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10. Kara-Kum Desert, Uzbekistan / Turkmenistan The Karakum Desert, also spelled Kara-Kum and Gara Gum is a desert in Central Asia. It occupies about 70 percent, or 350,000 km², of the area of Turkmenistan. Covering much of present day Turkmenistan, the Karakum Desert lies east of the Caspian Sea, with the Aral Sea to the north and the Amu Darya river and the Kyzyl Kum desert to the northeast. In modern times, with the shrinking of the Aral Sea, the extended “Aral Karakum” has appeared on the former seabed, with an estimated area of 15,440 sq. The sands of the Aral Karakum are made up of a salt-marsh consisting of finely-dispersed evaporites and remnants of alkaline mineral deposits, washed into the basin from irrigated fields. The dusts blown on a powerful east-west airstream carry pesticide residues that have been found in the blood of penguins in Antarctica.

Tanaman pemakan tikus ditemukan ilmuwan pada pertengahan tahun 2009 di Filipina. Spesies tanaman baru ini dinamai Nepenthes attenboroughii, yang berasal dari nama ilmuwan Inggris Sir David Attenborough. Tanaman yang panjangnya lebih dari 4 kaki ini memiliki kantung berisi air. Sekali tikus terjerembab ke kantung tersebut, hewan tersebut tidak bisa keluar. Selanjutnya, tanaman ini mengeluarkan cairan asam dan enzim untuk menghancurkan tubuh tikus. Umumnya proses ini hanya menyisakan tulang tikus.

I'm sitting on a shady terrace, drinking mint tea, listening to the music of village life and enjoying the breeze. I'm in the Dana Nature Reserve in the mountains of eastern Jordan. Last time I was here it was in December and on the day we went to Petra it snowed - a raging blizzard with howling winds.