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JEDDAH: For hundreds of years, houses built on the Farasan Islands withstood the sands of time while enduring storms, extreme heat, and humidity, as they also stood firm against battles. The simplistic beauty of the houses is one of Saudi Arabia’s architectural wonders. Located 45 kilometers off the southern shores of the Kingdom’s Red Sea coastline, the homes were built using

Al-Reem Reserve largest, most important nature reserve in the Middle East - Lifestyle - Oryx roam in Al-Reem Biosphere Reserve Al-Reem Biosphere Reserve, northwest Qatar, covers around 10 percent of Qatars total land area and has distinctive form...

/PRNewswire/ -- On Fanjing Mountain, cloud shrouds the peaks and the clear stream winds among the mountains. At the foot of Fanjing Mountain, hot springs surge...

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Fire plays a dominant role in deforestation, particularly in the tropics, but the relative extent of transformations and influence of fire frequency on eventual forest loss remain unclear. Here, we analyze the frequency of fire and its influence on postfire forest trajectories between 2001 and 2018. We account for ~1.1% of Latin American forests burnt in 2002–2003 (8,465,850 ha). Although 40.1% of forests (3,393,250 ha) burned only once, by 2018, ~48% of the evergreen forests converted to othe...

Fanjing Mountain Pure, Sacred Land ByFan Wenjun　December 16, 2020 Fanjing Mountain  [Tuchong]   Fanjing Mountain is one of Chinas five famous Buddhist mountains. The name, Fanjing, is an abbreviation of  fantian jingtu, which literally means "Brahmas pure land" in Chinese. The mountain was added to the World Natural Heritage List in July 2018. Fanjing Mountain is located where three counties — Jiangkou, Yinjiang and Songtao — converge in Tongren, in Southwest Chinas Guizhou Provinc...