2011-06-08T02:00:16.290Z The sons took Wilson 30 miles away, where the items were thrown into the swollen waters of the Sabi River to be carried through the remote scrublands and into Mozambique. Magazine Preview: Watching the Murder of an Innocent Man 2011-06-02T14:40:59Z Eight bodies have been found in scrubland in Sussex County to the south of Long Island. VIDEO: NY serial killer search continues 2011-04-07T06:48:36Z The steepest section of scrubland, moreover, was cordoned off rather than fenced off, allowing a shepherd and his herd of goats to cross last month. Spain and U.S. Near Accord on Atomic Cleanup 2011-04-05T18:55:03Z All that day we continued through the prairies, with here and there a belt of scrubland to cut across the vision. Neighbours 2011-03-05T03:00:27.277Z Tobruk is about an hour and a half from Libya's border with Egypt, a drive through flat, sparsely populated scrubland along the Mediteranean coast. Liberated from Gaddafi, Eastern Libya Looks to the Future 2011-02-23T16:10:00Z His objective was to stop illegal quarries near the Gir National Park, 550 square miles of scrubland and deciduous forest near his hometown, along the southern coast of Gujarat, India’s most prosperous state. A Law Empowers Indians, but Some Pay a Price 2011-01-22T15:09:25Z Loughner attended Mountain View High School, a low-rise building on the outer reaches of Tucson bordered by desert scrubland and patches of housing subdivisions. Loughner’s ‘Dark Personality’ Eluded Health Scrutiny 2011-01-14T21:09:02Z Around 50 minutes drive away, across vast areas of farms and scrubland, lies Chikanta. Connected future 2011-01-07T14:28:12Z It would be built mostly on coastal scrubland, not forest. POSCO's Indian steel project: Greens v jobs 2011-01-06T10:47:49Z You need never face it, though – you can just ride out into the scrubland and never come back. Top 20 Games of 2010: part four 2010-12-24T09:17:58Z In contrast to the glass office buildings and verdant golf course in Kigali, Nakivale sits in thorny scrubland. Special Report: In Rwanda Inc., an election exposes repression 2010-08-05T10:54:00Z Five years ago, the country's military rulers spent billions of dollars building a sprawling new capital out of scrubland, forcing many civil servants to move from Rangoon with just a couple of days' notice. How Burma's Junta Is Cementing Its Wealth and Power 2010-07-22T04:55:00Z That is surely because the area is desert scrubland, and few people were inconvenienced by the spill. Where Gulf Spill Might Place on the Roll of Great Disasters 2010-06-19T01:01:00Z Most of the fields were quickly turning back into scrubland. All aboard 2010-06-12T10:53:00Z As players ride through the game's spectacularly detailed environments, from the endless dusty scrublands of the Mexican border territories to the mountains of West Elizabeth, the sun realistically rises and sets in the looming skies. Red Dead Redemption: best game ever? 2010-05-09T20:00:00Z On offroad tracks, meanwhile, the endless scrublands merge with the looming cloudy sky, creating an unexpectedly moody setting for a knockabout weapons-based racer. Blur: hands-on with Activision's rocket-powered racer 2010-05-06T08:00:00Z The flamboyant trees are in full blossom setting alight the scrubland with their scarlet flowers. Gnawing pains 2010-05-06T10:53:00Z JEM fighters drove across desert and scrubland to within striking distance of the presidential palace in 2008 before they were stopped by government troops. 2010-01-20T19:38:00Z Naypyitaw -- the name translates as "Abode of Kings" -- is a maze of ministry buildings, government mansions, civil servants' quarters and unfinished presidential palaces complete with grand Roman-style pillars -- all rising from dusty, arid scrubland. 2010-01-17T04:37:00Z The specimen was taken along the Apas River in scrubland near the river. Birds from North Borneo University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, Volume 17, No. 8, pp. 377-433, October 27, 1966 A freight train dragged southward in the twilight, wending its way through pine forest and scrubland. Collectivum |
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