December 8, 2024: Syria civil war news | CNN
Dec 8, 2024 · Smoke billows in the background as residents and opposition fighters celebrate in a central square after opposition forces took control of the city in Damascus, Syria, on December 8.
The controversial plan to regreen a desert | CNN
Sep 8, 2024 · Ties van der Hoeven’s ambitions are nothing if not grand. The Dutch engineer wants to transform a huge stretch of inhospitable desert into green, fertile land teeming with …
9 architectural oases in the middle of the desert | CNN - CNN …
Jan 11, 2019 · These technological innovations helped make arid regions more habitable, while offering architects a new typology to experiment with, according to Izabela Anna Moren, author …
Stargazing in the desert: The magic of Namibia’s night skies
Oct 9, 2013 · Thought to be over 55 million years old, the Namib Desert is free from light pollution, making it an ideal spot for stargazing. Pictured, an image of the desert's night sky, taken over …
What Dubai looked like before it boomed | CNN
Mar 10, 2021 · Rising in the desert: Photographer Ramesh Shukla has witnessed how Dubai has developed from a desert backwater to a modern metropolis over the past half a century.
The gigantic dunes rising up out of the world’s oldest desert
Sep 23, 2024 · The place is called Sossusvlei in Namib-Naukluft National Park in the middle of what researchers consider the world’s oldest desert — formed between 55 and 80 million …
Here’s what an FBI background check for Trump’s Cabinet picks …
Dec 6, 2024 · Background checks include long forms where candidates must detail past employment, biographical information, as well as criminal and financial records.
Colombia’s La Guajira Desert is attracting visitors | CNN
Dec 8, 2015 · On the northernmost tip of South America, Colombia's La Guajira Desert is slowly making its way onto the tourist map. At times it can resemble Arizona or Nevada, with its vast …
Architects have designed a Martian city for the desert outside …
Jun 11, 2020 · Architects Bjarke Ingels Group have designed a prototype of a city suitable for sustaining life on Mars – and then adapted it for use in the Emirati desert.
This Moroccan startup is growing crops in the desert
Oct 24, 2023 · Sand to Green is a Moroccan startup that can transform a patch of desert into a sustainable and profitable plantation in five years, according to Wissal Ben Moussa, its co …