Essays on Desert

Introduction Deserts known for their oven air temperature (38oC or higher), intense radiation from the sun, hot soil surface and the absence of surface water, it’s not surprising that even the average human can only last a couple of hours in these extreme conditions. In this review essay, we will be looking at the physiology...

Introduction Free radicals are highly reactive molecular species that possess unpaired electron. They stay for very short time before they react with another molecule and either abstract or donate an electron in order to achieve stability. By doing so, they generate a new radical from the molecule that they reacted with. The most damaging radicals...

Amphibians are a very key species in our environment and ecological world. The study and research among amphibians can contribute to not only modern science, but also the future at hand. Being such environmentally sensitive, this category of species, is able to show changes in the ecosystem before we even can detect it. Some of...

The Prospects of Sustainable Desert Agriculture to Improve Food Security in Oman by Msafiri Daudi Mbaga entails the different proposals and approaches to further improve Oman’s food security by elaborating domestic food production with the use of alternative technologies through desert agriculture. Such presumptions were formed for the land and water scarcity without the implication...

Sudan is located in north eastern Africa and experiences desertification first hand. Desertification is the spread of desert-like conditions in arid and semi-arid conditions. It is the result of natural climate and human influence. Desertification in Sudan has been growing at an extremely fast rate over the last three decades, leading to social exclusion and...