Environment

The variations in elevation, temperature, rainfall, and soil divides the Sahara Desert into several distinct ecoregions with distinct communities of plants and animals.

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The Sahara Sea is a hypothetical macro-engineering project that proposed the usage of the waters from the Atlantic Ocean or Mediterranean Sea to flood the Sahara's endorheic basins.

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Porpoises are marine cetaceans that are closely related to the dolphins, and include the world's rarest cetacean, the vaquita.

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Running at a speed of 23 km/h, the highly venomous snake of Africa, the black mamba is one of the world's fastest living reptiles.

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Austria has seven national parks occupying a total area of 2,376 km², accounting for 2.8% of the country's total area.

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Often called the cradle of humankind, Africa is the longest inhabited continent in the world.

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The Indian red scorpion, responsible for several cases of human deaths due to envenomation, is usually regarded as the deadliest scorpion species.

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A shallow, saline, endorheic rift lake, the Salton Sea is the biggest lake in the US state of California.

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Anteaters are mammals who are known for their diet of ants and termites.

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The following is a list of primates who have the largest populations on Earth, as per the best estimates.

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The slow loris is a primate, with the occasional feature that shares much in common with humans.

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The primary difference between cartilaginous and bony fishes is that the latter has a skeleton made of bone while the former has a cartilaginous skeleton.

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89.0% of the total energy requirement of Iceland is satisfied by non-fossil fuel energy sources, the highest among any countries of the world.

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A blue moon is the name given to an additional full moon that occurs in a given year.

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There are a number of animals who live in the Namib Desert.

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Wildlife conservation is the need of the day and demands unique and novel techniques and principles to be utilized in saving and protecting the wildlife of the world.

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The aardvark is a nocturnal mammal native to Africa, known for its distinctive snout and diet of ants and termites.

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“Carbon offset” refers to reductions that are made in the emission of greenhouse gasses in an attempt to compensate for other emissions.

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The world's population of sharks have been threatened by habitat degradation, overfishing, bycatch, coastal and riverine development, and hunting.

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Moray eels are a large eel species who are found in warm waters throughout the world.

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