it actually carries sand from the sahara desert. johnny bananas: this is from the sahara desert. every kind of landscape imaginable here, even for a small island like that. it's amazing. let's go check it out. - let's check it out, man. - yeah. after you. [rock music] woo! wow, what a spectacular view, man. leonardo vieizo alvez: this is the christoffel park, the tallest hill on the island. johnny bananas: we were just on a desert, and now, there's like this lush national park behind us. hiking mount christofell is definitely something you should do if you come to curacao. it's a must, man. [rock music] johnny bananas: wow, man, this is beautiful. leonardo vieizo alvez: welcome to shete boka, man. shete is seven. and boka is a mouth. seven mouths? leonardo vieizo alvez: yeah. here are the seven mouths of the island. johnny bananas: this is absolutely stunning. this just nature at its finest. leonardo vieizo alvez: can't ask for any other place that's got the whole world crammed into one little island. johnny bananas: it's amazing. johnny bananas (voiceover): and with curacao bein

is really— is because the sahara desert is really big — is because the sahara desert is reallyt seen the goat behind you on the _ me a shout. i've just seen the goat behind you on the right. _ me a shout. i've just seen the goat behind you on the right. the i me a shout. i've just seen the goat behind you on the right. the goat l behind you on the right. the goat has just behind you on the right. the goat hasjust made an behind you on the right. the goat has just made an appearance. there it is. you probably can't see it. talk us through, russ, do you have music in your head or anything that keeps you going? what is your thing, when you have a low point, what keeps you going?— when you have a low point, what keeps you going? yes, i quite often listen to music. _ keeps you going? yes, i quite often listen to music. i— keeps you going? yes, i quite often listen to music. i do _ keeps you going? yes, i quite often listen to music. i do really i keeps you going? yes, i quite often listen to music. i do really enjoy i listen to music. i do really enjoy thinking — listen to music. i

it's transporting the raw material phosphate rock from the blue chrome line across the western sahara desert. roughly 70 percent of the world's reserves are in the western sahara, heavily disputed territory currently controlled by morocco, which the un size has been unlawfully occupying the area. a rebel army has been fighting for its independence. the largest preserves are spread across north africa, followed by china, presented south africa and saudi arabia. less than 20 percent of the phosphorus using agriculture actually ends up in the food we eat. that's partly because phosphate fertilizer is your tories. we inefficient defines easily with other minerals in this oil which makes it unavailable for the plan. when they get 950 or fos for this to apply this, it was do get don't, they didn't get some but people to get us to work and body. but maybe 80 percent of that. would it be best if you didn't inside? that's why the industry solution is to just chuck more on the soil. faster suppressed, relatively cheap, adding a bit as good as a marble guarantee profits. this accumulated phosphorus is

challenge now is to avoid those desperate droughts, to avoid southern europe looking like the sahara desertsseen in australia and the west coast to the us, and so on. we have to move much more quickly to get clean. and that's much more within our capabilities. what we mustn't do is fascinate, as you've seen the british government do over the last couple years, with coal mines in the northwest, more in the sea, we are pushing back the dates by which... so we've got to move to get that investment done, we've got to be clear and consistent. lard investment done, we've got to be clear and consistent.— clear and consistent. lord stern, thank you _ clear and consistent. lord stern, thank you very — clear and consistent. lord stern, thank you very much _ clear and consistent. lord stern, thank you very much for - clear and consistent. lord stern, thank you very much forjoining i clear and consistent. lord stern, l thank you very much forjoining us again on bbc news. thank you very much for “oining us again on bbc news.— around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. let's look at some other

second largest dune in the world, and it is crossed only by a large erk, which is located in the sahara desert in the middle of the caucasus, yes, in the middle of the caucasus mountains? 12 km of sand, according to one version , some incredible tornado somewhere in central asia in the desert collected a lot of sand, passed through the entire caspian sea, here it collided with the mountains and released, let’s say, everything among the mountains, not steam, not steam, sand, yes, of course, a theory , well, so-so, well, just imagine, this whirlwind, a tornado, what it should be just in its strength, but, but there is one scientific confirmation: the plants and animals that live here, you don’t you will find nowhere else in the caucasus, they live only in central asia and, by the way, the issue of safety here is also open, especially in the spring-summer period, here on the territory of this dune lives the most poisonous snake in russia, and the viper, yes, it’s the most, so it’s better not to meet with it , and especially not to try with it there somehow interact. sorykum has a special climate,

out to be impossible for one more... reason: africa is huge, cut into pieces by a gigantic desert, the saharahe fact that it has always been unevenly populated, it was impossible to centralize power on it, but only a centralized leadership apparatus territory can intelligently distribute resources on it and push the economy forward, and not tear it apart, and africa was torn. the colonialists did not look at what nationalities lived in the territories they captured. they divided the continent not according to where ethnic groups lived, but according to... their zones of interests, and the boundaries of these zones did not coincide with the interests of the local population. scattered ethnic spiritual people were simply unable to formulate the ideas of unity; without it, neither states nor empires can live. the colonialists took advantage of this they plundered african lands and never set out to improve the level of development of the local population in order to develop high-quality sales markets for themselves, much less trading partners. comfort of peoples who are europeans. stole in africa

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