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This Negev Desert is situated on the intersection lines between climatic zones, geological provinces, ecological systems, and human societies. Due to its special situation one can find in it most types of desert environments, on most scales of aridity. These environments comprise rolling sand dunes, mountainous rocky terrains, loess plains, savannas, alluvial fans and salt marshes. While the Mediterranean...
From about 15,000 years ago as the global warming following the Last Glacial Period dried up many of the countries bordering the desert belts, a few human societies started to give up total dependence on hunting and gathering and step by step began to practice domestication of animals and plants. This enabled gradual transition to a sedentary way of life. About ten millennia ago some human societies...
The rise of sea level, a consequence of global warming, will devastate the economy of most countries with sea coasts. Estimates of the rate and extent in the rise of sea level, by thermal water expansion and by melt water from glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica, differ among scientists. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (February 2007) [1] foresees sea-level rise of 0.2–0.6 m...
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